A drug trafficking investigation in West Virginia has led to the largest methamphetamine seizure in the state’s history, officials said Wednesday. “Operation Smoke and Mirrors,” an eight-month long investigation, led to 54 arrests and over 200 pounds of methamphetamine being seized, the Department of Justice said in a news release. …
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A split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist who deliberately raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path in 2017, killing eight people and maiming others. The decision means Sayfullo Saipov, 35, an Uzbekistan citizen who lived in New Jersey, …
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Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison Friday morning in South Carolina, and his attorneys said they plan to appeal his conviction in the high-profile double murder trial. The disgraced former attorney was convicted Thursday on four counts: the 2021 murder of his wife Maggie Murdaugh, the murder of his …
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A suspect sought in the shooting of two Maryland police officers was in custody Friday morning, authorities said. He’d been surrounded by law enforcement after fleeing from the vehicle he’d stolen from a detective he shot Thursday night, authorities said. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies surrounded the suspect …
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A man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the front door of a synagogue in northern New Jersey last weekend will remain in custody without bail following his arraignment Thursday, according to federal prosecutors. Nicholas Malindretos, 26, of Clifton is charged with attempted use of fire to damage and …
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The Department of Justice has arrested a 36-year-old Florida woman after she allegedly committed a “years-long scheme” to defraud an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of his life savings. The department said that over the course of more than four years, Peaches Stergo took over $2.8 million from the survivor. Stergo was …
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A man considered one of the chief aides to convicted drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty Friday in Chicago federal court to distributing more than 150 kilograms of cocaine and more than 30 kilograms of heroin. Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, 51, known as “The Engineer,” faces a minimum of …
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Police are asking the public for help in their search for a missing Brookfield, Massachusetts woman, CBS Boston reports. Brittany Tee, 35, was last seen Tuesday night leaving her boyfriend’s house, authorities said. She was reported missing Friday. Local and State Police searched the neighborhood of Tee’s boyfriend for clues …
Read More »See CBS News’ latest coverage on the Idaho student murders case. On Dec. 30, 2022, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested in Pennsylvania and charged with four counts of murder in connection with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students who were found dead on Nov. 13 at a home in Moscow, …
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Police in Mississippi shot and killed a woman who was holding another person hostage in a Walmart store as she said she needed help and demanded to speak to a news anchor. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a news release that the shooting happened Wednesday evening in …
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