True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Chicago police charged Chevazz Campbell in the stabbing death of CTA janitor Julian Mobley. A detention hearing is the first court date. It is not a finding that Campbell stabbed anyone. The department's Sunday release says he robbed and fatally stabbed a 41-year-old man in the 2000 block of West Lake Street. ABC7 and CBS Chicago name that man as Julian Mobley and describe a fare dispute that turned into a stabbing. The department's charge list and CBS Chicago's shorter summary do not match count for count.
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True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Chicago police charged Gustavo Soto with first-degree murder in a Chicago Lawn stabbing. The department's release is the charging document. It is not a finding that Soto stabbed his girlfriend, which is what the Chicago Sun-Times reported and what the release does not say. FOX 32, citing that release, puts the arrest at 1:19 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9, three hours after the stabbing. That clock is Thursday night. The Sun-Times' Sunday story calls it Friday night. WGN says Thursday night and describes an argument. The department said no additional information was available.
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Reporting noted by Chicago Police Department, FOX 32 Chicago, WGN, and Chicago Sun-Times.
Trials · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Marion County jury convicted Roderick Watson Jr., and the judge sentenced him to life. A life term after a guilty verdict is the judgment on that count. It is not a second look at the self-defense claim the jury rejected. The State Attorney's Office says deputies found four gunshot wounds. Law & Crime, citing the arrest affidavit, says six. The office's release places the school "in Citrus." WFTV places it in Citra. The name on the office's release is Jaurez. Three other outlets spell it Juarez.
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Reporting noted by Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office, WFTV, WCJB, and Law & Crime.
True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Alvaro Pulido, Alex Saab's longtime business partner, is in U.S. custody in the Venezuela bribery case. Custody is the start of a federal court case, not the end of one. Prosecutors allege Pulido and Alex Saab built a network of offshore shell companies to move bribes to allies of Nicolás Maduro in exchange for food, medicine and housing contracts. Saab has already pleaded guilty in a related case and agreed to cooperate. Saab's plea is his own admission, and the government still has to prove its case against Pulido.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, The Associated Press, and U.S. Department of Justice.
True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Katy couple is charged in what Houston investigators call a $3 million luxury-car theft ring. The accusation is a modern twist on car theft: no broken windows, just changed drop-off addresses. Investigators put the value of the cars at more than $3 million. Those are allegations in newly filed court records, and Abd's attorney says he is still reviewing the charges.
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Reporting noted by ABC13 Houston and Harris County District Clerk.
True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Nelson Blanco is charged with assault with intent to murder after a 2-year-old and her mother were stabbed at a Providence bus stop. This case is about two questions at once: what police say Blanco did on Wednesday, and whether he can be tried at all. Rhode Island courts have found him incompetent to stand trial before, including in a 2003 case over the stabbing of two 7-year-old boys that ended without a trial. A competency order is not a verdict, and the new charges are accusations that still have to be proved.
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Reporting noted by NBC Boston, Daily Mail, The Boston Globe, Boston 25 News, WJAR, and The Providence Journal.
True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Fresno police arrested an off-duty ICE agent after a 72-year-old man shot him during an alleged attack on a front lawn. The arrest is an accusation against the agent, and the decision not to charge the homeowner is a police call on the facts they have so far. Police say the father feared for himself and his daughter and legally owned the gun. They also say they still do not know why an off-duty federal agent from Texas was asleep on a Fresno lawn at 3 a.m., and that question matters as much as anything the hospital chart says.
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Reporting noted by ABC30 Fresno, ABC News, and KMPH.
True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kore Bommeli, convicted in a Wisconsin ricin plot, took a no-contest plea in her Oklahoma roommate's death. A no-contest plea is a conviction without an admission. Bommeli did not say she killed Talina Galloway; she took a manslaughter deal rather than face a jury on first-degree murder, and the Wisconsin attempted-homicide counts came from a jury verdict. Either way she is in prison for decades, and the Oklahoma file is closed without a trial.
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Reporting noted by NBC News, News On 6, KOKH FOX 25, Law&Crime, KJRH, and WKOW.
True Crime · Oct 11, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lansing police say the deaths of five unhoused men along the River Trail may be related. Police have a pattern, not a suspect, in four of these deaths. The only man charged is accused in the one death that does not fit the blunt-force pattern, and police have not tied him to the others. A shared trail and shared injuries are a reason to look for a link, and the next real answer will come from medical examiner findings and whatever the new trail cameras catch.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, Fox News, CNN, FOX 2 Detroit, ClickOnDetroit, and Detroit Free Press.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Memphis police charged Jaylen Conner with second-degree murder after a Getwell Road shooting. A second-degree murder charge after police say a man admitted a shooting is the accusation. It is not a finding that Jaylen Conner killed the man who died on Getwell Road. The Memphis Police Department has not named that man. FOX13 Memphis calls the admission a confession. Action News 5 describes one gunshot wound. The department's release says multiple gunshot wounds.
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True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Pima County booked Joseph Clark on two second-degree murder counts after Noelle Clark was found dead in Vail. Two second-degree murder counts after a domestic-disturbance call are the accusation. They are not a finding that Joseph Clark shot Noelle Clark. KVOA, citing the Pima County Sheriff's Department, says he was booked Saturday. FOX 10 Phoenix dates the call to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9. KOLD dates that same Friday call to Oct. 6. The sheriff's department has not said why the charge list has two counts.
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Reporting noted by KVOA, FOX 10 Phoenix, KOLD, and KGUN 9.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Broward deputies charged Manuel Farfan-Cabello with first-degree murder in the Tamarac stabbing of Ylda Cabello-Ynocente. A first-degree murder booking after a fatal stabbing is the charge. It is not a finding that Manuel Farfan-Cabello killed Ylda Cabello-Ynocente. CBS News Miami and NBC 6 South Florida use that full name and identify her as his mother. WSVN identifies the man in custody as Manuel Cabello and does not print her name. NBC 6's neighbor account of blood and broken windows is not a police finding.
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Reporting noted by CBS News Miami, NBC 6 South Florida, and WSVN.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Saline County booked Dickie Johnson on a capital murder charge after Troy Hendrix was found shot. A capital murder booking after a fatal shooting is the charge, and it is not a finding that Dickie Johnson shot Troy Hendrix. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, citing a sheriff's office release, gives his age as 77 and includes driving while intoxicated. KATV and KARK give his age as 72, and KATV's charge list does not include that DWI count.
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True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Mark Loftis was sentenced to 14 years in a Medicare, TRICARE, and CHAMPVA fraud case. A prison term after a jury conviction is the judgment on that count. The Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, Justice Department release said the 14-year sentence was imposed the day before, which is Oct. 8. The July conviction release had scheduled sentencing for Oct. 7, and it had said the count carried a maximum of 20 years.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and KOKH.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sacramento County arrested three men on murder and conspiracy charges in a North Highlands homicide. Murder and conspiracy warrants a month after a body is found are the accusation, and they are not a finding that these three men killed the man who died. CBS13 and FOX40 do not name him and use Alfredo Garcia and Federico Farfan. The Sacramento Bee names Omar Alexander Suastegui-Velazquez, 24, and adds Morales and Ambriz to the surnames.
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Reporting noted by CBS13 Sacramento, FOX40, and The Sacramento Bee.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors charged Eric Lewis in the killing of Philadelphia Officer Shane Seiber. Saturday's charging announcement was the accusation. Sunday morning's Municipal Court appearance is the first court date. The Inquirer reported Lewis is held without bail at Curran-Fromhold. That hold is not a verdict. Commissioner Kevin Bethel's morning account put the gunman in a tree with three guns and did not give a name. Krasner's afternoon account, as NBC10 and 6abc reported it, is the identification and the charge list. The two stations do not use the same count names.
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Reporting noted by NBC10 Philadelphia, 6abc, WHYY, Fox News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Curry County charged Jon Quezada with murder in the death of Anna Ulibarri. A murder charge after a husband calls in a body is the booking. It is not a finding that Jon Quezada killed Anna Ulibarri, and it is not a finding that the hotel-lobby account is the whole night. KOAT names the murder count as first-degree and attributes the beating allegation to the sheriff's office. ABC 7 Amarillo, citing Sheriff Michael Brockett, says she had numerous serious injuries and that another person helped direct deputies to the field. That other person is not charged in either account.
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True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Putnam County charged Michael Ludwick and his father, Joshua Ludwick, with murder in Zachary Smith's death. A Friday-night murder booking is the charge. It is not a finding that Michael Ludwick fired the rifle a witness described, or that Joshua Ludwick's drive from the creek decides the case. WSB-TV's sheriff's office account and Sheriff Howard R. Sills's interview with The Union-Recorder agree on the names and the murder charges. They do not agree on every clock time. An autopsy is still ahead.
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Reporting noted by The Union-Recorder and WSB-TV.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Bloomington police charged Jaymon Gilreath in the shooting death of Noah Slinkard. A Friday murder charge is the booking. It is not a finding that Jaymon Gilreath fired the shot a witness described. WISH-TV and The Bloomingtonian, citing the Bloomington police release, said officers took him into custody at 8:23 p.m. Thursday, minutes after the 911 calls. WBIW reported he was arrested on the murder charge shortly after midnight at the hospital. Those can be two times in one night: the stop, and the charge. Neither one is a trial.
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Reporting noted by WBIW, WISH-TV, and The Bloomingtonian.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A bar complaint asks Letitia James to step away from the Cornell Chi Phi investigation. A grievance complaint is a request that a lawyer step aside or be disciplined. It is not an order taking Letitia James off the Cornell file, and it is not a finding about what happened at the Chi Phi house. The New York Post reported the complaint treats a post she wrote before the appointment as proof she had already picked a side. Gillio Lopes and Winston Lee have already asked judges for the same removal. Those requests are still pending.
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True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Utah County filed notice that it will seek the death penalty against Matthew Jacob Leonard. A death-penalty notice tells the defense the state will ask for the maximum if there is a conviction. It is not a conviction, and it is not a finding that the missing people are dead. KSL reported Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray signed the notice Friday and that it seeks death on each aggravated-murder count after consultation with the families. The counts themselves were filed in April. Friday's paper is the choice of punishment the office says it will pursue.
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Reporting noted by KSL, KUTV, and ABC4.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Montgomery County charged six people in the Always Running Plays kidnapping and gun case. A charging announcement is the district attorney's account of an investigation. It is not a preliminary hearing, and it is not a conviction. 6abc and NBC10 reported that all six are charged with corrupt-organizations offenses, that four of them are also charged with kidnapping and robbery, and that Aysir Bond is still wanted. Daquine Owens is in Montgomery County on $2 million cash bail. The June kidnapping they describe is one alleged job. The enterprise count says prosecutors think it was not the only one.
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Reporting noted by 6abc, NBC10 Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Delaware County Daily Times.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Erie police say a 45-year-old gunman killed eight people on Perry Street, including two young children and a woman eight months pregnant, before killing himself. Saturday's release settles the timing question: the city says no one died after police got there, and the sounds people took for more gunfire were flash bangs and chemical munitions. It does not answer why it happened. The man police describe as the shooter is dead, so there is no defendant to charge, and the city says its investigation is still active.
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Reporting noted by City of Erie, TalkErie, Erie News Now, WTAE, and WPXI.
True Crime · Oct 10, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lexington police charged Malachi Haynes in the August killing of Kevin Villanueva Gutierrez. A Friday booking is the third name on a case that was already headed to a grand jury. WKYT and LEX18 listed Haynes's lead count as murder. The Herald-Leader listed it as complicity to murder. Those are different ways of charging participation in a killing, and neither list is a finding that he fired the shot. FOX 56 reported that Traisan Fields and Nolan Baker, both 18, already had a preliminary hearing on Oct. 5 and that their cases were sent to a grand jury.
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Reporting noted by WKYT, LEX18, FOX 56, and Lexington Herald-Leader.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
KSL says Iron County charged Ammon Bundy on Friday with interfering with an officer. KSL's updated lead and a later sentence in the same story do not match. One says Iron County filed charges Friday. The other says that as of Friday afternoon no formal charges had been filed. What KSL, St. George News, and Idaho News agree on is the Wednesday, Oct. 7 stop: an unregistered Ford F-250, an expired Idaho license, and a deputy's account that Bundy would not get out and was carried to a patrol car. A booking, and a charge if one was filed, are accusations.
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Reporting noted by KSL, St. George News, Idaho News, KTNV, and Iron County Sheriff's Office.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Judge Morgan sentenced Dylan Cody Lamb to life for killing Nadyne Marie Tillman. Friday's order is the sentence on an August jury verdict. Keys News, citing the State Attorney's Office, reported life without parole plus two five-year terms that run together. Keys Weekly reported the verdict as second-degree murder, false imprisonment, and tampering with evidence. The Miami Herald's conviction story called one of those counts kidnapping. The judgment Keys News reported Friday used the false-imprisonment label.
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Reporting noted by Keys News, Keys Weekly, Miami Herald, NBC 6 South Florida, Monroe County State Attorney's Office, and Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Judge Kyriakakis sentenced Zhontay Capers to as many as 67 years for killing Bernard Gribbin. Friday's number is the sentence on a guilty plea. It is not a jury verdict on first-degree murder. The Inquirer, KYW, FOX 29, and 6abc agree the maximum is 67 years and disagree on whether the minimum is 33½ or 32½. Gina A. Amoriello said the original murder charge was negotiated down to third-degree murder and that the length was left to the judge.
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Reporting noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer, KYW Newsradio, FOX 29 Philadelphia, 6abc, and SEPTA.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Antwone Dukes was denied bond on two murder charges in a shooting outside a Sumter Dollar General. A Friday bond denial is a custody order on a case that is still at the charging stage. Chief Deputy Hampton Gardner told WIS the shooting was a planned robbery over gun switches. Sheriff Anthony Dennis told WACH that investigators are still sorting out the circumstances and the relationships. The stations also do not agree on whether the 19-year-old who died is named Derek Parson or Eric Parson. A conflict that basic belongs in the record before anyone treats the police account as settled.
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Reporting noted by WIS, WACH, and ABC Columbia.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Hennepin County jury convicted Jose Luis Lopez Xique of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Kayli Arseth. The jury's guilty findings are the judgment on the counts the county attorney listed. Sentencing on Oct. 15 is the hearing at which the mandatory life term is imposed. It has not been imposed yet. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty called the case a rejection killing, which is her description of a finished trial. It is not a separate charge.
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Reporting noted by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, FOX 9, and Gray News.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A parole panel denied Stephanie Lazarus parole again in the 1986 killing of Sherri Rasmussen. Friday's denial is a suitability finding on a conviction that is already final. Lazarus was sentenced in 2012 to 27 years to life for the Feb. 24, 1986 killing of Sherri Rasmussen. A panel recommended parole in November 2023, and that grant was rescinded in October 2024 after Gov. Gavin Newsom raised concerns. Another panel denied her in February 2025. Friday's panel said it did not see much movement from that hearing.
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Reporting noted by NBC Los Angeles, Patch, and City News Service.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Bexar County retrial jury convicted Eric Vasquez of murder in a road-rage shooting and set his sentence at 25 years. A second jury does not owe anything to the first one. In May, a Bexar County jury could not agree on whether Eric Vasquez murdered Jay Whitemountain Morales or fired in self-defense. On Friday, a new jury rejected the self-defense claim, found him guilty of murder, and chose 25 years, KSAT reported. Life in prison was on the table. The jury picked a number well short of it. That verdict and that number are the judgment on this record.
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Reporting noted by KSAT and San Antonio Express-News.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jose "Humble" Argumedo and eight others face Mexican Mafia-linked extortion and murder-conspiracy charges in Pomona. An extortion complaint tells a story in the government's words. This one describes a FaceTime demand for "taxes," a U-Haul full of a shop's property, a hit list, and a dozen shots fired at a car. The accounts used here describe no one hurt by those shots. Every one of those details is an allegation in a charging document. Argumedo's lawyer says his client is being charged for who prosecutors think he is, not for what he did. A court will have to sort the two.
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Reporting noted by Los Angeles Times, NBC Los Angeles, and City News Service.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Baja California judge found Jesús Gerardo García and two other men guilty in the 2024 killings of three surfers. Friday's ruling is a guilty verdict on the counts the judge decided. It is not the prison term. The Associated Press reported Judge Raúl Hernández found three men responsible for the April 2024 killings and for armed robbery and armed carjacking, and that sentencing is set for Oct. 16. The BBC reported the prosecution had asked for 150 years for each man. The AP reported the Baja California attorney general's office asked for 210 years each. Those are requests. The number the judge writes down on Oct. 16 is the sentence.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, BBC, and Courthouse News Service.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors charged Calvin Lennberg with felony animal cruelty in the July shooting of a mother bear near Castle Rock. Aggravated animal cruelty in Colorado covers the torture, needless mutilation, or needless killing of an animal, CBS Colorado reported. The key word is needless. Colorado allows wildlife to be killed outside a hunting tag when human life is threatened and in some property-loss situations, the Denver Gazette noted. Whether this shooting fits any exception is what the case will test. The charge is the prosecution's accusation, not a finding.
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Reporting noted by CBS Colorado, FOX31, Denver Gazette, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The FBI says agents arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator in the FBIjobs.gov breach. An arrest announced by statement, with no name and no charge on the public record, is the thinnest version of a criminal case. CBS News sources say this suspect is believed to be directly involved in the FBI jobs-site hack. Until a complaint or indictment is unsealed, there is no filed accusation to test, and the RCMP's confirmation says only that a Canadian was arrested.
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Reporting noted by Fox News, CBS News, The New York Times, Nextgov/FCW, The Canadian Press, and Reuters.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Deziree Hood surrendered in Miami on two second-degree grand theft counts. Two second-degree grand theft counts accuse Hood of taking property. They do not convict her of either loss, and she was already out on bond in an earlier case that prosecutors and police still describe as pending. A surrender with a lawyer opens the new file and a stay-away order. Identification, fingerprints, and a photo lineup are evidence the state would have to put on later. They are not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, WPLG Local 10, NBC 6 South Florida, and Local 12.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Riverside County charged Rashad Populus with murder in the Temecula shooting death of Shaquilah Howard. The complaint described by Patch is the charging paper, and formal arraignment is set for Oct. 16 before the case can move past that first appearance. Sheriff's Sgt. Carlos Mendoza said investigators believe Populus shot Howard during a dispute at her apartment. The sheriff's account calls the dispute domestic and does not describe the relationship beyond that word. The gun and great-bodily-injury allegations are enhancements the state still has to prove.
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Reporting noted by CBS LA, Patch, City News Service, Riverside County Sheriff's Office, and Murrieta Times.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Denver grand jury indicted 12 people in an alleged predatory-towing scheme that targeted Lamborghinis. An indictment means a grand jury found probable cause after hearing only the prosecution. It is not a conviction. The DA's release names just two of the 12 defendants and says what prosecutors think they did. It does not name the other 10. This case will be fought over paper: forged titles, erased liens, and what each tow driver knew when he hooked up a car at a crash scene.
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Reporting noted by Denver District Attorney's Office, The Denver Post, and FOX31 Denver.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Delta passenger was charged with stealing a tug and crashing it on the John Wayne Airport tarmac. Viral tarmac video is not a verdict. The charges are vehicle theft, vandalism, and trespass, not anything involving an airplane, and the airport says flights kept moving. The open question is why. Officials have not given a motive, and the Los Angeles Times reported he was taken to a hospital to be evaluated after his arrest. In a case like this, what was going on in his head can matter as much as what the cameras caught.
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Reporting noted by FOX 11 Los Angeles, City News Service, Los Angeles Times, CNN, People, and KTLA.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Federal prosecutors charged Tucson man Jacob Aaron Hicks over an emailed threat to bomb the White House. A criminal complaint is a charge built on an agent's sworn account. It is not an indictment, and it is not a conviction. This case is about words, not bombs: the Justice Department has not said any explosives were found or that any attack was attempted. The complaint also records Hicks telling agents he had loaned his phone to a homeless person when the email went out. Whether the government can prove who was typing is the case.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, Fox News, Law&Crime, Newsweek, and NewsNation.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A second Cornell Chi Phi defendant, Winston Lee, asks a judge to remove Letitia James as special prosecutor. Two of the seven men named in the civil suit now say the same thing: James decided the case in a Sept. 28 post before she was handed it. Lee's filing, from the Agnifilo Intrater team, asks a Tompkins County criminal court to keep her off a future grand jury. Lopes's petition is a separate civil challenge, set for Oct. 29 in Monticello. A Friday order sealing the civil complaint is about addresses on a docket. None of those papers is a ruling that removes James, and none of them is a criminal charge.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, NBC News, Los Angeles Magazine, Spectrum News, CNY Central, and Finger Lakes1.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors say Judge Hippler's 'faceless coward' remarks don't disqualify him from Kohberger's plea challenge. Judges say hard things at sentencing all the time, and they say them after hearing the evidence and a guilty plea. The question on a disqualification motion is not whether the judge was blunt. It is whether he is biased now, in a way that keeps him from fairly deciding the petition in front of him. That is a steep climb for Kohberger. The bigger date is Nov. 13, when his court-appointed lawyer has to file the amended petition that says what, exactly, was wrong with the plea.
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Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kewon White wants a new trial in the MO3 murder, saying a juror slept through hours of testimony. Sleeping-juror claims get filed after a lot of convictions, and most of them lose, because the defense has to show more than a few nodding minutes after lunch. What makes this one worth watching is the record. The motion says both sides raised the problem with the judge during trial, more than once, and that the juror kept falling asleep after breaks. If that is documented in the transcript, it is a real issue on appeal. For now it is a request, and the life sentence stands.
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Reporting noted by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth and CBS News Texas.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
DeSantis withdraws a death warrant for the first time, calling off William Lee Thompson's execution. A withdrawn warrant is not clemency, and it is not a commutation. DeSantis has signed death warrants at a record pace, and this is the first one he has pulled. He did it hours after the Florida Supreme Court refused a stay, two weeks after ordering a three-psychiatrist panel under Florida's insanity-at-execution law, and without saying what that panel found. Thompson is still sentenced to death. The public still does not know whether the state now agrees he cannot understand why it wants to execute him.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, CBS Miami, News Service of Florida, and WUSF.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal judge blocked the deportation of Oscar Belgal, the man an ICE officer shot in Manhattan. Two stories are now competing over the same seven shots. ICE says Belgal used his car as a weapon and rammed government vehicles. The NYPD commissioner says plainclothes officers approached with guns drawn as he pulled into a parking space. A federal judge has not picked a side on that. What the judge did Friday was narrower: Belgal stays in the country, and close to New York, until the court can hear his case.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, ABC7 New York, Raw Story, and Courthouse News.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal jury convicted three Naples men in a Marco Island murder-for-hire plot. A jury verdict is the finding on the counts that were tried. It is not the prison term. The Middle District of Florida said Thursday that Jesus Pujol Hernandez, Miguel Marquez Romero, and Paulo Sabon Montero were convicted of two murder-for-hire counts. Sentencing hearings are on the calendar for Jan. 27, 2027. The office said each faces up to 20 years.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida and WBBH.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors unsealed a torture-conspiracy charge against Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores. A superseding indictment adds counts to a case already in court. It does not decide them. ABC News and the Associated Press reported that the new torture allegations were unsealed Thursday in Manhattan, that Maduro's lawyer said he denies them, and that Judge Alvin Hellerstein kept Cilia Flores in jail after a hearing on her medical-release request. Both had already pleaded not guilty to the narcoterrorism and drug-trafficking case brought after their capture in January.
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True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
U.S. Marshals arrested Brian Anthony Williams in San Diego, where he had worked as a chef named Troy Williams. An arrest on a 14-year-old warrant puts Williams in federal custody. It is not a Scott County verdict, and the Marshals Service has not announced an extradition date. NBC San Diego identified the business as Miss B's Coconut Club, where the general manager said Williams had run the kitchen for years under the name the Marshals say was an alias.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Marshals Service, NBC San Diego, NBC News, and Fox News.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
DeMarcus Johnson-Wright was charged with murder after April Celio was found dead in Pineville. The warrants are the charges. They are not a finding that Johnson-Wright killed April Celio, and they are not a finding about a pregnancy. WYMT reported he was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Center to await extradition to Kentucky. No Kentucky arraignment has been reported.
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Reporting noted by WYMT, WBKO, WSMV, FOX 17, and Middlesboro News.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Judge Steven Seeger sentenced Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton to 40 years. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on that charge. Judge Steven C. Seeger imposed 40 years and a $5 million fine on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Co-creator Thomas Pavey pleaded guilty last year and is set to be sentenced later this month, so his term is not this one.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois and CoinDesk.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Curtis Flowers died at 56 after Mississippi dismissed the capital case built in six trials. Mississippi Today reported that in June 2019 the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to overturn the conviction and said then-District Attorney Doug Evans intentionally struck Black prospective jurors. The Associated Press reported Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that those strikes deprived Flowers of a fair trial. He was released in December 2019, Circuit Judge Joey Loper dismissed the capital charges with prejudice in September 2020, and he died on Oct. 7, 2026.
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Reporting noted by Mississippi Today, WLBT, Associated Press, The Guardian, and Mississippi Center for Justice.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
San Juan County charges Jess Patterson with first-degree murder in the death of Lauren Patterson. An open-count first-degree murder charge is the accusation in the warrant. It is not a finding about what a phone video shows, and a detective's description of that video is not a plea. The Tri-City Record reports the district attorney files a motion for a pretrial detention hold. That request is set for Oct. 22. The warrant is the charge.
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Reporting noted by San Juan County Sheriff's Office, KSJE, and Tri-City Record.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A jury convicts Raymond Brown of murder in the 1984 death of an 18-year-old Calais woman. Thursday's verdict is the jury's finding on the murder charge. It is not the sentence. The Bangor Daily News reports Brown faces 25 years to life, and, citing WABI, that he will be sentenced at a later date. Until a judge imposes a term, the guilty verdict is the judgment on the charge and not a prison sentence.
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Reporting noted by Bangor Daily News and WABI.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Cameron County jury convicts Rogelio Martinez of capital murder in the death of Lt. Milton Resendez. A capital-murder conviction is the jury's finding on guilt. It is not the punishment. Valley Central reports Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz is seeking the death penalty, and that the same jury is expected back the week of Oct. 19 to choose between death and life in prison without parole. Until that phase ends, Thursday's verdict is the judgment on the charge and not a sentence.
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Reporting noted by Valley Central and KRGV.
True Crime · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal indictment charges Haverford professor Guangtian Ha with cyberstalking a colleague. An indictment is the charge. It is not a finding that the messages were sent, and Fox News reports the 2024 antisemitism lawsuit that named Ha did not establish unlawful conduct and is distinct from this count. Haverford has placed him on administrative leave and barred him from campus, and The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a conviction would carry up to five years in prison.
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Reporting noted by Fox News and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reddington asks Sullivan to hear live witnesses at Clancy's Nov. 2 hearing. Nov. 2 is already on the calendar. This motion asks Judge William Sullivan to take live testimony and sworn statements that day, or to postpone the hearing if he will not, Boston 25 News reports. A request to hear witnesses is not a ruling that the Sept. 4 mistrial lacked manifest necessity, and the Boston Globe reports Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz still has not decided whether to retry three first-degree murder counts or reduce them to second-degree murder, which would let Clancy waive a jury.
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Reporting noted by Boston Globe, Boston 25 News, and NewsNation.
Trials · Oct 9, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Maui jury convicts Clembert Kaneholani of first-degree murder in the shooting of Officer Suzanne O. Thursday's verdict is the finding on the counts. It is not the paperwork that sets the prison term. Hawaii News Now reports first-degree murder carries a maximum of life in prison without parole, and Maui Now and KITV describe that term as what the conviction carries. The Maui News reports the same jury is due back Friday, Oct. 9, to hear arguments on whether that sentence is imposed.
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Reporting noted by Hawaii News Now, Maui Now, KITV, and The Maui News.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Five DeKalb County Jail inmates are charged with murder in the death of David Addo-Wright. Five murder charges filed by the GBI are accusations. They are not convictions, and FOX 5 Atlanta reported authorities have not said how Addo-Wright died or what prohibited items were involved. The file still has to go to the DeKalb County district attorney when the investigation is finished.
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Reporting noted by Georgia Bureau of Investigation, FOX 5 Atlanta, CBS Atlanta, and WSB-TV.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hijo de Fishman was arrested after referee Gerardo Germán Pineda died at a lucha libre show. A culpable-homicide charge, where prosecutors have actually filed one, is an accusation, not a conviction. TMZ and USA TODAY reported that charge, while Cageside Seats said a hearing was still expected to decide whether he would be released or formally charged, and El País México reported a detention for the presumed killing. The promotion says the legal process is still going, and none of those accounts is a verdict.
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Reporting noted by TMZ, USA TODAY, El País México, and Cageside Seats.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The Middlesex DA's office says Ryan Hanafin is charged with murder after he waived extradition. A district attorney's statement that someone has been charged is the office's account of the papers. It is not a Massachusetts arraignment, and it is not a conviction. NBC Boston reported the Middlesex DA's office said Friday that Ryan Hanafin is charged with murder, after he waived extradition in a short Vermont hearing. Fox News reported the same day that the felony charges were not publicly identified at that hearing. The waiver is consent to be sent back.
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Reporting noted by NBC Boston, Boston.com, Fox News, The Boston Globe, WBUR, WCAX, WBZ, and Vermont State Police.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
NY AG charges Queens pharmacy owner Miguel Baron in an alleged $31M Medicaid scheme. An indictment and an airport arrest are process. They are not a conviction, and no plea is described in the accounts used here. The AG's office alleges Baron paid cash kickbacks, bought back HIV medications, billed Medicaid and ADAP for drugs not properly dispensed, and moved proceeds through shell companies into Miami real estate, luxury cars, and World Cup tickets. Those are the government's accusations. A Queens grand jury returned the indictment. A trial court has not decided guilt.
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Reporting noted by New York Attorney General and Gothamist.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Paden Frey is charged in the strangling death of officer Michael McGeehan. An arrest and a set of charges are process. They are not a conviction, and the accounts used here do not describe a plea. Police say Frey and McGeehan were in a fight at a Cummings Township cabin when Frey strangled McGeehan. An autopsy found manual strangulation by forearm compression of the neck, and the death was ruled a homicide. Those are charging facts and medical findings as reported. A court still has to decide what the Commonwealth can prove.
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Reporting noted by CBS Pittsburgh and Williamsport Sun-Gazette.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Matthew Hightower gets 40 years for a murder-for-hire that killed the wrong woman. A concurrent 40-year federal sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on this count, not a new trial. Reporting ties the Ashburne killing to a murder-for-hire plot aimed at a female federal witness who lived next door. Ashburne was similar in age and appearance and was shot as she got into her car. That mistaken-identity account is what prosecutors and the outlets described. It is not a finding that anyone else on Rosalind Avenue was the intended target of a jury that sat this week.
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Reporting noted by CBS Baltimore, WBAL, FOX45, and The Banner.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A California parole panel preliminarily granted Patricia Krenwinkel parole in the Tate-LaBianca murders. A preliminary grant is a proposal on a review clock, not a release date. City News Service reported that corrections officials said every parole grant stays proposed until the Board of Parole Hearings and the governor finish their review, and that Newsom reversed Krenwinkel's May 30, 2025 grant on Oct. 13, 2025, after reversing an earlier grant in 2022. If he reverses this one, the department said she would be set for another hearing within 18 months of Tuesday's hearing.
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Reporting noted by City News Service, NBC Los Angeles, FOX 11 Los Angeles, and KCRA.
Trials · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Miami magistrate refused to combine Andrew Tate's and Tristan Tate's extradition hearings. Separate hearings are the order. The United States opposed putting the two extradition requests in one courtroom, and Judge Louis agreed that each request has to be decided on its own. The Nov. 19 and Nov. 20 dates are what their lawyer told reporters. Those dates are not a trial of the British charges. Wednesday's bond petition is a different request, and this ruling does not grant it.
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Reporting noted by Reuters, Rolling Stone, TMZ, PA Media, and The Irish News.
Trials · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Luzerne County jury convicted Jary Fortuna of third-degree murder in the death of Scott Knox. Throwing out first-degree murder in the middle of a trial is unusual, and it changed what this jury was allowed to decide. The Citizens' Voice reported Judge David W. Lupas said there was a clear lack of evidence of a planned robbery or a premeditated murder, and left the jury with third-degree murder or involuntary manslaughter. The third-degree conviction is the judgment. Sentencing, with a maximum of 40 years, is what is still open.
