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The FBI indicted a former San Diego resident with charges of terrorism after nearly a decade of alleged crimes that landed him on the department’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.

The man is believed to be the highest ranking U.S. citizen fighting in a terrorist organization overseas. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more.

The brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez created “state-sponsored” drug trafficking by corrupting the country’s politics to protect drug dealers, a prosecutor told a jury during closing arguments Wednesday at a drug trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Emil Bove in New York made the allegation as he asked a jury to convict Juan Antonio (Tony) Hernandez, 41, a former Honduran...

Federal complaint details “scheme to deceive and coerce women to appear in sex videos.” Prosecutors say some victims were sexually assaulted, and at least one woman raped.

The co-owner of a hard-core porn website is in prison tonight, charged with sex trafficking and other crimes. NBC 7’s Mari Payton has more.

A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and TV journalists pleaded guilty Thursday to gun and drug charges.

A staff sergeant who led the U.S. Army’s communications detail at President Donald Trump’s club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, admitted to lying to federal officers during a child pornography investigation, NBC News reports. Richard Ciccarella, 34, was alleged to have posted photographs of a young relative with the caption “dirty comment’s [sic] welcome” on a Russian message board between November 2017...

A former American Airlines mechanic who prosecutors say may have some links to terrorists pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sabotaged an aircraft with 150 people aboard. The plea came at a hearing in Miami federal court for Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60. He’s charged with deliberately disabling a key navigation component inside the Boeing 737 at Miami...

Federal prosecutors are suing that landlord — Larry Nelson — for “severe, pervasive, and unwelcomed sexual harassment” of poor, sometimes homeless women.

An NYPD judge recommended firing the officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner, bring some measure of closure to a nationally influential case that local and federal officials all declined to criminally prosecute. The judge found officer Daniel Pantaleo — who has been on modified administrative duty in the years since Garner’s...

A subdued Jeffrey Epstein listened passively in court Wednesday as a judge said he won’t face trial on sex trafficking charges before June 2020, and more likely a few months afterward.

NBC 7 Investigates reporter Jackie Crea explains the allegations against the land lord.

A Florida lawmaker known as a champion for child sexual abuse victims asked Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to authorize a state investigation into the circumstances of wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s freedom to leave jail on work release a decade ago. Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book said in a letter Tuesday that the Republican governor should order a...

The U.S. Department of Justice will not file charges against the NYPD officer accused of using a deadly chokehold on Eric Garner, whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the national Black Lives Matter movement, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors say a search of Jeffrey Epstein’s home safe turned up a bogus passport that listed a Saudi Arabia residence along with “piles of cash” and “dozens of diamonds.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller revealed at a bail hearing in Manhattan federal court Monday that the passport, issued in the 1980s, has a photo of Epstein but a different...

The owner of a Carmel Valley horse ranch who was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography had his prison sentence reduced by 3 1/2 years, this despite a federal judge calling the plaintiff fixated and obsessed with bestiality and other perversions....
The judge rejected most of the arguments made by attorneys for Christian Clews, but agreed that Clews has accepted...

A prison sentence was reduced for Carmel Valley horse rancher convicted of child pornography charges. NBC 7’s Mari Payton has more.

A college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving visit in a manner similar to how a Chinese national gained admission four months later. University of Wisconsin student Mark Lindblom apologized Tuesday and received a year’s probation after federal prosecutors agreed he meant no harm when he sneaked into the Palm Beach...

A Sorrento Valley lab is developing a drug that can be implanted in a patient’s stomach to help them fight opioid addiction.

A local company is creating a drug that they hope will combat the opioid crisis. NBC 7’s Liberty Zabala explains.