A teenager accused of killing four people while they slept appeared in a Los Angeles court to face the murder and arson charges on Tuesday, Nov. 26.

Miguel Sandoval, 19, was charged with six counts, including four counts of murder, one felony count of first-degree residential burglary with a person present, and one felony count of arson of an inhabited structure or property, according to an L.A. District Attorney Office press release.

Sandoval is accused of killing Matthew Montebello, 21, Montebello’s partner Janvi Maquindang, 21, Maquindang’s sister, Christine Aca-ac, 26, and Aca-ac’s fiancée Edwin Garcia, 24, inside their Lancaster, Calif. home on Nov. 16.

Sandoval appeared in court shirtless, per photos obtained by The Daily Mail. Per the L.A. District Attorney site, court attendees are instructed not to wear shorts, tank tops, clothing that shows their stomachs, beachwear, flip-flops, or clothing with inappropriate words or signs.

Man Fatally Stabs Wife and 3 Children Aged 10, 12 and 17 in Hawaii Apartment in Suspected Murder-Suicide Aca-ac and Maquindang’s 16-year-old sister was uninjured after she hid in the closet and called 911. The surviving family member was taken to the L.A. Sheriff’s office and said she heard the gunshots around 1:27 a.m. “She stayed in her room because she was scared, and that's when deputies were able to locate her and extract her," said LASD Lt. Steve Dejong, per ABC 7.

Around 1:30 a.m., Sandoval allegedly entered and burglarized the home while the residents were asleep. He then allegedly shot them and set the house on fire to cover-up his crimes. before fleeing the scene. He was later arrested on Nov. 21, per KTLA.___

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Three dogs were also fatally shot, according to authorities. The motivation for the murders remains unknown, and the L.A. Sheriff’s Department’s investigation is ongoing.

Montebello's mother Maria told ABC7 she recognized Sandoval’s name but never met him. Maria told the news station she only knew of him as an ex-boyfriend of one of the younger siblings in the house.

The governor of the state of Sinaloa spoke about a statement in which he referred to "meetings" with organized crime groups and authorities and clarified that he was referring to clashes.

Rubén Rocha Moya, governor of the state of Sinaloa, has responded to insinuations of a possible link between authorities and criminal groups in the state. During an appearance on a national radio program, the president flatly ruled out any meeting with drug trafficking leaders.

"I categorically deny any meeting of any authority, of any of the three levels of government with criminals. In any case, they are confrontations. Until now, what the government is doing is confronting violence and confronting it with government operations against armed civilian groups, or groups of criminals," he said during an interview on Joaquín López Dóriga's radio program. In addition, he clarified that these security actions focus on the pacification of the region.

The security context in the state remains a matter of public interest, and Rocha Moya admitted that while clashes between criminal factions have been reduced, they have not been completely eliminated. In this regard, in the radio space he said:

>"Confrontations between criminal groups and also confrontations between a criminal group and the authorities have been reduced, and those have been reduced, but they have not ended. Unfortunately they occur, but less so, and that tells us that the generation of violence has been reduced."

In the context of these events, Rocha was questioned about the existence of an alleged meeting with Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda and criminal leaders in a place identified as Huertos del Pedregal. Rocha categorically denied having participated in such a meeting, commenting that he was not even invited to the alleged event on July 25.

>"That version has never existed either, that I agreed to go to a meeting with these characters, neither aware of it, nor invited by any means, I was not summoned to this meeting that took place on July 25, much less to have been there; So, I was not there, nor was I invited, nor did I have any knowledge of that meeting at all, there is no paper, call, statement, that someone has invited me to that meeting, definitely, I did not know about it and much less attend," he reiterated.

“Child sex crimes and child trafficking. How could you nominate someone with allegations of child trafficking or trafficking across state lines and having sex with a 17-year-old?” Hostin asked on the yesterday’s (Nov. 19) episode of the show.

Minutes later, Whoopi Goldberg announced that Hostin has a “legal note” to share, as she often does on the show. However, this one felt a little poorly timed after Hostin had spent air time ripping the politician apart.

“I do have a legal note. Thank you, Whoopi,” Hostin replied, before reading the note. “Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims, quote, ‘invented,’ and saying in a statement to ABC News that ‘this false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism.’ The DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought.”

The show then promptly went to commercial break without any further discussion about the topic.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy accused of Tasing a gas-soaked biker during a botched arrest — and sparking a fire that burned more than 75% of the man’s body three years ago — has been acquitted of negligence charges.

Osceola County Deputy David Crawford tackled victim Jean Barreto at a Wawa gas station after Barreto had allegedly run red lights, ridden on the sidewalk and sped into oncoming traffic before stopping to refuel on Feb. 27, 2022, local reports said.

