Former NBA player Malik Beasley intends to plead guilty to federal charges that accused him and five others of taking part in a bribery and betting scheme, according to a court notice filed overnight Saturday.

Beasley, 29, had previously pleaded not guilty to four federal counts — bribery in sporting contests, wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy — but the docket notice did not indicate what he would plead guilty to.

The judge overseeing Beasley’s case referred a “change of plea” to a federal magistrate in Brooklyn who will schedule a hearing at which Beasley will formally plead guilty.

His attorney couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Beasley, who played for six different NBA teams over a nine-year career, allegedly agreed to underperform his statistics during the 2023-2024 season when he played for the Milwaukee Bucks so gamblers could win their bets, according to prosecutors.

He had earned tens of millions of dollars during his career, but federal prosecutors accused Beasley of accumulating “multi-million dollar gambling losses” when he became part of the alleged scheme.

The indictment mentioned four games in which Beasley would allegedly fix his performance while playing for the Bucks: against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Jan. 26, 2024; against the Charlotte Hornets on Feb. 27, 2024; against the Los Angeles Clippers on March 10, 2024; and against the Brooklyn Nets on March 21, 2024.

According to the indictment, Beasley’s co-defendants allegedly selected games that would not be nationally televised and Beasley allegedly decided whether he would underperform or overperform his scoring and rebounding.

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A German teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl in the United States, according to the FBI.

The 18-year-old is suspected of manipulating an Indiana teen over a social platform into harming herself and taking her own life, according to prosecutors in Germany.

The FBI said Friday it worked with local Indiana authorities to investigate the teenager’s death and shared evidence with German authorities. The suspect was arrested on Thursday, prosecutors in Hamburg said.

The girl was from Fort Wayne, according to the Fort Wayne Police Department, which investigated her death.

“After a thorough criminal investigation, the Homicide Unit identified a suspect who contributed to the juvenile’s death,” the police department said in a statement Friday. “Investigators identified him as an adult male residing in Germany and collaborated with federal partners at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and authorities in Germany.”

Officials have not publicly identified the girl or the suspect.

Hamburg prosecutors said the German national, who was 17 at the time of the alleged offenses, is suspected of manipulating “a psychologically vulnerable” American girl through the social platform Discord between September and October.

Prosecutors are investigating reports alleging the suspect demanded the girl to inflict severe self-harm and then to take her life on Oct. 2.

Whether the death was recorded on video “remains a subject of the ongoing investigation,” Hamburg prosecutors said.

The suspect allegedly tried to obtain footage of the death and “threatened the girl’s social circle, stating that he would otherwise publish her personal data as well as compromising images of her,” prosecutors said.

Prosecutors believe the suspect sought to use the footage to gain status within or to gain entry to the so-called “NMK” (Nefarious Maniac Kult), which they said is modeled on groups linked to the online “COM network” such as “764.”

A Discord spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News on Monday that the company “has been aggressively disrupting the 764 subculture and affiliated groups since 2021, when we first identified these actors.”

“We were among the first to share intelligence with law enforcement and alert other major online services, and have since removed thousands of servers, banned users, and filed numerous CyberTip reports with NCMEC [National Center for Missing & Exploited Children] related to 764 and other sadistic harm actors,” the statement continued. “We continue to work closely and proactively with law enforcement and industry partners to identify, disrupt and prevent these groups from causing harm.”

Last week, authorities in Fort Wayne warned the community about what they called the online extremist network 764 and “splinter groups” that they said target vulnerable teens through social media and gaming websites.

“The most concerning thing that we’re seeing is these groups are encouraging these young people that they’re targeting to commit self-harm, cutting, carving symbols and words into their bodies,” Fort Wayne Police Department Det. Brian Martin said at a news conference on Oct. 14.

“They’re encouraging our children to send explicit photos, nude photos of themselves. They’re encouraging our young people to commit self-mutilation. They are encouraging to harm family pets, to torture pets,” he continued.

He added, “They’re such predators that they want this to be video recorded or live streamed to them while they’re doing this.”

Previously, Discord has said that disrupting the 764 network and affiliate groups “has been among Discord’s highest priorities” and that it has taken steps to remove thousands of “servers” and invested in new ways to detect the groups.

ABC News’ Jason Volack contributed to this report.

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Six Flags administrators announced Saturday that they will institute new safety measures, including seatbelts, for the Goliath coaster at the company’s Georgia park, nearly two weeks after a rider was killed when he fell off the ride.

Administrators said that the hyper coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia will remain closed as they continue to inspect it and investigate Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem’s death, but they are committed to making changes to the ride.

Kariem, 42, an IT manager, teacher and robotics coach at an Atlanta school, was “ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling beneath the attraction,” the Cobb County Police Department said in the wake of the Oct. 12 incident.

He was at the Six Flags park with several family members to celebrate his niece’s birthday and was sitting beside his niece when he was ejected from the roller coaster, a relative told ABC News.

