Crime and Courts

Four people from Los Angeles County are facing insurance fraud and conspiracy charges after allegedly staging fake bear attacks with a bear costume.

A Miami man has pleaded guilty in a $16 million bribery and money laundering scheme involving his father, a former government official in Ecuador, prosecutors said.

The Oklahoma city police department has released video showing an officer slamming an elderly Asian man to the ground during a recent traffic stop. KFOR’s Adria Goins reports.

Conspiracy theory purveyor Infowars and most of its assets are set to go on the auction block on Wednesday.

The operation uncovered a network of forgers in Spain, France and Belgium who produced the works, said Eurojust, the European Union agency for judicial cooperation.

Federal prosecutors from all four Texas districts converged in North Texas to address the concerning rise in family violence homicides. Last year, 205 Texans lost their lives to domestic violence, with 179 of those victims being women. NBC 5’s Alicia Barrera delves deeper into this issue.

Apologetic rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in prison by a federal judge who said repeated violations of his probation after his cooperation against a violent gang won him leniency in a criminal case show that he doesn’t have sufficient respect for judicial system rules.

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner’s side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.

New developments in the massive backlog of sexual assault evidence in Fort Worth. Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes acknowledged on Monday he was aware a year ago that 0hundreds of rape kits had missed state testing deadlines. Senior investigative reporter Scott Friedman asked that question in a frank and open discussion with the chief.

A man accused of murder after a 911 call about a fake bear attack in the mountains of Tennessee led authorities to a dead man in October has been found and arrested, police said Sunday, NBC News reported.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned sex assault evidence testing delays have affected even more victims than Fort Worth police first acknowledged.

The jury, which has been requested for 26 days, deliberated for 19.5 hours, WTHR said. Allen is expected to be sentenced Dec. 20.

The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reached a verdict after days of deliberations.

A 37-year-old Irish man was arrested in connection with the murder of an American woman vacationing in Budapest, local police said.

Will JonBenét Ramsey’s killer finally be brought to justice 28 years after her murder? The upcoming Netflix docuseries “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” claims that authorities continue to mishandle the case of the death of the 6-year-old in 1996, including the not-so-subtle blame they placed on the family.

Dallas police say the man who shot and killed rookie Dallas police officer Darron Burks shot another man less than an hour before.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.

Zachary Alam was one of the first rioters sentenced since this week’s electoral victory by President-elect Donald Trump.

The FBI is investigating offensive and racist text messages targeting black people around the country, including those in North Texas. NBC 5’s Larry Collins has the details.

The deadline to submit bids and nondisclosure agreements on the Infowars assets is Friday afternoon.