Crime

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Music Luce Cannon Issues Statement Denying Cooperation In Big U RICO Case Luce Cannon and Bricc Baby supposedly made comments on No Jumper relating to prosecutors' accusations against Big U in their RICO. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 10, 2025
Pop Culture Amber Heard Hires New Legal Team For Johnny Depp Defamation Appeal Amber Heard is hoping for better luck with a new legal team. By Rex Provost August 15, 2022
Politics Baby Jamo Crashing Car Into Capitol Building Barricade Leads To DC Rapper's Arrest The local artist was taken into police custody with Onosetale Okojie, a press release from the Capitol Police says. By Hayley Hynes November 06, 2023
Music Lil Durk's Murder-For-Hire Trial Date Has Been Revealed After being behind bars for over a year, Lil Durk and his team finally have a date set so that they can begin campaigning for his freedom. By Zachary Horvath January 15, 2026
Pop Culture Two Families Of Calabasas Helicopter Crash Victims Settle Photo Lawsuit With L.A. County Two of the families who lost loved ones in the tragic 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash will reportedly receive a $2.5 million settlement from Los Angeles County. By Joshua Robinson November 03, 2021
Crime Trippie Redd Reportedly Won't Be Prosecuted For Alleged Assault Despite probable cause, prosecutors have decided not to prosecute Trippie for his alleged assault case. By Kevin Goddard August 17, 2021
Pop Culture Rich Dollaz Defends Daughter, Says She Shot Ex Because She Was Scared Ashley Trowers had a restraining order against the father of her child, and when he showed up at her job, she shot him. By Erika Marie January 31, 2023
Music Lil Durk Accused Of Rapping About 2022 “Revenge” Shooting In New Indictment Lil Durk was hit with new charges today. By Caroline Fisher November 08, 2024
Crime Two Wounded After Shooting At High School Basketball Game No arrests have been made. By Cole Blake January 12, 2020
Music Diddy's Legal Trouble Gets Yet Another Documentary Treatment From BBC This follows other Diddy documentaries from TMZ, MAX, and more. The new BBC doc also preludes the Bad Boy mogul's federal trial. By Gabriel Bras Nevares April 24, 2025
Crime Ben Crump Reacts To Derek Chauvin Possibly Getting Longer Sentence Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump reacts after Judge rules that Derek Chauvin is now eligible for a longer sentence than initially expected. By Mitch Findlay May 12, 2021
Sports Giants' Deandre Baker Turns Himself In Amid Armed Robbery Allegations Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar have been accused of an armed robbery at a cookout. By Alexander Cole May 16, 2020