Beat

Crime

Document-trail crime news: court records, verdicts, indictments, and DOJ, FBI, or state attorney general releases. Not entertainment recaps. If a claim cannot be traced to a primary source, it does not run.

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial ends a third day without a verdict

Partially confirmed

Lindsay M. Clancy of Duxbury is on trial in Plymouth Superior Court on three counts of murder under G.L. c. 265 § 1 in the Jan. 24, 2023 deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy. A Plymouth County grand jury returned those murder indictments, and three companion strangulation or suffocation counts under G.L. c. 265 § 15D(b), on Sept. 15, 2023. She pleaded not guilty. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office said first responders found the three children in the basement of 47 Summer Street after a 6:11 p.m. 911 call that evening, and that the chief medical examiner later listed Cora and Dawson’s cause of death as asphyxia and Callan’s as complication of asphyxia. Associated Press, reporting from Plymouth on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, said jurors finished a third day of deliberations without a verdict and were due back Tuesday. AP said Clancy has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility; her lawyer attributes the killings to postpartum psychosis. That is the defense. There is no verdict.

Sources · 5 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Federal court revokes citizenship of convicted rapist Gurmeet Singh

Confirmed

On Aug. 31, 2026, the Justice Department said the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered judgment revoking the naturalization of Gurmeet Singh. The department said the court’s order is dated Aug. 26. A native of India, Singh entered the United States in February 1992 as a visitor, overstayed, and became a permanent resident in June 2000, the department said. In May 2011, weeks before he applied to naturalize, Singh, then a taxicab driver, raped a passenger after driving her to a location with no witnesses, binding and gagging her and holding a knife to her throat, according to the department. He naturalized on Oct. 19, 2011, concealing those acts, the department said. After naturalizing he was convicted in New York of Rape in the First Degree and Kidnapping in the Second Degree as a Sexually Motivated Felony and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Aug. 26 order follows a Justice Department complaint filed Feb. 2. The department did not publish the judgment itself in the release.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Maryland union president convicted of stealing about $1 million in member funds

Confirmed

On Aug. 31, 2026, a federal jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, convicted Kimberly Goodwin, 54, of Bowie, the former president of AFGE Local 2419, of participating in a wire-fraud conspiracy and eight counts of money laundering, the Justice Department said. The local represented about 500 NIH employees while she was president from January 2017 to August 2019. Prosecutors said she kept signatory power after her term, moved about $1 million from employee-grievance recoveries into the local’s account, then transferred it from 2019 to 2022 to a consulting company she owned for services not rendered or billed far above their value. Evidence at trial showed the local had not met since 2020 and went into receivership in 2022, and that she spent union money on personal items including a $7,400 massage chair. Co-conspirator Kelleigh Williams, the local’s secretary-treasurer, was convicted in 2025 of wire-fraud conspiracy. Sentencing was not announced.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Extradition

U.S. extradites alleged Tren de Aragua cell leader to Chile on kidnapping-homicide charges

Confirmed

On Aug. 28, 2026, the Justice Department said Rafael Enrique Gamez Salas, 40, also known as Adrian Rafael Gamez Finol and Turko, was surrendered Thursday to Chilean authorities. Chile seeks to try him on seven charges tied to his alleged role leading Los Piratas, described as Tren de Aragua’s main Chilean cell: one count of criminal association, two of extortion, two of unjustified firearm discharge, one of kidnapping resulting in homicide, and one of kidnapping for extortion. Chile alleges he directed the February 2024 kidnapping and murder in Santiago of a former Venezuelan military lieutenant; the victim’s body was found about a week later in a suitcase, covered in lime and buried in concrete, the department said, citing Chilean authorities. An autopsy cited by Chile found death by asphyxia due to hanging and signs consistent with torture. Gamez Salas was in U.S. custody after a February 2025 Texas human-smuggling conviction and an April 2025 guilty plea to illegal reentry in the Southern District of Texas. On June 30, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick in the Central District of California certified the extradition after Gamez Salas consented; the State Department then issued a surrender warrant. He has not been convicted of the Chilean charges.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Jury convicts Aryan Brotherhood associate of two Lomita murders

Confirmed

On Aug. 26, 2026, a federal jury convicted Justin Gray, 40, of San Pedro, California, of two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, the Justice Department said. Court documents and trial evidence, the department said, showed that on Oct. 4, 2020, Gray lured two men from San Diego to Lomita and, with another associate, shot both in the head on orders from Aryan Brotherhood member Francis Clement, then imprisoned at Kern Valley State Prison, over perceived “disrespect.” Gray is a member of Baby Blue Wrecking Crew, which the department said takes orders from the Aryan Brotherhood. Clement was previously convicted of RICO conspiracy and five counts of murder in aid of racketeering; Kenneth Johnson was convicted of RICO conspiracy and two VICAR murder counts. Gray is set for sentencing Nov. 23 before U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston in the Eastern District of California and faces a mandatory life sentence, the department said.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Courts

