Crime and Courts

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Tuesday that adult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with forcibly raping three women and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents dating back to 2014. The 67-year-old defendant, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, is due in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned on an eight-count…

A recently-expanded NYC diversion program is keeping low-level offenders from spending time in court. Instead, ‘Project Reset’ is bringing people to the Brooklyn Museum after their arrests to study and create art.

A southwest Virginia man who blew off his hand in an apparent explosives accident has been charged in federal court after authorities say they found evidence he was making a bomb and wanted to target “hot cheerleaders.”

Authorities investigating Wednesday night’s stabbing of an NYPD officer in Brooklyn say body-worn camera video recorded the suspect yelling “Allahu Akbar” three times during the attack, NYPD officers said Saturday. Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller says there are many unknowns behind the possible terror-inspired attack, including the suspect’s motive. The man behind the alleged attack, Dzenan...

Authorities investigating Wednesday night’s stabbing of an NYPD officer in Brooklyn are looking into whether it was a terror-inspired attack, law enforcement sources said Thursday. Three NYPD officers were hospitalized after what Commissioner Dermot Shea described as a “cowardly and unprovoked” assault. A terror-linked motivation is currently one theory for what may have happened, with the attack possibly having...

A Long Island man was stabbed and killed by his son while he was participating in a live video chat from his home, police said

Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, will plead guilty today via video conference for their involvement in the “Varsity Blues Scandal.”

A Manhattan resident has been charged for a fraudulent scheme to obtain over $20 million in government-guaranteed loans designed to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Muge Ma, 36 and from Manhattan, is charged with one count each of bank fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements to a bank — each of…

The Bronx man arrived in Honolulu on Monday, and authorities became aware of his social media posts showing him sunbathing, with a surfboard, and walking around the area at night

Daniel Silva, a 27-year-old star on the tattoo-competition show “Ink Master,” was arrested Monday for allegedly crashing a sports car, killing YouTube personality Corey La Barrie, and attempting to flee the scene.

A Texas man with an assault rifle opened fire outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., early Thursday and was charged with assault with intent to kill, authorities said. No injuries were reported but Cuban officials reported property damage. Alexander Alazo, 42, of Aubrey, Texas, was arrested. He appears to have been shooting toward the embassy, according to a preliminary…

A Texas man with an assault rifle opened fire outside the Cuban Embassy in D.C. early Thursday and was charged with assault with intent to kill, authorities said.

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a major decision on gun rights in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns

Josef Neumann has died three months after a deadly stabbing attack that left him in a coma, community officials say.

A woman fatally beat her male roommate with a tape dispenser, a shower rod and other items during a dispute inside their southern New Jersey home last month, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, was charged Wednesday with murder and four weapons offenses, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Thursday if she has retained an attorney....

Jury selection wrapped up Tuesday with 11 alternate jurors seated for the trial of millionaire New York real estate scion Robert Durst, who is charged with murdering a friend inside her Benedict Canyon home in December 2000.

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month sentence for an alleged neo-Nazi from northern Virginia who pleaded guilty last year to weapons violations

The search of the Times Square offices comes after women filed a lawsuit claiming Nygard enticed them, some as young teenagers, to his estate in the Bahamas where he gave them drugs or alcohol and then raped them.

A man tried to blow up an SUV at the Pentagon on Monday morning and was found later in Arlington National Cemetery. Matthew Dmitri Richardson, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, faces federal charges after Pentagon police say he tried to blow up an active-duty service member’s Land Rover at about 10:55 a.m. Monday. He appeared in court in Alexandria, Virginia, Tuesday...

A New York jury found former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape in the case of Jessica Mann and guilty of first-degree criminal sexual assault in the case of Mimi Haleyi, acquitting him of the two most serious counts of predatory sex assault. Those two counts of predatory sex assault, which carried a max sentence of life…