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Reporting noted by The Citizens' Voice.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kimberly Rankins is held on a $750,000 bond in the death of Telem Fairchild. A bond set at a first appearance is a custody order. It is not a conviction, and Texarkana Today reported that as of Wednesday prosecutors had not yet filed a formal charging document. Rankins is due back in Miller County Circuit Court at 9 a.m. Oct. 20. What is on the public record now is an arrest, a bond prosecutors recommended, and a police account of a fight the night before Fairchild was found dead.
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Reporting noted by Texarkana Today, Texarkana Arkansas Police Department, and Miller County Circuit Court.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Phoenix police booked Taishawn Terry Bailey on two murder counts in the deaths of Charles Hendrix and Jerry Braggs. An arrest and a booking are accusations. They are not a conviction, and the accounts used here do not describe a plea. FOX 10 Phoenix, citing the Phoenix Police Department, reported Bailey was taken to jail on two counts of first-degree murder. azfamily reported the bond is $2 million, cash only. What a court still has to decide is what the state can prove about the shooting near 16th Street and McKinley.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, azfamily, and Phoenix Police Department.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Police arrested Angel Carrasco in the Bronx death of Nathaly Ramirez. An arrest is custody and a set of charges. It is not a conviction, and the accounts used here do not describe a plea. FOX 5 New York and NBC New York listed murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, and assault. CBS New York's list was shorter: murder, attempted murder, and assault. The child is alive. What a court still has to decide is what the state can prove about who pushed, and why.
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Reporting noted by FOX 5 New York, ABC7, CBS New York, and NBC New York.
True Crime · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors charged Larry Wallen and Christina Seguin with soliciting a homicide in Manitowoc County. A solicitation charge accuses someone of asking for a killing. It is not a homicide conviction, and the person the state says was the target is alive. Seehafer News reported the district attorney's account of meetings, planning, and a date Wallen offered. That is the state's narrative at a bail hearing. Initial appearances are set for Monday. The wife is not named here.
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Reporting noted by FOX 11 and Seehafer News.
Trials · Oct 8, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Montgomery County jury convicted Matthew Konen of murder in David Rodgers's death and criminally negligent homicide in Rachel Konen's. The split is the verdict. Clarksville Now reported the jury convicted Konen of first-degree murder, as charged, in Rodgers's death, and of criminally negligent homicide in Rachel Konen's. His lawyer, Kyle Mothershead, asked the jury to find the state had not disproved self-defense. These are the counts that came back. Jan. 13 is when a judge sets the sentence.
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Reporting noted by Clarksville Now.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Passaic County jury convicted Jefersson Gonzalez and Elvis DeJesus of murder in the 2021 shooting of Jasmin Wel. The first man police arrested in this killing was later acquitted. Patch reported Kristian Gonzalez of Lyndhurst was charged in 2022 and cleared of every count, and that investigators then built the case against Jefersson Gonzalez and Elvis DeJesus. An acquittal closes one charging theory. It does not decide the next one. This jury sat through what NorthJersey.com described as a month-long trial and three days of deliberations, and it convicted both men. The prison terms are still ahead.
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Reporting noted by Patch, News 12 New Jersey, NorthJersey.com, and Passaic County Prosecutor's Office.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal judge sentenced Walter Chavez Larin to life in prison for two MS-13 murders. Life in this case is the sentence on a verdict that is already in. It is not a new set of charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office said the November 2025 jury convicted Chavez of racketeering conspiracy and two murder counts, and that four other defendants were convicted at the same nine-week trial. The Signal and MyNewsLA do not describe those two killings with the same names or the same dates. A life term does not erase that gap. It means the government proved the two counts the jury returned, under whatever facts that jury accepted.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, The Signal, and MyNewsLA.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Marine who shares a name with a Chi Phi defendant says a wrong address in the Cornell lawsuit brought death threats to his family. Wednesday was a request. Friday was the order. Spectrum News reported Perry-Bond sealed filings because they list addresses, including one that wrongly identified where a former Marine who is not involved in the case lives, and that his family was flooded with threats. CNY Central published the order's language condemning what the court called dangerous internet vigilantism. A sealing order limits the public docket. It does not decide the assault allegations, and it does not file a criminal charge.
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Reporting noted by Fox News, CBS News, Spectrum News, and CNY Central.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Baltimore prosecutors dropped carjacking charges against Deryl Bright Jr. after seven months on an ankle monitor. An alibi backed by school officials is about as strong as alibis get. According to the reporting, police estimated the unmasked teen on video was six inches shorter and heavier than Bright, and none of the three teens wore the uniform his school required. The case still sat for seven months until a reporter asked about it. Now, the outlets report, clearing his record comes with a condition: he has to agree not to sue. That trade deserves a hard look.
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Reporting noted by The Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Black Star, The Root, and Yahoo News.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Johnathan Griffin, 19, is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his cellmate at 201 Poplar. A murder charge filed inside a jail is still only a charge. Action News 5 reported that Griffin asked for his lawyer when detectives tried to question him, and that jail staff said he told them he flushed the weapon. No weapon was recovered. A statement relayed secondhand by jail staff is exactly the kind of evidence a defense lawyer takes apart line by line. The question the county has to answer is how a weapon got into that cell at all.
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Reporting noted by Action News 5, FOX13 Memphis, and The Commercial Appeal.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Utah judge ordered Kouri Richins to pay $55.1 million to her late husband's estate in the wrongful-death case. An unopposed motion gets decided on the other side's facts. KSL reported the judge treated every statement in the estate's motion as fact because Richins did not dispute any of it, and KPCW reported she no longer has a lawyer in the civil case. That is the price of going silent in a civil suit while a criminal appeal is still alive. The Park Record reported the estate's own filing calls her "steeped in debt and seemingly broke." This judgment is about punishment and a permanent record. It is not a check likely to clear anytime soon.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Utah, KSL, KUTV, KPCW, and The Park Record.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
An Anoka County jury convicted Jordan Collins Sr. of second-degree murder in the death of his 16-year-old son, Manny. Collins chose to be his own lawyer in a three-week murder trial. FOX 9 reported his defense took about 30 minutes and focused on his constitutional rights rather than the facts, and CBS Minnesota reported he told jurors in closing that police did not collect all the evidence and that experts could not prove who caused his son's death. The jury took about three and a half hours. The right to represent yourself is real. So is the risk.
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Reporting noted by FOX 9, KSTP, CBS Minnesota, and MPR News.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A judge found Matthew Dieringer incompetent to stand trial in the Scottsdale beating death of Frank Quaranta. Incompetent to stand trial does not mean not guilty, and it does not mean insane. It means the court found that, right now, he cannot understand the proceedings or help his own lawyer. FOX 10 reported two experts found him competent and a third did not, and the judge's ruling followed the third. The case pauses. It does not end. The ruling also said there is no clear evidence he will be restored within the standard 15 months.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix and Arizona's Family.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Franck Bazil is charged with leaving the scene of the Indianapolis crash that killed 9-year-old RJ McLain. The counts are about leaving, not about causing the crash. WIBC reported both charges are failure to remain at the scene. WRTV reported police saw no sign of impairment and that, according to the affidavit, Bazil told officers he drove away because he was "scared, not knowing where to go." What he knew when he left, and how long he stayed, is what those counts put in front of a court.
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Reporting noted by WIBC, WRTV, IndyStar, and Law&Crime.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors charged Janieka Ellington with attempted murder after an I-5 crash near DuPont and a knife attack on her daughters. Four attempted-murder counts are the state's accusation. They are not a finding about intent. Prosecutors split them in two: two counts say she tried to kill with a knife, and two say she tried to kill with the crash. KIRO 7 reported her lawyer has asked for a competency evaluation, due in several weeks. Until that comes back, the first question is whether she can stand trial at all.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Seattle and KIRO 7.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Federal prosecutors charged Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, in an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to open fire at the Mall of America. A complaint is the government's version, filed to support an arrest. It is not an indictment, and it is not a verdict. The charge itself is narrow: receiving a gun and ammunition for a terrorism crime. The rifle was inert and the seller worked for the FBI. Nearly everything the public knows about the alleged plan comes from messages to a confidential source over almost two years. Those messages are the case. How those conversations unfolded is what a court will test.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota, MPR News, and FOX 9.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Andrew Tanaka is charged with four counts of attempted murder after shots were fired on Interstate 35. Four attempted-murder counts are the charges on the booking. They are not a finding that Tanaka fired, and a line in a complaint is not testimony a jury has heard. KCCI reported the bond is $1 million cash only. The woman who was shot has not been named, and the Department of Public Safety said her injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. A judge still has to decide what the complaint supports.
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Reporting noted by Iowa Department of Public Safety, KCCI, and CBS2 Iowa.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Fredrick Damone Emmitt is charged with murder after a woman was shot at a west Houston apartment. A murder charge is the accusation Houston police announced Wednesday. It is not a finding that the shot was intentional, and a 911 call the records describe is not a plea. FOX 26 Houston reported bond has not been set and that prosecutors want a hearing to hold him without bond. What the surveillance video shows, and what it does not show, is the argument at that hearing.
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Reporting noted by FOX 26 Houston and ABC13.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Ramsey County jury found Ian Loi Bursey guilty of murder in the St. Paul shooting of Tajai Evans. A guilty verdict on both murder counts is the jury's finding. It is not the sentence. KSTP reported Bursey was convicted Monday of two counts of second-degree murder and drive-by shooting at an occupied vehicle, and Law&Crime reported a hearing on Dec. 4 with sentencing on Dec. 11. What he told investigators about self-defense is his account from the charging papers. The years get set on Dec. 11.
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Reporting noted by KSTP, Pioneer Press, Law&Crime, and CBS Minnesota.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Carlos Ochoa pleaded guilty to murder in the death of Michael Sherman Ross II and was sentenced to 20 years. A guilty plea to murder and a 20-year sentence are the judgment on that count. They are not a finding about which of the three men fired. KLTV reported Wednesday that Ochoa was the last of the three to plead. The station's July account of the 2018 sentencing said prosecutors believed someone else pulled the trigger and that they did not have the forensic evidence to prove it. Wednesday's story does not say the new plea settled that question, and it does not say whether the 20 years run with the prison term he was already serving.
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Reporting noted by KLTV.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
San Francisco police arrested Shakia Vanderbilt in the Warfield shooting that killed Ulysses Tykee Davis. An arrest in a fatal shooting is custody. It is not a finding that Vanderbilt shot Ulysses Tykee Davis. The Standard's account of what District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she is charged with, and Bay City News's account of a jail record that still says suspicion of murder with no court date, are not the same paper. KTVU reported the city and the jail do not even agree on her age. A news conference and a jail caption can both be current. Neither one is a plea.
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Reporting noted by KTVU, San Francisco Standard, and Bay City News.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Tyree Reynolds was charged with murder after 12-year-old Khloe Ishway was killed at a Baltimore homecoming. A first-degree murder charge is the count on the police release. It is not a finding that Reynolds fired the shot that killed Khloe Ishway. The Banner reported a judge held him without bond Wednesday after the defense waived a bail review. What charging documents say a camera showed is the accusation. A second person police say they are still looking for is not in custody, and that search is not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore City, The Banner, and CBS Baltimore.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Daniel Gomez was charged with leaving the scene after Erik Ermanovics was killed on Sunrise Highway. Leaving the scene of a crash that killed someone is its own charge. It is not a murder count, and the police release does not say the crash was an accident. Suffolk County Police set the arraignment for Wednesday at First District Court in Central Islip. The New York Post, publishing at 1:05 p.m. Eastern, still described that hearing as ahead of him and did not report a plea or a bail figure. A date on a release is not a result.
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Reporting noted by Suffolk County Police, ABC7 New York, and New York Post.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kourtney Taylor Aumen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Jessica Joy Mast. Sentencing is Dec. 21. A guilty plea to second-degree murder and first-degree assault is an admission on those two counts. It is not the sentence, and it is not a plea to the first-degree murder count she had been facing. ABC17 reported the Monday hearing showed up on CaseNet the same morning, in front of a trial that had been set for Oct. 26. Dec. 21 is when a judge has to decide the punishment on the counts she admitted. The other three adults have their own pleas. Those pleas are not her sentence.
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Reporting noted by ABC17, KY3, and Law&Crime.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Skylar Shanks was charged with murder-domestic violence after Amber DeArmond was found shot near Bremen. A murder-domestic violence charge is the count on the booking. It is not a finding that the shooting was domestic, and it is not a conviction. 14 News reported the arraignment is Oct. 12. What a citation says a witness heard, and what troopers say they found under a pool deck, are accusations the prosecutor still has to put on in court. Oct. 12 is the first date. It is not a plea.
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Reporting noted by WNKY, 14 News, and Kentucky State Police.
Trials · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Judge Stubbs sentenced David Barraclough to life, with a minimum of 22 years and one month. Friday's order is the sentence on a guilty plea. The Crown Prosecution Service said the term is life imprisonment with a minimum of 22 years and one month, less time spent on remand. The BBC reported Barraclough refused to come to court for it, after Judge Andrew Stubbs had ordered him on Wednesday to attend in person. A minimum term is how long must pass before parole can be considered. It is not a finding that he will be released when it ends.
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Reporting noted by Crown Prosecution Service, BBC, West Yorkshire Police, Yorkshire Live, Yorkshire Evening Post, and Press Association.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Texas executed Jamaal Howard on Wednesday evening in the murder of Vickie Swartout. Carrying out a death warrant ends the sentence already entered. It is not a new trial. CBS News and the Associated Press reported Texas pronounced Jamaal Howard dead at 8:03 p.m. Wednesday after pentobarbital at the Huntsville Unit, and that he became the 30th person executed in the United States this year. The stay fights failed the same evening. What those courts did not do was reopen the 2000 capital-murder conviction.
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Reporting noted by CBS News, Associated Press, USA TODAY, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and U.S. Supreme Court.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Mark Cain appeared in Norwich charged with the murder of GP Hannah Terry. A first appearance on a murder charge is a remand and a next date. It is not a plea. The BBC reported Mark Cain spoke only to confirm his age, name, and address, and that he was not asked to plead. The BBC and ITV reported what the prosecutor said a post-mortem noted. Lynn News reported a robbery call and stab wounds that those accounts did not. Thursday morning is the next room. It is not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by BBC, ITV News, Crown Prosecution Service, Lynn News, Press Association, and The Sun.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Benjamin Day pleaded guilty to murdering Maria Saceanu in a room prosecutors said he built to copy Dexter. A guilty plea entered in the middle of a trial is a conviction on that count. It is not the minimum term. In England and Wales, murder carries a mandatory life sentence, and the judge still has to set how many years must pass before parole can even be considered. Day's lawyers had been ready to argue self-defense. Tuesday's plea dropped that defense in open court. Dec. 4 is when the term gets a number.
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Reporting noted by Crown Prosecution Service, Daily Mail, and BBC.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
JK Athree pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Jermel Ellington. A guilty plea to an amended count is an admission on that count. It is not the sentence until the court imposes it. The Sioux City Journal reported the agreement calls for 50 years and that sentencing is Dec. 11. What Athree said in court about how many times he stabbed Ellington is not the number in the accusation the public defender described. That gap is now part of the record the judge will sentence on.
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Reporting noted by Sioux City Journal and KTIV.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jose Antonio Zayas was charged with murder in the shooting of Culver CityBus driver Bruce Rodriguez. A special-circumstance allegation is the count that can turn a California murder charge into life without parole if a jury finds it true. It is still an allegation. The district attorney's account of why the bus did not stop and the witness account CBS Los Angeles reported do not describe the argument the same way. A Friday booking bail and Wednesday's no-bail hold are two different custody decisions. Neither one is a verdict.
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Reporting noted by Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, CBS Los Angeles, NBC Los Angeles, and FOX 11 Los Angeles.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jane Doe's lawyer says Chi Phi held meetings to cover up the Cornell allegations. What that claim can and cannot do. A lawyer's description of a cover-up on cable news is advocacy. It is not a charge. Staying quiet is generally not a crime in New York. Hiding evidence, coaching a witness to lie, or helping someone avoid arrest can be. If Attorney General Letitia James's office looks at these meetings, the question will be what anyone did, not what anyone failed to volunteer.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, CNN, ABC News, Associated Press, Fox News, and NPR.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jeremy Lee Williams and Darion Holliway are charged with first-degree murder in Antonio Young's death in a Memphis gun-sale shooting. An affidavit is the police version of a case before anyone cross-examines it. Investigators tied a $600 Chime transfer from Antonio Young's account to an account linked to Williams, and they say Holliway put himself behind the wheel and put Williams in the passenger seat. A money trail shows who was paid. A co-defendant's account is testimony from someone with his own charges. Neither one is a verdict.
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Reporting noted by Action News 5.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jurors in Miguel Salguero-Olivares's trial heard a rum bottle and a medical examiner on the third day of testimony. Friday's witnesses were on the stand to identify an object and a cause of death. That testimony is evidence. It is not a verdict. WRAL reported Price showed jurors the bottle prosecutors say was used in the killing. ABC11 reported Scott said blunt-force trauma to the head caused the death, and that the defense pressed her on how fast that death could occur. The jury comes back Monday. The charges, which include rape and a sexual offense, are still the charges.
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Reporting noted by WRAL, ABC11, The Daily Tar Heel, and Spectrum News.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A judge holds Talyn Vigil on a $2 million cash-only bond in the Preston Lord case. A cash-only bond is a price on release, not a verdict on the homicide. azfamily reported that a judge modified Talyn Vigil's conditions overnight Wednesday and that Vigil is now held on $2 million cash only in the Preston Lord case. Posting that cash would put him back on a monitor, house arrest, and testing. The murder, kidnapping, and aggravated-robbery captions remain accusations. Three earlier arrests are the record the state used to ask for tighter custody. They do not prove how Preston Lord died.
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Reporting noted by azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
An Indiana man is charged with murder in the truck stop hit-and-run death of a Lexington mother. Kentucky's murder statute covers two different theories: killing someone on purpose, and killing someone through wanton conduct showing extreme indifference to human life. A murder charge after a vehicle death does not tell you which one prosecutors will pursue. The family says the crash was targeted. The sheriff's office has only said forensic and digital evidence led to Harris. Leaving the scene is something prosecutors will try to use, but it does not answer who was driving or why. Those questions get answered with evidence in a Montgomery County courtroom, after extradition.
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Reporting noted by LEX18, Law&Crime, U.S. Marshals Service, and Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Two men sought in the Bronx stabbing of an off-duty NYPD detective were found hiding in a Massachusetts basement. An arrest after a five-day manhunt is the end of the search, not the end of the case. Attempted murder in New York requires proof that the person intended to kill. Prosecutors will lean on the number of wounds. The defense will argue a botched grab for a chain is a robbery and an assault, not an attempt to kill. Identification also matters: the public has seen a Crime Stoppers still of two men on an e-bike, and a still is a starting point for a lineup, not proof of who held the knife. The men first have to be brought back from Massachusetts, where they can waive or contest extradition.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, CBS News New York, WCVB, WHDH 7News, and amNewYork.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Federal prosecutors charged a Bellingham man with conspiring in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting from across the border. A criminal complaint is an agent's sworn summary written to get an arrest. It is not an indictment, and no grand jury has voted on it yet. Conspiracy is about agreement and intent: the government has to prove Bryant agreed that people would be killed and meant to help it happen, not just that Bryant knew about a plan and kept talking. The same complaint quotes Bryant trying to talk the shooter out of it more than once. Prosecutors will point to the $14 lighter, the livestream tests and the advice on starting the car. The defense will point to the messages pleading with her to stop. That fight is what a jury would decide.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Seattle, CBC News, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington.
True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cornell police videos show an officer challenging a rumor that the Chi Phi encounter was consensual. A police interview video can show what a witness said and whether that witness was in a position to know it. It cannot show what happened in a room the camera never entered. Hearing that an encounter was consensual is a rumor. A grand jury would care about the difference, because consent is a fact about the people who were there, not a story that circulated in the house afterward. Cornell's expulsions are a campus result. They are not criminal guilt.
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True Crime · Oct 7, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Callaway County charged Jonathan G. Houston with first-degree murder and kidnapping after a whispered 911 call from a Kingdom City hotel. A charging document is the accusation. A line in those papers that says Houston confessed, and that he planned the killing, is not a guilty plea and has not been tested in court. The woman was never reported missing. Chief Deputy Curtis Hall said the Callaway County Sheriff's Office is already 10 months behind the crime and has to be careful about what it releases.
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Reporting noted by KOMU, New York Post, and KSDK.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
CDCR says Shunki E. Fleming attacked Mario Ortega during a prison escort. Ortega was pronounced dead an hour later. A corrections department investigating a death as a homicide is an open inquiry. It is not a new murder charge filed in court. CDCR, FOX40, and the Sacramento Bee all reported the golf-cart attack and the one-hour gap before Ortega was pronounced dead. None of them reported a criminal complaint against Fleming for this death.
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Reporting noted by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, FOX40, and Sacramento Bee.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A jury found Karel Martinez-Scarlet guilty of first-degree murder in the Pawtucket shooting death of Keshaudas Spence. A guilty verdict is the jury's finding on the counts it decided. It is not the sentence. Attorney General Peter Neronha's office said the panel convicted Martinez-Scarlet of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and carrying a pistol without a license. WJAR reported the same four counts. Neither account set a sentencing date.
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Reporting noted by Rhode Island Attorney General's Office and WJAR.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jada Garrett was booked on a first-degree murder charge in the Hamilton Street shooting death of Lee Mhoon. An indictment and an arrest warrant are charging papers. They are not a finding that Garrett fired. Action News 5 listed two firearm counts and a $5 million bond figure that also names Bobby Joyner. The Memphis Police Department listed one firearm count and did not publish a bond or the names of the people who were shot.
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True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jackson County charged Armondo S. Stigger with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dionne Culp. A murder charge and an armed-criminal-action count are what the prosecutor filed. They are not a finding that Stigger fired the shots. KSHB and KMBC reported a witness account from court documents, including that Culp screamed his nickname before more shots. KSHB reported a bond review on Oct. 14. That date is a hearing, not a trial.
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True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jatarious Fuller was charged with first-degree murder after a shooting on Simmons Loop in Toone. A first-degree murder charge and a gun count are accusations in a warrant. They are not a finding that the shooting was unjustified. WBBJ reported Fuller told deputies and 911 he acted in self-defense. Tippah News reported the warrant says the man was trying to leave the driveway when he was shot, and that the sheriff's office had not set a bond or a first court date as of Tuesday evening.
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Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Pueblo County jury convicted Samantha Kimberly of first-degree murder in her 3-year-old son's death. A guilty verdict is the jury's finding on the counts. It is not the sentence. KKTV and KOAA reported Kimberly is due in Division 503 on Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. KRDO reported the trial ran three weeks and that the district attorney's office put on evidence of months of physical abuse of both children.
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Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Judge Tony Graf ordered both sides in the Tyler Robinson case to bring trial-length estimates to an Oct. 23 hearing. A scheduling order is case management. It is not a ruling on the evidence, and no trial date has been set. Graf wrote that the estimates are not binding and that either side can ask for changes as issues come up. KSL reported Robinson faces a possible death sentence if convicted, and the order asks for a separate estimate for a capital penalty phase if one applies.
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True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Letitia James's office is close to adding outside lawyers to the Cornell Chi Phi criminal investigation, CNN reported. Hiring outside lawyers is staffing. It is not a charging decision, and no one has been charged with a crime in connection with the allegations. CNN reported the attorney general's criminal authority is normally limited by law to police-related deaths, financial crimes, and organized crime, and that the office does not have a history of investigating sex-based crimes. Jane Doe's lawyer said he expected the office to bring in experts from outside.
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Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Kern County jury convicted Victor Farias Jr. of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Yolanda Rojo. A first-degree murder verdict is the jury's finding on the evidence, and sentencing is the next step. KBAK/KBFX and 23ABC reported Farias faces 25 years to life in prison plus an additional year. The child-abuse count was for inflicting mental suffering on his daughters, ages 6 and 4, who prosecutors said were present during the attack.
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Reporting noted by KBAK/KBFX, 23ABC, The Bakersfield Californian, and Law&Crime.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Former Chi Phi members who graduated before 2024 asked Cornell to say publicly they were not in the fraternity's group chat. Being named on a website is not being accused in court, and none of the seven men named in Jane Doe's civil lawsuit has been criminally charged. CBS News reported the men Adam Ford represents say they were not students in fall 2024 and want Cornell to say who was not in the chat, not who was. The anonymous tip ABC News described is an allegation in a police file. It is not a finding of a cover-up.
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Reporting noted by CBS News and ABC News.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Worcester jury convicted Jami Parker of voluntary manslaughter, not murder, in the shooting death of Jeffrey Carr. A voluntary manslaughter verdict rejects both the first-degree murder conviction prosecutors sought and the full self-defense acquittal the defense sought. The Telegram & Gazette reported the judge has wide discretion at sentencing, from probation to up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing has not happened, and the reporting used here does not describe an appeal.
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Reporting noted by Worcester Telegram & Gazette and Boston 25 News.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jaime Castillo was charged with murder after Jose Orozco was found stabbed to death in Aldine. A murder charge is the accusation the sheriff's office filed. It is not a conviction. FOX 26 Houston and ABC13 reported that Gonzalez said Castillo and Orozco had been in an intimate relationship, and that Houston police later found Castillo and booked him into the Harris County Jail. A relationship investigators describe, and a booking, are not a finding that Castillo stabbed anyone.
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Reporting noted by FOX 26 Houston, ABC13, and Houston Chronicle.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Darrell Stewart was sentenced to 30 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting of Christopher Goolsby. A 30-year sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count he admitted. It is not a new accusation. WLBT and WAPT reported that Hinds County District Attorney Brad McCullouch said surveillance video showed Stewart point a firearm at Goolsby, who was unarmed, and fire as Goolsby tried to leave. The plea is the admission. The 30 years is the term Judge Faye Peterson imposed.
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Reporting noted by WLBT and WAPT.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Tabitha Bundrick was sentenced to 27 years to life after pleading guilty in three Manhattan fentanyl killings. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new charge. The New York Post and the Daily Mail reported the state term as 27 years to life, running at the same time as a 13-year federal sentence. The Daily Mail split the state term into three concurrent 25-years-to-life murder sentences and a consecutive two years on the assault count. CBS New York had reported that morning that 27 years to life was the expected term.
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Reporting noted by Manhattan District Attorney's Office, New York Post, Daily Mail, and CBS New York.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors charged Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan after a raid on their Arcadia home. A criminal complaint is the accusation the district attorney filed. It is not a conviction. NBC News reported Hochman described the home as a house of horrors and listed conspiracy, child-abuse, accessory, and witness counts. The Los Angeles Times, writing earlier Tuesday, said the couple was arrested on suspicion and spelled the names differently. A spelling in one newsroom and a charge list in another are both still pretrial.
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Reporting noted by NBC News, ABC7, Los Angeles Times, and ABC News.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Anderson County deputies took Corey Huff into custody after a Knoxville fatal stabbing. A capture ends the search. It does not end the case. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had listed Huff on a first-degree murder alert. WVLT reported after the arrest that specific charges had not been released. A most-wanted listing and a booking are not the same document, and neither one is a conviction.
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Reporting noted by WVLT, Oak Ridger, FOX17, and 3B Media.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hardeeville police booked Joshua Ferguson and Cleve White on murder warrants in the shooting death of Travis Brown. A murder warrant is the accusation detectives wrote down after a Friday night shooting. It is not a conviction. WSAV reported Jasper County Sheriff Chris Malphrus called the killing of Travis Brown premeditated, and Hardeeville Chief Sam Woodward said more arrests are expected. An expected arrest is not a filed count, and a sheriff's theory of the shooting is not a jury finding.
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Reporting noted by WSAV, WTOC, and WJCL.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Northlake police booked Holly Flores on attempted capital murder counts after a stabbing at her home. An attempted-capital-murder booking is the accusation police wrote down after the call. It is not a conviction. CBS Texas and NBC 5 reported two attempted capital murder counts plus aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. FOX 4 described the charges as preliminary. Northlake Police Chief Robert Crawford said he does not believe the children's injuries are life-threatening.
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Reporting noted by CBS Texas, FOX 4, and NBC 5.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution will be livestreamed. A livestream announcement is a plan for how a sentence a court-martial already imposed would be carried out. It is not a new verdict, and it is not an execution that has happened. Military.com reported Hasan had not yet been through civilian habeas review, which can take years, so a Dec. 3 date does not mean the sentence has been carried out.
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Reporting noted by CBS News, The Washington Post, Military.com, Associated Press, Military Times, NBC News, and POLITICO.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
David Rush pleaded guilty to wire fraud after agents found gold bars in his Virginia home. A guilty plea to wire fraud is a conviction on that count. It is not the prison term, and it is not a separate espionage conviction. NBC News and the BBC reported Tuesday that Rush, 49, admitted the wire-fraud count. In the same plea papers, they reported, he admitted disclosing information about a clandestine U.S. source to a foreign official. That admission travels with the deal. It is not its own count of conviction in the accounts those outlets published.
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Reporting noted by NBC News, BBC, and WJLA.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Modesto police booked Manuel Cerrillo-Mendoza on suspicion of murder after a bicyclist was killed. A murder booking is the accusation police wrote down after the stop. It is not a conviction, and it does not identify the man who died. CBS Sacramento reported that officers stopped Cerrillo-Mendoza near 9th and M streets after the driver left the scene, and that a DUI investigation found he was driving under the influence. The Modesto Bee reported he is being held without bail.
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Reporting noted by CBS Sacramento, KCRA, and Modesto Bee.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Douglas County jury convicted Erika Mims of murder in the deaths of Lamar Nedd and Laron Hodges. A guilty verdict is the jury's finding. It is not the prison term. KETV and the Omaha World-Herald both reported convictions on two first-degree murder counts, two evidence-tampering counts, and four firearms counts. They do not agree on whether a judge has already set the sentencing date. The World-Herald also reported that Erykha Wilson and Kenneth Smith remain charged as accessories. Those charges are not Monday's verdict.
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Reporting noted by KETV and Omaha World-Herald.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cornell's board hired Sally Yates to review the university's response to the Chi Phi allegations. A board review is not a criminal case. Cornell said Tuesday that Yates will report to trustees, not to a jury, and that she will look at whether the university followed its own rules. Attorney General Letitia James is already the special prosecutor on the criminal investigation. Those are separate tracks. Neither one is a verdict, and Fox News reported that no criminal charges have been filed against the seven men named in the civil lawsuit.
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Reporting noted by Cornell University, NPR, and Fox News.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Kanawha County grand jury indicted Eric Richmond in the Nitro Walmart shooting death of Misty Williams. A circuit indictment is the charging paper a grand jury returns. It is not a conviction. Richmond was already charged with first-degree murder in April, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office said. Monday's reporting adds the indictment and two firearms counts, and it says no trial date has been set.
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Reporting noted by WV MetroNews, WCHS Network, and Kanawha County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal complaint charges James Michael Dewaelsche with threatening President Trump. A criminal complaint is a sworn accusation. It is not a conviction. ClickOnDetroit and Law&Crime both describe two posts on X and an interview in which investigators say Dewaelsche admitted writing them. Law&Crime reported the complaint does not allege that he attacked anyone. The preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the government has enough to keep the case moving.
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Reporting noted by ClickOnDetroit and Law&Crime.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Hammodi Alnaser in the North Olmsted shooting deaths of his wife and son. An indictment is the grand jury's decision to charge. It is not a conviction, and it does not set a sentence. The prosecutor's office listed two aggravated-murder counts, four murder counts, one attempted-murder count, six felonious-assault counts, and two endangering-children counts. Cleveland 19 reported that North Olmsted police still have not described a motive. The arraignment is still ahead.
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True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ulise DeLao was sentenced to five years after a manslaughter plea in the death of Brittany Torres. A five-year sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on manslaughter. It is not a murder conviction. Law&Crime reported a grand jury in August 2024 refused to indict DeLao for first-degree murder, and that Monday's trial date became a plea. The intoxication-manslaughter count was dropped in that agreement.
