National Crime

LAKE COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) — Numerous police agencies rushed in to make multiple arrests of minors and to protect church festival goers during what law enforcement called a “volatile, overwhelmed” situation. Now, organizers of the Saint Gabriel Catholic Church Parish Summer Fest in Concord Township releasing a video statement to explain why they’re closing the [...]

A midday shooting near a church in Opa-locka reportedly left three women injured on Sunday. Officers responded to the scene near 3300 NW 135th Street around 1 p.m., where they discovered three women inside a black Suburban had been injured by shattered glass following an apparent drive-by shooting, according to Opa-locka Police.

ANDALUSIA, Ala. (WSFA) - The city of Andalusia reports that gunfire at a local church parking lot resulted in an Opp man’s arrest. Police Capt. Brett Holmes said shots rang out outside First Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon. Police said the vehicle that was struck was driven to a convenience store across from Walmart, where police [...]

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Authorities in Maplewood are conducting an arson investigation after they say someone broke into a church and set fire to part of the building. According to Maplewood police, they received a report around 12:40 a.m. on Sunday of a burglary at St. Jerome Catholic Church on the 380 block of Roselawn Avenue [...]

LOS ANGELES — Police in Tustin are investigating the alleged robbery of a member of the U.S. Secret Service whose possessions were taken at gunpoint. On Saturday at 9:36 p.m. Pacific time, officers responded to a call of a possible robbery at the Tustin Field 1 residential community at Tustin Legacy — a former military [...]

In an extraordinary breach of security, a Georgia state prison inmate shot and killed an Aramark food service employee Sunday at Smith State Prison in Glennville. The Georgia Department of Corrections said the incident happened at 4:30 a.m. when Jaydrekus Hart shot the worker while working in the prison kitchen. The inmate then shot himself, [...]

Rarely do you see comparisons for violent crime rates before and after the pandemic. Usually, the media will compare the 2023 crime rate to the peaks in reported crime from 2020. This comparison is important because New York City slashed its police budget by $1 billion annually in 2020. Even in 2022, there was a [...]

A group of illegal aliens outside a Queens hotel allegedly assaulted two New York Police Department officers on Monday morning, law enforcement sources told the New York Post. The officers were reportedly attempting to check in on three unsupervised children outside the Long Island City hotel, which was converted into a shelter for illegal immigrants. [...]

A University of Southern California student was arrested after allegedly fatally stabbing a homeless man attempting a car break-in outside a fraternity house on campus, according to officials. The student, 19-year-old Ivan Gallegos, allegedly witnessed the homeless man attempting to break into multiple vehicles on USC's Greek Row before intervening, according to Fox 11.

Mamie Thomas woke up around 5 a.m. Monday expecting a text from her longtime partner Damien Nelson, who was going to drive her to the grocery store following his shift as a security guard. When he was late, she thought he might have stopped for coffee. Around 7 a.m., Chicago police officers rang their doorbell in Auburn Gresham to ask if she knew Nelson.