In addition to installing the seat belts on Goliath, which Six Flags said had lap-bar restraints, the park said it has “engaged independent engineers and ride inspection specialists to comprehensively review current safety procedures across our entire portfolio of rides and attractions, across all of our parks.”

“We are committed to carefully evaluating their findings and taking appropriate action to further strengthen our standards and culture of safety,” Six Flags said in a statement.

The investigation by the park and police into the incident, where other people had said they were injured, is ongoing.

Six Flags Over Georgia is located in Austell, west of Atlanta. The Goliath roller coaster reaches an elevation of 200 feet and speeds up to 70 mph, according to the amusement park’s website. The ride first opened in 2006.

After the incident, Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar coasters including Nitro in Great Adventure in New Jersey, as a precaution.

One of the coasters, Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain, has since reopened, according to the park.

On Saturday, Six Flags said eight of those coasters remained closed and will have the seat belts or other restraints installed.

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The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses the race, citing name confusion among the candidates.

Republicans have alleged that Alaska Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is running a sham campaign to purposefully confuse voters and draw votes away from incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan based on their names being similar.

An earlier legal challenge to the candidacy was rejected by Alaska’s supreme court, which ordered that Dan J. Sullivan be included on the ballot. 

“Should Alaska certify any electoral results tainted by the inclusion on the ballot of Daniel J. Sullivan … the State and its officers will fail in its obligation to protect the integrity of its election,” the number-three ranking official at the Department of Justice, Stanley Woodward, wrote in the Thursday filing.

In bringing the case, the Justice Department says it’s guarding against the possibility that Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses in a manner that suggests he would have won were it not for votes cast for Dan J. Sullivan. The incumbent senator is facing Democratic challenger Mary Peltola, as well as Dan J. Sullivan, who is appearing on the ballot without a party affiliation.

“To guard against this danger, it is vital that Defendants not certify any election result that may be impacted by voter confusion. An election result may be impacted by voter confusion if: (1) Senator Sullivan does not win the election; and (2) had all votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan been cast instead for Senator Sullivan and Alaska’s rank-choice process played out accordingly, Senator Sullivan would have won the election,” Woodward wrote.

A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement, “Alaska’s Division of Elections determined that Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan’s candidacy was intended to mislead voters and compromise the fairness of the ballot. Therefore, the Justice Department, consistent with the National Voter Registration Act enacted by Congress, is taking the necessary steps to ensure that this frivolous candidacy does not undermine the integrity of Alaska’s election or the will of its voters.”

The Alaska Secretary of State’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News. Campaign spokespeople for Peltola, Sen. Sullivan and Dan J. Sullivan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he was looking at “powerful legal options” to remove Dan. J Sullivan from the ballot.

Over the summer, Alaska’s election office said that Dan J. Sullivan would be removed from the ballot because the office determined his candidacy was not in good faith, but was meant, per an official, “to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”

Dan. J Sullivan then sued the state over the decision, and a state judge ruled that he was eligible to be on Alaska’s Senate primary ballot. The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the ruling, after which the DOJ began investigating.

Fielding questions from reporters just hours before the lawsuit was filed, Attorney General Todd Blanche wouldn’t rule out the DOJ intervening in a state’s election process, but suggested only a “doomsday scenario” would warrant such action.

“I mean, is there any scenario? Yes, of course. There’s scenarios that we could all come up with hypothetically, you know, some doomsday scenario, for example, right?” Blanche said. “It is not DOJ’s intention to, and it’s never our intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state confirmation process or certification process.”

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer contributed to this report.

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A Florida police officer has been charged after allegedly orchestrating a “complex scheme” to control a deceased person’s home, according to an incident description from the Broward County Sheriff’s Department and an arrest affidavit.

Brian Louis Sguros, an officer with the Lauderhill Police Department in South Florida, was arrested on Oct. 20 on charges including “official misconduct, criminal use of deceased personal identification, criminal use of personal identification information, offense against computer user and unlawful use of two-way communication device,” according to the sheriff’s department.

According to the incident description, Sguros responded as a backup officer to a Lauderhill address for a welfare check on resident Dennis West on July 11, 2022. West was “deceased inside the home.’

According to the report, “detectives say Sguros became involved in West’s post-death affairs.”

In one instance, “Sguros represented himself to the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office as West’s friend, although there is no indication he knew West, and stated that West had no living family, which was untrue,” according to the sheriff’s office.

The affidavit identifies several surviving family members and lawful heirs of West.

The sheriff’s office alleges Sguros “paid the taxes and utilities at the home in West’s name and used West’s identification to make it appear that West was still alive” in order to get the city to issue a permit for repairs.

According to the affidavit, which cites Sguros’ prior sworn statements, he “cleaned, secured, repaired, stabilized, and rehabilitated the property,” spending over $200,000 of his own money. 

He claimed, “he acted because the property was hazardous and he wanted to prevent squatters and criminal activity,” according to the affidavit.

