Crime News

Gang Member With Tattoo of Crime Scene Convicted of Murder

Apr 22, 2011 - 5:18 PM |AOL News

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.

NORWALK, Calif. -- In 2008, Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide Sgt. Kevin Lloyd was preparing to testify as an expert in a gang case by poring over a photo album of tattoos. Then one picture...

Expert: Mexican Drug Cartels Infesting US, Even Our National Parks

Apr 22, 2011 - 10:23 AM |AOL News

Francisco Vega, AFP / Getty Images

Lost in the rhetoric about illegal immigration are new reports that Mexican drug cartels have moved into the United States, gaining a major foothold here that may be the start of a permanent...

Suspect Lived in Same Building as Webcam Murder Victim

Apr 22, 2011 - 9:19 AM |AP

Canadian Press / AP

TORONTO -- A man charged with murdering a Chinese woman whose struggle with her assailant was seen on webcam by her helpless boyfriend in China lives in the same building as the victim, police said,...

Woman's Screams Alert Brooklyn Neighbors, Attacker Flees [VIDEO]

Apr 22, 2011 - 9:17 AM |AOL News

Several neighbors rushed out of their homes in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to scare off a man who was attacking a woman on the 16th Street sidewalk. A video taken from a brownstone...

Convicted Murderer's Wife: I Slept With Defense Attorney During Trial

Apr 21, 2011 - 4:53 PM |AOL News

MCT

An Ohio man who says he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his parents 15 years ago is seeking a new trial because of evidence that just surfaced --- documents that say his wife had been involved...

Teen Charged With Murdering Tourists Had Been Screened for Risk Days Earlier

Apr 21, 2011 - 1:54 PM |Patch

On April 16, a pair of British tourists were shot down in Newtown, Fla. The next day, 16-year-old Shawn Tyson was arrested on murder charges. It was his second arrest this month. Less than two weeks...

Was Holly Bobo Abduction Related to Attack on Another Woman?

Apr 21, 2011 - 10:03 AM |AOL News

Decatur County Sheriff's Department

Police in Tennessee are investigating whether a similar attack in a nearby town is related to the disappearance of 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo from her home in Parsons, Tenn. Heather...

Bomb Found at Colorado Mall on Columbine Anniversary

Apr 21, 2011 - 6:31 AM |AP

FBI / AP

LITTLETON, Colo. -- Investigators want to question a person of interest about a pipe bomb and propane tanks found after a fire at a Littleton mall, a discovery that raised the possibility of a...

Illinois Man Accused of Killing 3 Women, Taping Attack

Apr 21, 2011 - 12:14 AM |AP

CHICAGO -- Prosecutors said Wednesday that a suburban Chicago man charged with killing three young women, including two whom he met on telephone chat lines and a neighborhood teen he's accused of...

Fitness Photographer Marries Teen He's Accused of Molesting

Apr 20, 2011 - 4:30 PM |AOL News

Orange County District Attorney

A well-known fitness photographer who is awaiting trial on a host of child molestation charges has now married his alleged victim more than three years after the district attorney says the crimes...

Roommate Charged With Hate Crime in Rutgers Suicide

Apr 20, 2011 - 3:53 PM |AP

TRENTON, N.J. -- A former Rutgers University freshman was indicted Wednesday on a hate crime charge after allegedly using a webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter involving his roommate, who committed...

Vote in Sheriff Arpaio's Mugshot of the Day Contest

Apr 20, 2011 - 3:43 PM |AOL News

MCSO

"America's Toughest Sheriff" is giving the public some hard choices. Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff known for serving inmates green baloney and his staunch stance against illegal immigration, has...