Crawford shouted to his partners to turn off the gas pump during the caught-on-camera encounter, which knocked Barreto’s bike over and soaked him with gasoline.

Prosecutors said that’s when Crawford raised his Taser, fired the weapon and ignited a blaze that torched Barreto from neck to ankles.

They charged the deputy with culpable negligence for the act. But on Friday, a jury declared him not guilty after a week-long trial, according to WESH 2 in Orlando.

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The defense claimed Crawford didn’t actually shoot the Taser, but it went off on its own when he threw it to the side.

“Every single witness, every single video conclusively shows you that he never intentionally discharged that Taser,” Crawford’s attorney said at the trial’s end.

When Crawford was asked if he remembered the Taser going off either in his hand or after he tossed it, the deputy simply replied, “I have no memory of turning the safety off.”

He also said he wouldn’t have done anything differently during the arrest — even with the horrific second- and third-degree burns that covered most of Barreto’s body.

The teenage son of an Israeli diplomat is accused of intentionally driving his motorcycle into a Florida cop because he “hates waiting behind traffic,” but could have his charges dropped because of his father’s immunity, according to his attorney.

Avraham Gil, 19, appeared to be hysterically crying in his mugshot after he was arrested for striking a Sunny Isles Beach police lieutenant just after 3:30 p.m. Jan. 27.

The lieutenant was conducting a traffic stop on Collins Avenue, one of the main roadways on the Miami barrier island, when he saw Gil weaving through traffic and yelled at the teen to stop, according to WPLG.

As the cop motioned for Gil to stop, the teen reportedly continued to ride and “intentionally ran him over.”

The officer sustained an “incapacitating” injury to his left leg, but grabbed Gil off his bike and brought him to the ground, according to the outlet.

Gil, who lives in Aventura, was charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence, both felonies, according to court records viewed by The Post.

Gil’s father, Eli Gil, is the consul for administration at the Israeli Consulate in Miami.

A court in South Korea has found a man guilty of trying to avoid mandatory military service by deliberately gaining weight, local media report.

The 26-year-old began binge eating before his physical examination for the draft, a judge in the capital, Seoul, said. He was categorised as obese, allowing him to serve in a non-combat role at a government agency.

The defendant received a one-year suspended sentence. A friend who devised a special regimen that doubled his daily food intake got a six-month suspended sentence, the Korea Herald newspaper reports.

All able-bodied men in South Korea over the age of 18 must serve in the army for at least 18 months.

According to the Korean Herald, the defendant was assessed as fit for combat duty during an initial physical exam.

But at the final examination last year, he weighed in at over 102kg (225 lbs, 16 stone), making him heavily obese.

The man who recommended binge dieting had denied the charge of aiding and abetting, saying he never believed his friend would through with it, the newspaper adds.

NEW YORK — For six minutes, Jordan Neely was pinned to a subway floor in a chokehold that ended with him lying still. But that’s not what killed him, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in defense of the military-trained commuter charged with killing Neely.

A New York City medical examiner determined that Daniel Penny’s chokehold killed Neely, an agitated, mentally ill man whom Penny and some other riders found threatening.

But the defense’s pathologist, Dr. Satish Chundru, told jurors that Neely’s medical records and bystander video didn’t show telltale signs of known types of fatal chokeholds.

Among the discrepancies, he said: the location and extent of bruising on Neely’s neck, and the small amount of petechiae — small red spots caused by subsurface bleeding — on his eyelids.

“In your opinion, did Mr. Penny choke Mr. Neely to death?” defense lawyer Steven Raiser asked.

“No,” replied Chundru, who has worked as a medical examiner for county governments in Florida and Texas.

He said Neely died from “the combined effects” of synthetic marijuana, schizophrenia, his struggle and restraint, and a blood condition that can lead to fatal complications during exertion.

“The chokehold did not cause death,” the pathologist said.

Penny, 26, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. His defense says the Marine veteran and architecture student was defending himself and a car full of subway riders.

Washington DC: Frozen french fries meant for hungry customers at a Wendy’s outlet lined the cavernous interiors of the semi-truck—of no particular interest to the border inspectors at first glance. The truck, however, had logged hundreds of kilometres over its scheduled route from Vancouver to Los Angeles, and the inspectors thought it warranted closer examination. Tucked away behind the fries, they discovered 120 kilograms of premium British Columbia cannabis, with an estimated street price of over $300,000.

Like Jashandeep Singh, the driver caught ferrying the ‘bud’ to Los Angeles back in 2003, ethnic-Punjabi criminal groups are recruiting hundreds of young asylum-seekers from India over 20 years later.

