The Mexican marines have captured and arrested Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the Zetas drug-gang leaders in a raid near the U.S. border. Morales was reportedly wanted on both sides of the border for running drugs on a worldwide scale and for ordering massacres. He was reportedly intercepted with two lieutenants in a pick-up truck near Nuevo Laredo, and Mexican officials said that he had eight guns and $2 million in cash.
Boston Authorities have secured a search warrant to exhume the body of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, the man who who confessed to a slew of killings in the 1960s. The search warrant seeks to link him to the rape and killing of the woman -19-year-old Mary Sullivan- believed to be his final victim.
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized at least 148 female inmates between 2006 and 2010 with required state approval. There are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s.
Turkey's prime minster issued a "final warning" to protesters on Thursday, demanding that they end their occupation of a park next to Istanbul's landmark Taksim Square. Prime Minister Erdogan also rejected a condemnation by the European Parliament over the his government's reportedly excessive us of force by riot police against demonstrators.
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of abducting three women and torturing them during a decade of captivity, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 329 criminal counts, including kidnapping and rape.
Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother of 7 who was held in a Mexican Jail on a marijuana charge, was freed Thursday evening. After the court reviewed her case, including key security footage the showed Yanira and her husband Gary boarding the bus carrying only blankets, bottles of water and her purse, the authorities realized that the charges against her were false, and dismissed her case.
A Loudoun County sheriff's deputy shot and killed an unwieldy woman who came at him with him with a knife at a busy Costco on Wednesday afternoon, the Washington Post reported. Mhai Scott, who is reportedly 38, waived a knife at sheriff's deputies once they arrived at the scene. When an officer attempted to use a stun gun after she went after them reportedly "did not work," another officer then fired a gun, killing her. One officer was injured.
A federal judge has issued an injunction against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department, blocking his agecy from conducting immigration sweeps and using race. His practices have been controversial for residents in Arizona, and has been widely discussed on social media.
Two men attacked another man and killed him in a machete attack near a military barracks in southeast London. The British government is the treating the incident as terrorism. The two men, who first gloated about the attack, were shot by officers in a busy London street. The man killed is believed to be a British solider.
Officer Nikolas Budimlic, the Nassau County Long Island man who fatally shot Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra student during a home invasion "blames himself and keeps replaying it in his mind," a police source said after the standoff on Friday.
Philadelphia police officer Richard DeCoatsworth, who was once hailed as a hero and saluted by President Obama, has been arrested and is in police custody after he allegedly held two women captive in his home.
An inmate at a Wisconsin jail knocked out a female guard with one punch, and it was caught by surveillance cameras. The March 27 fight erupted as three corrections officers gathered lunch trays and another entered the room.
Police said Hofstra University student Andrea Rebello, and an armed suspect were fatally shot during a break-in at a Long Island home. Nassau County Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lack said a man with a ski mask forced his way in the house at 213 California Avenue in Uniondale, in Long Island. Her twin sister, Jessica, was in the house at the time, cops said
A bi-partisan group of lawmakers proposed major changes to military laws for sexual assault cases, and back a bill to prevent military commanders from handling sexual assault cases that involve their subordinates."We believe that enough is enough. It is time to change the system that has been held over since George Washington that is simply not working today for the men and women who are serving," said New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Armed Services Committee who is leading the effort.
US. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the government said totaled $223 million in false billings. More than 400 law enforcement officers including FBI agents made arrests of 89 suspects who posed as physicians and scammed the $590 billion healthcare program with phony or unnecessary bills. About one in four defendants was a doctor, a nurse, a physical therapist or some other medical professional.
Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call "mounting evidence," bolstered by "forensic hits," that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a triple homicide that took place in 2011.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester, Massachusetts. Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, and has since been entombed, and police have not specified where the body had been taken.
Neilia Arellano, one of the women who survived a weekend limousine fire, which killed a bride and four of her friends celebrating her wedding, said the driver, Orville Brown did too little to save her friends.
Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are under arrest, suspected of removing items from his dorm room after the April 15 attack. Two of them were detained on April 20 on immigration charges and a third has been taken into custody, sources said.
“Danny,” the man who was carjacked by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev during the last night on the run two weeks ago, gave his first TV interview aired on CBS News on Tuesday evening.
Sheri Williams was shot and killed on Monday afternoon when stray bullets, clearly meant for somebody else, hit her directly in the chest as she in the doorway of her apartment on 64th Court Way South in Birmingham, Alabama.
