A Haitian migrant has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl at a hotel serving as a migrant shelter in Massachusetts, authorities said Thursday. Corey B. Alvarez, 26, was arrested on Thursday and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment that day in Hingham District Court on one count of aggravated rape of a child. He…
Two people were arrested and charged with the murders of two children whose remains were discovered encased in concrete and inside a suitcase in Colorado, the authorities announced. Corena Rose Minjarez and Jesus Dominguez were each charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse on Friday, the Pueblo Police Department announced. The charges come…
A former U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of an Iraqi civilian in 2004 was charged on Monday with assaulting police officers with a baton during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department announced. The former soldier, Edward Richmond Jr., 40, of Geismar, La.,…
The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida who was ousted earlier this month amid a criminal investigation will not be charged with sexual battery, the Sarasota Police Department said on Friday. But the authorities will seek to charge him with video voyeurism, a felony. Christian Ziegler, the ousted chairman, recorded a sexual encounter…
Prosecutors charged a Detroit police officer with manslaughter on Tuesday, accusing him of fatally punching a 71-year-old man during a confrontation. The officer, Juwan Marquise-Alexander Brown, 29, has since been fired by the Detroit Police Department. On Sept 1., Mr. Brown was sent to investigate a complaint of disorderly conduct against Daryl Vance, a Detroit…
Former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday defended six Nevada Republicans who were recently indicted in connection with a scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss, claiming without evidence that they were victims of political persecution by the Biden administration. Mr. Trump has repeatedly rebuffed accusations this month that he has antidemocratic inclinations by pointing…
An inmate has been charged with attempted murder for stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 times last week at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona said on Friday. The inmate, John Turscak, 52, is accused of stabbing Mr. Chauvin with an improvised knife on Nov. 24. Mr. Turscak told investigators that…
A 48-year-old Vermont man was charged on Monday with three counts of attempted second-degree murder in the weekend shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent on a Burlington street, a violent episode that stunned the small city. As investigators sought to determine whether the shooting could be classified as a hate crime, local officials…
Seventeen deputies at a South Florida sheriff’s office were charged with defrauding federal loan programs of nearly half a million dollars intended to help businesses that were struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, the authorities said. The employees of the Broward Sheriff’s Office were charged in separate cases of wire fraud in connection with collecting money…
A former chemistry student is facing multiple felony charges after a neighbor said he caught him on camera using a vial and syringe to insert an unknown substance through his condominium apartment’s door in Tampa, Fla. Xuming Li, who was enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of South Florida, had been making noise…