Crime

British authorities seized 2.4 metric tons of cocaine in a ship arriving in England from Panama, authorities said Saturday, calling it one of the U.K.’s biggest drug busts in years. The drugs, valued at 96 million pounds ($132 million), were found under containers on a vessel at London Gateway port, …

Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of 34 people in a mass grave in a western region wracked by cartel violence, the state prosecutor’s office said Thursday. The remains were found during construction work in Zapopan in Jalisco state, home to one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels, prosecutor Salvador …

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward for information related to a Tesla firebombing in Kansas in April.  Security cameras captured a suspect throwing two lit Molotov cocktails at the back of a Tesla collision center in Lenexa, Kansas, around 1:05 a.m. on April …

Federal prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty for the son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” if he’s convicted of multiple charges in Chicago. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros filed a one-sentence notice Friday saying he would not seek the death penalty against Joaquin Guzman Lopez. The notice did not …

A New York woman has pleaded guilty after being charged with manufacturing synthetic cannabinoids and sending drug-soaked documents to inmates in multiple correctional facilities, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.  Maya McIntosh, 33, manufactured, distributed and possessed with intent to distribute a synthetic cannabinoid called MDMB-4en-PINACA, officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office …

Witnesses say they heard an Ohio man demand the keys to a Jeep that was being towed behind a Missouri couple’s RV before he brutally stabbed them both and killed the man at an Interstate 80 rest area during an attack that was partially captured on dash cam. James Thompson …

A man has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the death of 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina, authorities said Sunday, capping off a four-day investigation that captured the attention of residents in Edna, Texas. The Edna High School student was found dead in her family’s apartment Tuesday, sparking a search …

An Arizona woman is accused of trying to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee. Melody Feliciano Johnson’s husband, who is in the Air Force, was suspicious of his wife and did not drink the coffee she had been prepping for him, according to court documents. The couple, who have …

A death penalty case will continue against a Missouri man who is citing new DNA evidence in his innocence claim for the stabbing death of a former newspaper reporter, the governor announced Thursday. Republican Gov. Mike Parson dissolved a panel of five former judges who had been tasked with reviewing …

Nine more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them. The suit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Nevada, alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in …