Crime and Courts

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the former officers’ actions “egregious and despicable” and imposed sentences near the top of federal guidelines for five of the six.

A sheriff in Kentucky is accused of fatally shooting a district judge at a courthouse on Thursday, authorities said.

Miguel Leonides Garcia, 58, of Escondido was crossing the street at Broadway and Mission Avenue when a gray 1995 Land Cruiser struck him shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday, officials said.

Officials are searching for the suspect in the shooting death of a man in Lemon Grove Wednesday night.

Officials are searching for the suspect in the shooting death of a man in Lemon Grove Wednesday night.

A former CIA officer from La Mesa has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to drugging and sexually abusing several women in multiple countries.

Streetcar Merchants still has a Yelp page up with 1,500 reviews, plenty of photos and a 3.4 star rating.

A former San Diego restaurant owner has been convicted of a $1.7 million COVID relief-fund fraud, reports NBC 7’s Jackie Crea.

Brian Jeffrey Raymond kept nearly 500 videos and photographs he took of naked, unconscious women.

Zachary Scheich, who prosecutors said identified himself as 17-year-old ‘Zak Hess,’ pleaded guilty to sexual assault and other crimes.

Prosecutors said the suspect first shot one of the victims five times, before turning his gun on the second man, who the prosecutor said was shot “roughly 17 times.”

Fraudsters are calling residents and instructing them to pay fines to avoid jail for alleged violations like “failure to appear,” officials said

A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on an additional sex crimes charge in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday.

Christopher Scott Preston, 55, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday.

A man who shot and killed his stepmother and half-brother in Imperial Beach pleaded guilty this week to two counts of murder.

A National City resident was behind bars on suspicion of fatally shooting two young men over the weekend in Barrio Logan.

Footage of the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt near Trump International Golf Course has been released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

San Diego police were searching Sunday for the suspect responsible for a shooting in Barrio Logan that left two people dead.

A Pennsylvania man has entered no contest pleas to charges that he killed his father and stepmother with a sword in their Pennsylvania home almost five years ago.