A detective with the sheriff’s office “indicated that Sguros also forged West’s signature on the permit,” according to the report.

According to the sheriff’s department, investigators alleged Sguros “used his access to law enforcement databases to obtain information about West.”

The incident report says the charges against Sguros follow a joint investigation by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office Crimes Against Property Unit.

“According to investigators, Sguros filed paperwork with BCPA in Feb. 2025 stating his possession of the property dated back to Aug. 2022, just weeks after West’s death,” the incident report said.

ABC News has reached out to the Lauderhill Police Department for additional information and an update on Sguros’ employment status.

According to WSVN, Sguros is on administrative leave without pay from the Lauderhill Police Department, pending the case’s result.

Sguros appeared in court Wednesday, Oct. 21, and was released later that day after posting bond. A judge ordered him to stay away from West’s home.

ABC News has attempted to reach out to Sguros for comment.

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It wasn’t unusual for Dee Warner to leave home when she was upset, her family and friends said. April 25, 2021, however, was different.

That day, the 52-year-old businesswoman and mother of five disappeared and didn’t respond to messages or calls, sparking an investigation that lasted years.

A new “20/20” episode, “Help Dale Find Dee,” airing Friday, Oct. 23, at 9 p.m. ET on ABC and streaming the next day on Disney+ and Hulu, examines Warner’s case.

You can get more behind the scenes of each week’s episode by listening to “20/20: The After Show” weekly series right on your 20/20 podcast feed on Mondays, hosted by “20/20” co-anchor Deborah Roberts.

Warner, who lived in a small community in southeastern Michigan, was known for her fiery personality and care for others.

“[She was] vibrant, loving, nurturing,” her daughter Rikkell Bock told ABC News’ Linsey Davis. “Always somebody that was wanting to take care of people.”

Bock went to Warner’s house that Sunday morning with her partner and two children, but her mother was nowhere to be found. She began to worry after her mother didn’t respond to messages and calls.

Warner’s husband, Dale, said he saw his wife at 6 a.m. that day, when he left to go spray the crops the couple managed on their farm. Her children called police that Sunday evening to report her missing.

Dale Warner told authorities in initial interviews that he was not worried about Warner’s disappearance, as it was typical for her to leave after an argument, which he said the couple had engaged in the night before she went missing. He insisted he had no knowledge of her whereabouts.

Searches of the home revealed no initial evidence of a murder scene. Warner appeared to have taken her toiletry bag and hair tools with her, and her wedding ring was left on Dale Warner’s desk.

After requesting a ping of Warner’s phone, police discovered it had been off since 7:14 a.m. on Sunday.

The Warners owned an agricultural business, a trucking company, and a commercial spraying and farm services company. According to prosecutors, the only part that was going well financially at the time of Warner’s disappearance was the trucking company, which was entirely in her name. The others were shared with Dale Warner.

On the night of her disappearance, Warner was supposedly planning on telling her husband she wanted a divorce, according to her friend Stephanie Voelkle.

Suspicious of Dale Warner and his apparent lack of assistance in search efforts, Warner’s brother, Gregg Hardy, bought a billboard that read “Help Dale Find Dee” to put pressure on his brother-in-law.

It escalated when townspeople began urging state police to take over the investigation and took to the streets chanting “Jail for Dale.” The Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office ultimately turned over the case to the Michigan State Police.

Investigators learned Dale Warner had made an internet search following Warner’s disappearance in which he clicked on a video showing how to bury a 1,000-gallon propane tank.

Michigan State Police launched a large-scale search of the couple’s property, which spanned 1,500 acres. Believing Warner could be buried somewhere there, teams began searching underground.

Warner’s family member also reported tracks from heavy machinery leading up to the house where a car was usually parked, indicating the machine could have been used to haul Warner’s body from the house.

Though a body had not yet been found, police felt they had enough information to arrest Dale Warner in November 2023. He pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife.

Eventually, police came across a suspicious looking anhydrous tank — a heavy-duty, pressurized metal container — on the property with a fresh coat of paint and sticker that read “do not use.” An X-ray revealed Warner’s body inside — she was in her pajamas, barefoot and wrapped in a tarp.

The body was well-preserved due to the tank’s conditions, and medical examiners determined that she died of strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head.

In February 2026, at Dale Warner’s trial, prosecutors alleged that killed his wife and stored her body in the tank. They claimed he learned that night he was facing a divorce that would have left him with a struggling farm business.

Dale Warner was found guilty and sentenced to up to 70 years in prison. His attorney said he will seek an appeal.

Hardy said he grieved his sister the day he knew she was gone, and that his life will never be the same without her. Warner’s daughter, Bock, wants to remember who she was in life.

“What happened to her does not define who she is,” Bock said. “She was a strong, strong woman and the people that knew her the most knew that they could rely on her for whatever it was and that is the truth. She was a good person.”

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