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Editor’s note: This article includes content that may be disturbing to readers. A Philadelphia teenager pleaded guilty collecting images and videos depicting child pornography, officials said. Léelo en español aquí Isaiah Smith, 19, admitted that he had owned child pornography that showed prepubescent minors engaging in sexual encounters. Resources for victims of sexual assault are available through the National Sexual Violence Resources Center and the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 800-656-4673. Some of the videos that Smith owned showed him sexually abusing two victims who were identified as a six-year-old girl and a non-verbal three-year-old boy. Officials explained that the child pornography was found after one of Smith’s friends walked in on him while he was orally raping one of the children. Smith is scheduled to be sentenced on May 6, 2026, and could face up to 20 years in prison with a mandatory minimum of up to a lifetime of supervised release. Smith will need to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

NBC10 obtained the frantic 911 call an employee made after police say a robber tried to tie her up inside a smoke shop in Toms River, New Jersey. The incident occurred on Monday, Jan. 19, around 6 a.m. at the Noble Smoke Shop on 203 Route 37 East. An unidentified man entered the store and asked an employee inside to open a locked case of items, according to investigators. Police said the man then tried to restrain the employee with plastic zip ties. “He just had a zip tie and he asked me to put my hands behind my back,” the woman said in the 911 call. “But I, like, pushed him. And I was like, ‘No. No. Stop.’” Police said the woman managed to escape the robber unharmed.   “And then I started running to the other side of the store. He just started grabbing a bunch of our stuff and I went back and I started to try to push him and he just didn’t stop,” the woman said. “So then I ran back and I went to try to grab the phone to call 911 again. And he ran out the front door.” The robber stole thousands of dollars’ worth of Kratom cartridges from the store before fleeing the scene, police said. He was last seen in the area of the Jamestowne Village Apartments, according to investigators. The robber is described as a man with a medium build wearing a black North Face jacket with a fur hood, light-colored cargo pants and black sneakers. Neither police nor the employee in the 911 call mentioned whether or not the man was armed. Investigators also said they recovered the zip ties inside the store. If you have any information on the robbery, call Detective Putkowski at 732-349-0150, extension 1349, or email him at jputkowski@trpolice.org.

Masked intruders broke into the Los Angeles-area home of actor Troy Garity over the weekend when the “Ballers” and “Barbershop” actor was out of town, the LAPD told NBC Los Angeles exclusively. The break-in triggered an alert at about 8 p.m. Saturday after three men wearing ski masks and gloves entered the residence through a rear glass slider, police said. The burglars left a short time later and took off in a getaway car. It was not immediately clear what, if anything, was stolen. No arrests were reported Tuesday afternoon. NBCLA has reached out to Garity’s rep for comment. Garity is the 52-year-old son of actor Jane Fonda and politician and activist Tom Hayden. He is known for his role as Isaac in the “Barbershop” film franchise and NFL agent Jason Antolotti in HBO’s “Ballers” comedy series. Garity also had film roles in “Bandits,” alongside Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett and Billy Bob Thorton, and “Soldier’s Girl.” He was nominated for a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit award for his role in the Showtime original. He made an on-screen appearance alongside his mother and her father, Henry Fonda, in 1981’s “On Golden Pond.”

A North Carolina woman fatally poisoned her daughter in a 2025 slaying that eventually connected the suspect to a cold case murder from 2007, authorities said Wednesday. Gudrun Casper-Leinenkugel, a 52-year-old resident of Hendersonville, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and three counts of distribution of prohibited food or beverage, according to an arrest warrant. “After an extensive and comprehensive investigation, the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crime Unit has charged Gudrun Casper-Leinenkugel of Hendersonville in connection with the 2025 murder of Leela Livis and the attempted murder of Richard Pegg and Mia Lacey,” according to a North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation statement. Hendersonville, with a little less than 16,000 residents, is in western North Carolina, just south of Asheville. “It is believed the poisoning took place last November just before the death of the female victim,” North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Chad Flowers said in statement to NBC News on Wednesday. “The female victim is the daughter.” Airlines 12 hours ago A former flight attendant posed as a pilot and received hundreds of free flights, US authorities say Crime and Courts Jan 20 Florida hotel worker accused of stealing Miami Hurricanes championship ring County and state authorities declined to reveal how they connected Casper-Leinenkugel to the previously unsolved death of Michael Schmidt, who perished in a fire in October, 2007 in Hendersonville. She was being held in Henderson County Jail on Wednesday and it wasn’t immediately clear if she had been assigned a lawyer or hired one to speak on her behalf. Nicole Duarte contributed.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would not impose tariffs on eight European countries that were set to go into effect on Feb. 1 unless those countries allowed the United States to take control of Greenland. On Saturday, Trump said he would hit Denmark, the U.K. and other countries involved in NATO exercises with a 10% tariff starting next month. “Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st,” he added. Trump had said if those countries did not comply with his demands by June, the tariff would rise to 25%. Trump’s comments over the weekend roiled global markets. Stocks soared to the highs of the day on Trump’s announcement that the tariffs were off.