Crime

Politico reports: The Justice Department sent a message Wednesday to Jan. 6 defendants: Accepting a pardon from Donald Trump is “a confession of guilt” for your crimes. “[A] pardon at some unspecified date in the future … would not unring the bell of conviction,” federal prosecutors argued in a Jan. 6 case before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols. “In fact, …

The Associated Press reports: The suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO plans to fight extradition to New York to face murder charges, but officials hope to get him back with what’s called a governor’s warrant. The process could happen quickly or take more than a month. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office on Wednesday had not yet asked …

Huntsville’s ABC affiliate reports: A former pastor at a Decatur church was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sodomy, a Morgan County circuit judge told News 19. Danny Duane Pitts was found guilty of second-degree sodomy by a Morgan County jury on October 24. On Wednesday, Circuit Judge Charles B. Elliott sentenced Pitts to 20 years in the Alabama …

ABC News reports: A New York Police Department bulletin issued Tuesday emphasized the heightened risk environment for health care executives following last week’s brazen killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Viral posts online have listed the names and salaries of several health insurance executives, multiple “Wanted” signs featuring corporate executives have been posted throughout Manhattan and users on social …

The New York Times reports: Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthCare, was found with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting, according to two law enforcement officials. The notebook described going to a “bean-counter” conference and killing an executive, the officials said. “What do you do? You wack the CEO …

CNN reports: A book published in 2010 critical of the US insurance industry — and whose title appears similar to words found on shell casings near where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed — has risen to number two on Amazon’s nonfiction best sellers list. The book, “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can …

The New York Times reports: If you owned a phone in America over the last 40 years, there is a good chance you got a call from Richard L. Zeitlin. He ran a telemarketing empire out of Las Vegas, using computers that mimicked human callers to raise money for charitable and political causes. Police and police dogs. Vietnam veterans and …

The New York Times reports: A suspect charged with murder in New York in the assassination of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in Midtown Manhattan will fight extradition to New York to face murder charges, potentially keeping him in custody in Pennsylvania for weeks. “He is contesting it,” said his lawyer, Thomas Dickey. The suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged …

CBS News reports: Luigi Mangione, the suspect in last week’s killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s in New York City, is expected to face an extradition hearing on murder charges on Tuesday afternoon. He is currently being held without bail in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where authorities say the extradition process could take days, if not weeks. Investigators are now pouring …

Courthouse News reports: The man who used his power as a religious leader in a small Arizona town to marry and repeatedly rape 10 underage girls for nearly two years will spend the next 50 in a federal prison. The young women once victimized by Samuel Rappylee Bateman faced him in a Phoenix courtroom for the last time Monday afternoon. …

The Baltimore Banner reports: The Mangione family is “shocked” by the arrest of Luigi Mangione, according to a statement shared on social media late Monday night. In a statement, the family said it could not comment on “news reports regarding Luigi Mangione,” a Maryland native, who was arrested on gun charges in Pennsylvania on Monday morning and is a person …

ABC News reports: Luigi Mangione has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, according to an online court docket. Mangione, a 26-year-old from Maryland, was arrested by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, for gun charges ahead of him being charged by the New York Police Department on Monday. The NYPD also charged Mangione …

“This guy was obviously looking for notoriety. And good, he’s got it. Now, he’s a prep school kid. He’s politically connected in Maryland. But this guy’s not ready. He’s way too soft. He’s gonna get annihilated on the inside and good. If he’s not gonna get the death penalty, maybe someone will do him justice behind bars. That’s all I …

The National Desk reports: On Monday afternoon, the NYPD and FBI arrived in Altoona to interview the suspect, Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., told CNN. Mangione would need to be extradited to New York to face any charges related to the killing there. A preliminary arraignment for Mangione was held at approximately 6 p.m. Monday at the Blair County Court House. …

“This just into the newsroom, the suspect’s cousin is a Maryland state delegate. We obviously just heard from the police commissioner that this person of interest is from Maryland. So, this has now been confirmed: The suspect’s cousin is Maryland state delegate, Antonio D. Mangione, goes by Nino. Our news team just got off of the phone with his office. …

CNN reports: A multi-page, handwritten document was recovered from the person of interest arrested in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Tuesday. “We don’t think there’s any specific threats to other people mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some ill will towards corporate America,” Kenny said. “He was in possession …

The Associated Press reports: Daniel Penny, the veteran who used a chokehold on subway rider Jordan Neely, has been acquitted in Neely’s death. A Manhattan jury delivered the verdict, clearing Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s death last year. The verdict was unanimous. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed earlier in deliberations because the jury deadlocked …

CNN reports: As the manhunt for a still-unidentified suspect in the fatal shooting of a health care executive in Manhattan continues on its sixth day, police are missing key pieces of evidence and combing through what they have gathered for more clues. The NYPD is working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies across the country to search for …

West Palm Beach’s CBS affiliate reports: For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine. It was a practice the Florida state Supreme Court repeatedly described as “outrageous” in its 1993 ruling that such reverse-stings violated an individual’s right to …

CBS News reports: Police believe the suspect used a B&T Station SIX pistol to carry out the shooting, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. Investigators have been visiting gun dealers in Connecticut looking for where it may have been purchased. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who spoke to reporters at a Police Athletic League …