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Reporting noted by Law&Crime, ABC 7 Amarillo, and Amarillo Tribune.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Miguel Mora Nunez was sentenced to 15 years in the shooting of off-duty Border Patrol officer Joshua Sinclair. The 15-year term is the sentence on the federal count Mora Nunez admitted. It is not a judgment in the Manhattan attempted-murder case, which is still open. The New York Post reported Judge Loretta Preska imposed the maximum on that federal weapons count. Gothamist reported the plea was to illegally possessing ammunition. The state case returns in November.
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Reporting noted by New York Post and Gothamist.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal jury convicted Moises Rivera-Luna and Tokiro Rodas-Ramirez of racketeering tied to killings in the Washington area. A guilty verdict is the jury's finding on the counts it decided. It is not a prison term. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday's verdict covers a racketeering conspiracy for both men, and further counts against Rodas-Ramirez that the same release describes in two different ways. CNN reported the case had already produced two mistrials. Jan. 7, 2027, is when a judge sets the sentences.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, 7News, and CNN.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Manhattan prosecutors tell the judge Luigi Mangione's state murder case can go forward despite his federal guilty plea. Double jeopardy is the whole fight now. Mangione admitted the federal stalking counts in August. Prosecutors say stalking and murder are different crimes with different elements, so New York can still try him. His lawyers say New York law bars a second prosecution for the same act. Judge Gregory Carro will have both sides' papers by Oct. 30. Until he rules, there is no state trial date.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, The Guardian, and CNN.
Trials · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dominique Bailey and Kevin Spencer are convicted of third-degree murder in the death of 4-year-old Damari Carter. This was a split verdict. Jurors convicted on third-degree murder, which in Pennsylvania is a killing with malice but without the specific intent to kill. They acquitted on first-degree murder, the premeditated charge that carries a mandatory life term. The Dec. 4 sentencing will set the prison terms.
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Reporting noted by 6abc Philadelphia, NBC10 Philadelphia, and KYW Newsradio.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Mario Jackson is sentenced to 198 years for the downtown Anchorage killings of Shelia Aguchak and Bobby DeLoach Jr. A sentence after a jury verdict is the judgment on the counts the jury found. Judge McKenna called these the worst first-degree murder cases he has presided over and described them as planned executions. Jackson denied being the shooter during the investigation and on the witness stand. He can still appeal. Alaska's News Source reported that 198 years is the maximum the law allowed on these counts.
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Reporting noted by Alaska Department of Law, Anchorage Police Department, and Alaska's News Source.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Adam Iza was sentenced to 78 months for the Meta fraud and the scheme that used off-duty sheriff's deputies. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts he admitted. Judge Percy Anderson imposed 78 months on Monday. The Los Angeles Times reported prosecutors had asked for nearly five years, and that Anderson made this term concurrent with the 15-year Connecticut sentence Iza is already serving. Concurrent terms run together. He does not serve the 78 months on top of the 15 years. The restitution figure is part of Monday's judgment.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Times, and Patch.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A grand jury indicted Dulance Morin for negligent homicide in the Mesa shooting death of Maria Lewis. Negligent homicide is not a murder charge. It accuses a person of causing a death by criminal negligence. KTAR reported that is the single felony a Maricopa County grand jury returned on Sept. 10. On Monday the Attorney General's Office said Morin stays employed unless he is convicted, and that Kris Mayes believes he will be found not guilty. That is the office's position. FOX 10 quoted a lawyer who said calling the shot an accident cuts against self-defense, because self-defense is an intentional act. That is a comment on the defense problem. It is not a ruling.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, ABC15, Arizona's Family, and KTAR.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jeremiah Listman is charged with murder in the Tower District shooting death of Tyrone Miles. A murder booking and a $1 million bond are the start of the file. They do not decide who fired. ABC30 Fresno reported that Police Chief Mindy Casto described one shot after an argument on a Tower District corner, and that Listman was already out on bond in an April stabbing. The gun from Sept. 26 has not been recovered. Casto's timeline is the police account from Monday's news conference.
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Reporting noted by ABC30 Fresno, FOX26, and The Fresno Bee.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Marcus Moultrie pleaded guilty to murder in the beating death of 8-year-old Leland Arnett. An open plea admits the counts without a deal on the sentence. Capitol News Illinois and ABC7 Chicago reported that Moultrie pleaded guilty Monday to murder, with an enhancement for a killing that was exceptionally brutal and involved wanton cruelty, and to attempted murder of Snider, who survived. The state offered no reduction. Dec. 4 is when the court sets the term, and the range runs up to natural life.
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Reporting noted by Capitol News Illinois, ABC7 Chicago, and The Southern Illinoisan.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Samantha Deem is charged with first-degree murder in the Parkersburg shooting of Jessica Lively. A first-degree murder charge is the filing. It is not a finding that Deem shot Lively. The News and Sentinel, citing a release from Parkersburg Police Chief Matthew Board, reported that the arraignment is in magistrate court but that bond has to be set in circuit court, because murder is a capital offense in West Virginia. That is a custody rule. The release is the police account of Monday afternoon. The arraignment is the next step.
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Reporting noted by The News and Sentinel, WV MetroNews, and WV News.
True Crime · Oct 6, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A judge ordered David Elijah Herrera held without bond on a capital-murder charge in the Lindale Street shootings. In Texas, killing more than one person during the same criminal transaction is one of the theories that can be filed as capital murder. That is the charge FOX 26 Houston and KPRC reported. A no-bond order at a first appearance is a custody decision. It sets where Herrera waits. It does not decide who fired, or why. The next date is Nov. 5. The case has not been tried.
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Reporting noted by FOX 26 Houston, KPRC, and ABC13.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Randy Zimmerman was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the Hanska murders of Tabitha Trescott and Justin Reinarts. The plea settled guilt in August. Monday's question was narrower: run the two life terms together, or one after the other. Concurrent terms would have put parole eligibility about 30 years out. Consecutive terms push it to roughly 60 years, past age 90, The Journal of New Ulm reported. Judge Robert Docherty chose consecutive, saying he was not convinced of remorse and calling it too little, too late.
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Reporting noted by KEYC News Now, FOX 9, and The Journal (New Ulm).
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Nikeya Barker pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of Shurvell Rush. A guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter is a conviction on that count. It is not the prison term, and it is not a murder verdict. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said Nikeya Barker pleaded guilty before Judge Bryan Browns. Daily Voice reported she had faced a top charge of second-degree murder. The sentence is still ahead.
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Reporting noted by Patch, Daily Voice, LongIsland.com, and Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Collin McLaughlin posted a $1 million bond in a Wilson crash that killed two people. A bond order is a release condition. It is not a finding that Collin Weston McLaughlin killed Jason Williams and Charise Dickerson. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, Judge Pell C. Cooper set a $1 million secured bond after McLaughlin turned himself in, with electronic monitoring and limits on where he can go. WNCN reported court records showed he posted it just after 5:45 p.m. The charges still have to be proved.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cecil Mains was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the murder of Jeri Mains. A prison term after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count that was admitted. It is not a new charge. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Law&Crime reported Cecil Mains was sentenced to 45 years in prison and five years of probation for the murder of Jeri Mains. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 26. The years are the sentence.
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Reporting noted by Law&Crime, WISH-TV, and The Indianapolis Star.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors charged Roy Anthony Lopez with murder in the death of Jasmyne Garcia. He did not enter a plea. A murder complaint, and a court appearance with no plea, are the start of the case. They are not a conviction. NBC Bay Area quoted a prosecutor saying Lopez beat his wife to death in front of two small children. That is the state's account at charging. He has not admitted it in court. SFGATE and the affidavit it described do not even spell her name the same way the family and NBC Bay Area do.
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Reporting noted by KRON 4, NBC Bay Area, CBS San Francisco, KTVU, Morgan Hill Times, SFGATE, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area News Group, and Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Boakai Hilton was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty in a Tampa kidnapping and robbery case. A prison term after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts Hilton admitted. It is not a finding against Terrion Arnold, who has pleaded not guilty and whose case is still pending. Tampa Bay 28 and WFLA reported the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office said Hilton was sentenced Monday to 10 years and must testify truthfully. The plea closes his counts. It leaves the rest of the case open.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal magistrate judge ordered Wanying Zhang held pending trial in the China foreign-agent case. Pretrial detention is a custody decision about flight risk. It is not a finding that Zhang spied for anyone. Her family offered about $700,000 in home equity and $120,000 in bonds. The judge sided with prosecutors, who pointed to money and contacts in China and to properties she did not disclose to pretrial services. The complaint still has to become an indictment, and the accusation still has to be proved.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, ABC7 Los Angeles, NBC Los Angeles, LAist, NBC News, and Associated Press.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Anthony Dickson is charged with vehicular manslaughter after a Grand Central Parkway crash. Vehicular-manslaughter and impaired-driving counts are accusations. They are not a finding that Dickson was impaired, and they are not a finding that he caused a death. ABC7 New York and NBC New York reported he was arrested after a Sunday crash on the Grand Central Parkway that killed Arianna Arregui. The charges are what police filed.
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Reporting noted by ABC7 New York, NBC New York, and New York Post.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Cook County judge ordered Shavon Gayden held in jail after her Friday murder hearing. Friday's order keeps Gayden in jail and sends her for a psychiatric evaluation. It does not decide the murder charge. WTTW reported a Cook County judge ordered her held at the jail. CBS Chicago reported an outburst in court, that her public defender asked for the evaluation, and that the judge denied release. The next date is Oct. 26. An evaluation order is a medical step. It is not a finding that she is unfit, and it is not a dismissal.
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Reporting noted by Chicago Police Department, NBC Chicago, ABC7 Chicago, FOX 32 Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, WTTW, and CBS Chicago.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Joshua Dorsett was sentenced to 20 years for shooting two NYPD officers. A prison term after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a trial verdict on every count that was filed at the start. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Justice Laura Ward sentenced Joshua Dorsett to 20 years. The New York Daily News reported the plea was to aggravated assault upon a police officer and robbery. Those admissions are what the 20 years sit on.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Trenton Ivy was sentenced to 42 years after pleading guilty in Marquisha Williams's killing. A guilty plea and an agreed prison term are the court's judgment on the counts that were admitted. They are not a jury verdict, and they are not the first-degree murder charge that was on the file before Monday. First Alert 4 reported that on Oct. 5, 2026, Trenton Ivy, 33, pleaded guilty in the death of Marquisha Williams, 29, and was sentenced to 42 years. Her mother told the court the number was not enough. That disagreement is what was said in the room. It does not change the term the court imposed.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Tovontay Haygood was sentenced to 30 years after manslaughter pleas in two Rochester killings. A prison term after guilty pleas is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a trial verdict on the murder charges that were filed first. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Justice Thomas Moran sentenced Tovontay Haygood to 30 years, plus five years of post-release supervision, for two Rochester killings nearly two years apart. WROC reported the pleas were to first-degree manslaughter. Those pleas are the convictions the sentence sits on.
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Reporting noted by WROC, WHEC, and WHAM.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Darius Calvin is charged with first-degree murder after a Whitehaven shooting. A first-degree murder charge, a firearm count, and a felon-in-possession count are what police have filed. They are not a finding that Calvin shot anyone, and they are not a finding, in this case, that he has a prior felony conviction. On Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, Memphis police say a man was killed in Whitehaven and that Darius Calvin, 26, was arrested later at an Arkansas hospital. He is waiting to be brought back to Shelby County. Custody across a state line is process. It is not a trial.
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Reporting noted by FOX13 Memphis, Action News 5, and WREG.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dawn Freeman is jailed on a criminal homicide charge in Bradley Freeman's death. A criminal homicide charge and a no-bail jail order are process. They are not a finding that she killed him. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Dawn Freeman, 44, was arraigned and lodged in Cambria County Prison after Bradley Freeman, 40, was found shot once in the chest Sunday at their Adams Township home. The Tribune-Democrat, citing an affidavit by Trooper Stephanie Smith, reported she told investigators she fired to "show him a lesson." That account is what police say she said. It is not a plea, and it is not a conviction.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Johnson County grand jury indicted Michael Jerome James in the 2006 killings of Chynna and Blake Dickus. A grand jury indictment is an accusation the state may try to prove. It is not a guilty verdict. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, jurors returned a true bill against Michael Jerome James, 35, after about three weeks of testimony in the 2006 killings of Chynna Dickus and Blake Dickus. Franklin police took him into custody. WRTV reported on Monday, Oct. 5, that the indictment, once unsealed, also charges two murder counts alleged to have been committed during a burglary. Those counts are still charges.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ataei was sentenced to life, with possible release after 25 years, for killing Irma Rivera-Martinez. A prison term imposed after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a trial verdict on premeditation. FOX 10 Phoenix reported on Oct. 2, 2026, that a judge sentenced Mohammad Hussain Ataei to life in prison, with possible release after 25 years, and gave him credit for about three and a half years already served. Court documents the station cited show an Aug. 31 plea to first-degree felony murder and first-degree burglary in the killing of Irma Rivera-Martinez.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix and azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Greene County jury convicted Brandon Peters of murder in a Fairborn shooting. A jury's guilty verdicts are findings. They are not the sentence, and no sentencing date has been set. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, a Greene County jury convicted Brandon D. Peters of purposeful murder, felony murder, and felonious assault in the June 9, 2025 shooting death of Cievion Smith near June Drive in Fairborn. Jurors deliberated about three and a half hours. The Dayton Daily News reported that, as of Monday, Oct. 5, sentencing had not been scheduled. He faces 20 years to life.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A jury convicted Breanna Rowley of murder in Caroline Bump's hit-and-run death. A jury's guilty verdicts are findings after trial. They are not the sentence, and Jan. 5, 2027, is still ahead. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, Breanna Rowley, 24, of Vineland, was convicted of first-degree murder and second-degree vehicular homicide in the hit-and-run death of Caroline Bump, 21, of Millville. NJ 101.5 and News 12 New Jersey reported the two-week trial was held in Atlantic County Superior Court. She faces 30 years to life. The court has not imposed a term.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Zion Teasley pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Lauren Heike's killing. A guilty plea to first-degree murder is an admission on that count. It is not the sentence, and Dec. 4 is still ahead. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, Zion William Teasley, 25, pleaded guilty in the April 2023 killing of hiker Lauren Heike, 29, on the Reach 11 trail in north Phoenix. ABC15 Arizona reported the judge said prosecutors would dismiss the notice to seek the death penalty and that the agreement means life in prison. KTAR reported a court spokesperson said the plea calls for natural life. The court has not imposed that term.
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Reporting noted by ABC15 Arizona, Law&Crime, azfamily 3TV CBS 5, FOX 10 Phoenix, KTAR, and azcentral.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
ABC News records describe 'damage control' inside Cornell's Chi Phi house. No one has been charged. Records reviewed by a news outlet are not evidence tested in court. Group chats, a recorded call and a campus file can show what people said and when. They do not establish what happened in that bedroom, and nobody has been charged with a crime. What the ABC News reporting does show is how much material exists that, by ABC's account, the original prosecutors never looked at: they relied on a six-page statement to campus police and did not review the record of Cornell's internal probe. That gap is exactly what a special prosecutor is supposed to close, with subpoenas, witness interviews and, if warranted, a grand jury.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, NBC News, and Fox News.
Trials · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Women & Infants Hospital denies Lindsay Clancy's malpractice claims. A civil answer is not a ruling. The civil case and the criminal case are asking related questions in different rooms. In the criminal case, the defense conceded the killings and argued that postpartum psychosis left Clancy not criminally responsible. In the civil case, she accuses her own providers of missing what was happening to her. The hospital's answer, as Court TV reported it Monday, is a blanket denial that leans on the medical records. That is the ordinary opening move in a malpractice case. It is not proof that the care was adequate, and the lawsuit is not proof that it was not. What decides the Nov. 2 hearing in Plymouth is the criminal record, not the civil pleadings.
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Reporting noted by Court TV, CNN, and NBC News.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Mock was sentenced to life, with no parole eligibility for 25 years, for the first-degree murder of Anita Avers A life sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count she admitted. It is not a new charge. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Judge Jeffrey Goering imposed life with no parole eligibility for 25 years for the first-degree murder of Anita Avers, the term that followed Mock's August plea, after a July ruling found her competent and reversed an earlier finding that she was not.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Sacramento County jury convicted Kristina Huemann Siedlecki of second-degree murder in her infant daughter's death A second-degree murder verdict is the jury's finding of guilt. It is not the prison term. Kristina Huemann Siedlecki faces a maximum of 15 years to life, with sentencing set for Oct. 23, 2026, before Judge Alyson Lewis, and the father, who was also charged, has since died without a verdict in his case.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Taylor pleaded guilty to murder in Gabriel Mosca's Poughkeepsie shooting and received 20 years to life A guilty plea and a sentence entered the same day are the judgment on the counts he admitted. They are not an open trial. Judge Jessica Segal sentenced Anthony Taylor to 20 years to life for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Gabriel Mosca, and the two weapon terms of three and a half years run concurrently with that sentence.
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Reporting noted by Daily Freeman, Dutchess County District Attorney's Office, and Daily Voice.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Tampa police charge Alan Barber, 74, with murder after a woman was shot inside his pickup on Fowler Avenue A police account of an argument that turned deadly is the start of a case. It is not proof of what happened inside that truck. Tampa police say Barber and the woman had known each other for more than two decades, that a disagreement that began at a local restaurant escalated while he drove, and that he shot her before pulling into a parking lot. Acting Chief Brett Owen said Barber "will now face justice for his decision." That is the department's position. A prosecutor still has to prove the charge in court.
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Reporting noted by Tampa Police Department, WFLA 8, and Tampa Bay 28.
Trials · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jurors heard opening statements in Naresh Bhatt's trial over the disappearance of Mamta Kafle Bhatt. An opening statement is a roadmap the jury is told it will hear. It is not evidence, and it is not a verdict. NBC4 Washington reported Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Matthew Sweet told jurors a saw Bhatt allegedly gave a landscaper carried Mamta Kafle Bhatt's blood and DNA. Chief Public Defender Tracey Lenox told the same jury there is a "black hole" where evidence should be. Her body has not been recovered. Monday's not-guilty plea is still the plea.
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Reporting noted by 7News WJLA, InsideNoVa, FOX 5 DC, and NBC4 Washington.
Trials · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Opening statements began in Rodney Hinton Jr.'s murder trial in the death of Deputy Larry Henderson. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. An insanity plea is not a denial of what happened, and it is not an admission of guilt. On Wednesday the two sides put their theories to a seated jury for the first time. Defense attorney Clyde Bennett II told jurors Hinton has a long history of serious mental illness and was in extreme distress after seeing video of police shooting his son. Chief Assistant Prosecutor Heidi Rosales told them, "In Ohio, emotional distress does not excuse murder." Openings are a preview of the evidence. They are not evidence.
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Reporting noted by FOX19, WVXU, Cincinnati Enquirer, Local 12 WKRC, and WLWT.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kuchinka was sentenced to life without parole for the first-degree murder of K-leigh Hill-Nelson A life-without-parole sentence after a bench-trial conviction is the judgment on that count. It is not a new accusation. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, Brian Kuchinka was sentenced at the McKean County Courthouse in Smethport for the first-degree murder of K-leigh Hill-Nelson. The Bradford Era and Erie News Now reported a consecutive term for abuse of a corpse and did not give its length. He was convicted in August 2026 after he admitted causing her death and denied premeditation. These accounts do not describe a notice of appeal.
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Reporting noted by The Bradford Era, Erie News Now, and WESB.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Phoenix police booked Sherman Murphy after John David Lee was found fatally shot near 19th and Maryland A jail booking and a bond are custody. They are not a finding about who fired, and they are not a conviction. Phoenix police say officers were called just after midnight Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, to a shooting and a vehicle crash near 19th and Maryland avenues and found John David Lee, 58, dead of a gunshot wound inside a vehicle. Witness accounts led them to a nearby apartment, where they took Sherman Murphy, 41, into custody. FOX 10 Phoenix reported he was facing second-degree murder and a felony probation violation, with bond set at $1 million. azfamily and ABC15 Arizona described one count of second-degree homicide. Detectives have not publicly described a relationship or a motive.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
KAMR reported Potter County added a murder charge against Leonard Torres in Faith Smith's death. A murder count added after an aggravated-assault booking is still an accusation. KAMR reported the new Potter County filing on Wednesday evening. ABC 7 Amarillo, KFDA, FOX 4, and the Amarillo Tribune had described the Oct. 1 booking as aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and the Tribune also listed evading arrest. An admission a charging document says he made is not a plea in court.
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Reporting noted by Amarillo Police Department, ABC 7 Amarillo, KFDA NewsChannel 10, FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, Amarillo Tribune, and KAMR.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A judge set an Oct. 29 hearing on Gillio Lopes's bid to remove Letitia James from the Cornell investigation. An order to show cause is a scheduling order. It is not a ruling that Letitia James is biased, and it is not a finding about what happened at the Chi Phi house. What it does is make the challenge real: Hochul and James now have to answer it in court, with 30 minutes a side on Oct. 29. Until a judge rules, James stays in charge of the investigation.
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Reporting noted by NBC News, ABC News, Associated Press, Fox News, Los Angeles Magazine, and Daily Voice.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Phoenix police booked Spencer Vidal after a fatal parking-lot shooting near 39th and Grand A license-plate reader can put a car at a time and a place. It does not decide who fired or what a jury would find. Phoenix police say Automated License Plate Reader technology identified the vehicle that left a strip-mall parking lot near 39th and Grand avenues after a verbal argument around 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, and that detectives arrested Spencer Vidal, 47, at his home. azfamily reported a second-degree murder booking. ABC15 Arizona described the count as second-degree homicide. FOX 10 Phoenix also reported a prohibited-possessor firearm count, a $1 million bond, and an Oct. 8 court date. The man who was killed has not been publicly named.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sheriff's detectives booked Jonathan William Badillo on suspicion of murder after a Vista death A California booking on suspicion of murder is the arrest. It is not a complaint a prosecutor has proved, and it is not a conviction. The medical examiner has not announced a cause or manner of death, the man's name is still withheld, and Wednesday's arraignment in Vista is a first court date.
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True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Riverside County booked Joshua Jordan Kohain-King for murder after Carl Harry Smith was found dead A murder booking after deputies name a stepson as the suspect is the sheriff's accusation. The office has not given a motive. Custody without incident is how deputies say the arrest was made. It is not an admission, and it is not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by KTLA and Riverside County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Oct 5, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Police arrested Kevin Warrell at the St. Thomas airport on murder charges in J’Niya Rambaran's death First-degree murder and second-degree murder charged together are alternate accusations, not two findings. A $1 million bail order and a remand to the Bureau of Corrections pending an advice-of-rights hearing decide where Warrell waits. They do not decide the Veterans Drive shooting.
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Reporting noted by VI Consortium, Virgin Islands Police Department, and St. Croix Source.
True Crime · Oct 4, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sheriff names two men killed at a Vienna homecoming block party; no one is under arrest A casualty count and two names tell a community who died. They do not identify who fired. GBI Director Chris Hosey said Sunday evening that some of the injured had gunshot wounds and that he could not say how many. Coroner Brett Walls told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that roughly a dozen other people were hurt trying to flee. The file the GBI is building is what the Cordele Judicial Circuit district attorney will eventually review. Until a warrant names a person, there is no defendant for a court to judge.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, USA TODAY, CBS News, WMAZ, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
True Crime · Oct 4, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Alaya Jones and Kaleb Maglott are charged with capital murder in Aveyia Webb's death In Texas, murder alleged to have happened during a robbery is one of the theories that can be charged as capital murder. That is the accusation ABC13 attributed to the court documents against Jones and Maglott. An aunt's description of text messages is a relative's account of what she says was on a phone. The charge sets what the State will have to prove. It does not decide that a robbery, a plan, or a cause of death has already been proved.
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True Crime · Oct 4, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Yahya and Islam Mosleh face federal drug charges in the Ole Miss death investigation The complaint described by the U.S. Attorney's Office and USA TODAY accuses the Moslehs of possessing controlled substances with intent to distribute. Prosecutors have also argued, Action News 5 reported from court papers, that this is a distribution-causing-death case. That sentence is a detention argument. USA TODAY reported that the Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit has said it has not concluded that kratom, or any specific substance, caused either death. A prosecutor's label is not a medical examiner's finding, and a drug complaint is not a murder count.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY, ABC News, Action News 5, The Oxford Eagle, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Mississippi.
Trials · Oct 4, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hochul appoints Letitia James special prosecutor in the Cornell Chi Phi case This is analysis, not a finding about what happened that night. Appointing a special prosecutor changes who can investigate and who can take a case to a grand jury, and a grand jury hears a prosecutor's evidence rather than trying the case. The sworn statement a district attorney actually received is the document measured against the elements of a New York offense, which is why the fight over that six-page statement is about charging authority.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, CBS News, Reuters, The Cornell Daily Sun, CNY Central, amNewYork, and New York Governor's Office.
True Crime · Oct 4, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Okinawa police arrest Marine Lance Cpl. Devin J. Ballard in a Naha hotel death Under the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement, Japan has the primary right to handle off-duty offenses by American service members. That is why Okinawa police, not the Marine Corps, have Ballard in custody off base. Tokyo's protest and the Corps' pledge to cooperate sit next to a Japanese investigation that has not reached a court judgment.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY, Kyodo News, Jiji Press, and Reuters.
True Crime · Oct 4, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Perry County sheriff arrests Comer McWaters, wanted in Eden Sexton's death The Alabama murder warrant is what starts an extradition fight, and the Perry County counts are a separate Mississippi case that grew out of the arrest itself. Sheriff Jacob Garner's account of the knives and the struggle is the police narrative of how he was taken into custody. A warrant gets a defendant in front of a court. It does not decide the homicide file.
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Reporting noted by Law&Crime, WDAM, AL.com, and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ahsan Ijaz pleaded guilty to a health-care-fraud conspiracy in a Brooklyn Medicaid case the Justice Department put at about $65 million. A guilty plea is a conviction on the count that was admitted. It is not a sentence. Ijaz admitted conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The Justice Department said he is the 10th defendant to plead guilty in connection with the scheme. A federal judge will set any prison term on March 10, 2027. Ten years is the statutory maximum on that count. It is not the sentence.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Renoj-Matul was sentenced to nearly 22 years, and Mejia-Chaj to two years and nine months, in a Guatemala smuggling case that used a Phoenix stash house. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new accusation. Renoj-Matul's March plea to conspiracy to bring, transport, and harbor aliens for private financial gain, and to hostage taking, was the conviction on those counts. Mejia-Chaj's plea to that same conspiracy charge was his conviction. Judge Valenzuela's nearly 22-year term, and the two-year, nine-month term, are the sentences. Helmer Obispo-Hernández, described as an alleged lieutenant, remains a fugitive. The charges against him are accusations.
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Reporting noted by Patch, MyNewsLA, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Erwin Lanada pleaded guilty to mail fraud after a staged robbery at his Las Vegas cellphone shop. A guilty plea is a conviction on the count that was admitted. It is not a sentence. Lanada admitted one count of mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Richard F. Boulware II, whom the Las Vegas Sun identified as Richard Boulware, is set to sentence him on Jan. 5, 2027. The prison term comes at that hearing. Twenty years is the statutory ceiling on mail fraud, not a sentence already imposed.
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Reporting noted by Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Syracuse federal jury convicted Djosaha Azulphar after pills sold as ecstasy in Plattsburgh tested as methamphetamine. A jury conviction is a finding of guilt on the counts tried. It is not a sentence. On the conspiracy and possession-with-intent counts, the statutory range is a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life. Those numbers are exposure until U.S. District Judge Elizabeth C. Coombe sentences Djosaha Azulphar on Jan. 5, 2027. The U.S. Attorney's Office said laboratory testing showed the pills sold as ecstasy were methamphetamine, and that is the account the jury accepted as the office summarized the verdict.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York and DEA.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Noemy Figueroa was booked in San Luis after police reported 84 baggies of methamphetamine inside a Labubu-style plush toy. An arrest and a booking are accusations. Possession of a dangerous drug for sale, possession or use of a dangerous drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, and child endangerment are charges listed in booking records, not findings that those counts are proved. FOX 10 Phoenix reported that authorities did not confirm her relationship to the child, and this account does not supply one.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Yuma physician Irfan Fazil was sentenced to 7.5 years and $36.5 million in AHCCCS restitution. Irfan Fazil's Sept. 4, 2026 guilty plea was the conviction on the counts he admitted. The Oct. 2 sentence in Yuma County Superior Court is the judgment that followed: 7.5 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections and seven years of probation, with the terms on the counts reported as concurrent. The $36,542,901.45 restitution order to AHCCCS and the forfeiture of assets are part of that judgment, separate from the length of the prison term. This is not an open accusation.
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Reporting noted by Arizona Attorney General's Office, azfamily, and KYMA.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Shah pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a Hawaii gold-bar elder-fraud scheme. A guilty plea is a conviction on the count that was admitted. It is not a sentence. Shah admitted he made $25,000 to $30,000 from about 10 gold pickups from elderly victims and that he was in Hawaii to collect about 100 ounces of gold. Federal prosecutors are seeking $162,458 in forfeiture. Court papers say removal and deportation are virtually certain. Exposure of up to 20 years is a statutory ceiling, not the January sentence.
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Reporting noted by Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii News Now.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reed was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for a machinegun and drug-trafficking firearm count. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted counts. It is not a fresh accusation. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson announced that Jeremiah Dashaun Reed, 25, of Charlotte, received 81 months plus three years of supervised release for a Glock converted with a switch and related firearm-and-drug counts from two August 2024 traffic stops. Ten days after a state arrest and bond release, he was stopped again with guns and narcotics, the office said.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal jury convicted Michigan doctor Jonathan Decker for distributing over 2 million stimulant pills on the Done ADHD platform. A federal jury conviction is a finding of guilt on the counts tried. It is not a sentence until the court imposes one. The Justice Department said Decker prescribed Adderall and other stimulants through Done without examining patients, including people with substance-use disorders and serious mental-health diagnoses, and was paid more than $1 million for those prescriptions. He is the 11th defendant convicted in the Done Global scheme. Exposure ceilings stated by prosecutors are not the sentence.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jennings was sentenced to three to nine years after pleading guilty to sex trafficking in Queens. A prison term after a guilty plea is the judgment of the court on the count admitted. It is not a jury trial on every original indictment charge. QNS reported that Leighton Jennings, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking on the eve of trial and was sentenced Thursday to three to nine years, with sex-offender registration required on release. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz’s office described false promises of housing and childcare used to take prostitution proceeds. Those are the plea and the DA’s account behind the sentence.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Los Angeles jury convicted Nicole Linton of six counts of second-degree murder in the Windsor Hills crash. A jury’s guilty verdict on murder counts is a finding of guilt. It is not the sentence, and Dec. 1 is still ahead. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, after about three hours of deliberations, a Los Angeles County jury convicted Nicole Lorraine Linton on six counts of second-degree murder in the Aug. 4, 2022, crash that killed six people at La Brea and Slauson in Windsor Hills. ABC7, FOX 11, and NBC Los Angeles reported the verdict. She remains held without bail pending sentencing.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Former Air Force members Odimegwu and Mogaji were sentenced to a combined 189 months in an Iowa cyber-fraud case. Federal sentences after conviction or plea are the judgment on those counts. They are not a fresh accusation. On Sept. 25, 2026, the court in the Southern District of Iowa sentenced Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu to 111 months and Harafat Mogaji to 78 months, and ordered restitution of $366,617.59 and $995,680.45. Those restitution orders are court-imposed, and collection is separate from the prison terms.
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Reporting noted by Military.com, Delaware Online, KCRG, WBOC, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
LaMarkus Moore was sentenced to life after a first-degree murder conviction in the killing of Joseph Reddix. A first-degree murder conviction plus a life sentence is the judgment after trial. It is not an open accusation. Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten sentenced LaMarkus Moore to life imprisonment after the conviction in the Feb. 15, 2023, shooting death of Joseph Reddix.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Newark federal jury convicted Manaseh Mintah of laundering at least $1.2 million from internet romance scams. A federal jury conviction is a finding of guilt on the counts tried. It is not a prison term until the court imposes sentence. The Justice Department said Mintah was convicted Sept. 28, 2026, in Newark after a two-week trial for moving at least about $1.2 million in romance-scam proceeds through personal accounts and a shell entity, Dazionking LLC. Sentencing is scheduled for March 16, 2027. Exposure ceilings on the statutes are not the sentence.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey, FBI, and IRS Criminal Investigation.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Joseph Morros was sentenced to 25 years to life for the second-degree murder of Tykeem Berry outside an Inwood bodega. A sentence after a jury murder conviction is the judgment of the court. It is not a new trial on guilt. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Morros was sentenced Oct. 2, 2026, to 25 years to life for fatally shooting Berry outside an Inwood bodega on Dec. 15, 2022. The July 28, 2026, verdict already established guilt on second-degree murder and two second-degree weapon counts. Own the distinction: conviction first, then this custodial term.