Ever since the arrest this week of organised crime boss Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother, Anmol Bishnoi, who is now being held at a prison in Pottawattamie, Iowa, investigators have been working to unpack a complex story involving the cross-border trafficking of migrants, narcotics cartels, assassins for hire and the Sikh separatist movement.

The Bishnoi gang—presumed to have murdered pro-Sikh separatist operative Hardeep Singh Nijjar in a hit allegedly organised by the Indian government—isn’t the largest, or most dangerous actor, though. The rival gang of Rajesh Kumar, known by the name “Sonu Khatri”, has brought in up to 100 migrants from villages around Punjab’s Nawanshahr to the United States, an Indian intelligence officer told ThePrint.

Earlier this year, the Punjab and Haryana High Court heard evidence that Rajesh’s gang members—nicknamed “Khatri key khiladi”, a wry pun invoking a similarly-named television series—had acquired dozens of fake passports using fictitious addresses in the town of Tohana in Haryana through a ring of middlemen and corrupt officials.

Growing numbers of ethnic-Punjabi migrants—many of them asylum-seekers working as truck drivers while their applications are processed—are being held on organised-crime-related charges. Gagandeep Singh, held in February, is charged with shipping 890 kilograms of cocaine, valued at $8.7 million, hidden in a cargo of agricultural equipment.

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Economist Stephen Easton calculated in 2003 that a typical $100,000 investment in a cannabis-growing greenhouse offered an over 70 percent return, even allowing for the five percent chance of being caught by police. Low prosecution rates in British Columbia were a further incentive.

For emerging ethnic-Punjabi gangs, the cannabis trade offered enormous opportunities. Early on, the fact that ethnic-Punjabis knew berry farmers on either side of the border made it easy to walk consignments across. Embedded in the trucking business in both California and British Columbia, some in the community later proved willing to offer their services to the gangs to ship cannabis southwards and bring cocaine to the north.

The phenomenon soon spread to California, too, journalist Lisa Fernandez reported in 2008, with violent gangs like the Santa Clara Punjabi Boys, Aim to Kill, and the All Indian Mob drawing members from low-income new migrant families.

Less visible, though, was another critical linkage. Top gangsters like Raminder ‘Ron’ Dosanjh and his brother Jimsher ‘Jimmy’ Dosanjh were key figures in the Sikh separatist movement, leading the now-banned International Sikh Youth Federation. Gang leader Raminder ‘Mindy’ Bhandher lived with Sikh separatist and 1985 Air India bombing accused Ripudman Singh Malik—himself later assassinated in a 2022 contract-killing.

Evidence emerged from the trial of hitman Hardeep Uppal in 2003 that the Babbar Khalsa had paid $50,000 to gangsters Ravinder ‘Robbie’ Soomel and Daljit Basran for murdering anti-Sikh separatist journalist Tara Singh Hayer, a key witness in the Air India case.

Journalist Malcolm Gay reported in 2003 that funds from the drug trade and help from gang muscle were widely suspected to have helped pro-Sikh separatist leaders, like Jaswinder Singh Jandi and Jasjeet Singh Chela, capture control of the important Fremont Gurudwara in 1996. The two men owned the business which had hired Jashandeep, the driver involved in the 2003 French Fry case. Efforts to build a case had, however, collapsed after Jashandeep fled home to India while out on bail.

Two Thais and a Myanmar citizen were arrested in Chon Buri on Thursday on charges of trafficking a 10-year-old girl from Myanmar to work as their “slave”.

The arrests were carried out by the police Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) and the Chon Buri office of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security after a court issued warrants.

The Thai suspects were identified only as Porntip, 65, and Saman, 50, and the Myanmar national was Naw Tha Tha Yee, according to a police source. They have been charged with conspiring to engage in human trafficking and exploiting a minor under the age of 15.

The arrests were the culmination of an investigation that began in February when a 10-year-old girl was found sleeping at a cemetery in Chon Buri.

A convicted murderer known as 'The Wolfman' who has served nearly 40 years in prison after a bride-to-be was beaten to death could get a retrial after his conviction was referred to the Court of Appeal.

Diane Sindall, 21, was killed with a crowbar after she ran out of petrol when she left her part-time job as a barmaid in Bebington, Merseyside in August 1986.

Peter Sullivan was convicted of her murder the following year after one of the biggest man hunts the area has ever seen.

The florist's injuries were so horrific they were never revealed by the police - but Sullivan gained his horrific nickname after he was convicted through bite marks found on her body that matched his dental records.

