Crime & Arrests

Erik Menendez's stepdaughter Talia is speaking out amid his marathon parole hearing Thursday in California.

Talia -- who's the daughter of Erik's wife Tammi -- hopped on Instagram this afternoon to tell fans she has no update yet other than to say she's "just as anxious" as everyone else about the hearing's outcome. As you know, Erik and his brother Lyle were convicted decades ago for the shotgun murders of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.

Talia is a huge advocate for Erik and Lyle and constantly writes in support of them on her Instagram account. In July, she posted about Erik's kidney stones, saying he was recovering from a 2nd surgery related to his health issue.

Lil Nas X was just booked for battery on a peace officer -- following his late-night escapade that ended with him stark naked and tussling with police officers!!!

TMZ Hip Hop can confirm the "Old Town Road" rapper is currently in custody for the misdemeanor offense at a Van Nuys jail just outside Los Angeles. Nas is currently being held without bail.

We broke the story ... Lil Nas X was spotted by a bystander early this morning wearing nothing but tighty whities and cowboy boots while parading down the middle of a street.

12:07 PM PT -- A family source tells TMZ ... they believe Travis Renee Baldwin left her home around 3:20 AM Sunday to go to her son, Logan Chrisinger's, apartment to help with a crisis. We're told she was FaceTiming with her son that morning and he threatened he'd kill himself and flashed his gun.

The family is aware Chrisinger had mental issues going on, as he had threatened Baldwin previously ... even saying he would kill her and hope she died. Chrisinger has been under immense stress lately -- he lost his job and was worried about losing his apartment.

Baldwin is remembered by her family as a loving mom to her son and daughter, Adrianna. Her family says she would have done anything for her kids and her beloved pup Kai. She also loved her job and those she worked with.

Funeral plans have not yet been arranged.

Travis Renee Baldwin -- a Newsmax makeup artist who worked for Greta Van Susteren --  was fatally shot in Virginia over the weekend -- and police say her son pulled the trigger.

According to the Arlington County Police Department, Logan Chrisinger shot and killed his mom in an Arlington apartment Sunday morning, but his motive is still a mystery.

Officers were dispatched at 8:30 AM after receiving a report of a shooting and found Baldwin with an apparent gunshot wound and her son at the scene, police said. Baldwin was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The "Ketamine Queen" -- the last of 5 people charged in Matthew Perry's death -- is going away to prison, for a long time, after agreeing to plead guilty in the federal case.

Jasveen Sangha, who earned her street handle from slinging the drug in North Hollywood, struck a plea deal on 5 criminal charges -- according to the feds, she will plead guilty to 3 counts of ketamine distribution, one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death and one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises.

In exchange for her guilty plea, the feds are dropping all the other charges for which she'd been indicted.

Blueface was skinnier than a pole when he was on the outside ... but now that he's on the inside -- that is, in state prison -- he's become totally buff with a buncha new tats!

The "Thotiana" rapper posted pics of himself standing with a couple of his boys inside California State Prison, Los Angeles County -- and they show Blueface has beefed up BIG TIME! You might even have to do a double-take because of his physical transformation.

Plus, his face is now completely tatted up, which is a drastic escalation from all the ink on his body before he landed in the California penal system.

Sebastian Telfair fans better hope he's a lover of protein ... 'cause TMZ Sports has learned the food menus for his first few days in prison are loaded with meat -- including hot dogs.

The ex-NBA star just reported to FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey this week to serve a six-month sentence for violating the conditions of his supervised release in his healthcare fraud case ... and some of his first few choices for food will be fairly vast.

His lunch options include hamburgers and fries, chicken and sweet potatoes, fish and rice ... and eggs.

The Breeze Airways passenger who was confronted and restrained by others on a flight allegedly threw chewing tobacco in someone's face and called a flight attendant the N-word ... according to federal law enforcement.

ICYMI ... a video went viral showing a man on a flight from Virginia to Los Angeles that had to be diverted to Grand Junction, Colorado -- and you can see a large man force the guy to sit down after cops say he acted in an unruly manner.

New documents have shed more light on the situation ... with law enforcement claiming the incident on the plane began when the man -- identified as David Leroy Carver Jr. -- called a Black flight attendant the N-word and claimed she was his "servant."

Quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger is already bitching about his life in prison and how he's being taunted by fellow inmates ... and the father of one of his victims says that should be the least of his concerns in the joint.