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Reporting noted by Manhattan District Attorney's Office, NBC New York, and New York Post.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Terrance L. Jones convicted on all counts as Philadelphia human-trafficking ring leader. A bench conviction on trafficking and involuntary-servitude counts is a finding of guilt. It is not a sentence, and it is not an open accusation anymore. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office and WFMZ reported that Terrance L. Jones, 54, was convicted Thursday on all eight charges after a one-day Philadelphia trial, with sentencing set for Dec. 11. Prosecutors describe an 2012–2023 commercial-sex operation run from his residence with drivers and a female recruiting persona. Those operational details are the trial theory the court accepted. The prison term still has to be imposed.
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Reporting noted by Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, WFMZ, and Daily Voice.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Former Rep. David Rivera gets 10 years in the Venezuela foreign-agent lobbying case. A federal prison sentence after a jury conviction closes the judgment on the counts the jury found. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a clean slate for appeal. Associated Press reporting from the Miami sentencing says Judge Melissa Damian imposed 10 years on David Rivera for the unregistered foreign-agent and money-laundering conspiracy case built around a $50 million consulting contract prosecutors tied to Nicolás Maduro's government. Defense counsel argued the work was commercial oil consulting that did not require FARA paperwork. The court record is what decides the sentence. An announced appeal and a pardon request are process after judgment.
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True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Former NYPD Sgt. Atickul Islam pleads guilty in Brooklyn to impersonating an ICE official. A federal guilty plea is a conviction by admission on the impersonation count. It is not a contested jury verdict, but it is a conviction on that charge. The Eastern District of New York says Islam used a fake ICE director identity to threaten deportation after a personal dispute. QNS and Gothamist report he had to resign and is barred from NYPD or other law-enforcement jobs. Sentencing still sets the custody range. Impersonating federal authority to intimidate someone is exactly the kind of abuse that wrecks public trust in real officers.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, QNS, and Gothamist.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
DOJ announces Hamas terror-finance arrests of Abdel and Omar Adhami in Louisiana and Raed Yousef in Florida. Material-support and money-laundering charges are accusations. They are not convictions. The Justice Department says the cases connect U.S. donors to a Gaza-based fundraiser, Saleem Alzaq, who is charged separately in New York. Dollar figures and social-media paths in the press release are the government's theory. Every count still has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and French arrests of other associates do not decide the Louisiana or Florida cases.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, NBC News, and NOLA.com.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Justice "Millie" Flenory gets 12 to 25 years in Luzerne County for Scott Knox third-degree murder plea. A guilty plea and a state prison sentence close the case against Justice Flenory on the third-degree murder count. That is not the same as a jury verdict after a contested trial, but it is a conviction by admission. Citizens' Voice and the Times Leader reported that prosecutors dropped robbery and conspiracy counts under the plea, that Knox's family urged the maximum, and that co-defendant Fernando Bracero already drew life without parole after a first-degree murder conviction. Sentencing ranges still leave parole questions for later. The court record is what matters, not the street narrative around a botched drug rip.
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Reporting noted by Citizens' Voice, Times Leader, and Luzerne County Court (as reported).
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal judge sentenced former USCIS officer Amara Dukuly to a year and a day for aiding bribery. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is a conviction result, not an open accusation. The Delaware County Daily Times reported Dukuly, a former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services immigration officer in Philadelphia fraud detection and national security, admitted aiding and abetting bribery in exchange for an official act. The prison term, supervised release, fine, and restitution are the court's judgment on that plea.
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Reporting noted by Delaware County Daily Times and U.S. District Court (E.D. Pa.) (as reported).
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Phoenix police booked Deavantae Lowery on a manslaughter charge after a fatal south Phoenix shooting. A manslaughter booking is an accusation. It is not a conviction. KTAR and FOX 10 Phoenix reported that officers answering a shooting call around 8 p.m. Tuesday found the wounded man near East Roeser Road and 24th Street, that he was pronounced dead at a hospital, and that Lowery tried to drive away before patrol officers stopped him. Those are police accounts in local coverage. They still have to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Reporting noted by KTAR, FOX 10 Phoenix, and Phoenix Police Department (as reported).
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Nevada's high court overturned Katrina Carvalho's first-degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial. A reversal is not an acquittal. A reversed conviction sends the case back for a new trial. It is not an acquittal, and it is not a finding that the shooting did not happen. KOLO reported the justices found an abuse of discretion when the district court shut down an alternative-suspect closing argument and told jurors not to consider it. Until a new judgment, the vacated conviction does not stand as a final murder judgment.
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Reporting noted by KOLO and Supreme Court of Nevada (as reported by KOLO).
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Abdi Nur Salah drew 33 months in the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition fraud case. He is the 31st defendant sentenced. A federal fraud sentence after a guilty plea is a conviction result. Prosecutors said Salah used Stigma-Free International meal sites sponsored by Feeding Our Future and shell companies to move child-nutrition reimbursements into real estate and businesses. FOX 9 and KSTP covered the sentencing of the former Minneapolis mayor's aide. Restitution figures in local reports are court-ordered money judgments, not a new guilt finding.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota, FOX 9, and KSTP.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal judge sentenced Andreaus Benard Oliver Jr. to 14 years in a China-to-Georgia synthetic-drug case. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is a conviction result, not an open accusation. The Justice Department said Oliver Jr.'s Cordele residence on 4th Avenue was used as a conversion lab for synthetic cannabinoids ordered from China and paid for with cryptocurrency. WALB and WGXA summarized the same sentencing announcement. Statutory background on co-defendants still at large remains allegation until proved.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Georgia, WALB, and WGXA.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Federal prosecutors charged San Gabriel tech owner Greg Lui in a $300 million China GPU export case. An indictment and an arrest are accusations. They are not a conviction. The Justice Department said the counts are conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and Export Administration Regulations, outbound smuggling, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Statutory maximums the department listed are ceilings, not a sentence.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, MyNewsLA, Yahoo News, and California Post.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The FBI arrested Department of Energy engineer Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy on a material-support charge tied to the Houthis. A criminal complaint is an allegation. It is not a conviction. The Justice Department said the charge is attempting to provide material support or resources to the Houthis. Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg's statement is a prosecution allegation.
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Reporting noted by Department of Justice, New York Post, and Associated Press.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The owner of the Prest Street house is now charged in the Detroit after-hours shooting case. Charging the owner of the house is a different theory from charging the shooter. Prosecutors accuse Scott of running the place as a blind pig: a criminal enterprise, a house of ill fame, a drug house, and a place furnished for alcohol consumption for consideration. They do not accuse him of firing a gun. His lawyers say he does not live there and was fixing the house up. Both men's charges are accusations.
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Reporting noted by Detroit Free Press, WXYZ, FOX 2 Detroit, and CBS Detroit.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Knoxville police arrested Jermal Cannon on a grand jury indictment in the 2023 killing of plumber Chris Hill. A grand jury indictment and a jail booking are accusations. They are not a conviction. Knoxville police said Community Engagement Response Team officers spotted him leaving an apartment on Austin Homes Boulevard and stopped the car he was riding in. The charging paper names first-degree murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and felony theft. None of those counts has been proved.
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Reporting noted by Knoxville Police Department, WVLT, WATE, and WBIR.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Madison County jury convicted John Torres of murder in the Valley Bend Apartments shooting. A murder conviction is a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It is not the prison term. WAFF reported jurors deliberated across parts of two days with questions about Alabama self-defense law and the initial-aggressor rule before Judge Rizardi took the verdict and polled all 12 jurors. A probation report comes before sentencing; no date was announced.
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Reporting noted by WAFF.
True Crime · Oct 2, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Baltimore police arrested Montray McCray after a Fells Point robbery attack left Claudia Bismark dead. A booking for assault, robbery, and reckless endangerment is an accusation. BPD said upgraded charges were pending after the 76-year-old victim died on Oct. 1. FOX45 reported murder would be among the charges. None of that is a conviction.
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Reporting noted by Baltimore Police Department, FOX45 (WBFF), and WBAL-TV 11.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Manuel Vasquez pleaded guilty to the 1998 Ventura murder of Felipe Arambula after years as a fugitive. A guilty plea is a conviction entered without a jury verdict. It still requires a formal sentencing hearing. KEYT and Ventura County prosecutors said Vasquez admitted his role in a 1998 murder-for-hire kidnapping plot after remaining a fugitive for decades, with co-defendants already serving life without parole from 1999 convictions.
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True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Brockton jury convicted Brendan Fernandes of first-degree murder in the Brima Koroma shooting. Destiny Fontes-Silie was convicted as an accessory. A first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries a mandatory life sentence without parole once the court enters judgment. An accessory-after-the-fact conviction is a separate, lesser offense tied to helping after the killing. NBC 10 / WJAR and the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office reported the dual verdicts after a Brockton Superior Court trial.
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Reporting noted by NBC 10 WJAR, Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, Fall River Reporter, and The Providence Journal.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
An Indiana jury convicted Charles Calvert of murdering attorney Marcia Linsky. A murder conviction is a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It is not the sentence. WANE 15 and WPTA reported jurors returned a guilty verdict in less than an hour after Calvert testified that Linsky stumbled into a knife, while prosecutors argued a staged scene and a knowing, intentional killing in her Grabill kitchen.
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Reporting noted by WANE 15, WPTA 21Alive, The Journal Gazette, and People.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Arizona appeals court vacated Horcasitas's sentence over an AI 'victim' video. The manslaughter conviction still stands. Vacating a sentence over an unreliable victim-impact video limits what a judge may rely on at sentencing. It is not a reversal of the manslaughter conviction. The Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, held that victims have a right to be heard, but that AI portions putting words in Christopher Pelkey's mouth that he never said failed reliability and due-process minimums, while real footage of the victim was permissible.
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Reporting noted by ABC15, FOX 10 Phoenix, and Reuters.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sinema asks a judge to raise Matthew Ammel's bond after a bondsman calls her. The new allegation in the custody fight is that Matthew Ammel caused a bail bondsman to call the protected person. TMZ reported that Colleen Clase, lawyer for former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, told the court Ammel had a bondsman phone Sinema and ask her to post his $25,000 bond, and that Clase called the call indirect contact. Sinema asked the judge to raise the bond instead of paying it. Prosecutors asked for $100,000. An indictment for felony criminal damage, and a fight over the amount of bond, are still papers. They are not a verdict on the Cave Creek damage or on who directed the call.
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Reporting noted by TMZ, The Arizona Republic, FOX 10 Phoenix, and azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
Trials · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sullivan denied Clancy's bid for a required not-guilty finding. A sufficiency ruling is not a verdict. A denied request for a required finding of not guilty is a sufficiency ruling that keeps the case alive for a factfinder. It is not a guilty verdict, and it is not a dismissal. On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, Judge William Sullivan ruled that prosecutors had offered enough physical and circumstantial evidence for a rational jury to find the elements of murder beyond a reasonable doubt, and that dueling expert testimony on psychosis and criminal responsibility is for a jury to weigh.
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Reporting noted by WBUR, ABC News, People, and Boston 25 News.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Texas granted Amber Guyger parole for the Botham Jean murder. A parole grant is not a new trial. A parole grant is an executive-board decision on release timing. It is not a vacatur of the murder conviction. NBC News, TMZ, and Texas Board reporting said Guyger was approved Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, after a 2019 conviction and 10-year sentence for fatally shooting Jean after she said she mistook his apartment for her own.
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Reporting noted by NBC News, TMZ, Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, and Texas Tribune.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Judge Jalal Harb sentenced TJ Wiggins to consecutive life terms in the Frostproof killings. Friday's order is the sentence. Court TV reported that because the jury did not recommend death, Judge Jalal Harb was required to impose life without parole, and that he ran the three terms consecutively. WFLA reported the same Friday life sentence on all three murder counts. The Monday recommendation was the jury's advice. The judgment entered Friday is the term.
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Reporting noted by Court TV, WFLA, FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Polk County Sheriff's Office, and WWSB.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A San Bernardino jury recommended death for Lucero in a Victorville triple murder. A jury death recommendation after a capital penalty phase is the panel's sentencing advice. It is not the court's final judgment until the judge rules. The Press-Enterprise reported that jurors on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, recommended death for Louis Gabriel Lucero, 42, for the 2020 murders of Erlinda Villareal and her two sons after a prior sanity finding following his guilty-but-insane pleas.
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Reporting noted by The Press-Enterprise, San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office, and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Miami federal jury convicted Seetaram in a murder-for-hire plot that ended in the Everglades. A federal jury’s guilty verdict on murder-for-hire and related counts is the judgment on those charges. Local10 and BocaNewsNow reported that Seetaram, known as “Smalls,” was convicted of murder-for-hire conspiracy, murder for hire, stalking resulting in death, and firearm counts causing death. He faces up to life in federal prison; sentencing is pending. Co-defendant Somjeet Christopher Singh previously pleaded guilty and received a life sentence from U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman.
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Reporting noted by Local10, BocaNewsNow, and U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Salazar was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Deputy Clinkunbroomer. A life-without-parole sentence after a jury’s first-degree murder conviction is the judgment of the court. ABC7 and Los Angeles County reporting said Salazar was convicted Aug. 24, 2026, in the Sept. 16, 2023, ambush shooting of Deputy Clinkunbroomer near the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station. Jurors found special-circumstance allegations true, including murder of a peace officer, lying in wait, and firing from a vehicle.
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Reporting noted by ABC7, County of Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
An Oconto County jury found Herrera-Hernandez guilty on all counts in a 2021 homicide case. A jury’s guilty verdict on every count submitted is the judgment on those charges. WBAY and FOX 11 reported that jurors returned shortly after 3:15 p.m. CDT and convicted Herrera-Hernandez of first-degree intentional homicide, drug offenses, and bail jumping tied to the Feb. 22, 2021, shooting in the Green Bay Shores State Wildlife Area in Little Suamico. No sentencing date had been announced.
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Reporting noted by WBAY, FOX 11, NEW Media Inc., and Oconto County Jail.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Holmes was charged with murder after deputies say he removed an ankle monitor. A murder charge after an arrest is an accusation. It is not a conviction. WIS, WACH, and the Post and Courier Columbia reported that Richland County Sheriff’s Department deputies charged Holmes, 18, with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime after a man was found with multiple upper-body stab wounds and pronounced dead at the scene on Moonglo Circle. Reporting also said Holmes had been on an ankle monitor tied to a prior shooting case and removed it after the stabbing.
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Reporting noted by WIS, WACH, Post and Courier Columbia, and Richland County Sheriff’s Department.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Morales was convicted of first-degree murder in a Poconos bar shooting. A guilty verdict after trial is the jury’s finding on the charged counts. It is not a new accusation waiting for proof. The Pocono Record reported that on Sept. 30, 2026, jurors convicted Matthew Morales, 33, of first-degree felony murder, prohibited possession of a firearm, and carrying a firearm without a license in the death of Henry Koroma Jr. at My Place Bar & Grill. Morales had testified that he feared gang retaliation; the jury rejected that defense path on the murder count.
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Reporting noted by Pocono Record, USA TODAY Network, WFMZ, and Monroe County District Attorney’s Office.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Victoria-Gonzalez is sentenced to 25 years after a second-degree murder plea in Orange County. A prison term after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the plea. It is not a new trial. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, ClickOrlando / News 6 reported that Judge A. James Craner sentenced Gisselle Victoria-Gonzalez, 44, to 25 years for second-degree murder of roommate Runyleidy Medina-Pacheco, who was last heard from on Christmas Day 2022. Medina-Pacheco's body has never been found. The sentence included credit for 665 days already served.
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Reporting noted by ClickOrlando, News 6, and Orlando Police Department.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Maximo faces murder, manslaughter, and affray after Liverpool Street Tube death. An upgraded murder count after a death is still a charging decision. It is not a conviction. On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, Daily Mail and British Transport Police reporting said Maximo, 38, of Drydock Square, Barking, appeared at Inner London Crown Court by video link after prosecutors amended the indictment to murder, manslaughter, and affray. Before Thomas Jewitt, 32, died, the CPS had authorised a GBH charge. Maximo was remanded; the next hearing is Oct. 21 at the same court.
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Reporting noted by Daily Mail, British Transport Police, and London Now.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Jackson County grand jury indicted Ryan Parsons for first-degree murder in his uncle's death. A grand-jury indictment is an accusation. It is not a conviction. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that at the request of 15th Judicial District Attorney General Jason Lawson, agents began investigating after Terrance Barbour, 71, was found dead July 7, 2026, at a residence in the 400 block of Mansell Hill Road in Gainesboro. Investigators presented evidence that Barbour's nephew, Ryan Parsons, 40, of Granville, was responsible. On Monday, Sept. 28, the Jackson County grand jury returned counts of first-degree murder, theft of property, and burglary. Parsons was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail without bond.
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Reporting noted by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, WSMV, and Herald-Citizen.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sevilla Ruiz is charged with murder in Reyna Espinosa's San Miguel shooting. A murder charge and a not-guilty plea are accusations and a plea. They are not a conviction. San Luis Obispo County sheriff's officials say deputies found Reyna Espinosa, 60, shot multiple times about 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, in the 500 block of River Road in San Miguel after a shots-fired call. She did not survive. Detectives say the shooting followed a domestic disturbance and verbal argument involving Sevilla Ruiz, who had left before deputies arrived and was arrested without incident about 8:45 a.m. Tuesday in Wasco with help from Wasco police and the California Highway Patrol. He is held without bail.
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Reporting noted by Cal Coast News, KSBY, BakersfieldNow, and San Luis Obispo Tribune.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Milner is charged with first-degree murder in West Palm Beach minister Akeem Moore's shooting. A first-degree murder charge and a no-bond hold are process. They are not a conviction. On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, WPTV and CBS12 reported that Milner, 38, of West Palm Beach, made his first Palm Beach County court appearance after being extradited from Broward County. He faces first-degree murder with a firearm, attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and additional weapon and warrant-related counts tied to the early Sunday shooting that killed Mount Calvary Baptist Church minister Akeem Moore, 31. A judge ordered him held without bond. The next reported court date is Oct. 30.
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Reporting noted by CBS12, WPTV, and WFLX.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Vielma and Clybourn were arrested in Dallas on suspicion of posing as delivery drivers in Bay Area crypto-targeted robbery attempts. Arrests and robbery suspicions are accusations. They are not convictions. KTVU, citing the San Jose Police Department, reported that Vielma, 20, and Clybourn, 19, both of Dallas, were arrested in Dallas and booked in the Dallas County Jail on suspicion of crimes including attempted robbery tied to Bay Area incidents. SJPD said they await extradition to Santa Clara County. Process in Texas is not a California verdict.
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Reporting noted by KTVU and San Jose Police Department.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Benally was booked in Beaver County on a first-degree murder suspicion after a coworker was found shot in a Milford camp trailer. A murder booking and a probable-cause statement are accusations. They are not a conviction. Gephardt Daily and stgeorgeutah.com, citing Beaver County arrest papers, report that deputies responded about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, to a camp trailer in Milford and found a man dead with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Benally, 53, of Ganado, Arizona, was booked on suspicion of first-degree felony murder, carrying a dangerous weapon while under the influence, and public intoxication. He was ordered held without bail. Naming the charge does not decide guilt.
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Reporting noted by stgeorgeutah.com, Gephardt Daily, and KJZZ.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Bowden was indicted in federal court after raids seized fentanyl, meth, cocaine, cash, and guns. A federal indictment is an accusation. It is not a conviction. On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced that a grand jury charged Bowden, 34, of Riverview, with conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Reporting tied to that announcement describes a months-long DEA and Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office investigation that used surveillance and wiretaps, and Sept. 23, 2026 searches at a Riverview home and a Tampa home associated with his mother. An announcement and an indictment are process. They are not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Tampa Bay and WFLA.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Whatley and Hayes were booked in Washoe County on felony narcotics charges after a Reno traffic stop. A jail booking on felony narcotics charges is an accusation, not a conviction. KOLO and FOX Reno reported that detectives with the Regional Narcotics Unit, with help from the Washoe County Sheriff's Office K9 Unit, arrested Whatley, 39, and Hayes, 39, during a traffic stop in Reno on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. The outlets reported the stop as part of an ongoing investigation into the sale and distribution of illicit narcotics. An investigation and a booking are how a drug case starts. They are not findings that either person sold anything.
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Reporting noted by KOLO and FOX Reno.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Yohe and Burns are charged with federal hate crimes in the Oceanside Pier attacks. Lane's guilty plea is not their conviction. An indictment is an accusation. A co-defendant's guilty plea is that person's conviction on the counts he admitted, and it is not a verdict against the people who have not pleaded. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, an indictment was unsealed in the Southern District of California charging Austin Yohe, 23, of Riverside, and Daniel Burns, 30, associated with Wilsonville, Alabama, with hate crimes under 18 U.S.C. § 249 and obstruction under 18 U.S.C. § 1512, case 26cr3776-RBM. The same day, Johnny Lee Lane, 23, of Riverside, pleaded guilty to three federal hate-crime offenses in case 26cr03839-RBM. Lane's plea is a conviction on those counts. The counts against Yohe and Burns are still accusations.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of California, FOX 5 San Diego, and WBRC.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Thomas was charged with murder and weapon possession after a fatal stabbing on a Queens J train. A murder charge filed the morning after a killing is an accusation, not a conviction. CBS New York, Gothamist, and ABC7 New York reported that Thomas, 25, of the Bronx, was charged Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the Wednesday death of Mesias Lojano, 59. The outlets place the stabbing at about 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 30 in the Woodhaven Boulevard J-train station area in Queens. They do not agree on which way the train was running, or on whether police are describing an unprovoked attack or a dispute. That conflict stays in the reporting. It is not a fact to be smoothed over.
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Reporting noted by CBS New York, Gothamist, and ABC7 New York.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Garcia-Michel was booked in Ocean County as a fugitive in a 1997 Des Moines hit-and-run. A fugitive-from-justice booking is a custody charge on a warrant, not a conviction for vehicular homicide and not a finding that Garcia-Michel was the driver. Ocean County Jail records, as the Daily Mail reported them, show that charge after an Aug. 26, 2026, arrest. KCRG reported that U.S. Marshals made the arrest and that Des Moines police are working on extradition to Iowa.
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True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dombrowski was booked in Coweta County on a battery charge after a cross-country meet. A battery booking is an accusation, not a finding that anyone was struck, and it is not a conviction. Aiden Dombrowski, 19, was booked into the Coweta County Jail after witnesses described an attack during a high school cross-country race on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. What he told officers on body camera, including that it was a prank, is his account, not a dismissal.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, FOX 5 Atlanta, and WSB-TV.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal jury convicted Cokley on Sarasota fentanyl and machine-gun counts. A jury's guilty verdict is a finding of guilt on the counts it returned, and it is not the prison term. On Oct. 1, 2026, U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announced that a federal jury convicted Kelvin Undray Cokley II, 31, of Sarasota, of conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a machine gun in furtherance of drug trafficking. He faces a mandatory minimum of 40 years and up to life, which is exposure, not an imposed sentence. Sentencing is set for Dec. 30, 2026.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida, WWSB, and Tampa Free Press.
True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Caldera Jr. was booked on a Texas Capitol terroristic-threat charge and taken into federal custody. A jail booking and a federal custody transfer are accusations and process. They are not a conviction. ABC News and CBS Austin reported that Texas DPS learned of a credible tip Tuesday evening about an alleged Oct. 1 violent attack on the Texas Capitol, worked overnight with the FBI, and arrested Caldera around 3 a.m. Wednesday at his Converse home. DPS said he was booked into Bexar County Jail on felony terroristic threat against a public servant.
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True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Nicasio was convicted of first-degree murder in Antonio Taylor’s 2024 killing. A first-degree murder verdict is a conviction on that count. It is not the prison term, which waits for sentencing. Albuquerque Journal reporting said jurors reached the verdict late Wednesday afternoon after deliberations that began Monday, convicting Virginia Nicasio of first-degree murder in Antonio Taylor’s 2024 death. Under New Mexico law as described in that coverage, the conviction requires at least 30 years before parole eligibility. She remains held pending an unscheduled sentencing hearing.
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True Crime · Oct 1, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Christa Pike's lawyers say she is walking with help and eating after Tennessee's failed execution. A hospital update from defense lawyers describes her condition as they say it is. It does not vacate the conviction, and it does not decide whether Tennessee will try again. The Associated Press reported that Pike, 50, is walking with help, eating, and still struggling with concentration and memory, and that doctors say it is too early to judge the long-term effects. Her attorneys want Gov. Bill Lee to commute the sentence. He has ordered a review. He has not commuted anything.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, NBC News, NPR, Fox News, Daily Mail, and BBC News.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Roy and Ramancha were indicted in a transnational counterfeit Ozempic scheme. An indictment is a charging document. It is not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, the Justice Department announced that a Middle District of Florida grand jury charged the pair in an alleged transnational counterfeit Ozempic distribution scheme. Roy appeared in Tampa after extradition from Italy. A statutory maximum of 71 years if convicted is exposure. It is not a sentence.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A jury convicted Marina Brooks and Charles Brooks of conspiring to commit wire fraud in a $9.5 million investment scheme. A jury guilty verdict is a finding of guilt on the count the jury returned. It is not a sentence. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Marina Brooks and Charles Brooks were convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud in the Eastern District of Texas. The IRS and FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth reported the same verdict and that each faces a statutory maximum of up to 20 years. A statutory maximum is exposure at sentencing. It is not the term the court has imposed.
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Reporting noted by IRS Criminal Investigation, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas, and FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Strahs pleaded guilty to destroying a motor vehicle after the Times Square Knicks celebration bus fire. A guilty plea is a conviction on the count that was admitted. It is not a sentence. On Monday, Sept. 29, 2026, Jonathan Strahs pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels to destroying a motor vehicle after admitting he threw something onto a burning Times Square charter bus during Knicks championship revelry and knew the bus was destroyed. Inner City Press reported the plea in open court. The prison term, if any, waits for the Jan. 20, 2027 sentencing.
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Reporting noted by Inner City Press, FDNY, and New York Post.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Sixth Circuit's temporary stay of Christa Pike's execution. Vacating a stay is appellate process, not an execution carried out. An order vacating a stay is appellate process. It clears a path for the State to proceed, but it is not itself an execution, and it is not a new guilt finding. On Wednesday evening, Sept. 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Sixth Circuit's morning stay of Christa Gail Pike's scheduled lethal injection. BBC News, Fox News, and The Hill reported Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted Tennessee's application, with Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissenting. Prior CTN coverage recorded the Sixth Circuit stay itself and earlier stay and clemency denials. Those earlier files are separate from Wednesday night's Supreme Court order. Reporting said the warrant was set to expire at midnight and that it was not immediately clear whether the execution would be carried out that night. The order is not proof that the sentence was carried out.
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Reporting noted by BBC News, Fox News, and The Hill.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Massengale was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute resulting in death. A prison sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted count, not an open accusation. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Senior U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups sentenced Spencer Massengale, 34, of Ogden, to 20 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl resulting in death. KUTV and the Standard-Examiner reported the same judgment and the $4,025 restitution order. The judgment rests on the July 23, 2026 plea.
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Reporting noted by KUTV, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah, and Standard-Examiner.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Atkins was sentenced to 12 years and ordered to pay more than $3 million after pleading guilty in a nationwide staffing and payroll fraud scheme. A prison sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the admitted counts. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington sentenced Crispian Atkins, 52, of Valrico, to 12 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida and Business Observer reported restitution of more than $3.01 million and forfeiture of about $1.56 million. The judgment rests on the May 20, 2026 plea.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida and Business Observer.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Long was sentenced to 24 months for a $2.3 million pandemic-relief fraud scheme. A prison term after a guilty plea is the court’s judgment on the admitted count. It is not a new accusation. On Sunday, Sept. 28, 2026, Jabari Long was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud in a pandemic-assistance scheme, the IRS Criminal Investigation announcement said. U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr., for the Eastern District of Michigan announced the sentence. Restitution of $2,187,500 and three years of supervised release are part of that judgment.
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Reporting noted by IRS Criminal Investigation, ClickOnDetroit, and U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Espinoza-Grajeda pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder more than $17 million in drug proceeds. A guilty plea is a conviction on the count that was admitted. It is not a sentence. Georgina Espinoza-Grajeda, 43, of Eagle Mountain, pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder monetary instruments, KUTV and KJZZ reported Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Prosecutors said she operated Multiservicios Lokos, LLC, the money-service side of Antojitos Lokos in South Salt Lake, and sent wire transfers of cash proceeds from drug sales. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 14, 2026.
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Reporting noted by KJZZ, KUTV, and U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Utah.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A federal jury convicted Arshpreet Singh and Vikramjeet Singh in a $2 million Southern California cargo theft scheme. A jury guilty verdict is a finding of guilt on the counts the jury returned. It is not a sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Arshpreet Singh and Vikramjeet Singh were convicted of conspiracy to commit theft from interstate or foreign shipments after a seven-day trial, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced. Arshpreet Singh was also convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Vikramjeet Singh was acquitted of the wire-fraud conspiracy count. Sentencing before U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang is set for Jan. 20, 2027.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, KTLA, and Press Enterprise.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Carter Eslick was sentenced to jail and probation in the NAU hazing death case. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court’s judgment on the admitted count. It is not an open accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, Judge Stacy Krueger sentenced Carter Eslick on his Aug. 10 guilty plea to one count of hazing leading to a person’s death, a Class 4 felony, AZFamily and the Arizona Daily Sun reported. The judgment rests on that plea. It does not invent guilt for others who were not convicted.
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Reporting noted by AZFamily and Arizona Daily Sun.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Charles Whipple was charged with attempted second-degree murder after a Marana In-N-Out shooting. An arrest and a charging document are accusations. They are not findings of guilt. FOX 10 Phoenix and KOLD reported that Marana police booked Whipple after officers found a man shot near his car and Whipple pointing a gun at the victim. The victim’s injuries were described as non-life-threatening. A booking and bond amount are process. They are not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix and KOLD.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Connie Graham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 to 25 years. A guilty plea followed by a prison sentence is the court’s judgment on the admitted count. It is not an open accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, Connie Graham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Sara Graham and was sentenced to 20 to 25 years, WMBF and The Robesonian reported. First-degree murder had been amended down under the plea. Felony conspiracy and evidence-tampering counts against her were dismissed as part of that agreement.
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Reporting noted by WMBF and The Robesonian.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Manhattan jury convicted Jonathan Spalletta in the $55 million Uranium Finance hack case. A guilty verdict is the jury's finding. It is not the sentence. The money-laundering count carries up to 20 years, and that is a ceiling, not a number anyone has imposed. The defense said Spalletta used functions the Uranium contracts made public and never hacked anything. Quartz reported the jury needed about two hours to reject that.
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Reporting noted by Quartz, Bloomberg, TokenPost, U.S. Department of Justice, CryptoBriefing, and Inner City Press.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Logan sentenced Rope to 108 months on a meth count. Two overdose deaths were not a homicide judgment. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count that was admitted. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan sentenced Eric Rope Jr., 41, of Phoenix, to 108 months in prison. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona announced the sentence the next day. Rope had pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. One hundred eight months is nine years. The judgment is a drug-distribution sentence.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, KTAR, Eastern Arizona Courier, and azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Feinbloom pleaded no contest to torture and manslaughter. The murder count is still open until Oct. 26. A no-contest plea is a conviction on the counts that were admitted. It is not a murder conviction, and it is not yet a sentence. Abraham Feinbloom pleaded no contest in Imperial County Superior Court to torture and voluntary manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old T'Neya Tovar. KESQ reported the agreement, filed Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, calls for 13 years to life: seven years to life on torture and a consecutive six years on voluntary manslaughter. Both counts count as strikes. Sentencing is set for Oct. 26, 2026, in El Centro. The murder charge stays on the case until that hearing.