The unemployed-father-of-one had spent the day drinking heavily after losing a darts match at the Crown Hotel, before a chance encounter with Ms Sindall as she walked to a petrol station when her blue Fiat van ran out of petrol, the Liverpool Echo reports.

On Wednesday, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said that Sullivan's conviction had been referred to the Court of Appeal on the basis of DNA evidence.

In a statement the CCRC told The Mirror: 'Mr Sullivan applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in March 2021 raising concerns about his interviews by the police, bitemark evidence presented in his trial, and what was said to be the murder weapon.

'After consulting experts, the CCRC obtained DNA information from samples taken at the time of the offence.

'As a result, a DNA profile was obtained which did not match Mr Sullivan. The CCRC has now sent Mr Sullivan's conviction back to the courts.'

Samples taken at the time of the murder were re-examined and a DNA profile that did not match Sullivan was found, the commission said.

Sullivan applied to the body to have his case re-examined in 2021, raising concerns about police interviews, bite mark evidence and the murder weapon.

He claimed he had not been provided with an appropriate adult during interviews.

***Yes they are alleging that he had some condition that required him to have some sort of guardian advocate on his behalf due to not being qualified to function as his own guardian.

The CCRC added that there was evidence suggesting there were breaches in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 over police interviews, as he was not given an appropriate adult and was initially denied legal representation.

Sullivan had previously applied to the CCRC in 2008 raising questions about DNA evidence, but forensic experts said that further testing was unlikely to reveal a DNA profile.

A woman in Seattle has been charged with first-degree murder after she killed her father with an ice axe for refusing to shut off the lights in her house, police say.

Corey Burke, 31, allegedly told detectives that she was trying to convince her 67-year-old father, Timothy, to shut the lights off, but could not make him budge. She also told police that she had been in a highly emotional state due to the election, and felt that there was "something important" about Election Day, according to the Seattle Times.

Police were dispatched to the area she lived at around 8 p.m. November 5 after reports of someone breaking out the windows of a home. Burke then exited the house with blood on her face, and was taken to hospital for a mental health evaluation.

Police continued to search the home and found her father’s body in the basement, with wounds to his head and torso, according to the King County medical examiner’s report. A bloody silver-and-blue ice climbing axe was also recovered.

The day after the attack, Burke told detectives that she tripped and strangled her father with the axe, allegedly whispering to one that "I killed him,” the Seattle Times reports.

Timothy’s extensive injuries included wounds to his head and torso, 2-inch lacerations to his rib cage and a puncture near the base of his skull.

“Corey stated (when) her father started arguing with her, about the lights being shut off, that she ‘just freaked out,’” Seattle Detective Azrielle Brikey wrote in a report.

“The defendant told Detectives that she knew that she could not convince him to keep the lights off, so she went upstairs retrieved an ice axe and tripped her father, strangled him with the axe and her hands and then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe,” a case summary by the prosecutor’s office read.

According to police, Timothy was something of a shut-in due to a number of health problems he was facing prior to his death and was living at his daughter’s home in Rainier Valley, Washington.

Mandy Rose Reynolds, 26, was found "dead beyond recognition" in April 2023. Her dog helped police identify her and her killer Derek Daigneault

Mandy Rose Reynolds, 26, was found burning and “dead beyond recognition" in April 2023 by authorities responding to a brush fire in Robinson, Texas, according to the McLennan County District Attorney's Office.

Her cousin, 29-year-old Derek Daigneault, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, Nov. 7, for her murder, the DA’s office said in a release last week.

The investigation began on April 5, 2023, after police found Reynolds’ body, initially unrecognizable, burning in a field next to a white dog that “barked frantically at officers and refused to leave the area of the body, but also refused to allow police to capture it,” according to the DA’s press release.

The next day, the dog was still at the location after the body had been removed, when a citizen notified animal control who tracked the dog’s owner through a chip on him. Police were then tipped off that the corpse likely belonged to Reynolds and learned the dog's name is Titan.

This information led police to Reynolds' residence, where they found all her belongings missing and her home completely empty, the DA’s office said. The victim’s car was also missing, prompting police to run her vehicle information on a license plate database. They determined that the car was in Wichita, Kan.

Wichita police, upon being notified about the vehicle, spotted Reynolds’ car on April 8, 2023, and encountered Daigneault, per the DA’s office. He fled the scene on foot and hid on a shelf in a grocery store where he was caught, police said.

Investigators discovered a handgun inside the car which matched the shell casing found inside the container where police say Reynolds’ body was burned.

HOUSTON - Gloria Williams was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Tuesday as part of a plea deal for her role in the tragic death of her son, bringing an end to a case that has haunted the Houston community and left a deep impact on her surviving children.