Florida jury convicts Russian national of illegally exporting aircraft parts to Aeroflot

Confirmed

On Aug. 28, 2026, the Justice Department said a Southern District of Florida jury the day before convicted Alexander Mamonov, 62, a Florida resident and Russian national, on all 12 counts in a scheme to export more than $900,000 in aircraft parts to Russia and PJSC Aeroflot. Counts included conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, illegal export, smuggling, false export information, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The department said Mamonov, a former Aeroflot employee, and Ignat Vakorin of Russia misled U.S. suppliers by naming destinations such as the UAE and China after 2022 Commerce restrictions and a temporary denial order on Aeroflot. Vakorin remains a fugitive. Sentencing is Nov. 20 before U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams.

Sources · 1 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Sentenced

Fort Bragg double-murder defendant gets three life terms; appeal filed

Confirmed

Kenneth Maurice Quick Jr., 26, of Laurinburg, N.C., was sentenced Aug. 21, 2026, in New Bern to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him on all eight counts of a superseding indictment tied to the December 2020 killings of two men whose bodies were found on Fort Bragg. U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan imposed life on Counts 1, 2, and 4, plus prison terms on the remaining counts, all to run concurrently, followed by three years of supervised release, an $800 special assessment, and $5,432.58 in restitution. The public docket in United States v. Quick, 5:23-cr-00246 (E.D.N.C.), records a guilty verdict on May 12 and a notice of appeal filed Aug. 25. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announcing the sentence on Aug. 26, said trial evidence showed Quick shot an active-duty soldier, identified as W.L., then shot a former soldier, identified as T.D., after forcing T.D. to help move the first body onto the installation.

Sources · 3 listed

Monday, August 31, 2026

Sentenced

North Carolina man gets 188 months for Philadelphia-area murder-for-hire plot

Confirmed

Xin Guang Guo, 48, of Plymouth, N.C., was sentenced Aug. 24, 2026, in Philadelphia to 188 months in prison and three years of supervised release for trying to hire a killer to murder two people in the Philadelphia area. U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III imposed the sentence after Guo pleaded guilty in April to two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said ATF learned on Sept. 30, 2025, that Guo wanted his former business partner and that person’s partner killed, and that Guo agreed to pay $15,000 per killing. On Oct. 6, 2025, Guo gave $2,500 to an undercover ATF officer he believed was the hitman and asked for photographs of the killings before paying the rest. He was arrested after the meeting. Intended victims are Person-1 and Person-2. No one was harmed.

Sources · 2 listed

Upcoming dates

Court dates we can source. Sentencings on this list come from a Justice Department release. If a date slips, the source is that release, not a docket pull. One live trial date is labeled from court coverage. Crime calendar.

Sentencing dates are labeled Confirmed because they appear in the fetched DOJ release. We did not pull those dockets.

The Clancy row is labeled Partially confirmed. Charges and the not-guilty plea are from the indictment and the Plymouth DA. The Tuesday clock and that the jury resumes are from court coverage (Associated Press, Boston.com), not a docket minute we pulled.

We do not list executions or other dates without a fetched official agency page or labeled court coverage.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

9 a.m.Court coverage, not a docket minute

Jury resumes deliberations, Commonwealth v. Lindsay M. Clancy

Plymouth Superior Court

Partially confirmed

Clancy is on trial for three counts of murder in the Jan. 24, 2023 deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy in Duxbury. She has pleaded not guilty. Associated Press said the jury finished a third day Monday without a verdict. Defense: lack of criminal responsibility. No verdict.

Agency

Plymouth Superior Court

Friday, November 20, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Alexander Mamonov

Southern District of Florida, Judge Kathleen M. Williams

Confirmed

A Southern District of Florida jury convicted Mamonov, 62, a Florida resident and Russian national, on Aug. 27, 2026, on all 12 counts in a scheme to export more than $900,000 in aircraft parts to Russia and the state-owned airline Aeroflot. The Justice Department said he and a Russian co-defendant, still a fugitive, misled U.S. suppliers about the destination after 2022 export restrictions. Counts included export-control, smuggling, false export information, and money-laundering conspiracy.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice

Monday, November 23, 2026

No clock time stated

Sentencing, Justin Gray (two VICAR murders)

Eastern District of California, Judge Jennifer L. Thurston

Confirmed

A federal jury convicted Gray, 40, of San Pedro, on Aug. 26, 2026, of two counts of murder in aid of racketeering. The department said that on Oct. 4, 2020, he lured two men from San Diego to Lomita and shot both in the head on orders from an Aryan Brotherhood member in Kern Valley State Prison, over perceived disrespect. Gray is a member of Baby Blue Wrecking Crew, which the department said takes orders from the Aryan Brotherhood.

Agency

U.S. Department of Justice