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While delivering cocaine to Tekashi69, a federal prison employee in New York City vouched for his captor. Federal authorities said Thursday that a secretary at Manhattan's notorious federal prison vouched for Tekashi69's kidnapper as a "good inmate" while also transporting him drugs.

Kadeem Edwards, 21, has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the death of Jonathan Pea on Nov. 13. Pea, 32, was fatally shot in Mount Eden on Macombs Road near Inwood Ave. after a trio of thieves backed the victim and his 46-year-old companion into a storefront and robbed Pea of his 18-karat gold chain.

Javier Oates, who is 19, was ordered to be held without bail after Ethan Holder, who was also 19, was shot and killed outside of PS 203 in Flatlands on Tuesday. Holder was a substitute teacher.

Alicia Kozakiewicz was 13 when she slipped out of her Pittsburgh home to meet someone she chatted online. A nightmare followed. Now 27, Alicia made it her goal to shield other children from what she went through, and in many U.S. states had a statute named after her. That's her story in her own.

After his girlfriend is discovered dead in their apartment, a Bronx man is arrested for two prior ugly incidents involving her.

A man from Utah, USA, who murdered his wife in front of their daughters on a cruise ship off the coast of southeast Alaska in 2017 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Ariana Hevia, 23, is accused of pummeling her lover with a "closed fist, causing lacerations, bleeding, and significant pain" to the man's "nose and lips" Saturday around 6:30 p.m. in a Midtown apartment, according to a criminal complaint.

Former DEA agent convicted of working with a Colombian narcotics organization and sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

Assistant coach Katie Rietkovich Browder of the Ole Miss Rebels softball team has been accused of having an inappropriate contact with a student-athlete. Softball website Running Poles reports that 13 persons associated with the program have corroborated the investigation into the suspected relationship.

Two people were killed in two separate car accidents on Staten Island and Queens, both in New York City.