The sentencing concluded a lengthy legal battle and spared the three young children from testifying in court about their traumatic experiences.

Assistant District Attorney Edward Appelbaum expressed how he felt about the sentencing, stating, "Justice was served, 50 years is appropriate. The judge listened and considered all the evidence. We’re thankful that the kids did not have to go through another horrific deal."

Williams boyfriend, Brian Coulter, was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for killing Williams' 8-year-old son, Kendrick Lee.

According to court records, Coulter assaulted Lee in their apartment on the 3500 block of Green Crest Drive, near the Westpark Tollway. Prosecutors claims Coulter continued to live in the apartment with the boy’s decomposing body while Kendrick's siblings stayed in the room with him as well.

The brothers testified witnessing the assault and being in the room when the 8-year-old died. His body was left in the room with his siblings for an extended period of time. One sibling explained that Coulter had beaten Kendrick over an incident involving water. Coulter allegedly became angry when Kendrick drank what Coulter saw as more than his share of water.

Only skeletal remains were found in the apartment when police arrived in October 2021, according to court documents.

Williams lived in the apartment with her son's decomposing body for months from November 2020 to March 2021, before she left her other children to live with the body alone, court reports revealed.

Williams was receiving $2,000 a month for three of her kids who are disabled, including Lee, but according to the prosecutor, Williams continued receiving money for the 8-year-old even after he was dead.

Afederal judge on Tuesday sentenced Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison.

Teixeria, a 22-year-old Air National Guardsman from Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents related to the war in Ukraine.

Prior to his sentencing on Tuesday, Teixeria spoke to the court and apologized for his actions, saying: "I wanted to say I'm sorry for all the harm that I brought and caused."

"I understand all the responsibility and consequences fall upon my shoulders alone and accept whatever that will bring," he added.

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Teixeira's attorneys portrayed him as an autistic and socially isolated young man who spent the majority of his time online, particularly within his Discord community. They argued that, while his actions were criminal, he had no intent to "harm the United States." They also noted he had no previous criminal record.

Investigators in Wisconsin used genetic genealogy to solve a 50-year-old cold case this week, charging an 84-year-old Minnesota man with killing a woman who was found dead in 1974, authorities said.

Mary K. Schlais, 25, was found dead at an intersection in the township of Spring Brook, Wisconsin on February 15, 1974, according to the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office. Her death was ruled a homicide and the initial investigation revealed she had been hitchhiking to an art show in Chicago when she was killed, the agency said.

Jon Miller, of Owatonna, Minnesota, was arrested on Thursday after he “confirmed his involvement” with Schlais’ homicide, according to Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd. He’s currently in custody in Steele County, Minnesota, and is awaiting extradition to Wisconsin, Bygd said.

“This is a huge victory for our agency,” Bygd said at a Friday news conference. It’s the first time the agency has used genetic genealogy to solve a case, the sheriff said.

For decades, detectives from multiple law enforcement agencies who were assigned to the homicide case received various leads and tips and conducted interviews, but no “viable” suspects were identified, according to the sheriff’s office.

Evidence was also examined and reexamined over the years, but it wasn’t until the agency started working with a team of genetic genealogists at Ramapo College in New Jersey in recent years, investigators were able to identify Miller as the suspect using genetic evidence, the department said.

Forensic genetic genealogy can generate leads for unsolved cases by analyzing DNA on top of traditional genealogy research, according to the US Department of Justice.

It combines forensic genetics, or DNA analysis, with conventional genealogy, or one’s family history, for human identification.

“Agencies can spend thousands and thousands of dollars sending DNA samples to private labs across the country to try and get results and we had a college very willing to step up and help us with this process,” Sheriff Bygd said.

Two sheriff’s investigators who have been working on the case, Dan Westland and Jason Stocker, said at the news conference they spoke with Schlais’ family, who expressed relief and gratitude for the investigation.

The sheriff’s office did not go into detail about what piece of DNA evidence investigators used to solve the case or the genetic genealogy process leading them to the suspect, saying they would leave it for Ramapo College representatives to address at their Monday news briefing.

At least 35 people were killed and 43 others sustained injuries after a man rammed his car into people at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai which is hosting the country’s biggest annual air show this week.

Police detained a 62-year-old man suspected of hitting the joggers and speeding off on Monday evening, according to the state media. The alleged driver, identified as Mr Fan, drove his SUV through a barrier at Zhuhai Sports Centre in what local police say was a "serious and vicious attack". He is in a coma and being treated for wounds thought to be self-inflicted.

Initial investigations suggested the attack had been triggered by unhappiness over a divorce property settlement, police said. Because he is still in a coma, he has yet to be questioned.