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Reporting noted by KESQ and Imperial Valley Press.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Campbell pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $8.8 million from an ERISA plan. A guilty plea is an admission that resolves the charged count. It is not yet a prison sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, James Vincent Campbell pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $8.8 million from an ERISA benefit plan through Axim Fringe Solutions Group, which processed health and 401(k) funds for federal-contractor employees. Federal District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby will impose any sentence later. The statutory maximum of five years is exposure, not the judgment.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, KJZZ, and azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Zhang and Chen were charged with murder and a lying-in-wait special circumstance. A murder charge and a special-circumstance allegation are accusations. They are not a conviction, and they are not the same as a weekend booking on suspicion. On Wednesday, prosecutors and charging documents alleged Zhang and Chen lied in wait before the killing of Jonathan McKinsey at Dublin Sports Grounds. A formal charge replaces an open investigation with a filed theory.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, NBC Bay Area, and KTVU FOX 2.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Amalfi was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter in a Mesa fentanyl death. A prison term after a guilty plea is the judgment on that count, not an open accusation waiting for trial. FOX 10 Phoenix, citing the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, reported James Anthony Amalfi was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter for selling fentanyl tied to Ryan Brown’s death. Court documents put the sentencing on Sept. 15, 2026, even though the office’s public announcement drew fresh coverage on Sept. 30. The date of announcement does not reopen the plea.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, Maricopa County Attorney's Office, and KTAR.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wolfe’s murder conviction was vacated after 25 years. A vacatur and an Alford plea are not the same as a new murder trial. Vacating a murder conviction ends that judgment. It is not a new finding that a jury just convicted someone else. The Associated Press reported that on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Judge Carl Weimer vacated Justin Michael Wolfe’s murder conviction after the only witness tying him to the 2001 shooting of Daniel Petrole recanted, and Wolfe resolved remaining counts for a time-served outcome. An Alford plea lets a defendant accept a conviction while maintaining innocence. It is not a jury’s guilty verdict on murder.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, WRAL, and WJLA.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Florida carried out Beasley’s lethal injection Tuesday night. An execution is the sentence, not a new verdict. An execution after a final judgment is the sentence being carried out, not a new trial verdict. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Florida executed Curtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, by lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the 1995 hammer killing of Carolyn Monfort in Dundee. USA TODAY reported that he maintained his innocence, which is his position and not a finding that the conviction was wrong. The Guardian reported that the Florida Supreme Court had rejected age and cognitive-decline claims, that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, and that the warrant was carried out.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY, Associated Press, and The Guardian.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Yohannes received life without parole for the aggravated murder of Candace Samples. A life-without-parole sentence after a guilty verdict is the judgment on that count, not a charge still waiting for trial. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Kidus Yohannes was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the first-degree aggravated murder of Candace Samples, FOX 13 News and KUTV reported. FOX 13 News reported the court also imposed 0 to 5 years for attempted manslaughter for stabbing Jeffrey Plante, who survived. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said he hoped Samples’ family felt they had received some measure of justice, and that it was not perfect justice, because if it were she would still be in the community.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 News and KUTV.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Furlow was sentenced to 54 years after a Highland County bench trial. A prison term imposed after a guilty verdict is the judgment. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Judge Rocky Coss sentenced Shayvion Furlow, 34, of Dayton, to 54 mandatory years after a Highland County bench trial. The Highland County Press reported that the term can reach 59.5 years under Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law, with $97,500 in fines and forfeiture of $52,491.15 and four semi-automatic pistols.
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Reporting noted by The Highland County Press.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Fortuna was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of George Dayieb. A life-without-parole sentence after a jury conviction for first-degree murder is the judgment. It is not a new accusation. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Judge Jill E. Rangos sentenced William Fortuna, 61, of Conway, to life without parole for the murder of George Dayieb. The Butler Eagle reported that the same jury also convicted him of conspiracy to commit homicide, abuse of a corpse, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and criminal use of a communication facility, and that the court added 15 to 30 years on the conspiracy count and one year of probation on the communication count.
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Reporting noted by WPXI, Butler Eagle, and TribLIVE.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Banks was booked on second-degree arson and aggravated animal-cruelty counts after a Geneva house fire. An arrest report and a first appearance are accusations. They are not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, deputies arrested Banks after a fire at his Geneva home. WESH reported the booking as one count of second-degree arson and 11 counts of aggravated animal cruelty. On Tuesday a judge ordered him held without bond on the arson count pending a mental-health evaluation. That order is custody process. It is not a finding of guilt, and it is not a finding that he is incompetent.
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Reporting noted by WESH, ClickOrlando, WFTV, and FOX 35 Orlando.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Gibbs was arrested in Dallas on federal firearm false-statement and illegal-transfer charges tied to the 2024 Charlotte ambush. A federal arrest and an indictment are accusations. They are not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, ATF and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested her in Dallas on false-statement counts in firearm purchases and an illegal-transfer count. The government says the case is connected to the April 29, 2024, Charlotte ambush. That connection is the charging theory. It is not a verdict against Gibbs. The officers' deaths are not a finding that she is guilty.
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Reporting noted by ATF, WSOC, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, and WFAE.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dinenberg was charged in Philadelphia federal court with securities fraud and wire fraud tied to Kind Financial. An information is a charging document. It is not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania charged him with one securities-fraud count and four wire-fraud counts arising from Kind, the cannabis payment company he founded. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported five fraud counts and a demand that he forfeit $9 million. Five counts match the one-and-four split other outlets quoted from prosecutors. A forfeiture demand is what the government wants. It is not a judgment.
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Reporting noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Marijuana Herald, and Patch.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The Sixth Circuit temporarily stayed Christa Pike's Sept. 30 execution about an hour before it was set to begin. A stay is not a new verdict. A temporary stay from a federal appeals court is appellate process. It is not a new trial verdict, and it is not an execution carried out. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, about an hour before the 10 a.m. Central time, the Sixth Circuit paused Pike's scheduled lethal injection so the court could further review defense arguments tied to childhood trauma and abuse and how that filing should be treated procedurally. WSMV and WVLT reported that Tennessee has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift the stay. That request was still unanswered in the reporting available Wednesday morning. The death sentence remains unless a court grants further relief.
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Reporting noted by WSMV and WVLT.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Michael Israel was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of James Santiago. The term follows a June jury conviction. Life without parole after a jury conviction is the sentence imposed. It is not a new verdict. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Justice Michael Kitsis sentenced Michael Israel, 39, to life without the possibility of parole. The June 26, 2026, jury had already convicted him of first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, third-degree assault, and endangering the welfare of a child. The conviction date and the sentencing date are different steps.
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Reporting noted by Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and News 12.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Anderson, Carpenter, and Nelson were each sentenced to 22 years to life for killing Jervey Barfield. The terms follow an August jury verdict. A sentence after a jury verdict is the judgment imposed on the counts of conviction. It is not a new accusation. On Sept. 29, 2026, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that Anderson, Carpenter, and Nelson were each sentenced to 22 years to life. On Aug. 11, 2026, a jury convicted Anderson and Nelson of second-degree murder and first-degree gang assault, and convicted Carpenter of first-degree manslaughter and first-degree gang assault.
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Reporting noted by Manhattan District Attorney's Office and amNewYork.
True Crime · Sep 30, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Griffiths was charged with leaving the scene after the January hit-and-run that killed Kianna Underwood. Leaving-the-scene charges after an arrest are accusations. They are not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, New York Post, NBC New York, and ABC7 New York reported Griffiths was cuffed and charged in connection with the Jan. 16, 2026, Brownsville hit-and-run that killed Kianna Underwood. The counts are leaving the scene resulting in death and leaving the scene with injury.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, NBC New York, and ABC7 New York.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Evans-Gomez was sentenced to six years after pleading guilty to Phoenix meth and fentanyl trafficking counts. A prison sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts admitted. It is not a pending accusation. On Sept. 22, 2026, Francisco Evans-Gomez was sentenced to six years in prison and three years of supervised probation for drug-trafficking and weapons offenses, and Mayes' office publicized that judgment on Tuesday, Sept. 29. He had pleaded guilty Aug. 11 to conspiracy, possession of a dangerous drug for sale, and misconduct involving weapons.
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Reporting noted by azfamily and Arizona Attorney General.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Pike's stay application hours before the Sept. 30 execution date. A stay denial is not a new trial verdict. A Supreme Court order denying a stay is an appellate process ruling. It is not a new guilt finding, and it does not itself carry out the sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, reporting from WVLT, The Hill, and USA TODAY said the Court denied Pike's last-minute stay request less than a day before Tennessee's scheduled Sept. 30 execution. She remains the only woman on Tennessee's death row.
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Reporting noted by WVLT, The Hill, and USA TODAY.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Gates was convicted of capital murder and automatically sentenced to life without parole. A capital-murder jury conviction with an automatic life-without-parole sentence is the judgment of guilt and the sentence on that count. It is not a pending accusation. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, after nearly three hours of deliberation, a Harrison County jury convicted Darius Gates Jr., 29, of capital murder in the June 2023 killings of Duane Jernigan and Keyan Jernigan at Gates' Roberson Road property. Life without parole followed automatically.
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Reporting noted by Marshall News Messenger and Longview News-Journal.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, was remanded ahead of a March 2027 trial on criminal-damage and phone-PIN counts. A not-guilty plea, a bail denial, and a provisional trial date are process. They are not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, appeared by videolink at Portsmouth Crown Court. He has pleaded not guilty to criminal damage over an alleged Sept. 22 Channel boat incident and to failing to disclose his phone PIN under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Judge James Newton-Price KC refused bail and set a provisional trial for March 1, 2027, with a further hearing Nov. 12, 2026.
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Reporting noted by Daily Mail and The Independent.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Belizaire’s bond was set at $10,000 after she was booked on four child-neglect counts tied to a Carnival cruise. A booking, a bond hearing, and charging papers are process. They are not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Judge Mindy Glazer set bond at $10,000 after Belizaire was arrested Monday, Sept. 28, when she disembarked the Carnival Conquest at PortMiami. North Miami Beach police say she faces four felony counts of child neglect without great bodily harm. Her attorney told the court she denies the allegations.
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Reporting noted by NBC 6, USA TODAY, Daily Mail, and Local 10.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Bratcher was indicted on federal Social Security and SNAP fraud counts after hiding her mother’s body. A federal indictment is an accusation. It is not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced charges against 17 defendants in a Social Security benefits surge, and named Bratcher among them. Prosecutors allege about $21,402 in intended loss tied to her mother’s benefits and SNAP. An Oct. 1 federal court date in Chicago is process, not a finding of guilt.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, New York Post, CBS Chicago, WTTW, and Associated Press.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Garcés Pérez made his first federal appearance on an assaulting-an-officer count after the Austin ICE shooting. A federal criminal complaint and a first appearance are process. They are not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, appeared in federal court in the Western District of Texas on one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with, and impeding a federal officer. Prosecutors say the count carries up to 20 years if he is convicted.
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Reporting noted by CBS Austin, Texas Tribune, KUT, U.S. Department of Justice, and EL PAÍS.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dutch police remanded a 24-year-old named as Pepijn van der Stap after the FBI warned ShinyHunters. A foreign arrest and a remand order are process abroad. They are not a United States conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman said Dutch partners had arrested an alleged ShinyHunters leader tied to breaches of more than 140 organizations, and Dutch police said a 24-year-old Amsterdam man appeared in Rotterdam District Court and was held for at least 90 days. Reporting by Reuters, USA TODAY, TechCrunch, and Krebs on Security identifies him as Pepijn van der Stap.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY, TechCrunch, Krebs on Security, Reuters, and Bloomberg.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Emonnie Branch was charged with murder of a first responder after Trooper Hayden Phillips was killed, and Judge Kimberly Geoghegan denied bond. A charge of murder of a first responder is an accusation, and a bond denial is a custody decision. Neither is a conviction. KSP Col. Phillip Burnett Jr. said Branch was charged after Trooper Hayden Phillips was shot and killed during a traffic stop, and on Tuesday morning Warren District Court Judge Kimberly Geoghegan denied bond. Being held without bond until Friday's preliminary hearing is process, not a finding of guilt.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY, WKYT, WSMV, LEX 18, and WNKY.
Trials · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sullivan continued the Clancy case to Nov. 2. A status hearing is not a dismissal. A hearing without a ruling is process. It is not a dismissal, not a retrial order, and not a new verdict. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, Judge William Sullivan heard a defense request to dismiss the case and a prosecution response that the Commonwealth had met its burden, then set the next date for Nov. 2 and said that date does not indicate how he will rule.
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Reporting noted by BBC, Fox News, WBUR, WBZ, and CBS Boston.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Yang sentenced Contreras to 50 years to life for killing Alfonso Vera. A sentence imposed after a first-degree murder conviction and a firearm-use enhancement is the judgment. It is not an open charge. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Judge Jerry Yang sentenced Luis Contreras, 52, to 50 years to life for the killing of Alfonso Vera, 38, the term state law required after Thursday's conviction.
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Reporting noted by MyNewsLA, Riverside County District Attorney's Office, and Riverside Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Spaulding and Mark were booked in San Juan County on kidnapping and assault investigation holds. A jail booking for investigation of kidnapping and aggravated assault is an accusation and a custody step. It is not a conviction. KSL reported that San Juan County deputies booked Spaulding, 30, and Mark, 25, early Sunday after a woman found on U.S. 191 said family members had restrained her with zip ties for about a day and a half to two days. A booking affidavit and a hospital treatment note are process. They are not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by KSL and San Juan County Sheriff's Office booking affidavit (via KSL).
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Utah Rep. Trevor Lee resigned hours after fraud and forgery charges. A charging document and a resignation are process. They are not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, hours after the Utah Attorney General's Office charged the District 16 representative from Layton with one count each of Communications Fraud, Mortgage Fraud, Forgery, and Possession of Forgery, he announced he was resigning, and FOX 13 Utah reported that the counts concern an alleged attempt to obtain a loan illegally after an investigation that began in April.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Utah and Utah Attorney General's Office.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Gov. Bill Lee denied clemency for Christa Pike, with execution set for Sept. 30. A clemency denial is not a new verdict. A governor's decision not to intervene is executive clemency process, not a new trial verdict, and an execution date is a schedule. On Sept. 28, 2026, Gov. Bill Lee said he is upholding Christa Gail Pike's death sentence and does not plan to intervene, and Pike is scheduled for lethal injection on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay, and that application was still pending in Sept. 29 reporting.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY, BBC, and WSMV.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hopkins was sentenced to life plus 32 years for the murder of Anisa Moreno. A sentence after a jury conviction is the judgment on the counts the jury found. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, in Pima County, a judge sentenced Bariki Hopkins to life plus 32 years for the murder of Anisa Moreno, 26. The May jury found him guilty of second-degree murder and of possessing a firearm as a prohibited possessor. News 4 Tucson reported that he becomes eligible for parole after 35 years. The sentence is the judgment.
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Reporting noted by News 4 Tucson (KVOA) and KOLD News 13.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Pineda was booked on a second-degree murder charge after Rogelio Aparicio Aguilera was killed in Maryvale. A second-degree murder booking is an accusation. It is not a conviction. azfamily reported that Rogelio Aparicio Aguilera, 48, and Efren Espinosa Pineda, 53, got into a fight on Fairmount Avenue south of Indian School Road in Maryvale, and that police say Pineda shot Aguilera. Aguilera died at the scene. Pineda drove off and was later taken into custody without incident. He was booked on a second-degree murder charge.
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Reporting noted by azfamily 3TV CBS 5, FOX 10 Phoenix, ABC15 Arizona, and KTAR.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Guadalupe Ramirez was booked in Las Vegas, and Agustin Ramirez was arrested in California, after an off-duty corrections officer was shot. A booking for attempted murder is not a conviction, and it is not a finding that the officer was killed. Metro said both were arrested Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, after an off-duty Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department corrections officer was shot Sept. 21 in the 7600 block of West Cheyenne Avenue. Guadalupe is in the Clark County Detention Center. Agustin is in the Los Angeles County Jail pending extradition. Custody and a Tuesday court date are process. They do not decide guilt.
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Reporting noted by Las Vegas Review-Journal and News 3 Las Vegas.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Villalobos was arrested on an open-murder charge after Dante Williams was killed in Sparks. An open-murder charge is still an accusation. It does not fix a degree, and it is not a conviction. Charly Villalobos was arrested about 7 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2026, after Dante Williams died from a shooting reported at 11:39 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the 1500 block of Woodhaven Drive in Sparks. News 4 Reno reported that Villalobos is facing open murder charges.
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Reporting noted by News 4 Reno and KOLO.
True Crime · Sep 29, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Pitts and Bailey were charged with aggravated assault after 12 people were shot at a Macon park. Twelve aggravated-assault counts are accusations, not a conviction. The Bibb County Sheriff's Office said Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, that Pitts was charged with aggravated assault as a party to a crime and Bailey was charged with aggravated assault, each on 12 counts, after a shooting shortly after midnight on Sept. 27 at Carolyn Crayton Park. Both are held without bond at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center. A no-bond hold is custody. It does not decide who fired.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY and WGXA.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hampton was sentenced to 74 years to life after pleading guilty but mentally ill in the killing of Officer Truong Thai. A sentence after a guilty-but-mentally-ill plea is the court's judgment. It is not an open accusation, and it is not an acquittal. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Tyson Hampton was sentenced to a minimum of 74 years to life for killing Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Truong Thai. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty under the plea agreement, and the court ordered mental-health treatment while he is incarcerated.
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True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Elshazly was sentenced to 92 months and lifetime supervised release after pleading guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS. A prison sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted count, not an open accusation. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden sentenced Ahmad Khalil Elshazly to 92 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. The judgment rests on the plea Elshazly entered on Nov. 30, 2022. A Justice Department account of later conduct in detention is not a second conviction.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and Daily Voice.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Valenzuela-Silva was booked on suspicion of capital murder after three people were killed in southeast Wichita. A booking on suspicion of capital murder is not a conviction, and it is not yet a formal charge. KWCH reports he was booked on that suspicion, held on a $99,999,999 bond, and that the case is to be presented to the Sedgwick County District Attorney for formal charging this week. A bond and a planned presentation to a prosecutor are custody steps, and they do not decide guilt.
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Reporting noted by KWCH and Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Tyghter was charged with murder after a fatal stabbing at a Washington Heights shelter. A murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Reporting dated Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, said Tyghter, 29, a tenant of the Fort Washington Men's Shelter at 651 West 168th St. in Washington Heights, was arrested after police said one resident stabbed another just before noon on Sept. 27, and a 33-year-old man later died. An allegation, a hospital death, and a murder charge still have to be proved.
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Reporting noted by amNewYork.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Martinez was sentenced to 35 years in a migrant-smuggling case tied to a fatal Kimble County crash. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the count he admitted. It is not an open accusation. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Roland Heith Martinez, 26, of Houston, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for conspiracy to transport migrants resulting in death after a June 2025 guilty plea to one count from a 12-count superseding indictment in the Western District of Texas. The 35-year term runs consecutively to a separate 140-month prison term he received in 2023 in the Southern District of Texas for drug trafficking.
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Reporting noted by FOX 7 Austin and U.S. Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Perin was sentenced to life after a jury convicted him and two co-defendants in Christin Cassels' murder. A jury's guilty verdict is a judgment of guilt on the counts it found, and Perin's life sentence is the judgment on his first-degree murder and trespass convictions. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, a jury in the Gainesville and Alachua County area convicted Nikenson Perin of first-degree murder and trespass in the 2017 killing of Christin Cassels and sentenced him to life. Blake Jackson and Keneth Altidor were each convicted of second-degree murder and acquitted of trespass. Those murder convictions are judgments of guilt, and both men still await sentencing.
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Reporting noted by WCJB and WUFT.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Soto was booked on an open murder charge after Uriel Dominguez-Lopez was found shot in Las Vegas. An open murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Las Vegas police took him into custody on Sept. 21, 2026, after a warrant narrative tied a vehicle and an ATM card to the June shooting death of Uriel Dominguez-Lopez. A no-bail hold at the Clark County Detention Center is a custody condition, not a finding of guilt.
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Reporting noted by 8 News Now and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Day was charged with first-degree murder in Jon'nae Abbott's death outside a Brooklyn, Illinois club. A Class M first-degree murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Illinois State Police identified Day after Jon'nae Abbott was struck by gunfire outside a Brooklyn, Illinois club, and the St. Clair County State's Attorney approved the charge while Day was already in custody in Missouri. Extradition to Illinois is the next custody step, and it does not decide guilt.
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Reporting noted by Illinois State Police, Metro East Star, and FOX 2.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Christopher Brandon Dominguez was charged with capital murder as the second defendant in the Mesa Drive shooting. A second capital-murder booking is a second accusation in the same shooting. It is not a conviction for either man. Houston police say Dominguez was arrested Oct. 2, five days after they booked Torres, and that Torres admitted a role when he was questioned. An admission police describe, and a felon-in-possession count stacked on Dominguez's capital-murder charge, still have to be proved in the two courts HPD named. The 17-year-old has not been publicly identified.
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Reporting noted by Houston Police Department and FOX 26 Houston.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lopez now faces three murder counts after a Lane County indictment tied the Fultz hit-and-run to a prior stabbing case. An indictment is a charging document. It is not a conviction. The Lane County grand jury returned the indictment Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, with a court hearing scheduled for Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. Three murder counts and a driver-duty count are accusations, and a scheduled hearing is not a result.
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Reporting noted by Lookout Eugene-Springfield and Springfield Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rodriguez Balda was charged with murder in Angel Escalante Gamazo's death outside a Queens restaurant. A murder charge and a weapon-possession charge are accusations. They are not convictions. Patch reported the charge update on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, after earlier local reporting on the arrest. An argument, a stabbing allegation, and a hospital death are what the case alleges, and they still have to be proved.
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Reporting noted by Patch, Hoodline, and New York Daily News.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Garcia was booked for attempted murder after a Pasadena domestic assault report. A booking on suspicion of attempted murder is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Garcia, 28, of Pasadena, was arrested early Monday after officers say a woman reported an assault and that her vehicle was taken. Injury descriptions and a traffic stop are the investigation account, not a finding that he tried to kill anyone.
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Reporting noted by Pasadena Now.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hemingway was charged with rape and robbery in a Wilkinsburg filing. New sexual-assault and robbery counts filed after a homicide booking are separate accusations. They are not a conviction on either case. The new counts come from a Sept. 26, 2026 court filing and concern a reported sexual assault in Wilkinsburg on the morning of Sept. 23. The Edgewood homicide case is a different accusation, and this filing does not decide it.
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Reporting noted by USA TODAY.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Clark's bond was set at $5 million on a murder charge in Tasia Fortune's death. A murder charge and a bond figure are process. They are not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Clark, 45, appeared in Jackson Municipal Court, and Judge Jeffrey Reynolds set bond at $5 million on a murder charge in the death of Tasia Fortune, 29. Jarques Ratliff and Earnest Lloyd Jr. are charged in the same case, and a bond order does not decide guilt for any of the three.
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Reporting noted by ABC7 News, ABC News, and WLBT.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Upchurch was sentenced to natural life for the murder of Paul Clifford. A natural-life murder sentence plus consecutive counts is the court's judgment after trial. It is not an open accusation. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, in Tucson, Arizona, Jack Upchurch was sentenced to natural life for first-degree murder in the death of Paul Clifford, with credit for 636 days served. The other terms run consecutive to that murder sentence.
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Reporting noted by News 4 Tucson and KOLD News 13.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Sanon's Miami trial is set to start in the Moïse assassination case. A trial start and a not-guilty plea are process. They are not a verdict. Jury selection in his Miami federal case was set to begin Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, on charges connected to the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Convictions of other defendants in the broader case are not findings against Sanon.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, CBS Miami, Miami Herald, and New York Post.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Geri was sentenced to five years and 10 months after pleading guilty in the Red Mass explosives case. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted counts. It is not an open accusation. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced Louis Geri to five years and 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release after a March guilty plea to two felony counts. The term is the bottom of a range the parties had agreed.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press and ClickOrlando.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Zhang and Chen were booked after Jonathan McKinsey was found shot in Dublin. An arrest and a jail booking are accusations. They are not convictions. Dublin police booked the pair after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a Dublin Sports Grounds parking lot on Saturday and pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not publicly revealed a motive, and the investigation is ongoing.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, KTVU FOX 2, Pleasanton Weekly, and ABC7.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Drum was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, and Upshaw is wanted for murder, after a Fresno liquor-store shooting. A booking and a wanted notice are accusations. They are not convictions. Drum, 20, surrendered Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, and was booked into the Fresno County Jail for assault with a deadly weapon as part of the murder investigation. Malik Upshaw, 26, was still at large and wanted for murder as of Sept. 28 reporting, which is an accusation and not a finding that either man killed anyone.
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Reporting noted by FOX26 KMPH, ABC30 Fresno, and GV Wire.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Holt was sentenced to weekend jail after a no-contest plea in Hulswit's death. A sentence after a no-contest plea is the court's judgment on the felony that was admitted. It is not a trial verdict. Judge Jennifer M. Faunce sentenced Stephanie Holt, 32, of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, to 365 days in the Macomb County Jail, structured as about 100 consecutive weekends, plus two years of probation, 200 hours of community service, counseling, and no contact with the Hulswit family. The sentence date is reported as Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in coverage that began Friday, Sept. 25.
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Reporting noted by Daily Mail, CBS Detroit, ClickOnDetroit, and FOX 2 Detroit.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Colbert was sentenced to 60 years for negligent homicide and racketeering in Manzano's death. A sentence after conviction is the court's judgment on the counts the jury found. It is not a new verdict. On Monday morning, Sept. 28, 2026, Judge Nancy Miller sentenced Danette Colbert of Slidell, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish District Court to 10 years for negligent homicide and 50 years for racketeering, a total of 60 years, consecutive to each other and consecutive to any other sentence she is already serving. Adan Manzano, 27, a sideline reporter for KGKC-TV, the Kansas City Telemundo affiliate, died in February 2025 at a Comfort Suites in Kenner while in New Orleans covering the Super Bowl.
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Reporting noted by The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com, FOX 8 WVUE, WDSU, and Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
McCovery was arrested in Norfolk on a Texas warrant and firearm allegations. An arrest and a warrant are process. They are not a conviction. Norfolk police said he had an active Texas felony warrant with full extradition, fled on foot after he was told he was under arrest, and was apprehended shortly afterward. He was taken to the Madison County Jail.
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Reporting noted by KTIV, Norfolk Police Division, and Madison County Sheriff's Department.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Marshall was sentenced to 12 years after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted count. It is not an open accusation. On Sept. 24, 2026, Judge Karen E. Wall sentenced Tichina Marshall in People v. Tichina Marshall, 2025-CF-399, after Marshall pleaded guilty that day to attempt first-degree murder, a Class X felony. The term is 12 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections and 3 years of mandatory supervised release, and she must serve 85 percent of the prison sentence.
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Reporting noted by Vermilion County State's Attorney's Office, Vermilion County First, and New York Post.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reilly was arrested after reported gunfire at Boulder County Sheriff's headquarters. An arrest is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Officials have not yet publicly detailed or announced the specific charges. The Boulder County Sheriff's Office has noted that charges are accusations. A custody report is not a charging document, and it is not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by Boulder County Sheriff's Office, Denver7, CBS Colorado, and Denver Gazette.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Edward Tucker was arrested on homicide-related charges after a shooting outside Urban Air on Arden Way. An arrest on homicide-related charges is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Sacramento police responded shortly after about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, to a shooting near Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in the 1700 block of Arden Way, where two women were shot outside the business. CBS Sacramento reported on Sept. 28 that officers later arrested Tucker, 36, a Fresno resident, on those charges, and that police have not publicly identified either woman.
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Reporting noted by CBS Sacramento, ABC10, Sacramento Bee, and FOX40.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
David Vasquez was extradited back to Las Vegas in the Five Below shooting death of Brandan Lucas. An extradition and a jail booking are process. They are not a conviction. Vasquez, 19, is accused in the June 17, 2026 fatal shooting of Brandan Lucas, 31, and reporting places him back in Clark County custody this weekend ahead of a Monday appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court. FOX5 Las Vegas reported felony charges that include open murder, discharging a gun inside a structure, and carrying a concealed weapon.
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Reporting noted by NEWS3LV, FOX5 Las Vegas, and Clark County Detention Center.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Bradley is charged with malice murder after remains identified as Shanteria Mosley were found in Smyrna. A malice murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Bradley, 18, is charged with malice murder and concealing the death of another after Smyrna police said human remains found in a vehicle trunk or container at Park Valley Apartments were identified as Shanteria "KT" Mosley. He is held without bond, and the next hearing has been reported only as October.
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Reporting noted by CBS Atlanta, Fox News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Smyrna Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Davis was sentenced to 178 years to serve for killing Tatiana David during an I-95 chase. A sentence after conviction is the court's judgment on the counts that supported the term. It is not a new accusation. Michael C. Davis, 38, was sentenced Friday in Prince William County to 258 years, with 80 years suspended, for 178 years to serve, after reported convictions that include second-degree murder in the death of Tatiana David. Commonwealth's Attorney Amy Ashworth said, as reported, "Tatiana David did not deserve to die."
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Reporting noted by WJLA 7News and Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Robles is charged with murder after a woman was found dead in a Central Park gazebo. A murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Police say a 63-year-old woman was found dead in a Central Park gazebo on Sunday morning, and Robles, 36, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. A booking and a charge list are process, not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, amNewYork, ABC13, CBS New York, and NYPD.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Egler was sentenced to 50 years for the murders of Kelley McCollom and Matthew Szejnrok. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted counts. It is not a new accusation. Julia Egler, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 50 years in Florida state prison for the 2024 Palm Bay killings of Kelley McCollom and Matthew Szejnrok. Under the deal she must serve at least 25 years before a youth sentence review can be considered.
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Reporting noted by Office of the State Attorney 18th Judicial Circuit, New York Post, FOX 35 Orlando, and Space Coast Daily.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Heath was sentenced to 55 years to life for the first-degree murder of Derrick Walthall. A sentence after conviction is the court's judgment on the counts that supported the term. It is not a new accusation. Henry Heath was sentenced to 55 years to life for the first-degree murder of Derrick Walthall, who was fatally shot while seated in his wheelchair in Stockton. The firearm enhancement and the prison term are the judgment on the convicted counts.
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Reporting noted by Stocktonia, Bay City News, San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office, and Sacramento Patch.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
True is charged with malice murder in the Glynn County shooting death of Roy Harris II. A malice murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. True, 47, of Brunswick, was arrested after officers found Roy Harris II, 48, fatally shot, and he faces felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, and firearm counts while the investigation continues.
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Reporting noted by News 4 JAX, Action News Jax, and Glynn County Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 28, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Troupe is charged with capital murder in the Athens death of Michelle Lee Turner. A capital murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Athens police found Michelle Lee Turner, 44, dead in her bedroom after a call around 1:00 a.m. on Sept. 28, 2026, and identified her ex-boyfriend, Troupe, 47, as the suspect before he was transferred to the Limestone County Sheriff's Office.
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Reporting noted by WAFF, Athens Police Department, and Limestone County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Craft was sentenced to 36½ years for the first-degree murder of landlord Daniel Lytton. A sentence after a jury conviction is the court’s judgment on the counts that supported the term. It is not a new accusation. Judge Richard Okrent imposed a high-end standard sentence of 36½ years on the most severe count — premeditated first-degree murder with a deadly weapon — after Craft’s Aug. 25, 2026, convictions on that count and related murder charges.
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Reporting noted by The Herald (HeraldNet) and Snohomish County Superior Court (as reported).
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rodriguez-Navar is charged with open murder in an east Las Vegas neighbor shooting. An open-murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. A booking and a charge list are process, not a verdict. He is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center on open murder with the use of a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, with a return court date reported as Sept. 28, 2026.
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Reporting noted by FOX 5 Vegas, News 3 Las Vegas (KSNV), Las Vegas Sun, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Pinkney was sentenced to 25 years to life for murdering Davide Giri. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court’s judgment on the admitted counts. It is not a new accusation. Pinkney pleaded guilty July 10, 2026, to one count of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder in exchange for a promised 25-years-to-life term, and that promised sentence was imposed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, CBS New York, and Manhattan prosecutors (as reported).
