Four Mexican nationals have been arrested in Texas for their roles in the 2022 tractor-trailer smuggling incident that left 53 migrants — including eight children and one pregnant woman — dead, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. It is believed to be the deadliest human smuggling case in modern U.S. history. …
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A woman accused of abandoning her infant in a box beside a South Carolina highway in 2008 will serve four years in prison. Thursday’s sentencing wraps up a case that had gone cold until police arrested Jennifer Sahr three years ago in the death of the newborn known as “Baby …
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A man has been arrested for a string of shootings that left four people dead in Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona, police said Sunday. Iren Byers, 20, was taken into custody in connection with four shootings late Friday night in Mesa that left three people dead and one person hospitalized, the …
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A limousine service manager was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday in one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks of the past two decades. Nauman Hussain ran Prestige Limousine when a stretch limo packed with revelers for a woman’s 30th birthday party went off the road after the vehicle’s brakes failed in …
Read More »After her husband died last year, she wrote a children’s book on grief. Now she’s charged with his murder. Kouri Richins was arrested on Monday in Utah and is accused in charging documents of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in Kamas, a small …
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A Houston man declared innocent in 2021 after being convicted in a fatal stabbing and serving seven years in prison has been charged with murder in the shooting of a fellow motorist, police said. Lydell Grant, 46, is accused of killing Edwin Arevalo, 33, following a minor traffic collision Thursday …
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A woman incarcerated in Florida is accused of attempting to hire fellow inmates to kill her family members and an assistant state attorney, authorities said this week. Tureygua Inaru, 29, faces charges that include three counts of solicitation to commit murder and cyber stalking, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s …
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The 2015 death of Stephen Smith is being investigated as a homicide, officials have confirmed, years after the teenager’s body was found on a country road near the home of disgraced South Carolina attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh. The State Law Enforcement Division in South Carolina, known as SLED, agreed …
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A 42-year-old Houston man has been charged with kidnapping, accused of holding a woman captive in a locked trailer for several years, according to court records. The woman was rescued by deputies on Wednesday. Abraham Bravo Segura did “intentionally and knowingly abduct” the victim, and held her in “a place …
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Jalen Carter, the former University of Georgia football star and a top NFL prospect, turned himself in late Wednesday night on charges linked to his alleged involvement in a January car crash that resulted in the deaths of a teammate and team staff member. Police had issued arrest warrants for him. …
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