#violent-crime

#violent-crime

"Since September 2025, Haitian foreign terrorist organizations' (FTOs) have used small-arms fire to attack at least three aircraft within the area in which U.S. civil aviation operations are prohibited. Additionally, gangs have increasingly conducted violent attacks... north of the capital, necessitating adjustments to the area in which U.S. civil aviation operations are prohibited."

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton framed the verdict as a clear message to anyone thinking about silencing witnesses. 'New Yorkers know justice and they will not tolerate witness intimidation, let alone the street gang violence central to today's conviction,' he said.

Violent crime is a risk throughout Jamaica. The homicide rate reported by the Government of Jamaica is among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. The State Department has placed a travel restriction for U.S. government employees working in the region, prohibiting them from using public transit or driving overnight, and encourages American citizens who are visiting to follow the same guidance.

In April 2023, Eric Anyango and his friend Joe Ochieng suffered hours of violence and verbal abuse after they traveled to the house of a man they met on Facebook. Soon after they arrived, three other men crashed through the door. The young men in their 20's were stripped, kicked, slapped, and beaten, called homophobic slurs, and blackmailed into getting friends and family to send their kidnappers hundreds of dollars through bank transfers.

A man who broke into a family home on Christmas Eve and beat a mother in front of her young children and stabbed her boyfriend has been jailed for six years. Stephen Power, (34), who had prior convictions including for arson, possession of knives, possession of drugs for sale or supply, burglary, theft, criminal damage, was sentenced by Judge Colin Daly at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court.

The arrest of 39-year-old Marquis Davis, announced Thursday by a Solano County Sheriff's news release, occurred just one day after the burned body of Damarrea Neal, 29, was discovered by fire crews near the Lake Herman Recreation Area in unincorporated Benicia. Davis was arrested in Emeryville driving the victim's car, which contained firearms and other evidence linking Davis to the killing, authorities said.

Police responded around 6:40 a.m. to a 911 call reporting an assault inside 956 Sherman Avenue, within the 44th Precinct. Officers arriving at the scene found a 42-year-old woman with stab wounds to her neck, torso and back, and a 16-year-old male with stab wounds to his neck and back.

Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, filmed the 30-minute attack on a mobile phone and kept the sheep's ear tag as a token, which was later hidden inside a Monster energy can and discovered inside a communal toilet. The duo, who were enrolled at Plumpton Agricultural College, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and with Ashby sentenced to two years behind bars and Hollands receiving a 20-month sentence at a youth offender institution.

Eric Immesberger posed as a hit man in undercover operations to gather evidence against people attempting to hire one. He is a former agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who spent 21 years investigating violent crime, including firearms trafficking, organized criminal crews, and murder-for-hire plots. Movies and TV often portray murder for hire as a clean, professional transaction.

OAKLAND - Oakland recorded its fewest homicides in nearly six decades last year, a striking turnaround that came despite historic lows in the number of police officers on the force. The number of killings investigated last year fell to 67, with 57 of those categorized as murders - excluding cases such as justifiable homicides - a total not seen since 1967, according to data compiled by this news organization.

'Williams committed an appalling crime and yet his prison sentence is paltry. 'A five year sentence, reduced further under the early release scheme, is not justice. I am writing to the Attorney General asking that it is reconsidered.'

Crime is flourishing in the Americas, particularly violent crime. The murder rate remains very high, at more than 20 per 100,000 inhabitants. The expansion of the drug trade, which is stronger than ever, has nourished the criminal landscape from the once-tranquil Uruguay to the perpetually troubled Guatemala. Armed groups born from the drug trade are seeking new businesses, left and right, top and bottom.

Convicted drug dealer Jonathan Braun, who had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump during his first term, is being sent back to prison after he violated terms of his supervised release with a series of heinous acts, including allegedly assaulting a three-year-old and sexually abusing a nanny. Braun was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Monday in New York City.

But almost 20 years ago, just a few blocks from the town square where the mayor was gunned down at point-blank range, another event occurred that marked the country's recent memory. In the early morning of September 6, 2006, about 20 hooded men with assault rifles, dressed in police uniforms, stormed into a nightclub, firing shots. Before leaving, they took five human heads out of a bag and left them on the dance floor.