Steve Goncalves, father of Kaylee Goncalves, tells TMZ … He was super pleased to hear inmates are already making Kohberger's life miserable -- and the fact he complained about it to guards shows how truly stupid he is.

As we reported ... Kohberger is crying about how fellow inmates inside his Idaho prison are taunting him by yelling at him through vents at all hours of the day and night ... but prison officials say that's just how inmates talk to each other.

A Southwest Airlines pilot failed multiple field sobriety tests on the bridge just outside the airplane he was supposed to fly ... and, it was all caught on shocking body cam footage.

David Allsop -- a 52-year-old pilot -- was arrested in Georgia back in April where he was supposed to fly a plane from Savannah to Chicago after police were alerted by a concerned third party that he allegedly smelled like alcohol.

The body came footage was just released earlier this week ... and, begins with the police pulling Allsop off the plane and peppering him with questions.

9:31 AM PT -- TMZ has learned that Sean Charles Dunn was actually a trial attorney for the DOJ and has since been let go.

A Washington, D.C. man clearly thinks the deployment of federal agents on the streets is a bunch of baloney ... a move that doesn't cut the mustard -- and, he used a delicious projectile to make his feelings obvious.

New video has surfaced online from earlier this week ... showing a man in the nation's capital screaming in the face of a federal law enforcement officer.

Check out the clip ... the citizen's clearly blowing up at the guy -- but, the Customs and Border Protection agent doesn't move a muscle until he's hit in the chest with a ham-maker.

7:53 AM PT -- While Jon Jones' leaving the scene of an accident case was dismissed on Wednesday, it turns out the UFC superstar is still facing charges related to the incident.

Bernalillo County prosecutors tell TMZ Sports ... "The officer filed the complaint in Metro Court twice, which generated a duplicate case." Only the duplicate has been dismissed.

The second case, though, remains ongoing. He's actually facing two charges there -- one count of leaving the scene of an accident, and one count of use of telephone to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend.

Jones is due for a hearing next month.

Big win in court this week for Jon Jones ... the UFC star's leaving the scene of an accident charge was dismissed.

Bryan Kohberger was on the phone with his mom less than two hours after killing four University of Idaho students and investigators say the timing shreds his alibi.

Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart told PEOPLE, Kohberger called his mom at 6:17 AM on November 13, 2022 -- shortly after getting back to his Washington State University apartment after carrying out the gruesome murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

According to Barnhart, he tried calling his mom at 6:13 AM, then called his dad when she didn't pick up. Kohberger and his mom talked for 36 minutes, and at 8:03 AM, Kohberger rang her again for 54 minutes right around when prosecutors say he drove back toward the crime scene.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is not going home to his family for at least another 7 weeks ... so, they're going to him.

The Bad Boy founder's family dropped by to see him Tuesday at MDC Brooklyn, where Diddy is being held until his October 3 sentencing.

Photos and videos show Diddy's loved ones arriving and leaving the jail where the mogul's been confined since his September 2024 arrest ... and he got to see 3 of his 7 kids.

Sha'Carri Richardson clearly didn't have much remorse in the immediate aftermath of shoving Christian Coleman into a wall ... as new police video shows she not only lied about the incident to cops, but repeatedly called her Team USA star boyfriend "a coward."

The frenetic scene unfolded on July 27 at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport ... just minutes after Richardson was seen getting physical with Coleman during a dispute near a security checkpoint.

Port of Seattle Police Department body camera footage shows multiple officers arriving at the site to question Richardson and Coleman about the altercation ... which seemed to bother the Olympic gold medalist.

An all-out brawl broke out at a Florida lake -- and it was so brutal that two people were knocked unconscious before police rounded up the suspects and tossed them in the pokey!

The donnybrook, which kicked off August 2, was captured on cellphone video by a witness at Lake Winterset in Polk County -- about an hour east of Tampa -- and later uploaded to social media.

Check out the footage ... the knuckleheads went all WWE for the camera, throwing punches and kicking each other. One dude is seen lying unconscious on the ground as a young bikini-clad woman performs CPR on him.

Sebastian Telfair is now behind bars ... TMZ Sports has learned the former NBA star has officially begun his prison sentence.

Records show the 40-year-old reported to Fort Dix FCI in New Jersey, where he's expected to remain for the next six months.

A judge, as you know, ordered Telfair earlier this summer to the time in a cell ... after he violated the conditions of his supervised release in his healthcare fraud case.