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Avalos is charged with open murder in a parking-lot shooting near the Las Vegas Strip. An open-murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Avalos, 21, was taken into custody Wednesday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on open murder with the use of a deadly weapon and prohibited person in possession of a firearm, according to reporting that cites the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The shooting was Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, around 7 p.m. near the 4600 block of Grand Drive in the Harmon and Koval area east of the Strip. A booking and a charge list are process, not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by FOX 5 Vegas and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Miller was sentenced to 17 years as Tucson’s self-described “Queen of the South.” A sentence after conviction is the court’s judgment on the counts that supported the term. It is not a new accusation. Amanda Rachelle Miller, 35, of Tucson, the self-described “Queen of the South,” was sentenced Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, to 17 years (204 months) in federal prison followed by 36 months of supervised release, plus a $25,000 fine, $25,000 in community restitution, and a $400 special assessment. Reporting from News 4 Tucson / KVOA and KGUN 9 says she directed the enterprise for more than three years while a fugitive in Mexico, supervising couriers, bulk deliveries, and cross-border money laundering.
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Reporting noted by News 4 Tucson (KVOA), KGUN 9, KOLD News 13, and U.S. Attorney's Office District of Arizona.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ansariy was extradited and arraigned on ISIS material-support charges. A material-support charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Ansariy, a citizen of Uzbekistan and a naturalized U.S. citizen also known as Kozimjon Gafurov, was extradited to the Eastern District of New York from Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 23, 2026, after an August 2026 arrest there, and was set for arraignment Sept. 24 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lara K. Eshkenazi on one conspiracy count and one substantive count of providing material support to ISIS and Al-Nusrah Front. An indictment, an extradition, and an arraignment are process. They are not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, New York Post, and News 12.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Brooklyn jury convicted Randazzo of brandishing a firearm during a bank robbery. A conviction on that count is not the consecutive seven-year minimum until sentencing. A jury conviction for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence is guilt on that count, not the sentence. Vincenzo Randazzo, 60, of Brooklyn, was convicted Sept. 24, 2026, after a two-day trial before U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon; the mandatory seven-year minimum must run consecutively to the bank-robbery sentence, and neither term is imposed until sentencing, separate from his Aug. 26 plea to the robbery itself.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of New York and FBI.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Quijada is charged with second-degree murder after a Bullhead City shooting. A second-degree murder charge is an accusation, not a conviction. Quijada, 26, of Bullhead City, was booked into the Mohave County Jail in Kingman after a Sept. 24, 2026 shooting; a booking and a charge list are process, not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix and Bullhead City Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Brozowski pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in a Babylon stabbing. A guilty plea to Assault in the First Degree is an admission on that count, not a sentence. Robert Brozowski, 35, of Yonkers, pleaded guilty Sept. 24, 2026, before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei, and the 18-year term expected on Oct. 28, 2026, is not imposed until the court sentences him.
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Reporting noted by Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and News 12 Long Island.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hedberg was sentenced on two elder-fraud felonies in St. George. A sentence after the admitted offenses is the court's judgment. It is not a new charge. Gage Wallace Hedberg, 32, of Hurricane, Utah, was sentenced in 5th District Court in St. George before District Judge Jack Burns on two second-degree felonies, financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult and unlawful dealing of property by a fiduciary. The judge suspended two prison terms of 1 to 15 years and ordered 30 days in the Washington County Purgatory Correctional Facility plus 36 months of supervised probation.
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Reporting noted by St. George News and Utah Attorney General's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cabrera-Rodriguez was convicted of alien-smuggling and money-laundering conspiracies. A jury conviction is a finding of guilt on the counts the jury decided. It is not the sentence. On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, a federal jury in the Middle District of Florida convicted Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez, 28, of Hialeah, of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling for financial gain, conspiracy to commit international money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering concealment. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 17, 2026, and a statutory maximum of 20 years is not a term imposed.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and New York Post.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months and $294,978 in restitution. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the counts he admitted. It is not a new accusation. On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, Cameron John Wagenius, 22, was sentenced in the Western District of Washington to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution after pleas to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, extortion in relation to computer fraud, aggravated identity theft, and two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and FBI.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Chowdhury was convicted on three federal kidnapping counts in Queens. A jury conviction is a finding of guilt on the counts the jury decided. It is not the sentence. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, a federal jury in the Eastern District of New York found Abu Chowdhury, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, guilty of three counts of kidnapping and three counts of conspiring to kidnap three men in Long Island City, Jackson Heights, and Jamaica between March 27 and mid-May 2023. Each count carries up to life when the court sentences him, and a statutory maximum is not a term imposed.
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Reporting noted by QNS, U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of New York, and FBI New York.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Page is charged with first-degree murder in the 2016 killing of Matthew Johnson. A first-degree murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Page, 46, of Kingman, Arizona, was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, on a felony warrant in the Dec. 14, 2016 shooting death of Matthew Johnson, reported as 22, and booked without incident at the Mohave County Adult Detention Facility. A cold-case review that resubmitted evidence and re-interviewed witnesses is how the sheriff's office says it reached that warrant, and that review is not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by 8 News Now (News 3 / KSNV) and Mohave County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Williams was sentenced to life without parole for the Mount Dora killings of Darryl and Sharon Getman. A life-without-parole sentence after a jury recommendation is the court's judgment. It is not an open penalty-phase question anymore, and it is not a new accusation. On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, a Lake County jury recommended life without parole for Vickie Lynn Williams, 53, and Judge Cary F. Rada sentenced her to life in the Florida Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole for two first-degree murders in the December 2022 stabbing deaths of Darryl and Sharon Getman at Lakeside at Waterman Village in Mount Dora. That term is the judgment.
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Reporting noted by Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office, Spectrum News 13, and WESH.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wilson is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Alan Groom. A second-degree murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Wilson, 62, of Colorado Springs, also reported as Shelly, was arrested after a dead man was reported inside a home in the 4000 block of Tappan Drive during the weekend of Sept. 19-20, 2026. On Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, The Gazette reported that the El Paso County Coroner's Office and Colorado Springs police identified the man as Alan Groom, 73. The reported counts remain second-degree murder, tampering with a deceased human body, and tampering with physical evidence. Naming the victim is identification. It is not a finding of guilt.
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Reporting noted by The Gazette, KRDO, KKTV, and Colorado Springs Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Petersen was sentenced to five years to life for the 1993 Salt Lake City murder of Theresa Morelock. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the count he admitted. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a jury trial. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, a Third District Court judge sentenced James Wallace Petersen III to five years to life for the murder of Theresa Morelock, found dead in her Salt Lake City apartment after Feb. 22, 1993. He pleaded guilty to murder, a first-degree felony, on July 27, 2026. That term is the judgment under the 1993 punishment scheme for that offense.
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Reporting noted by KUTV, Gephardt Daily, and Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rimson was sentenced to life plus 20 years for the Suwanee gun-sale robbery killing. A life-plus-20 sentence after a jury conviction is the court's judgment. It is not a new charging decision, and it is not an open accusation. Reporting dated Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, from the Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office and Atlanta outlets says Jermaine Dondi Rimson, who was 17 at the time of the crime and is now 21, was convicted of felony murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and criminal attempt to commit a robbery in the July 19, 2022 death of Abel Castellanos, 21, in Suwanee, and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years. That term is the judgment.
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Reporting noted by Atlanta News First, WSB-TV, and Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reiber and Davydov were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud over Oxygen Forensics ownership. A federal conspiracy-to-commit-wire-fraud charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. On Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, Reiber, 55, CEO of Alexandria, Virginia-based Oxygen Forensics, was arrested in Idaho and released on bond; Davydov, 52, a Russian national and company co-founder, was arrested at London Heathrow as he prepared to board a flight to Istanbul. The Justice Department says both face up to 20 years if convicted. Exposure is not a sentence, and an arrest is not a finding of guilt.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, ALXnow, and CNBC.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Leftenent was sentenced to life without parole for the DeKalb motel double murder. A life-without-parole sentence after a jury conviction is the court's judgment. It is not a new charging decision, and it is not an open accusation. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams sentenced William Leftenent, 39, to life without the possibility of parole plus 10 years after a jury found him guilty Wednesday of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and firearm charges in the May 28, 2024 deaths of Lamar Pringle, 32, and Mariana Greene, 35, at a Decatur-area extended-stay motel. That term is the judgment.
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Reporting noted by FOX 5 Atlanta and DeKalb County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Torres-Cruz and Anguiano were sentenced in the Sparks killing of Joel Undercoffer. A prison sentence after conviction is the court's judgment on the counts that were admitted or found. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a jury trial redo. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, Raul Torres-Cruz was sentenced to a combined 8 to 20 years (voluntary manslaughter plus a consecutive deadly-weapons enhancement) and Juan Anguiano to a combined 14 to 40 years (second-degree murder plus a consecutive deadly-weapons enhancement) in the Dec. 11, 2022 Sparks shooting that killed Joel Undercoffer, 21. Those terms are the judgment. They are not open charges.
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Reporting noted by NBC News 4 Reno, KOLO, and Sparks Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Memea pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in her aunt's Chula Vista death. A guilty plea to second-degree murder is the defendant's admission to that count. It is not a jury verdict, and a Dec. 11 sentencing date is a calendar setting, not a prison term until the court imposes it. Elizabeth Maria Memea pleaded guilty in the choking death of her aunt, Leticia Hernandez, 52, at Hernandez's East Prospect Street home in Chula Vista in February 2022. Reporting puts the expected sentence at 15 years to life. Expected is not imposed.
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Reporting noted by San Diego Union-Tribune, NBC 7 San Diego, and Times of San Diego.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Zambrano Cruz pleaded guilty in the Carlsbad DUI crash that killed Karla Guillen. A guilty plea is the defendant's admission to the charged conduct. It is not a jury verdict, and it is not a prison term until the court imposes sentence. On Wednesday this week, Jose Manuel Zambrano Cruz pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, DUI causing injury, and hit-and-run causing death for the Sept. 10, 2024 crash in Carlsbad that killed Karla Guillen, 23. He faces up to nine years in state prison at sentencing. That ceiling is exposure. It is not the sentence.
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Reporting noted by NBC 7 San Diego and City News Service.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Murdaugh's lawyers asked the court to turn over DNA, ballistics, and the raw Moselle scan. A motion is not an order. A motion to compel is a request. It is not an order, and it is not a new verdict. On Sept. 18, 2026, Alex Murdaugh's lawyers asked the court to make the State produce fingernail and phone DNA, .300 Blackout ballistic records, and the raw FARO scan of Moselle before a retrial set for April 5, 2027. The defense says the next DNA step would consume what remains, and that the kennel is gone so nobody can scan it again. Those pieces are irreplaceable. They should be preserved, or tested under an order that says who may touch them, before the April date does the deciding.
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Reporting noted by FITSNews and Defense motion to compel, Sept. 18, 2026.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hughes was sentenced to 32 to 36 years for the Dayton airport crash that killed four people. A sentence after a no-contest plea is the court's judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a jury verdict, and it is not a new accusation. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, Clayton Hughes, 29, of Blacklick, Ohio, was sentenced to 32 to 36 years in prison, and his driver's license was suspended for life, for the April 1, 2024 crash near Dayton International Airport that killed four people and seriously injured a fifth. He changed his plea to no contest on all counts on Aug. 10, 2026, after an earlier plea of not guilty.
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Reporting noted by Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office, WDTN, and Dayton 24/7 Now (WKEF).
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Baldwin County jury convicted Smith-Bracy of capital murder in four Lake Forest killings. A capital-murder jury conviction is the judgment of guilt. Life without parole is the mandatory term once sentence is entered, after prosecutors took the death penalty off the table, and it is not a formal sentencing order until the court imposes it. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, a Baldwin County, Alabama, jury found Jared Smith-Bracy guilty of capital murder in the February 2023 Daphne and Lake Forest killings of his brother Jeremy, his grandparents Barbara and Lenard Smith, and family friend Sheila Glover. Judge Scott Taylor has not set a formal sentencing date.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 (WALA), WEAR-TV, and Baldwin County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Kane County jury convicted Madrigal of murdering Andrew Contreras. A first-degree murder conviction is the jury's judgment of guilt. A mandatory 25-year firearm enhancement, a minimum exposure of 45 years, and an Oct. 22 motions date are not a prison term. On Sept. 22, 2026, a Kane County jury found Rodolfo C. Madrigal, 46, of Streator, guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Andrew Contreras, 29, of Aurora, and found that he personally discharged the firearm. No sentence has been imposed.
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Reporting noted by Kane County State's Attorney's Office, Shaw Local / Kane County Chronicle, and Montgomery Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Riverside jury convicted Contreras of murdering Alfonso Vera. A first-degree murder conviction and a firearm-use enhancement are the jury's judgment. A Monday sentencing setting is calendar, not a sentence. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, a Riverside jury found Luis Contreras, 52, guilty of first-degree murder and a firearm-use enhancement for the 2005 slaying of his cousin Alfonso Vera, 38, after about one full day of deliberation. Sentencing is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, on an expedited request by the defense.
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Reporting noted by MyNewsLA, Riverside County District Attorney's Office, and Riverside Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Lebanon County jury convicted Long of attempted homicide. A jury conviction is the judgment of guilt on those counts. A Dec. 9 sentencing date is a calendar setting, not a prison term. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, a Lebanon County jury found Darrell Long, 63, guilty of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, burglary, and harassment for the March 25, 2025 attack on his former wife, Dawn Long, in a verdict the district attorney announced the next day.
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Reporting noted by WGAL, WHP, TMZ, PEOPLE, Daily Voice, and Lebanon County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ross was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Troy Waldrep. Life without parole after a jury's first-degree murder conviction, plus a habitual-offender adjudication, is the judgment entered. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2026, James Jaleel Ross, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Madison County, Mississippi, for the murder of Troy Waldrep. He testified and denied involvement. A denial on the stand is not an acquittal.
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Reporting noted by WLBT and Madison County District Attorney.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Guerrero was sentenced to nine years and 11 months for threats against Randy Fine. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment on the admitted threat offense. It is not a new trial verdict. Edwin Guerrero, 26, of Massachusetts, was sentenced to nine years and 11 months in federal prison and a $15,000 fine for interstate threats against Randy Fine, and the antisemitic history in the file is as the Justice Department and court coverage reported it.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office Middle District of Florida, WFLA, and New York Post.
True Crime · Sep 25, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hemingway is charged in the Edgewood stabbing death of Dr. Idris Evans. These are charges and allegations from police and complaint reporting. They are not a conviction. Elijah Hemingway, 32, is charged in the Edgewood stabbing death of Dr. Idris Evans, and his claim that Evans invited him and attacked first is his own statement to police, who said they found no supporting evidence. Guilt is decided later in court.
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Reporting noted by WPXI, NBC News, and Allegheny County Police.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Uribe was sentenced to life for the murder of David Navidad-Parra. Sanchez's courtroom arrest is a separate accusation. Uribe's life sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the murder case. It is not a finding about what happened in the courtroom afterward. Alberto Ontiveros Sanchez's arrest and release on his own recognizance is a separate accusation about courtroom conduct: a booking and an own-recognizance release are not a conviction on the assault allegation. Uribe remains the person sentenced for the murder.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, Maricopa County Superior Court, and Phoenix Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Combs was sentenced to 50 years to life for the murder of Trevor Earley. A sentence of 50 years to life after a jury conviction is the court's judgment. It is not a new trial, and a denied new-trial motion is not an acquittal. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Judge Kaleb Cockrum sentenced Jake Henry Combs, about 33 to 34, to 50 years to life for the first-degree murder of Trevor John Earley: 25 years to life on the murder and 25 years to life on a firearm enhancement, plus 10 years for in-custody crimes. A jury convicted him again of first-degree murder at a 2026 retrial after a 2023 conviction was overturned on appeal.
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Reporting noted by Lost Coast Outpost, KRCR, and Humboldt County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Warner was sentenced to 3 to 8 years for voluntary manslaughter. A sentence after a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter is the court's judgment. It is not a new finding of guilt. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, District Judge Michelle Leavitt sentenced Heidi Warner, 25, of Las Vegas, to 3 to 8 years in Nevada state prison. The defense asked for probation, the judge denied it, and Warner was taken into custody at sentencing.
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Reporting noted by Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada Globe, and Clark County District Court.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rivera was booked as an accessory after the Carlsbad hit-and-run. An arrest for accessory after the fact and a false report is an accusation. It is not a conviction. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Carlsbad police arrested Rivera, 23, of Carlsbad, on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact and making a false report of a crime to law enforcement. Investigators say she helped the driver after a Sept. 15 fatal hit-and-run on Carlsbad Boulevard, tried to report his car as stolen, and was booked into the Vista Detention Facility.
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Reporting noted by 10News ABC San Diego KGTV, NBC 7 San Diego, and Carlsbad Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Green was sentenced to 24 years to life for the Harrison County shooting. A sentence of 24 years to life is the judgment after a jury conviction. It is not a new trial, and a rejected self-defense claim is not a second case. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Mickey Green, also identified as Mickey L. Green, 63, of Tippecanoe, Ohio, was sentenced in Harrison County Common Pleas Court to 24 years to life. On Sept. 3, after a three-day trial, a jury found him guilty of two counts of murder, felonious assault, and discharging a firearm on or near prohibited premises.
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Reporting noted by WTOV9, Ohio Attorney General's Office, and YouOhioNews.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Story was sentenced to life without parole for the Lemon Grove home invasion. A life sentence without parole is the court's judgment after conviction. It is not a new trial, and it is not a new accusation. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, at the El Cajon courthouse, Joshua Manu Story was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus decades, after conviction on 21 felony counts, including robbery, kidnapping for ransom, and battery with serious bodily injury. His attorney argued he should be sentenced only on the home invasion and robbery charges, the judge disagreed, and he has 60 days to appeal.
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Reporting noted by NBC 7 San Diego.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Weh was convicted of first-degree murder in Michael Garr's death. A jury conviction is a verdict on guilt. It is not a sentence. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, a Delaware County jury found Marson Weh of Clifton Heights guilty of first-degree murder and possession of an instrument of crime in the April 2023 death of Michael Garr, 15, a sophomore at Upper Darby High School. Sentencing is set for November, and no sentence has been imposed.
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Reporting noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Delaware County Times, FOX 29 Philadelphia, 6abc Philadelphia, and CBS Philadelphia.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Odom was sentenced to 13 years in Skip Schupp's DUI murder case. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment. It is not a new finding of guilt. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Douglas County District Court in Lawrence, Judge Nancy Parrish sentenced Zachary Odom, 30, to 13 years for the crash that killed Skip Schupp. The judgment follows an August guilty plea.
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Reporting noted by Lawrence Journal-World.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Carter was released on bail from the Utah County Jail with a GPS monitor. A release on bail is not an acquittal. Release on bail, with a GPS monitor, is a custody condition. It is not a dismissal, and a DNA exclusion is not an acquittal. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, Fourth District Judge Derek Pullan ordered Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, released on bail from the Utah County Jail. FOX 13 Utah reported that he left jail at 7:45 p.m. KUTV reported that he walked out, that he must wear a GPS monitor, and that he is still facing charges. The Associated Press reported that a DNA analysis received Sept. 22 excluded him as a possible match to blood on a doorknob and to genetic material on a knife handle. Prosecutors withdrew the death notice before the hearing. The aggravated murder charge remains pending.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Utah, KUTV, ABC4 Utah, Associated Press, New York Post, CNN, and KSL.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Loera pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in her adopted daughter's death. A guilty plea is an admission resolving the counts she admitted. It is not yet a sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Maribel Loera pleaded guilty in Maricopa County to second-degree murder, concealment of a body, and multiple counts of severe child abuse in the death of her 9-year-old adopted daughter, under an agreement for 32 years in prison, including 22 years flat time, and lifetime supervised probation that avoids the death penalty. Formal sentencing is set for Oct. 16, 2026, at 9 a.m. MST, and that term has not been imposed.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, Phoenix Police Department, and Maricopa County Superior Court.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Heck is charged in the 2002 killing of Sabrina Kahler. Charges from a grand jury presentment are allegations. They are not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and Erie County District Attorney Elizabeth Hirz announced charges against Heck, 50, of Indiana, for the 2002 rape, murder, and kidnapping of Sabrina Kahler, then 20, in Erie County, and he was taken into custody at his Indiana home late Monday night. Her body has not been recovered, and that fact is not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Erie News Now, and CBS Pittsburgh.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Watson is charged with first-degree murder in Jaquoya Wix's death. A first-degree murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Watson, 42, was arraigned by Zoom on a charge of first-degree premeditated murder in the Sept. 20, 2026 fatal stabbing of Jaquoya Wix, 34, and bond was denied. He is due back Sept. 30, 2026, for a probable cause conference, which is a court date and not a finding of guilt.
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Reporting noted by ClickOnDetroit, WXYZ, and Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Martinez pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the Haverstraw shooting. A guilty plea is an admission resolving the charge. It is not yet a sentence. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Yandie Martinez, 20, of Garnerville, New York, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree in Rockland County Court before Judge Kevin F. Russo, with an expected sentence of 20 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision and sentencing set for Dec. 4, 2026. That 20-year term has not been imposed.
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Reporting noted by Rockland County District Attorney's Office and News 12.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ruby was sentenced to 35 years to life in the Las Vegas New Year's Eve shooting. A sentence after a guilty plea is the court's judgment. It is not a new trial. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, Jordan Ruby was sentenced in Las Vegas, in Clark County, to 35 years to life, with credit for more than 4.5 years already served. Ruby had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with a Dec. 31, 2021 New Year's Eve robbery and shooting spree.
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Reporting noted by News 3 Las Vegas and Las Vegas Review-Journal.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Broward jury found Shannon Ryan guilty of the murder of Leila Cavett. A jury conviction is a verdict on guilt. It is not a sentence. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, a Broward County jury found Shannon Ryan, 44, a self-proclaimed witch doctor, guilty of the murder of Leila Cavett, a 21-year-old mother who vanished while visiting Broward County in 2020. Sentencing is in October, and no sentence has been imposed.
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Reporting noted by Local 10, NBC 6 South Florida, and Broward Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Brown was sentenced to life plus 55 years for the stabbing death of Nicole Rosser. Life plus consecutive time is the court's sentence after conviction. It is not a new finding of guilt. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, in Lynchburg, Virginia, Tony Lee Brown was sentenced to life in prison plus 55 years for the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend, Nicole Rosser. He was convicted on Feb. 9, 2026, of first-degree murder, and he was also convicted of two counts of burglary and of violating a protective order.
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Reporting noted by WSET and Lynchburg Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Green was sentenced to life plus 20 years for the Gambrills drive-thru killing. A life-plus-20 sentence is the judgment after a jury conviction. It is not a new trial. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Judge Elizabeth Morris of the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court sentenced Ja'Quan Dontremique Green, 25, of Middle River, Maryland, to life in prison plus 20 years for the May 2022 drive-thru shooting death of Britrain Marcelus Gray, 23, of Odenton. A jury convicted Green on Jan. 21, 2026, of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in a crime of violence.
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Reporting noted by CBS Baltimore, Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office, and WMAR.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Perdue was sentenced to 60 years for trying to hire someone to kill her husband. A sentence is not a finding on the pending battery case. A sentence after conviction is the court's judgment on those counts. It is not a finding on the pending aggravated-battery case, and it is not a completed homicide. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Stephanie Perdue, 54, of Pace, Florida, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill her husband. She was convicted in July of two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder and two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder.
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Reporting noted by WEAR and Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lloyd is charged with murder in Tasia Fortune's death. A murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Jackson police arrested Lloyd, 25, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, and charged him with murder in the death of Tasia Fortune, 29, of Jackson, Mississippi. WLBT reported that bond was denied at his initial appearance on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026.
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Reporting noted by WAPT, WLBT, NBC News, and Jackson Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Pinellas judge convicted Kosowski of first-degree murder. A bench conviction is a verdict on guilt. It is not a sentence. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Pinellas County Judge Joseph Bulone found Dr. Tomasz Kosowski, 47, a former Tarpon Springs plastic surgeon, guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of attorney Steven Cozzi, after a bench trial in which Kosowski waived a jury and represented himself. The penalty phase is still ahead: life without parole or the death penalty are the options reported, and no sentence has been imposed.
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Reporting noted by FOX 13 Tampa Bay, ABC News, and Miami Herald.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wiggins was captured in Gwinnett on a Troy murder warrant. An arrest on a murder warrant is a capture. It is not a conviction. Wiggins, 35, was captured Thursday morning, Sept. 24, 2026, in Gwinnett County, Georgia, on a Troy, New York, warrant charging second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the May 6, 2026 deadly shooting of Shardonay Tyce. Troy Police say the capture followed an exchange of gunfire, and Wiggins has serious injuries.
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Reporting noted by CBS Atlanta, CBS6 Albany, and Troy Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kelley turned himself in on a Casa Grande murder charge. A first-degree murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. Casa Grande police say he turned himself in on Sept. 23, 2026, and that with that surrender all four suspects they believe were involved are in custody. FOX 10 Phoenix, citing Casa Grande police, reported the counts as first-degree murder, disorderly conduct with a firearm, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, News 4 Tucson KVOA, and Casa Grande Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Castro is booked on two murder counts after a San Jose confession report. An alleged confession and a double-murder booking are accusations and evidence claims for a court. They are not convictions. A prosecutor's warning that more victims would not be a shock is investigative caution, not a finding that additional killings are proved.
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Reporting noted by KTVU FOX 2, ABC7 San Francisco, San Jose Police Department, and Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rios pleaded not guilty to murder charges in a Chatsworth Metro bus crash. A not-guilty plea puts the State to its proof. It is not a finding that the crash charges are false, and it is not a conviction. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, she pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando, and she remains jailed in lieu of $4.1 million bail.
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Reporting noted by FOX 11 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, and Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Singleton and Taylor were booked on murder in the Jefferson Subway shooting. Murder charges and a jail booking are accusations. They are not convictions. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Jefferson police say Singleton, 21, and Taylor, 23, both of Pendergrass, were arrested Sept. 23, 2026, charged with murder, and booked into the Jackson County Jail. Aaron Winston Johnson, 23, of Jefferson, was found shot at a Subway and later died.
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Reporting noted by Georgia Bureau of Investigation, WSB-TV Channel 2 Atlanta, and Jefferson Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Riles and Johnson are charged with murder in an Austell railyard shooting. Murder charges and a jail hold are accusations. They are not convictions. Cobb County police arrested Riles, 26, and Johnson, 28, around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in the fatal shooting of Norfolk Southern contractor Curdravious Clark, 27, and both men are held without bond.
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Reporting noted by FOX 5 Atlanta, WSB-TV, Atlanta News First, and Cobb County Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Texas executed Ker'Sean Ramey. Carrying out a death sentence is not a new verdict. An execution carries out a capital judgment already entered. It is not a new trial verdict. On Wednesday evening, Sept. 23, 2026, Texas executed Ker'Sean Ramey, 41, by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, and he was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT. He was the sixth person executed in Texas in 2026, and hours earlier the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.
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Reporting noted by NBC News, Associated Press, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Soto was booked in Jacksonville on an Atlanta murder warrant. A booking on a fugitive warrant is an accusation. It is not a conviction. In coverage dated Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Jacksonville authorities reported arresting Jonathan Soto, 43, at an apartment on Gate Parkway North and booking him into the Duval County Jail on a fugitive warrant while Atlanta continues the case. He was among Atlanta police's most wanted in the Feb. 4, 2023 killing of Michael Gidewon, 50, co-owner of Republic Lounge in Atlanta.
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Reporting noted by Action News Jax, News4Jax, WSB-TV, and FOX 5 Atlanta.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wells’ family is releasing a cellphone forensic report after a Mississippi grand jury declined charges. A no-bill is not the last word in every forum. A grand jury’s decision not to indict is a charging decision, not a civil verdict or a finding that every factual dispute is closed. An independent autopsy and a family-hired cellphone forensic presentation are advocacy materials for the public and for investigators. They are not court findings unless admitted and tested in a proceeding.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, TMZ, and ABC News.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Ammel faces a felony criminal-damage charge at Sinema's Cave Creek home. A felony criminal-damage charge and a booking are accusations. They are not a conviction. Ammel, 39, whom reporting describes as a former bodyguard linked to former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, faces that charge for allegedly causing more than $200,000 in damage at her Cave Creek home. He was released with an electronic monitor and ordered to have no contact with Sinema.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix and azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Clark is charged with second-degree murder in her husband’s Hartford death. A second-degree murder charge and a not-guilty plea are process. They are not a conviction. She is charged in the death of her husband, James M. Clark, 43, and was arraigned Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington County.
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Reporting noted by WNYT, CBS6 Albany, Daily Voice, and New York State Police.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Tulsa jury convicted Newberry of murdering Chandra Cole. A guilty verdict is a finding of guilt. It is not a sentence, and a jury recommendation is not the judgment until the judge imposes sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, a Tulsa jury found Dilan Newberry guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Chandra Cole, 50. The jury deliberated less than two hours, recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole, and formal sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 12, 2026.
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Reporting noted by KTUL and NewsOn6.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Moore was sentenced to life without parole for the Washington Heights murders. Life without parole after a jury conviction is the judgment on those murder counts. It is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, a Manhattan court sentenced Lenue Moore, 34, to life without parole for fatally shooting Jacqueline Billini, 57, her friend Levaughn Harvin, 42, and Billini's dog Zeus in Washington Heights on Sept. 29, 2023. On Dec. 4, 2025, a jury convicted him of murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, aggravated criminal contempt, and aggravated cruelty to animals, plus earlier April 2023 burglary and assault counts from a neighbor dispute.
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Reporting noted by Manhattan District Attorney's Office and NYPD.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Aarness is charged with attempted first-degree assault near Whitewater. Charges, and allegations in an arrest affidavit, are accusations. They are not a conviction. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office arrested him near a trail at Colorado Highway 141 and 31 4/10 Road by Whitewater, Colorado, at about 7:45 p.m. The Grand Junction Sentinel, citing the arrest affidavit, reported counts of attempted first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, attempt to influence a public servant, violation of a protection order, domestic violence, prohibited use of a weapon, and felony menacing.
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Reporting noted by Grand Junction Sentinel and Mesa County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Jackson County jury convicted Fredrick Scott of four trail murders. Jury guilty verdicts are findings of guilt. They are not a sentence, and sentencing is still ahead. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, a Jackson County, Missouri jury found Fredrick Scott, 31, guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in deaths along south Kansas City walking trails in the Indian Creek area, between 2016 and his 2017 arrest, and acquitted him on two other first-degree murder and armed criminal action counts. Prosecutors will seek life without parole on each first-degree murder conviction, and that ask is not a sentence.
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Reporting noted by KCUR and Jackson County Prosecutor.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Daniel was booked on suspicion of murder in the Jamul shooting. A booking on suspicion of murder is an accusation. It is not a conviction. The San Diego County Sheriff's Homicide Unit, with the San Diego Fugitive Task Force, arrested Daniel, 22, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, and he was booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of murder in the death of Juliez Mosley, 25. An arraignment was scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in East County Superior Court.
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True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Crawford was sentenced to natural life plus 21 years after a Gilbert guilty plea. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the murder and attempted-murder counts he admitted. It is not a trial verdict, and it is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office announced Gary Crawford was sentenced to natural life in prison plus 21 years after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and attempt to commit first-degree murder. Oscar Casdorph, 91, his stepfather, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Gilbert, Arizona, and Crawford's mother, 81, was struck repeatedly and survived.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, Maricopa County Attorney's Office, and Gilbert Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Penrod was booked on manslaughter after a US 60 shoulder crash near Mesa. A booking on manslaughter and related counts is an accusation. It is not a conviction. The Arizona Department of Public Safety said Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, that Penrod, 21, of Queen Creek, was booked into the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Jail on one count of manslaughter, two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of endangerment after a Sept. 16 crash on eastbound US 60 near milepost 187. Reported signs of impairment are part of that accusation, not a finding.
