Crime

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: Forty-two members of what prosecutors call a San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist gang have been arrested in connection with a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday alleging a years-long criminal operation that included drug trafficking, weapons violations and COVID-19 and loan fraud. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 29 people named in the indictment were arrested Wednesday …

The Associated Press reports: A Montana man was convicted Wednesday of threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after becoming upset that the government had not shot down a Chinese spy balloon that floated over his home city. Richard Rogers, 45, of Billings, delivered the threat to a McCarthy staffer during a series of more than 100 calls to …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk’s friendship with Sean “Diddy” Combs resurfaced on Wednesday after the billionaire questioned “how many people in music & entertainment knew about” Combs’ alleged serial sex abuse. In their new book Character Limit, authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac alleged that Musk boasted about his friendship with Combs to Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels after Samuels expressed concern …

Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate reports: Gabriel Mills, a 41-year-old pastor, is accused of sending intimate photos of a victim to himself without consent in Kenosha. Mills is facing two charges of capturing an intimate representation without consent. According to the criminal complaint, the Journey Church pastor borrowed the victim’s husband’s phone to download an audiobook app and audiobook for him, but …

NBC News reports: Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing dozens of new allegations of sexual assault in a series of lawsuits set to be filed. At a news conference held Tuesday, Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee said he is representing 120 accusers with allegations against the entertainment mogul that occurred over 20 years. “We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct …

Law & Crime reports: Russell Valleau, 61, is accused of attacking a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier on Thursday, Farmington Hills police said in a statement. Police had responded to an emergency call from the area, located 25 miles northwest of Detroit, at around 5 p.m. “Officers spoke with the mail carrier who reported that an intoxicated male approached her …

The Sacramento Bee reports: Blaze Pizza’s 96 California pizzerias are known for build-your-own pies rapidly fired in 800-degree ovens, along with Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James’ corporate investments. Last week, its Roseville location made headlines for an uglier reason. A delivery driver walked into the Highland Reserve Marketplace restaurant about 10:15 p.m. Sept. 19, saw a Pride flag hung …

Courthouse News reports: The trial of Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of France’s right-wing National Rally party, began Monday over charges she and others embezzled several million euros of European Union funds. But experts argue that despite the severity of the charges, it’s unlikely the trial will leave a negative impression on Le Pen’s voters — in contrast, it might …

The Miami Herald reports: Ryan Wesley Routh, a convicted felon who authorities say drove from North Carolina to South Florida with a plan to kill Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty on Monday to attempting to assassinate the former president while he was playing golf in mid-September at his club in West Palm Beach. Routh, 58, is accused of setting up …

CBS News reports: Pope Francis promised Saturday to “offer all the help we can” to aid clergy sexual abuse victims, after a group of Belgian survivors told him first-hand of the trauma that had shattered their lives and left many in poverty and mental misery. Francis’ visit to Belgium has been dominated by the abuse scandal, with King Philippe and …

NBC News reports: The Justice Department revealed an indictment Friday charging a Florida man with threatening to kill his political opponent in 2021. William Robert Braddock III, 41, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was charged with threatening two people, one of whom the DOJ said was his primary opponent in the 2022 election for Florida’s 13th Congressional District. Braddock allegedly threatened …

Law & Crime reports: Kyle Rittenhouse’s former bodyguard and spokesperson feels the 17-year-old might never have been acquitted of killing two people and seriously injuring another if the jury knew then what he knows now. “When the world finds out everything that happened in this case and with Kyle, it’ll be shocking. It’s breathtaking,” Dave Hancock said in an interview …

York, Pennsylvania’s Fox affiliate reports: A Quarryville Bible study instructor was arrested on Wednesday after a woman came forward to report that he had sexually assaulted her repeatedly as a minor, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Officers from Troop J – Lancaster say the victim came to the station on Sept. 23 to report the assaults, which had occurred when …

Patch Rockville Centre reports: The Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre (DRVC) and its parishes have announced a proposed global settlement with hundreds of sex abuse survivors, who allege they were abused as children at the DRVC’s parishes, churches, and schools, lawyers for survivors announced on Thursday. The settlement is based on DRVC’s parishes filing for a $320 million bankruptcy, and …

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:  An Ellis County former youth pastor with a history of child sex assault offenses was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexually abusing underage victims who attended his church. Marvin Scales, 53, of Waxahachie, pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of sexual abuse of a young child, one count of aggravated sexual assault of …

Tulsa’s Fox affiliate reports: A Tulsa pastor was arrested and charged with rape, child sex abuse and incest. He just resigned from his church over the weekend. According to an affidavit, Bertheophilus Maurice “Judge” Bailey Sr. began sexually assaulting his victim when she was a child. It went on to say the abuse got worse as she got older. Until …

CBS News reports: The U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia said Philip C. Pulley of Huntington Valley pleaded guilty to falsely registering to vote, double voting and election fraud. He faces a maximum of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, a $10,000 to $250,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Federal prosecutors said Pulley registered to vote in …

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports: The youth director of a Denton church has been arrested after a parent and their child accused him of inappropriate behavior with teenagers, police say. According to police, the suspect, 63-year-old Craig Stone, was charged with indecency with a child and possession of child pornography, both felonies. Stone is listed as the youth director and president …

The Associated Press reports: Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday. Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, …

CNN reports: Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former …