(The Center Square) – When a federal charge was levied this week against Decarlos Brown Jr. in the killing of Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail, authorities said more charges were possible.
(The Center Square) – Charges against North Carolinian Decarlos Brown Jr. have an addition on the federal level, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.
(The Center Square) – Federal funding, and the ability to withhold it, is being used as an incentive within two proposals tied to violent crime and the judicial system.
(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Houston arrested 822 criminal foreign nationals in a week-long operation. Those arrested include transnational gang members, convicted murderers and child sex offenders, foreign fugitives, among others.
Harrisburg, Pa. — State Rep. Clint Owlett, Tioga and Bradford counties, has introduced House Bill 1835, a piece of legislation to enhance sentencing when an individual is convicted of creating, distributing, or possessing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) depicting their relative.
(The Center Square) – Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump issued executive orders to take steps to eliminate cashless bail nationwide, some lawmakers have introduced legislation to codify the orders.
(The Center Square) — When asked about crime in Caddo Parish, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the "Democratic DA" is not prosecuting as he should.
(The Center Square) – Capital punishment could be returning to Washington, D.C., as President Donald Trump announced during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
(The Center Square) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing back on President Donald Trump's "reckless" push to do away with cashless bail, saying the move to withhold federal funding would undermine public safety.
(The Center Square) – In response to allegations that Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department manipulated its crime data, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is launching an investigation.