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Reporting noted by Arizona Department of Public Safety and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 24, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Vonhassel was booked on hate-motivated vandalism counts in Imperial Beach. A booking on vandalism and hate-motivated property-damage counts is an accusation. It is not a conviction. The San Diego County Sheriff's Office said he was booked about 3 a.m. Tuesday on 12 suspected offenses tied to vandalism in Imperial Beach, including six counts alleging property damage motivated by civil-rights violations, in coverage dated Sept. 23, 2026. A childhood Xbox password bypass, and Microsoft recognizing him then as a Security Researcher, is biography, not proof of these counts.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, San Diego County Sheriff's Office, and San Diego Union-Tribune.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Corso was sentenced to seven years for first-degree manslaughter. A plea is not Panebianco's 25 years. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the manslaughter count she admitted. It is not a murder verdict, and it is not Panebianco's 25-year sentence. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei sentenced Kacy Corso to seven years in prison after her July 2026 guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter, a reduced charge for cooperating, in the Nov. 10, 2025 killing of Christopher Millwater, 52.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, Suffolk County District Attorney, and Newsday.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reese was sentenced to 15 years on a federal gun count. That judgment is not a murder conviction. A federal sentence for felon-in-possession is the judgment on the gun count. It is not a state murder conviction, and the murder charge is still pending. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Anthony Reese was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, the maximum on that charge, plus three years of probation, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The state murder charge in the death of his then-girlfriend Angela Fuller was still pending as of Wednesday.
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Reporting noted by WIS, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina, and Columbia Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Jefferson County jury convicted Nigel Thomas of murder and obstruction. A jury guilty verdict is a finding of guilt. It is not a sentence, and sentencing is still ahead on Oct. 26, 2026. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, a Jefferson Circuit Court jury in Indiana convicted Nigel Thomas, 36, of Oxford, Ohio, stage name Nati Bang, of murder and obstruction of justice in the April 2025 death of Wilma Robertson, 35, of Hanover. Coverage of that verdict is dated Wednesday, Sept. 23.
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Reporting noted by FOX19, WKRC Local 12, and Jefferson County Prosecutor.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kosowski was found guilty of first-degree murder in Cozzi's death. A bench guilty finding is a verdict on guilt. It is not a death sentence, and it is not a life sentence. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Pinellas County Judge Joseph Bulone found Tomasz Kosowski guilty of first-degree murder in the March 2023 death of lawyer Steven Cozzi, 41, after a bench trial in which Kosowski waived a jury and represented himself. The penalty phase began the same day; he faces life without parole or death, and further sentencing arguments are set for Oct. 8.
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Reporting noted by ABC News, WFLA, FOX 13 Tampa Bay, and Bay News 9.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Aguilera was sentenced to four and a half years for gang assault during a Malba street takeover. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the admitted count. It is not a trial verdict, and it is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Queens Supreme Court Justice Toni Cimino sentenced Justin Aguilera, 20, of Far Rockaway, to four and a half years in prison plus five years of post-release supervision after an August guilty plea to second-degree gang assault.
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Reporting noted by Queens District Attorney's Office and QNS.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Collins was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Linda Childers. A sentence after a no-contest plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a trial verdict, and it is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, in Washington County District Court in Nebraska, William Collins pleaded no contest to first-degree murder, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, and burglary in the 2023 death of Linda Childers, 71, of Fort Calhoun. Judge Meismer sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the murder count.
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Reporting noted by Washington County Enterprise and Washington County Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Saldana pleaded not guilty to murder after a Carlsbad DUI crash. A murder charge after a DUI crash is an accusation, and a not-guilty plea is the plea, not a finding. Escondido resident Fernando Saldana pleaded not guilty Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, to murder in a Carlsbad crash that killed Vanessa Wheyland. A judge's denial of bail is a custody decision, not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by Escondido Times-Advocate.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Maiorca is booked on suspicion of murder in a Big Bear Lake cold case. A murder booking is an accusation. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, deputies arrested him without incident and booked him at the Big Bear Jail on suspicion of murder in the death of his former wife, Jill Maiorca, 29. Remains discovery and a cold-case identification are investigation facts, not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by CBS Los Angeles and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reyes was sentenced to 14 years for distribution resulting in death. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the distribution-resulting-in-death count admitted. It is not a trial verdict, and it is not a new accusation. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, Kelvin Reyes, 27, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release after pleading guilty in May to one count of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death. He had faced up to 17 years.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland, Patch, and FOX45 Baltimore.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Moore was sentenced to life without parole for the Washington Heights murders. A sentence after a conviction is the judgment on the counts the jury already found. It is not a new trial, and it is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, the court sentenced Lenue Moore, 34, to life without parole in state prison. On Dec. 4, 2025, a New York State Supreme Court jury convicted him on all counts, including Murder in the First Degree, Murder in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Aggravated Criminal Contempt, and Aggravated Cruelty to Animals, and convicted him on the April 2023 counts, including Burglary in the First Degree and Assault in the Second Degree.
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Reporting noted by Manhattan District Attorney's Office, ABC7 New York, and New York Post.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cruz was sentenced to one to 15 years for manslaughter in Gustin's death. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the manslaughter count that was admitted. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a trial verdict on murder. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Third District Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills sentenced Martin Antonio Cruz, 31, to one to 15 years in prison for second-degree felony manslaughter in the 2016 death of Paris Gustin, 16, and gave him credit for more than nine years already spent in custody. He entered the guilty plea on Aug. 3. KSL reported the sentence the next day.
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Reporting noted by KSL, The Salt Lake Tribune, and Salt Lake County Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Spektor was sentenced to four to 12 years after pleading to the Coinbase phishing indictment. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a trial verdict. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced Ronald Spektor, 23, of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, to four to 12 years in prison. He had pleaded guilty on Sept. 2, 2026, to the entire 31-count indictment, including first-degree money laundering, first-degree grand larceny, first-degree criminal possession of stolen property, and related charges.
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Reporting noted by Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
McBounds is charged with first-degree murder in Bickham's CTA Red Line death. A first-degree murder charge is an accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, McBounds, 18, of Morgan Park, Chicago, was charged with first-degree murder, two additional murder counts, aggravated battery of a transit employee, and mob action in the death of Kyle Bickham, 29, with a detention hearing set the same day. Bickham was shoved or pushed from a moving CTA Red Line train near the 69th Street station on Sept. 7, 2026, Labor Day weekend, and was then struck and killed by an oncoming train. A death on the tracks is the reported result, not a finding that McBounds has been proved guilty.
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Reporting noted by NBC Chicago, CBS Chicago, Daily Mail, Chicago Sun-Times, and FOX 32 Chicago.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Knight was sentenced to 42 months on civil-rights counts he already admitted. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a trial verdict. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced Christopher Knight, 48, of Philadelphia, to 42 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release. He had pleaded guilty in March to five counts of depriving individuals of their civil rights under color of law and two counts of falsifying records.
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Reporting noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer and U.S. Attorney's Office (Eastern District of Pennsylvania).
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lloyd is charged with murder in Fortune's death. A murder charge is an accusation. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Jackson police arrested Lloyd, 25, and charged him with murder for an alleged role in the death of Tasia Fortune, 29. Her body was found Aug. 3, 2026, in a hanging position behind an abandoned or vacant home in Jackson, and police are investigating the death as a homicide. Chief RaShall Brackney said Fortune was found in a hanging position and would not confirm hanging as the cause of death.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, WAPT, and Jackson Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Seei is indicted for destroying mail, including ballots. An indictment is an accusation, and a not-guilty plea does not find that the mail was destroyed. A federal grand jury indicted Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, Utah, on Sept. 16, 2026, on one count of unlawful secretion, destruction, and delay of mail. He is a former Postal Service letter carrier on an Eagle Mountain route. The indictment was unsealed Tuesday, Sept. 22.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah, KSL, Associated Press, and FOX 13 News.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rodriguez Rojas was sentenced to 13 years for aiding a hostage-taking conspiracy. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count that was admitted. It is not a new charge, and it is not a trial verdict. Julio Cesar Rodriguez Rojas, 30, of Tucson, was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting a conspiracy to take hostages, in a sentence reported Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. Senior U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins imposed that term.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years on the New York Haley count. A sentence after a conviction is the judgment on that count, not a new trial. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, a Manhattan court sentenced Harvey Weinstein, 74, to 15 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision, and ordered him to register as a sex offender, on a first-degree criminal sex act conviction for sexually assaulting former Project Runway production assistant Miriam "Mimi" Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. Prosecutors asked for 20 years. The defense asked for nine, citing his age and health.
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Reporting noted by CBS New York and ABC7 New York.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Roger Bradford told a Loudoun judge he will represent himself and does not want bond. A first appearance after extradition is custody and a calendar. It is not a plea. FOX 5 DC reported Roger Bradford told Judge Kelly King he will represent himself and that he does not want a bond hearing. The judge said the arresting documents charge second-degree murder. Prosecutors said afterward that the warrant was a placeholder and that they intend to pursue first-degree. A prosecutor's plan for a count is not the indictment, and Nov. 18 is the preliminary hearing.
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Reporting noted by FOX 5 DC, Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, Patch, and Loudoun Now.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Coyne was sentenced to five years for wire fraud. Restitution of $4,669,962.76 is part of that judgment. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count admitted. Restitution is part of that judgment, not a new charge. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, that Chanise Coyne, 46, of New Boston, Michigan, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $4,669,962.76 in restitution, for wire fraud. She pleaded guilty in May.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, CBS Detroit, and mlive.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lestina is charged with murder and attempted murder in a Yorkville crash. Murder and attempted-murder charges are accusations. A police narrative is not a conviction. As of Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, reporting, Lestina, 21, of Oswego, Illinois, is charged with murder and attempted murder, and also with failure to report an accident involving personal injury or death and aggravated battery, after an allegedly intentional crash in Yorkville. Police say the crash killed Victor M. Hernandez Medina, 23, of Sandwich, and injured a second adult.
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Reporting noted by ABC7 Chicago and CBS Chicago.
True Crime · Sep 23, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Vardanyan was sentenced to 24 months in the Ryuk ransomware case. Restitution is part of the judgment. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts admitted. Restitution is part of that judgment, not a new accusation. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 35, an Armenian national, was sentenced in federal court in Portland, Oregon, to 24 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and $1,219,106 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty on July 8, 2026, to conspiracy and fraud in connection with computers in the Ryuk ransomware case.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon, BleepingComputer, and Right Now Oregon.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Osemwenkhae was sentenced to eight years for money laundering. Restitution of $20,851,940.80 is part of that sentence. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the conduct admitted. Restitution is part of that sentence, not a new count. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Judge Matthew J. Maddox sentenced Adanegbe "Gift" Osemwenkhae, 41, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to eight years in prison followed by one year of supervised release for money laundering, and ordered restitution of $20,851,940.80. He pleaded guilty in April 2025 to serving as a manager and supervisor in a multi-member money-laundering conspiracy.
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Reporting noted by Patch and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Eighteen suspects were transferred to Miami in the Moïse case. A transfer of custody and an unsealed indictment are process and accusation, not convictions. Around Sunday and Monday, Sept. 21–22, 2026, eighteen suspects in the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were transferred from Haitian custody to Miami to face U.S. federal charges. They made, or were set for, first appearances in Miami federal court. A first appearance is a hearing. It is not a finding.
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Reporting noted by Fox News, FBI Miami, and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lickiss was sentenced to nine years after a wire-fraud and money-laundering plea. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment. The date he must report to prison is not judgment day. In mid-September 2026, around Sept. 16–17, a federal judge in Oakland sentenced Edwin Lickiss Jr., also reported as Mike Lickiss, 78, a Danville, California financial adviser, to nine years in prison after a guilty plea to wire fraud and money laundering in a decades-long Ponzi scheme. He must report to federal prison by Oct. 30, 2026.
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Reporting noted by ABC7 San Francisco, CBS San Francisco, and Danville San Ramon.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wright was sentenced to 36 months for a Navy contract fraud scheme. A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count admitted. It is not a new trial. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Cory Taylor Wright, 49, of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for a bid-rigging and contract-steering scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the U.S. Navy of about $9,128,515, and he was ordered to repay that amount in restitution. Wright had previously pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
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Reporting noted by KEYT and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dickstein is charged with murder after a pastor called police. A first- and second-degree murder charge is an accusation. Irwin Joseph Dickstein, 87, of Frederick, Maryland, is charged in the Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026 death of his roommate, 63-year-old Michael Roy Bushnell, after reporting said a pastor at Frederick Christian Fellowship contacted law enforcement about a congregant's confession and police found Bushnell dead at a Franklin Street home. A charging paper and a jail hold without bond are not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by WTOP, FOX 5 DC, 7News, and City of Frederick Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dual juries convicted the Soriano brothers in the Irondequoit family killings. A guilty verdict ends the guilt phase on the counts tried. It is not the sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, dual juries in Monroe County found Julio Cesar Pimentel-Soriano, now 36, and Luis Francisco Soriano, now 33, guilty of murder, arson, kidnapping, and burglary in the Aug. 31, 2024 killings of an Irondequoit family of four on Knapp Avenue. Sentencing for Luis is set for Nov. 16, 2026, and for Julio on Nov. 23, 2026 — and neither date is a judgment entered today.
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Reporting noted by 13WHAM and Spectrum News.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Deltoro is booked on first-degree murder in a Glendale stabbing. A booking on first-degree murder and aggravated assault is an accusation. Joseph Deltoro, 41, was taken into custody after Glendale police say an argument escalated into a stabbing early Saturday outside the Easy Stop Corner Market near 60th Avenue and Bethany Home Road that left one man dead and another injured. A jail booking and a complaint narrative are not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by azfamily, FOX 10 Phoenix, and Glendale Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Mosley pleaded guilty in a St. Louis murder-for-hire plot. A guilty plea is an admission on the count pleaded. It is not the sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Kim Mosley, 33, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury in a plot that targeted St. Louis County woman Andreaia Worthem, joining earlier guilty pleas by Eric Washington, 47, of Jennings, and Andrew Hubbard, 40, of Maryland Heights. Sentencing dates are on the calendar — Mosley on Jan. 20, 2027, Washington on Oct. 21, and Hubbard on Dec. 1 — and none of those hearings is a judgment entered today.
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Reporting noted by First Alert 4 and KMOV.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Feds charged three men in a lawyer Rolex kidnapping. A federal kidnapping indictment is an accusation. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged Dani Amanuel, Kibret Meles, and Kenny Fetiere with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and kidnapping after a June 12 attack that allegedly began outside Rick's Cabaret on West 33rd Street in Manhattan and ended with an unidentified visiting lawyer abandoned near a nature preserve in West Orange, New Jersey. Life exposure on those counts is the statutory maximum, not a sentence, and Amanuel remained at large as of Tuesday afternoon while Meles and Fetiere were arrested.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and FBI.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Bascombe pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. A guilty plea to manslaughter is an admission on that reduced count. It is not a murder verdict. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Jeremiah Bascombe, 21, withdrew a not-guilty plea and pleaded guilty in Manhattan to first-degree manslaughter in the Oct. 2, 2024 drive-by killing of Vernard Floranda, 46, and Judge Ann Scherzer said she plans to sentence him to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release, with formal sentencing set for Nov. 17, 2026. That announced plan is the expected judgment at the November hearing, not a sentence entered today, and the cases against his co-defendants are separate.
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Reporting noted by Daily Mail.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Castro is booked on two murder counts in San Jose. A booking on two murder counts is an accusation. Marcelino Castro, 28, of San Jose, was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of two counts of murder after police say he flagged down a San Jose officer Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, about 5:15 p.m. near Lelong Street and West Alma Avenue, where officers found a deceased man, and then described a second homicide near Autumn Parkway and Coleman Avenue, where a second victim was found near the Guadalupe River. An alleged statement to police is evidence for a court, not a conviction, and with the victims not publicly identified and the motive not detailed, the charging paper is what is live.
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Reporting noted by KTVU, ABC7, and San Jose Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A jury convicted Mitchell on every count in the Binghamton killings. A guilty verdict ends the guilt phase on those counts. It is not the sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, after afternoon deliberation following a five-day trial in Binghamton, a jury found Scott Mitchell, 51, of Binghamton, guilty on all counts in the Feb. 3, 2025 killings of Daniel McCloe, 58, and Marshall VanOven, 55, in a home on Westwood Court. He faces life in prison, with sentencing scheduled for Dec. 17, 2026, at 9 a.m., and that date is what comes next, not a judgment entered today.
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Reporting noted by WBNG.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Panebianco was sentenced to 25 years for first-degree manslaughter. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the manslaughter count he admitted. It is not a murder verdict, and a co-defendant’s expected date is not this judgment. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Victor Panebianco, 33, of King, North Carolina, was sentenced to 25 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision after pleading guilty Aug. 11 to manslaughter in the first degree, a class B felony, before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei. Kacy Corso’s expected seven years on Wednesday is her scheduled expectation, not a sentence entered today.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, Suffolk County District Attorney, and LongIsland.com.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Talavera was sentenced to 228 months on a fentanyl-conspiracy plea. A cartel label is not a count. A 228-month sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. A Sinaloa Cartel label in the reporting is context for the investigation, not a separate count, and co-defendants’ prison terms are their judgments, not new accusations against him. Euriel Talavera, 32, of Wichita, identified in Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026 reporting as the ringleader, was sentenced to 228 months, 19 years, after that plea.
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Reporting noted by KWCH, Homeland Security, and FBI.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Detective Mauda faces federal fraud and identity-theft charges. Conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft captions are accusations, and a detective’s badge does not convert a complaint into a conviction. Shmueal Mauda, also reported as Sam Mauda, 36, a Miami Shores police detective placed on unpaid leave after an August arrest, appeared Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale with Elisha Mauda, 39, of Pembroke Pines, and Brent Small, 58, of Hollywood, Florida. A U.S. Secret Service complaint alleges a scheme of more than $1.6 million targeting elderly and deceased victims.
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Reporting noted by Local 10 and U.S. Secret Service.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cook sentenced Exton to at least 20 years. A waiter's tackle is not the verdict. A sentence after a jury verdict is the judgment on those counts. It is not a new accusation, and a waiter's tackle is not the verdict. On Monday, in a hearing reported Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gary Cook sentenced Matthew Exton, 43, a disgraced Ohio lawyer, to a prison term he must serve for a minimum of 20 years, over two decades, on attempted murder and two counts of felonious assault. A jury found him guilty earlier this month.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, WTOL 11, Lucas County Prosecutor's Office, and Daily Mail.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Niembro was sentenced to 112 months. Forfeiture is the judgment, not a new count. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts he admitted. Forfeiture is the money order in that judgment, not a new count. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Tomás Niembro Concha, 64, a Spanish and Venezuelan national and former chief executive of Nodus International Bank, was sentenced to 112 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit over $16.9 million. He pleaded guilty March 19 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and IRS Criminal Investigation.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Gonzales was sentenced to 30 months for a health-care kickback conspiracy. A $49 million restitution order is the judgment, not a new count. A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment. A restitution order of more than $49 million is part of that judgment, not a new count. Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge, in the Southern District of Texas, sentenced Henry Allen Gonzales, 53, of Willis, Texas, to 30 months in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release after a June 30, 2022 guilty plea to conspiring to pay and receive health care kickbacks. The kickback conspiracy he admitted is the conduct behind that sentence.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas, U.S. Department of Justice, and FBI Houston.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Fuentes was sentenced to 57 months for bank fraud. Restitution and forfeiture are the judgment, not a new count. A sentence after a plea is the judgment on that bank-fraud count. Restitution and forfeiture are part of the judgment, not a new accusation. On Monday, in a sentence reported in Sept. 22, 2026 coverage, U.S. District Judge Benjamin J. Cheeks sentenced Franco Fuentes, 30, of Woodland Hills, Calif., to 57 months in prison for bank fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1344(2) in case 26cr404-BJC. The court also ordered him to pay victims more than $270,000 in restitution and to forfeit property seized from his residence, including over $37,000 in cash and a bill-counting machine.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, FBI San Diego, and San Diego Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Jackson County jury convicted Scott of four first-degree murders. Not guilty on two deaths is an acquittal, and a life-without-parole ask is not a sentence. A split verdict is a verdict on each count. Guilty on four first-degree murders ends the trial phase on those counts, and not guilty on two does not invent guilt. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, a Jackson County, Missouri jury found Fredrick Scott guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of armed criminal action in the deaths of John Palmer, Michael Darby, Karen Harmeyer, and Steven Gibbons, and not guilty of murder and armed criminal action in the deaths of David Lenox and Timothy Rice. Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson's request for life without the possibility of parole is a sentencing ask, not the sentence.
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Reporting noted by KCTV, KSHB, KMBC, and Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Brooks faces an assault-on-a-pregnant-person caption. A girlfriend's ask to drop charges is not a dismissal. A girlfriend's ask to drop charges is not a dismissal, and an assault-on-a-pregnant-person caption is not a conviction. Carmello Brooks, 19, a Houston Cougars defensive lineman from Katy, is charged after a Thursday apartment clash with girlfriend Nariah Harley, who said she was pregnant and would not take an abortion pill. Monday hearing testimony alleged he squeezed her arms, slammed her to the ground, and sat on her to pin her.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, KTRK, KPRC, and Houston Athletics.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Clancy's lawyers ask the court to probe a holdout juror. A motion is not a dismissal. A motion to investigate a holdout juror is a request, not a misconduct finding and not a dismissal. Lindsay Clancy remains charged with murder in the deaths of her three children after a mistrial declared Sept. 4, when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict, with reporting describing 11 of 12 ready to clear criminal responsibility on a postpartum-psychosis theory and one holdout. She remains in a psychiatric hospital, and prosecutors have not said whether they will retry. A reported split and a hospital placement are status, not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by Associated Press, NBC News, and BBC.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jawahar was sentenced to 11 years for a Swiftarc wire-fraud Ponzi. Restitution is judgment, not a new count. An 11-year sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on those counts, and restitution is an order to pay, not a new charge. U.S. District Judge Zachary M. Bluestone, in the Eastern District of Missouri, sentenced Siddharth Jawahar, 38, founder of Texas-based Swiftarc Capital LLC, to 11 years after a January guilty plea to three counts of wire fraud and ordered $31.35 million in restitution to 64 victims. The plea is the admission behind that judgment.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CNN, and Associated Press.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Anagho was sentenced to 14 years for a $69 million AHCCCS fraud scheme. Restitution and forfeiture are the judgment, not a new count. A sentence after a guilty plea is the end of the trial phase on those counts. Restitution and forfeiture are part of the judgment, not a new accusation. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, Rita Ntusa Anagho, 54, of San Tan Valley, Arizona, a licensed nurse practitioner, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a leadership role in fraudulently billing Arizona Medicaid more than $69 million through Tusa Integrated Clinic, LLC. The May 2025 plea to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and health care fraud is the admission behind that judgment.
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True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lamb is booked on a terroristic-threat caption. A booking on a terroristic-threat caption is an accusation. Bond is process, not a verdict. Messages and phone-location pings are investigation evidence, not a finding. Daniel Sterling Lamb, 40, of Chandler, Ariz., was arrested Saturday at a Chandler home and booked on one count of making a terrorist threat, a Class 3 felony.
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Reporting noted by ABC15 Arizona, azfamily, and Chandler Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Burton faces simple-assault and false-imprisonment captions. A TikTok-trend claim is not a defense verdict. Simple assault and false imprisonment captions are accusations. A TikTok-trend explanation to police is a defense account, not a verdict. Michiko Burton, 19, a former Wendy's manager at South Church Street in Murfreesboro, Tenn., faces those misdemeanor captions after police said she admitted tying a neurodivergent co-worker to a workstation. Bond of $2,000 and an Oct. 22 General Sessions date are process, not a finding.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, WSMV, and Murfreesboro Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
An SLO County jury convicted Powell on all nine election-fraud counts. A jury conviction on election-fraud counts ends the trial phase. Sentencing is still ahead. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow announced that a jury convicted Gaea Edde Powell, an Arroyo Grande mayoral candidate, on all nine counts, eight felonies and one misdemeanor, tied to the 2022 and 2024 mayoral cycles.
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True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Redkey is booked on threat and computer-tampering captions. Booking captions and an alleged admission in questioning are still accusations. A candidacy and a request to seal arrest papers do not prove the elements. David Redkey, a Green Party candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, was booked Saturday after deputies questioned him on Sept. 19, 2026. Bond of $150,000 is process, not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, azfamily, and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A Burlington jury convicted Eaton on three attempted-murder counts. A rejected insanity defense is not a sentence. A guilty verdict on attempted second-degree murder ends the trial phase on those counts. A rejected insanity defense is part of that verdict, not a sentence. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, a Chittenden Superior Court jury in Burlington found Jason J. Eaton, 51, guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder after about two hours of deliberation. Sentencing is still ahead.
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Reporting noted by Vermont Public, Office of the Chittenden County State's Attorney, and Chittenden Superior Court.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Milton was sentenced to 50 years to life for Dressler's murder. A rejected NGI plea is not a new trial. A sentence after a guilt verdict and a sanity finding is the judgment. It is not a new accusation, and a rejected NGI plea is not a new trial. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Shasta County Superior Court sentenced Robert Parker Milton to 50 years to life, plus an additional 2 years and 8 months, for the murder of his neighbor, William Dressler, 71. An April jury found him guilty, and a secondary sanity jury found him sane.
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Reporting noted by Action News Now, Shasta County Superior Court, and Redding Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Upshaw is charged with first-degree murder in Behnke's death. A first-degree murder charge filed after a person of interest was released is still an accusation. Release without charges is not an acquittal, and a later complaint is not a conviction. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Jalen Upshaw of Dixmoor surrendered to Wheeling Police with his attorney and was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Christopher M. Behnke, 55.
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Reporting noted by Patch, Wheeling Police Department, and Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hardy is booked on aggravated-assault investigation captions. A booking for investigation of aggravated assault, and the captions that ride with it, are accusations. An affidavit that summarizes what witnesses and a victim said is a process narrative, not a finding. On Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, Carl Devon Hardy, 30, was arrested in connection with a Sandy, Utah shooting near 8400 S. State Street that was reported Thursday night.
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Reporting noted by KSL and Sandy Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Vitaliano sentenced Aguilar to four years. Forfeiture and the fine are the judgment, not a new count. A sentence after a jury conviction and a guilty plea is the end of the trial phase on those counts. Forfeiture and a fine are part of the judgment, not a new accusation. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Brooklyn, U.S. District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano sentenced Javier Aguilar, 52, a Mexican national living in Houston and a former oil trader, to four years in prison for two schemes to bribe officials in Ecuador and Mexico, and ordered $7.13 million in forfeiture and a $100,000 fine, and the Department stated which counts the jury returned and which counts the plea covered.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, and FBI.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Eskridge sentenced Gonzales to 30 months on a kickback plea. Restitution is part of that judgment. A sentence after a guilty plea is the end of the trial phase on that conspiracy count. A multi-million-dollar restitution figure is part of the judgment, not a new charge. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge sentenced Henry Allen Gonzales, 53, of Willis, Texas, to 30 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release for conspiring to pay and receive health care kickbacks, and ordered more than $49 million in restitution to the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs. He pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, and Friday imposed that sentence rather than opening a new count.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas and U.S. Department of Justice.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Creegan announced a superseding indictment against Harris and Bonner. A superseding indictment and stacked kidnapping and drug captions are accusations, not a verdict, and interstate transport and alleged torture are elements the government still has to prove. On about Sept. 21, 2026, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan for the District of New Hampshire announced that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging six people in an interstate drug conspiracy that spanned nearly two years and culminated in a drug-motivated kidnapping. Tyron Harris and Damarcus Bonner are charged with kidnapping as well as the drug conspiracy.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire, InDepthNH.org, and FBI.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Godbey sentenced Alarcon Sanchez to 35 months on a firearm count. That judgment is not a bridge-shooting conviction. A sentence after a federal prosecution is the end of the trial phase on that count. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a separate conviction for firing from the bridge. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey sentenced Jose Raul Alarcon Sanchez to 35 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm as an undocumented immigrant. That 35-month term is the judgment on the possession count the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas prosecuted.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas, and FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hochman charged De Anda with 35 counts over Rock 'N' Pawz. A charging stack and a warrant filing are accusations. Requested bail and a maximum exposure if convicted are process and advocacy numbers, not a finding of guilt. On Sept. 18, 2026, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman charged Christine De Anda, 57, of Lake Hughes, operator of the Rock 'N' Pawz animal rescue, with 35 counts for allegedly keeping more than 300 animals in inhumane and unsanitary conditions.
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Reporting noted by Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Calhoun pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in a sixth death. That count is not a sixth murder charge. A sixth caption is still an accusation, and a not-guilty plea does not try it. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Jesse Calhoun, 41, appeared in Multnomah County Circuit Court, and his lawyer entered a not-guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter in the death of Elizabeth “Libby” Gibson, 32. Manslaughter is a different mental-state theory than the five pending second-degree murder counts, on which he has already pleaded not guilty.
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Reporting noted by The Oregonian, New York Post, and Multnomah County District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Celaya is booked on second-degree murder. A booking and a self-defense claim are competing process narratives. Neither is a verdict. Mateo Celaya, 26, is in the Maricopa County jail on a second-degree murder booking in the death of Fred Celaya, 75, his grandfather, with bond set at $750,000. What he told 911, and what detectives say about a cane and about injuries, are accounts in the paperwork.
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Reporting noted by Arizona's Family, Phoenix Police, as cited by Arizona's Family, and Court paperwork, as cited by Arizona's Family.
True Crime · Sep 22, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Niembro Concha was sentenced to 112 months after a guilty plea. That judgment is not a new charge. A sentence after a guilty plea is the end of the trial phase on those counts, not a new accusation. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Tomás Niembro Concha, 64, a Spanish and Venezuelan national and former chief executive of Nodus International Bank, was sentenced to 112 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit over $16.9 million, the Justice Department said. He pleaded guilty March 19 to a two-count information: conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Forfeiture, as reported, is part of that judgment.
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Reporting noted by U.S. Department of Justice and IRS Criminal Investigation, as cited by the U.S. Department of Justice.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cook sentenced Exton to up to 24½ years. A jury conviction is not a new charge. A sentence after a jury verdict is the end of the trial phase, not a new accusation. On Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gary Cook sentenced Matthew Exton, 43, a former Ohio lawyer, to up to 24½ years in prison after a jury convicted him earlier this month of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of felonious assault, plus firearm specifications under Ohio law, as NBC News reported the counts. The term is what the court imposed on those convictions, and the reporting did not give a day-for-day number.
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Reporting noted by TMZ and NBC News.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Luis Rojas Cabrera is charged with depraved-indifference murder in Elizabeth Baron's death. Depraved-indifference murder is the charge the NYPD and the New York Post named on Wednesday. CBS New York reported the grand jury's murder count as second-degree murder, the statute that covers that theory, and listed manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide beside it. All of those captions are accusations. The medical examiner's cardiac air embolism finding is the city's conclusion about how Elizabeth Baron died. Rojas Cabrera told the Post the air could have come from prolonged CPR and that underlying conditions could be to blame. A jury has not adopted either account. He had been free because the July charges were not bail-eligible. That release was not an acquittal.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, News 12, NYPD, and CBS New York.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Saldana pleaded not guilty in a Carlsbad pedestrian's death. A murder caption stacked with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, DUI, hit-and-run, and driving on a suspended license is a charging theory. A 2023 DUI conviction and a suspended license are background in the complaint. A not-guilty plea and a no-bail hold are process. None of that is a finding that intoxication or causation is proved. Fernando Cruz Saldana, 26, of Escondido, California, pleaded not guilty Friday, in arraignment reporting dated around Sept. 19-21, 2026. He is being held without bail.
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Reporting noted by City News Service, Carlsbad Police Department, and Patch.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Soto-Moya is indicted on federal heroin and cocaine counts. Heroin and cocaine quantities in a complaint, a controlled-purchase claim, and cash packed in cellophane and coffee grounds are accusations, not a verdict. The reentry count is separate from the intent-to-distribute elements the government still has to prove. Jose Gildardo Soto-Moya, 58, a Utah restaurant owner, was federally indicted Wednesday, in KSL reporting around Sept. 18, 2026, after an initial complaint filed Sept. 9.
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Reporting noted by KSL and Federal charging documents, as cited by KSL.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Eighteen men reach a Miami courtroom in the Moïse case. Extradition, Monday's initial appearance, and the indictment are process, not convictions, for the 18 men transferred from Haiti. Verdicts and guilty pleas already entered against other defendants do not decide these 18 cases. The group, 17 men described as Colombian former soldiers or mercenaries and one former Haitian government official, was flown to Miami International Airport on Sunday and appeared Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, at the downtown Miami federal courthouse, where each was awarded counsel.
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Reporting noted by WSVN, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, as cited by WSVN, and FBI, as cited by WSVN.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Felix and Vasquez plead not guilty to Phoenix stop counts. A grand jury indictment and a not-guilty plea are not a conviction. Alleged body-worn-camera and reporting failures are facts to litigate, not a verdict. Former Phoenix police officers Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez were indicted Aug. 31 on aggravated-assault, kidnapping, and related counts, in Arizona's Family reporting dated Sept. 10, 2026.
