Crime

It has been a rough year for the National Football League. A number of NFL stars are engulfed in legal problems stemming from child abuse accusations, domestic violence charges and aggravated assault allegations, all in the midst of Aaron Hernandez’s murder trial. NewsOne takes a quick look at some of the legal woes and criminal charges plaguing […]

  James Herard, 25, was convicted by a Fort Lauderdale jury in May of murdering two people. The jury recommended a death sentence. Well, during a sentencing hearing Friday, Herard, who did not testify during his trial, took the opportunity to dare the judge to take the recommendation and sentence him to death. “Honestly and truly, I’m not […]

Chantae Gilman (pictured) has officially been charged with raping a male neighbor while he slept in his Seattle apartment in June of last year, reports KOMO News. According to a police report, the 26-year-old mother of four, who is now pregnant again, allegedly broke into her unidentified neighbor’s apartment as he slept following a party he had […]

Pastor Apostle Johnnie Clark (pictured) is facing a two-week jail stint for reportedly allowing his congregants to praise the Lord too loudly! According to WLTX, the good Rev., who heads the Rehoboth United Assemblies Church has violated the city noise limits of Columbia, S.C., by singing, shouting, dancing, and drumming, and neighbors have summoned police more […]

  “Real Housewives of Atlanta’s” Apollo Nida (pictured) was scheduled to surrender to a federal prison in Lexington, Ky., at noon on Wednesday to serve an eight-year sentence for bank fraud and identity theft. The stint is then to be followed by five years of a supervised release. Instead of checking in to the minimum-security facility at […]

Sheryl Pagan Todd (pictured), the Mother of Houston Texans player Jeoffrey Pagan, was arrested and reportedly charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her mother’s boyfriend, Walter J. Stevenson, 69, according to USA Today. SEE ALSO: Janay Rice Breaks Silence On Instagram, Describes Public Intrusion As ‘Horrible Nightmare’ A warrant reportedly states that the 56-year-old […]

Brooklyn residents Precious Parker, 30 and Sabrina James, 23 are facing charges of robbery and unlawful imprisonment after they reportedly robbed, then forced three White tenants out of their apartment building at gunpoint just because they were ‘tired of white people moving into the area,’ according to a police report states the New York Daily News. The […]

Ray Nagin (pictured), who will forever be remembered as the mayor who held New Orleans down, as the city tried to withstand the deadly and destructive cyclone Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, is headed to federal prison on Monday to begin his 10-year stint for corruption, according to The Times-Picayune. SEE ALSO: Simone Battle: X […]

Judy Evon Bingham (pictured) is facing felony charges of cruelty to children in the first degree and battery, after being arrested for reportedly dragging a kindergarten child, who had misbehaved, across a classroom floor and down a hallway to the school’s office, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The East Cobb, Georgia Tritt Elementary School educator […]

The man who had been stalking Robin Roberts (pictured), the chatfest co-anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America (GMA)” was deemed unfit to stand trial by a Manhattan judge and was reportedly not present in the court room when the decision was reached, according to the New York Post. RELATED:  First Lady Supports Robin Roberts Coming […]

Douglas Poynter (pictured) of Kentucky was reportedly so hellbent on getting neighbors Jesus Alamo (pictured below) and his family out of their home, that he allegedly terrorized them by writing, “KKK wants you to burn,” on their fence with green paint, among other offenses. Now Poynter is facing a slew of charges, including criminal trespassing, attempted arson, terroristic threatening, wanton endangerment, […]

Theodore Wafer, the White suburban Detroit man who shot and killed Renisha McBride last fall, was sentenced on Wednesday to serve at least 17 years in prison. Wafer apologized to the family of McBride in attendance just before his sentence was delivered and the family agreed that the decision was fair. RELATED: Juror: ‘No One’ […]