Crime and Courts

Photos released Friday by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office offer a look at how officials believe 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans.

Officials in New Orleans announced a manhunt after 11 inmates broke out of an Orleans Parish jail early Friday morning.

More details have emerged in the killing of Mexican social media influencer Valeria Márquez, who was shot during a TikTok livestream.

Eleven inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans, authorities said Friday.

NBC News has obtained exclusive bodycam and surveillance video of two human smuggling busts that authorities made earlier this year in Coral Gables, Florida.

A dead dolphin was found missing its head in Pender County, North Carolina. Officials with NOAA say someone intentionally decapitated it, and they are offering a reward to find who did it. WECT’s Jacee Caldwell reports.

An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 deaths in police custody that should have been considered homicides, state officials said.

A man whom San Diego federal prosecutors say supplied large quantities of cocaine to some of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels pleaded guilty Thursday to international conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

A Victorville, California, family accused of “repetitively” torturing six children pleaded not guilty during their initial court appearance Thursday.

A Texas mother has been charged with aiding her son plot a terror attack against his middle school by buying him ammo and gear, documents said.

It happened just before 2 a.m. on April 29, when video shows four men in hoodies using a stolen master key to open mailboxes at the Pinnacle at Park Central community.

Investigators say the physical, emotional, and mental abuse went on for years and included daily beatings, strangulation and withholding food and water.

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States. Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said Tuesday that it appeared to be part of a deal between the Sinaloa Cartel’s Ovidio Guzmán López and the Trump administration. Independent journalist Luis Chaparro reported over the weekend about Guzmán’s...

“To the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel: You are no longer the hunters. You are the hunted.” A news conference inside the U.S. Attorney’s San Diego office on Tuesday began with that dramatic opening from U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon, who was announcing the unsealing of a federal indictment charging multiple alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel with narco-terrorism and...

Defense attorney Mark Geragos speaks after the Menendez brothers were resentenced Tuesday, making them eligible for parole.

A man who allegedly killed his girlfriend by throwing her off a third-floor walkway outside her San Ysidro apartment is behind bars today, reports NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry, who talked to some of the shocked apartment-complex residents. 

The indictments follow an executive order issued by President Donald Trump that designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, reports NBC 7’s Allison Ash.

The California Attorney General’s Office has opened a civil rights investigation into whether youths have been mistreated at San Diego County’s juvenile hall facilities, it was announced Tuesday. The investigation will examine conditions at the county’s East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility and Youth Transition Campus, according to a statement issued Tuesday, which said the Attorney General’s office will look...

A scheme that saw a small New Jersey deli’s holding company valued at $100 million blew up after a hedge fund manager made fun of it in a client letter.

The Karen Read trial is not taking place on Tuesday due to “unavoidable circumstances,” a courte spokesperson said in an email.