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Reporting noted by Arizona's Family and Court paperwork, as cited by Arizona's Family.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Pualale is charged after a South Salt Lake death. Leaving the scene is not a finding he caused it. Leaving-the-scene and obstruction captions, plus a requested no-bail hold, are accusations and custody advocacy, not a finding that he caused the death or that every element is proved. Statements attributed in charging papers are evidence, not verdicts, and Pualale's prosecution is separate from the Gabriel Fulgencio Utah County case: a different defendant, a different county, and a different theory. James Shama Pualale, 53, of West Valley City, was charged Thursday, in reporting dated Sept. 17, 2026, in 3rd District Court.
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Reporting noted by KSL, 3rd District Court charging documents, as cited by KSL, and South Salt Lake Police, as cited by KSL.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Spence is charged with two new solicitation counts from jail. New solicitation counts filed while someone is already detained on solicitation are new accusations, not proof of either plot. Jail conversations with a confidential informant are evidence the State still has to prove, and a prior pending case is not a conviction on the new file. Orane James Spence, 34, of Magna, was charged Wednesday, in reporting dated Sept. 17, 2026, in 3rd District Court with two counts of criminal solicitation to commit murder, a first-degree felony, the same charge type as a prior case set for trial at the end of the month.
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Reporting noted by KSL and 3rd District Court charging documents, as cited by KSL.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Acosta is arraigned on an 11-count Brooklyn indictment. An 11-count Brooklyn indictment and a no-bail hold are charging and custody process, not a conviction on either alleged killing. The Brownsville restaurant shooting and the Bronx deli shooting are separate accusations, and each still has elements the State has to prove. Jesus Acosta, 31, a Bronx man, was arraigned Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, and is being held without bail, with a return date of Dec. 4.
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Reporting noted by News 12 and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, as cited by News 12.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Disney is held without bail on a Utah robbery stack. Aggravated-robbery and threat captions, plus a no-bail hold, are charging and custody process, not a conviction. A claimed gun display and two taken purses are elements the State still has to prove. Dustin Disney, 41, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail and is being held without bail, as reported.
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Reporting noted by ABC4 Utah and Salt Lake County Jail records, as cited by ABC4 Utah.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Fulgencio is booked after a Benjamin hit-and-run. A hit-and-run and DUI booking stack, and a reported breath number, are investigation claims and process. They are not a finding that every element is proved, including that this driver caused the pedestrian's injuries. Gabriel Fulgencio, 23, of Santaquin, was booked into the Utah County Jail.
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Reporting noted by KSL and Utah County Sheriff's Office booking affidavit, as cited by KSL.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Williams is held without bail on a Midvale robbery file. Gunpoint robbery and assault captions, a no-bail hold, and a probation status are accusations and custody process. Priors and probation are background, not a verdict on the Midvale file. Damion Williams, 37, of Salt Lake City, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail and is being held without bail, as reported.
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Reporting noted by ABC4 Utah, Unified Police Department, and Salt Lake County Jail.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Reddington wants a look at the holdout. A motion is not a misconduct finding. A defense motion to investigate a holdout juror is advocacy and a request for judicial inquiry. It is not a finding of juror misconduct, not a dismissal, and not a verdict. Impounding questionnaires is process. Lindsay Clancy still faces three first-degree murder counts after a mistrial, and the Sept. 29 Plymouth Superior Court date is a calendar entry, not a result.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, New Haven Register, as cited by the New York Post, and Plymouth Superior Court.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Therrell faces attempted-murder counts in Kissimmee. Attempted-murder and aggravated-abuse captions are accusations. An alleged admission in a detective interview is evidence the State must still prove, including voluntariness, accuracy, and the corpus. Bond is process, and autism of the alleged victims is background for the charging theory, not a verdict. Marilyn Elise Therrell, 68, of Kissimmee, faces those counts in Osceola County.
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Reporting noted by Daily Mail, PEOPLE, and Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Wu pleaded not guilty in a Manorhaven meet. A second pickup is not the first $30,000. Attempted grand larceny and a drug count are accusations. A police theory tying Han Bing Wu to a second meet is not proof he participated in the first $30,000 loss. A not-guilty plea and release without bail are process. Wu, 31, of Flushing, Queens, pleaded not guilty Sept. 18 in First District Court in Hempstead and is due back Oct. 7.
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Reporting noted by Long Island Press and Nassau County Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Cooks faces a stacked Phoenix file. A stacked attempted-murder, attempted-sexual-assault, armed-robbery, and burglary file, plus a recorded 911 narrative, are accusations and investigation claims. A non-lethal-force arrest and a hospital evaluation are custody and medical process. A $1 million cash-only bond is not a conviction. Prior convictions and probation are background. They are not proof of this case. Errick Jamell Cooks, 43, a California man already on probation for a 2024 drug conviction, was booked into the Maricopa County jail after a Sept. 14, 2026 morning incident near 12th and 13th Street and Mission Lane in Phoenix. A court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 22, 2026.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and Maricopa County Superior Court records, as cited by FOX 10.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Angulo is booked in a Phoenix bicyclist's death. Manslaughter, hit-and-run involving death, and evidence-tampering captions are accusations. An "animal" story told to a truck owner, and a later admission claim, are evidence the State still has to prove. Bond is custody process, not a verdict. Jesus Alejandro Cardenas Angulo, 32, was arrested Sept. 16, 2026, and booked into the Maricopa County jail on manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident involving death, and tampering with physical evidence. He is held on a $500,000 bond. A Superior Court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 23, 2026.
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Reporting noted by FOX 10 Phoenix, azfamily 3TV CBS 5, and Phoenix Police Department.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Vigil is booked again while on house arrest. A new reckless-driving and racing booking while on house arrest is a separate charging paper and a custody-condition issue. It is not a murder verdict. The underlying kidnapping and murder captions in the Preston Lord case remain unproved. Bond and revoked driving privileges are process, not guilt. Talyn Vigil, 20, a defendant in the Preston Lord case reported in connection with the Gilbert Goons, is awaiting trial, charged as an adult with kidnapping and murder, in the Oct. 28, 2023 fatal Halloween-party beating of 16-year-old Preston Lord in Queen Creek, Ariz. He was arrested in March 2024 and has been under house arrest with electronic monitoring. A new driving file does not decide that case.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, ABC15 Arizona, and azfamily 3TV CBS 5.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rios's Chatsworth arraignment is postponed a third time. A medical delay is not a plea. Two murder captions, a felony drug-DUI injury count, and a misdemeanor reckless-driving count against Bailee Lynn Rios are accusations, not a conviction. A third arraignment postponement for medical reasons is process, not a plea, and it does not prove impairment or how the Expedition was driven. Wrong-way, speed, and toxicology claims stay allegations while a chemical evaluation is still underway. A prosecutor's statement that conviction as charged would mean life with the possibility of parole is exposure on a charging document, not a sentence.
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Reporting noted by ABC7 Los Angeles, FOX 11 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, and LAPD.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
NYPD Officer Triunfel is charged in a Bronx safe theft. Burglary, grand larceny, evidence-tampering, and computer-trespass captions against NYPD Officer Luis Triunfel are accusations, not a verdict. A department-database search is a separate computer-trespass theory from the theft counts. Release on recognizance, an order to surrender a passport, and a suspension without pay are court process and employment status. None of that is a finding that any count was proved.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, Gothamist, and Bronx District Attorney's Office.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Tipton, called the Lego Bandit, faces a stacked Nassau file. The nickname is not proof. Organized-retail-theft captions, a battery-on-an-officer count, fleeing, and drug counts are a charging stack, not proof that any count was proved. A nickname and a surveillance match are investigation claims. Ronald Lorne Tipton, also reported as Ronald Lorne Tipton Jr., about 35, was arrested by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office after a U-Haul pursuit that ended when a deputy pinned the truck against a tree on Sadler Road in Fernandina Beach. As reported across outlets, he faces aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated fleeing, coordinating organized retail theft and dealing in stolen property, drug possession, and DUI or related driving counts.
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Reporting noted by Action News Jax, WFLA, FOX 13 Tampa Bay, and Nassau County Sheriff's Office.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Davis faces a federal bank-fraud complaint. A federal criminal complaint is a charging instrument, not a verdict. Bank-fraud elements and the announced loss figures are allegations the government still has to prove, and a statutory maximum of up to 30 years if convicted is not a sentence. U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Kelly O. Hayes announced the arrest of Roy Dave Davis, 34, of Hyattsville, on a criminal complaint charging bank fraud, investigated with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
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Reporting noted by FOX Baltimore (WBFF) and U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Gaugler faces arson, endangerment, and a weapon count. An experimental fire and stacked captions are accusations, not a conviction. Arson, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon each have elements the State still has to prove, and chemicals found in an apartment are investigation evidence, not a guilty finding. Nolan Gaugler, 34, of Mineola, Long Island, was arrested after police and fire were called about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, to 125 Lincoln Ave. for a fire in the third-floor hallway. He faces those three counts and is being arraigned Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, in a Hempstead courtroom.
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Reporting noted by CBS New York.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Jurkovec is charged with taking a hospital valet box truck. A booking and two theft captions are accusations, not a conviction. A GPS stop and a hospital-valet narrative are investigation claims the Commonwealth still has to prove. Former Pitt quarterback Phil Jurkovec, 26, who also played at Notre Dame and Boston College, was arrested Friday after police said he stole a box truck from the valet garage at Allegheny Health Network’s Wexford Hospital on Route 19. Reporting on the arrest is dated Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. He is charged with one count of theft by unlawful taking and one count of receiving stolen property. Two captions on a charging paper are how a theft file starts. They are not a finding that either count was proved.
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Reporting noted by CBS Pittsburgh and KDKA / Audacy.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Gonzalez Reyes is charged with posing as ICE. State captions and a later federal warrant are still accusations. A SWAT re-arrest is custody process, not proof of impersonation or assault. Jonathan Christian Gonzalez Reyes, also reported as Jonathan Gonzalez Reyes, 45, of Hialeah and Northwest Miami-Dade, was arrested by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on state charges after an alleged July incident. Reporting put a judge finding probable cause and him bonding out Thursday. The state file, as reported, includes aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and impersonating an officer, plus related badge and blue-light captions. Those are charging theories. They are not a conviction.
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Reporting noted by NBC 6 South Florida and WSVN 7News.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Allen faces two OWI misdemeanors. An NFL suspension is discipline, not a verdict. Charging documents and a reported blood-alcohol number are accusations and evidence claims. They are not a conviction. League discipline is a separate employment process, not a criminal verdict. Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Keenan Allen, 34, was formally charged, in reporting dated about Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2026, with two Indiana misdemeanors from an Aug. 30, 2026 Indianapolis arrest: operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.15 or more, a Class A misdemeanor, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Class C misdemeanor. Two captions on a charging instrument are how an OWI file starts. They are not a finding that the State proved either count.
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Reporting noted by Reuters, NFL.com, ESPN, and USA TODAY.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Brooks is charged with assaulting a pregnant person. A felony caption and a bond release are not guilt findings. A booking is how a file starts. University of Houston defensive lineman Carmello Dedric Brooks, 19, a sophomore from Katy, was arrested Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, by the University of Houston Police Department and charged with assault on a pregnant individual, a felony. One felony caption is a charging theory. It is not a verdict.
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Reporting noted by Click2Houston (KPRC), FOX 26 Houston, and Sports Illustrated.
True Crime · Sep 21, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Uzoma-eze is charged with murder in a Providence nightclub stabbing. An arrest and a murder caption after a fatal stabbing are the start of a prosecution, not a verdict. Early Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, outside Mezzo Lounge on Charles Street in Providence, R.I., an altercation that began in line ended in the Wendy’s parking lot across the street. Marvins Antoine, 18, a UMass Dartmouth freshman running back, was stabbed in the chest and pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital. Kensley Macean, 19, a UMass Dartmouth freshman defensive back, was injured with non-life-threatening head and neck injuries. A death and a hospital report are the medical facts on the street. They are not a finding that any named defendant has been proved guilty of murder.
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Reporting noted by Boston.com, WPRI, Fall River Reporter, and Arizona's Family.
True Crime · Sep 19, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Pope is held without bond on armed robbery and aggravated battery. Victim allegations and a booking are accusations. A without-bond hold is a release decision, not a finding of guilt. Armed robbery and aggravated battery each have elements the State still has to prove. Former Miami Hurricanes wide receiver Mark Pope, 27, of southwest Miami-Dade, was arrested Thursday by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. Jail records show one count of armed robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon and one count of aggravated battery. A two-count stack is a charging theory. It is not a verdict on either caption.
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True Crime · Sep 19, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Nansen is charged with Class B DWI. A one-game suspension is employment, not a verdict. A DWI arrest and a team suspension are not a conviction. A Class B misdemeanor still requires proof of intoxication while driving. Employer discipline is a separate file from the criminal one. Texas Longhorns co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Johnny Nansen, 52, was arrested Wednesday night, Sept. 16–17, 2026, after a three-vehicle crash about 8:55 p.m. in the 700 block of northbound South Capital of Texas Highway in West Austin. Austin police reported signs of impairment and clues on standardized field sobriety tests. He is charged with Class B misdemeanor DWI. A booking and a field-test write-up are how a DWI file starts. They are not a finding that the State proved intoxication.
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Reporting noted by CBS Austin, FOX 7 Austin, USA TODAY, and Sports Illustrated.
True Crime · Sep 19, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Bailey is charged with first-degree misdemeanor exposure. A charging document is an accusation. Admitting clothing was down is not a guilty plea to the statutory elements. First-degree misdemeanor exposure still has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Former St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey, 35, has been formally charged in Broward County, Fla., with first-degree misdemeanor exposure of sexual organs after an alleged July 27, 2026 incident at the Round1 arcade and bowling bar inside Pembroke Lakes Mall in Pembroke Pines. Prosecutors allege he pulled down his clothing to engage, or was already engaging, in sexual contact in public. Those are caption words. They are not a verdict.
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True Crime · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Contreras Villafana faces federal I-9 and citizenship counts. Federal charges are accusations. A long employment history is not a conviction. I-9 fraud counts stand or fall on proof, not press framing. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, Homeland Security arrested Alma Patricia Contreras Villafana, 54, a Mexican national from South Los Angeles, at Howmet Aerospace’s Torrance factory, where she worked as a machinist. Reporting described a roughly two-hour standoff after she hid in a conference room before she was cuffed. An arrest on a factory floor is the start of a federal file. It is not a finding that any I-9 was false.
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True Crime · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Henderson is indicted for threats to Metcalf. An indictment is a charging instrument, not proof the messages were sent or that the recipient suffered the threatened harm. Speech-threat statutes still require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sept. 18, 2026, Sharifa Nicole Henderson, identified in reporting as a Missouri woman, was indicted on three federal counts of sending threats to injure. Prosecutors allege June messages to Jeff Metcalf, father of Austin Metcalf, including the line “I will hunt you forever until I kill you…” and, per the indictment as reported, “body bag” and “strangle” language. Those words are what the government says are in the file. They are not a finding that she sent them.
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True Crime · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Devine is charged with strangulation. A strangulation charge and a coaching leave are not a conviction. Bond release is not a finding of innocence. Complaint allegations still have to be proved. Noel Devine, 38, an offensive analyst and assistant football coach for the West Virginia Mountaineers, was booked Sunday on one count of strangle, suffocate, or asphyxiate causing bodily injury or loss of consciousness. Lockup records put the booking in Greenwood, W.Va., around 12:45 p.m. He was released on $40,000 bond. A Friday hearing in Morgantown is on the calendar. West Virginia University placed him on leave after the arrest. Leave is an employer move. It is not a guilty finding.
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Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Abulaban’s appeal was denied. An affirmance is not a new trial. An appellate denial leaves the judgment intact. It is not a new trial, and it is not a resentencing. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, a three-justice panel of California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected Ali Abulaban’s bid to overturn two first-degree murder convictions. Abulaban, 34, known online as JinnKid, was convicted by a San Diego jury of the first-degree murders of Ana Abulaban, 28, and Rayburn Cardenas Barron, 29, who were shot on Oct. 21, 2021, in the couple’s 35th-floor Spire San Diego unit in East Village. The jury also found a multiple-murder special circumstance. The sentence remains life without parole plus 50 years to life.
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Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Santiago got the 25-year max, stacked on 20. Genealogy found a suspect. The jury already convicted. A consecutive maximum is how two judgments stack. It is not a new trial on how investigators built the family tree. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Laurence Busching sentenced Jancys Santiago, 50, to the 25-year maximum for the December 2001 first-degree rape of Katy Vicchitto, then a 21-year-old college senior. The term runs consecutive to a 20-year sentence he is already serving for a separate 2000 Manhattan home-invasion rape. A Bronx jury convicted him of first-degree rape in June. Investigative genetic genealogy is how the file left the cold drawer. It is not the verdict.
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True Crime · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Phoenix booked three in the Goins killing. A booking is an accusation. A sealed file means the charging theory is still early. It is not a finding that the State has already proved murder or robbery. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, Arizona’s Family reported that three teens were arrested in connection with an armed robbery that killed Damarion Goins, 20, in south Phoenix near 19th Street and Wier Avenue, south of Broadway, on Sept. 12 around 10 p.m. Police identified Terrell Barnes, 19; Joshua Jones, 18; and a 17-year-old boy whose name has not been released. Jones was arrested in Chandler and the 17-year-old in Phoenix on Tuesday. Barnes was arrested the next day.
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Reporting noted by azfamily (Arizona's Family) and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Alsheikh got 60 years for torture and immigration fraud. That is a U.S. judgment, not an extradition. A 60-year federal sentence is the judgment. It is not a foreign-court extradition story, and it is not a single blended count. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, U.S. District Judge Hernan D. Vera sentenced Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74, a former Syrian prison warden and provincial governor, to 60 years in U.S. prison for torture and immigration fraud. A jury convicted him in March 2026 of conspiracy to commit torture, three torture counts, visa fraud, and attempted naturalization fraud. The immigration-fraud counts are their own crimes. They do not have to be proved again for the torture judgment to stand, and they are not a Syrian docket transferred here.
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Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kazmierczak got 14 months for assaulting a member of Congress. Vinegar does not have to be a deadly weapon. A federal sentence is a judgment on the charge that was pleaded — not a finding that the liquid was a deadly weapon. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Anthony James Kazmierczak, 56, to 14 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release, including no contact with Rep. Ilhan Omar, after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a U.S. officer / federal official. Authorities said he sprayed a water-and-apple-cider-vinegar mix from a syringe at a Jan. 27 Minneapolis town hall; Omar was not injured and continued the event. Vinegar does not have to be charged or found as a deadly weapon for that plea and sentence to stick.
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Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Calhoun was indicted on manslaughter for a sixth death. That is not a sixth murder count. A manslaughter indictment on a sixth death is not a sixth murder count. The mental state is different, and so are the maximums. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2026, Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez announced a first-degree manslaughter indictment against Jesse Calhoun, 41, for Elizabeth “Libby” Gibson, 32, who disappeared in late November 2022 and is alleged to be the first victim in time. The count says he unlawfully and recklessly caused her death under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. He has pleaded not guilty to the existing second-degree murder charges. A new name on the docket is still a charging theory.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, Multnomah County District Attorney, Associated Press, and KOIN.
Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Williams is offering insanity in a death-eligible first-degree case. That is a defense, not a verdict. Not guilty by reason of insanity is a complete defense if the jury buys it. Prosecutors can concede mental illness and still argue she knew right from wrong. Vickie Williams, 50, is on trial in Lake County this week on two first-degree murder counts and grand theft auto in the Dec. 31, 2022 deaths of Darryl Getman, 83, and Sharon Getman, 80, at Waterman Village in Mount Dora. She has pleaded not guilty. A death-eligible first-degree file is still a charging theory until the verdict.
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Reporting noted by Daily Mail, WESH, FOX 35 Orlando, and ClickOrlando.
Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Diamantis skipped federal sentencing. A no-show is not an extradition. A missed sentencing date is a bond problem and a warrant problem. It is not an extradition order already executed, and fleeing is not a pardon. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, the former Connecticut official who oversaw school construction grants, failed to appear for federal sentencing before Judge Stefon Underhill in the U.S. District Court in Bridgeport. A jury convicted him last October on 21 counts of bribery, extortion, conspiracy, and lying to federal investigators. He had been free on a $500,000 bond. Defense counsel Norm Pattis told the court Diamantis called Wednesday night and said he was already in Greece. The chair at the defense table was empty.
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Reporting noted by CT Examiner, CBS News, and NBC Connecticut.
True Crime · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Alabama executed Jeffery Lee. A stay denial is not a merits ruling. An execution carried out is the sentence completed. A stay denial is not a written opinion on judicial override or on switching methods. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, Alabama executed Jeffery Lee, 49, by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. He was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. Central. Lee was convicted in 2000 of capital murder and attempted murder for the Dec. 12, 1998 robbery at Jimmy’s Pawn Shop in Orrville. Jimmy Ellis, the owner, and Elaine Thompson, an employee, were killed. Another employee survived. The judgment that sent him to the chamber was already on the books. Carrying it out does not reopen the verdict.
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Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Colbert was convicted of negligent homicide. That is not the manslaughter count the State charged. A jury can convict on a lesser homicide theory and still hang a racketeering case. On Sept. 18, 2026, in Jefferson Parish (Gretna, La.), a jury found Danette Colbert, 49, guilty of negligent homicide and racketeering in the Feb. 5, 2025 death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano, 27, who was in town for Super Bowl LIX and was found dead in a Kenner hotel room. Co-defendant Rickey White, 35, was convicted of racketeering but not of the manslaughter/homicide count. A negligent-homicide verdict is a conviction. It is not a finding that the original manslaughter caption was proved as charged.
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Reporting noted by WVUE / Gray News, WDTV, and Kenner Police.
Trials · Sep 18, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Prosecutors opened Flynn with mistress texts. Opening statements preview what the State hopes to prove. They are not evidence, and they are not a finding that Caleb Flynn killed Ashley Flynn. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Miami County, Ohio, prosecutor Paul Watkins told jurors the State will offer more than 100,000 text messages with a longtime mistress, including alleged lines about wanting Ashley dead and “Actions will come tomorrow” tied to Feb. 16. Flynn, a former American Idol contestant, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the February Tipp City shooting. The jury still has to decide after proof, not after openings.
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Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Weinberg entered for a double-jeopardy motion. That filing is not a dismissal. A limited appearance is a lawyer signing onto one fight. It is not the fight won. Martin G. Weinberg filed in Plymouth Superior Court on Sept. 15–16 to handle a forthcoming motion to dismiss Lindsay Clancy’s murder case on double-jeopardy grounds after the Sept. 4 mistrial. Hung-jury retrials are usually allowed. The defense will have to show this hang was the rare kind that bars a second panel. Plymouth County still has not announced a retrial. Sept. 29 remains the public date. A motion can lose. Karen Read’s similar post-mistrial dismissal effort did.
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Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Rios is charged with second-degree murder in the bus deaths. The helicopter crash is a different file. In California, a DUI death can be charged as second-degree murder without a plan to kill. That is implied-malice / Watson murder: the State says the driver knew the risk and did it anyway. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Thursday that Bailee Lynn Rios, 36, faces two counts of second-degree murder for the Chatsworth Metro crash that killed Gage Weida, 31, and Daniel Castillo, 46. She is also charged with driving under the influence of a drug and reckless driving. A later NBC helicopter crash killed three more people. Those deaths are a separate tragedy. They are not on this complaint as of this writing.
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Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lynch was found fit for trial. A fitness ruling answers one question: can this defendant understand the charges and help the lawyer. It does not answer whether the State can prove a killing. On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, Acting Supreme Court Justice Anthony Senft Jr. found Austin Lynch, 18, competent to proceed on a second-degree murder count in the Nov. 26, 2025 death of Emily Finn, 18, in Nesconset. He had been found unfit in January and sent to a state hospital. Later evaluations conflicted. Senft ordered another look. Thursday’s order means the murder case can move. It is not a finding that he did it, and it is not a sentence.
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Reporting noted by New York Post, Newsday, and News 12 Long Island.
Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
The Flynn jury is expected to walk the house. A jury view is a field trip with rules. It is not a reconstruction and it is not a verdict. Caleb Flynn, a former American Idol contestant, is on trial in Miami County, Ohio, for the February shooting death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, in their Tipp City home. He has pleaded not guilty. The defense asked the jurors to see the layout — the ways in and out — and Judge Jeannine Pratt approved a visit. Flynn waived his right to go with them. Seeing a doorway can help a juror follow testimony. It does not prove an intruder, and it does not prove a staged scene.
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Reporting noted by People, CNN, Dayton 24/7 Now, and Court TV.
Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kohberger’s family backs the plea-withdrawal fight. Family support is not a legal standard. A family’s statement is not a court filing, and post-conviction relief is not a new trial. Bryan Kohberger’s relatives said this week they support his bid to undo the 2025 guilty plea in the University of Idaho murders. That is love and messaging. It does not change the judgment. A plea taken on the record is designed to be final. To pull it, the petitioner has to show a legal defect — ineffective counsel, an involuntary colloquy, or another recognized ground — not that relatives now want a jury. Until a judge grants relief, four consecutive life sentences are the sentence.
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Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A judge let Bohm’s roadside answers in. A Miranda ruling decides what a jury may hear. It does not decide whether the State proved a killing. On Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2026, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson denied Fraser Bohm’s bid to keep out what he told deputies after the October 2023 Pacific Coast Highway crash that killed four Pepperdine students. The court said he was detained, not in Miranda custody, and that the answers were voluntary. Detention is not an arrest. Admissibility is not guilt. Bohm has pleaded not guilty to four counts of second-degree murder and four of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
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True Crime · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Two missing moms were found in a river Jeep. “Followed” is a lead, not a charge. Recovery is not a homicide filing. Vanessa Bautista, 24, and Alexa Navarro, 23, of South Bend were identified Thursday after their bodies were found Tuesday in a Jeep in the St. Joseph River at Niles, Michigan. The medical examiner has not released a cause of death. Police say the vehicle appears to have gone over a steep embankment early Sunday. Chief James Millin told reporters that people have claimed someone may have been chasing the women, and that his department is looking at those statements. He also said there did not, at that moment, appear to be outside forces pushing the Jeep off the road. That is an open investigation talking. It is not a charging document.
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Video Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kosowski waived the jury. The judge is the fact-finder in a no-body murder trial. A bench trial is still a trial. The State still has to prove first-degree murder beyond a reasonable doubt. The difference is who decides. Tomasz Kosowski waived a jury for both guilt and any penalty phase and is representing himself in Pinellas County before Judge Joseph Bulone. Prosecutors allege he killed attorney Steven Cozzi in March 2023. Cozzi’s body has not been found. That does not lower the burden. A missing body case is harder for the State, not easier. There is no verdict as of Sept. 17, 2026.
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Reporting noted by WFLA, FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Bay News 9, and Daily Mail.
Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Hochman took death off the Reiner case. That is a charging choice, not a verdict. Taking the death penalty off the table changes the exposure. It does not decide guilt. On Sept. 15, 2026, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his office will not seek capital punishment against Nick Reiner, who is charged with murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, in their Brentwood home in December 2025. The remaining ceiling, if a jury convicts on the special-circumstance theory, is life without parole. Reiner has pleaded not guilty. A no-death announcement is a prosecutor’s election after aggravators and mitigators. It is not an acquittal, and it is not a sentence.
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Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Clark wants an independent look at the Takeoff bullets. Discovery is not a defense verdict. A motion to examine bullets is ordinary defense work. It does not mean the State’s ballistics are wrong, and it does not mean the accused is cleared. Patrick Xavier Clark, charged with murder in the November 2022 shooting of Kirsnick Khari Ball — Takeoff — outside a Houston bowling alley, has asked to have an independent expert review items held by Houston police, including recovered projectiles. He has pleaded not guilty. Trial is on the November 2026 calendar, with jury selection reported for Nov. 5. Until a jury is sworn, this is a discovery fight.
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Reporting noted by TMZ, Houston Chronicle, iHeart, and AllHipHop.
True Crime · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Dayton charged a 2003 strangulation after a DNA hit. DNA on clothing can open a door. It does not walk the State through a jury instruction. Dayton police said a December 2025 cold-case review sent evidence to Ohio BCI, which reported an unknown male profile on Arlene Hall’s clothing in July 2026 and later matched it to Jesse James Lockley Jr., 70. Officers interviewed him on Sept. 15. Police say he made incriminating statements. He was booked on a murder charge. That package can be enough for an arrest. It is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and a lab report does not decide how the DNA got there.
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Reporting noted by People, WDTN, Dayton 24/7 Now, and WLWT.
Explainers · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A teen was acquitted as insane in a school bathroom killing. That is not a finding he did not do it. Not guilty by reason of insanity is a legal conclusion about the mind at the time of the act. It is not a finding that the stabbing did not happen. On Sept. 14, 2026, the Shah Alam High Court acquitted a 15-year-old boy of murder in the October 2025 killing of 16-year-old Yap Shing Xuen in a school bathroom in Bandar Utama, Malaysia. Defense counsel said the live issue was mental state, not the physical act. The court accepted a schizophrenia opinion and ordered the boy detained for treatment at a psychiatric hospital, subject to the Ruler. That is confinement under a different caption. It is not walking free, and it is not factual innocence.
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Reporting noted by People, BBC, The Straits Times, and CNA.
True Crime · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A forgiveness video is not intent. Harrington is charged. Digital talk before a killing is evidence the State may try to use. It is not a verdict. Alexander Harrington, 50, a self-described intuitive healer and life coach, is charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 11 stabbing death of his mother, Susan Baratto, 77, in west Delray Beach. An arrest affidavit says he called police, said he had killed her, and repeated that to medics and detectives. Reporting also describes a video he posted about forgiveness shortly before the death. A posted sermon can be offered as state of mind, as contradiction, or as noise. A judge still has to decide what a jury hears. None of that is a finding of premeditation.
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Trials · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Lil Durk beat the murder-for-hire counts. Acquittal is not a jail-release order. Not guilty means the government did not prove those counts. It does not close the file. On Sept. 11, 2026, a Los Angeles federal jury acquitted Durk Banks — Lil Durk — of conspiracy, stalking resulting in death, and murder-for-hire in the 2022 gas-station shooting that killed Saviay’a Robinson. Two co-defendants were also acquitted of murder-for-hire but convicted of stalking-related charges. Banks remains in custody for a separate racketeering trial set for Oct. 5. One verdict form does not dismiss the next indictment.
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True Crime · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A wildfire showed remains. Identification closes a missing-person file. It opens a homicide file. It does not end the case. Police said remains found Aug. 12 in Feltham shrubland after a wildfire are those of Joanne Sheen, 44, a Southampton mother missing since December 2019. Hampshire officers have taken the lead. They said her death is being treated as murder and that a 56-year-old Southampton man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. Suspicion plus custody is the start of a process. It is not a charge sheet the public has seen, and it is not a finding that he — or anyone — is guilty.
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True Crime · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
Kelce was named as a fraud victim at sentencing. Celebrity is not an element of wire fraud. A sentencing hearing is where the court picks a number after a guilty plea. It is not a new trial on whether the scheme existed. In St. Louis on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Zachary Bluestone sentenced Siddharth Jawahar, 38, to 11 years in prison and $31.35 million in restitution for a Texas-based Swiftarc Capital operation prosecutors called a Ponzi scheme. The government said about 64 investors were taken in, and a prosecutor named Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce as one of them. Naming Kelce does not change the statute. Wire fraud is about deceit and interstate wires. It is not about how famous the victim is, and the court did not announce how much Kelce put in or lost.
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True Crime · Sep 17, 2026
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer
A pencil opened a South Carolina cell. The tape is an escape case, not a comedy bit. Jail video can prove an escape. It does not decide the extra counts that come after the fence. Chesterfield County, S.C., says Charles Alexander Dieterich, 30, used a pencil on Sept. 1 to manipulate his cell lock, walked through a kitchen trustee door, and went over barbed wire. Deputies had him on Jones Road about half an hour later. The sheriff’s office added unlawful escape, resisting arrest, assault on an officer, and property damage on top of the cases that had him in custody. A circulating clip is why the public knows the mechanism. The legal file is the new charging stack and whatever the jail changes about that lock.
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