Crime and Courts

During the fourth week of the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial in New York, a woman was removed from the courtroom after she yelled at the disgraced rapper.

President Donald Trump signed pardons for reality TV stars Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley on May 28. The couple have been serving federal prison sentences after being convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion. Trial attorney and legal expert Misty Marris breaks down what these pardons mean for the Chrisleys and explains if they are still considered convicted felons.

Authorities have closed campgrounds and backpacking areas along the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington as they search for a former Army soldier wanted in the deaths of his three daughters.

Here are five key moments from the fourth week of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York.

A man was shot to death in Oceanside Saturday. Police responded around 11:15 a.m. Saturday to a location near the 400 block of County Club Lane, according to the Oceanside Police Department. After arriving on scene, officers found a man with a gunshot wound to his chest in a nearby canyon. “Lifesaving measures were attempted but were unsuccessful,” police said….

A Seattle man was charged Friday with a string of burglaries at the homes of prominent current and former football and baseball players.

A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was sentenced Friday to 21 years to life in state prison for stabbing a young Black man in the chest, in what prosecutors described as a racially motivated attack on the victim and two other Black men in Ocean Beach.

A San Diego Superior Court judge handed a leader of the biker gang a long prison sentence.

A former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” has been captured after he escaped from a prison, triggering a massive manhunt in the mountains of northern Arkansas.

A man wanted on suspicion of fatally stabbing a Grossmont College student during a jealous rage in a Lincoln Park-area neighborhood 14 years ago was jailed this week following his arrest in Mexico, authorities reported Wednesday.

A San Diego federal jury was unable to reach verdicts and a mistrial was declared Thursday in the trial of a former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a fleeing, unarmed man outside the San Diego Central Jail. Jurors deliberated for more than a week before announcing they were hopelessly deadlocked in the trial of Aaron Russell,...

Some of the victims believed the job involved clothed modeling when they were recruited by Michael Pratt and then flown out to San Diego, where the majority of GirlsDoPorn’s videos were shot.

Police in Florida said a woman was rescued after she left a note asking for help in the bathroom of a Jersey Mike’s Subs restaurant.

Jurors heard more than five weeks of testimony, including lengthy and sometimes fiery questioning of Weinstein’s three accusers in the case.

Court records show Bode Technology Group Inc., the private lab that did the testing, lost the evidence and it can’t be retested.

An attorney representing the defendant said most of alleged crimes lacked corroborating witnesses and nobody backed up the woman in the one that did.

A San Diego police officer is on trial for alleged domestic violence against his now former girlfriend. NBC 7’s Allison Ash was at the courthouse with the details. 

Portuguese and German police announced renewed efforts to locate Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in 2007 while vacationing with her family.

A Texas man was arrested Tuesday and accused of trespassing at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, club, according to an arrest report obtained by NBC News.

A Washington man is wanted in connection with the deaths of his three young daughters, who went missing after his scheduled custody visit.