Crime

Related Search

Blogs
January 8, 2010
4 Livery Cab Robberies in Jamaica in 9 Days; Suspect Photos Released
Livery cab drivers have it tough. You may recall a little epidemic of livery cab driver shootings last summer, and various robberies. Now, four hacks have been robbed or threatened with robbery on 106th Avenue in Jamaica in a nine-day period. On December 27 two perps summoned the car to 106 ... More >>
News
January 12, 2010
In a Crime-Free City, How Does a Young Gangbanger Represent?
Livery cab drivers have it tough. You may recall a little epidemic of livery cab driver shootings last summer, and various robberies. Now, four hacks have been robbed or threatened with robbery on 106th Avenue in Jamaica in a nine-day period. On December 27 two perps summoned the car to 106 ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Have You Seen... Multi-Tasking Dunkin' Donuts Robber in Queens
Check out this guy who robbed a Dunkin' Donuts on Merrick Avenue in Jamaica on Sunday night: he flashes a gun at his hip and intimidates the server into handing over cash from the register -- while apparently talking on his cell phone. Everyone's busy these days, but couldn't it wait till he was ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Governor Paterson's Cuts Hurt Domestic Violence Victims, Don't Save Money: Advocates
In a perhaps politically ill-timed decision, Governor Paterson's Executive Budget Summary for the coming year calls for $3 million to be cut from domestic violence programs, according to a coalition of anti-violence service providers. Of the $3 million, $1.25 million will adversely affect th ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Adam Clayton Powell IV On Trial: Amy Winehouse is Referenced?
In court hearings today, prosecutors alleged that East Harlem Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV was indeed intoxicated the night of March 6, 2008, when he was pulled over by police for drunk driving. The Harlem politician, 47, son of the famed Congressman, was pulled over for weaving back ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
Cops Seeking Another Subway Stabber
The NYPD is looking for the man pictured, who's wanted for questioning regarding a stabbing incident that occurred at 5:22 am at the Franklin Avenue subway station on April 3. During an argument, a 28-year-old man was stabbed several times on the southbound platform. The suspect fled the sc ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
Police Seek Suspect in Brooklyn Sex Assault
The NYPD is seeking the public's assistance locating the second of two suspects wanted in connection with a sexual assault and rape that occurred in Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 2. The victim, a 19-year-old female, was walking at Linden Boulevard and Bedford Avenue at 2:00 a.m. when the first ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
From Foxy Knoxy to Son of Sam: Are Facebook Fan Pages the New Trend in Jail Mail?
Amanda Knox, the college student convicted in December of murdering her roommate while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, receives hundreds of letters in jail every month, and says they are "great support." But jail mail no longer means just letters. Slews of other supporters and haters share ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2010
Bouquet Bandit Arrested; NYC Women Continue to Seek Man Who Will Bring Flowers
Shed a tear, ladies...the suspect who robbed two banks with a chivalry heretofore unknown in this town (bringing a potted plant, and then a bouquet of flowers, to his "financial endeavors") has been nabbed by the cops.
Blogs
August 4, 2010
Was Yesterday's Workplace Shooting in Manchester, CT, Race-Related?
Omar ThorntonThe Hartford Courant has a thorough look at yesterday's shooting rampage that killed eight employees at beer distributing company Hartford Distributors Inc., in Manchester, Connecticut. Omar Thornton, 34, was brought in front of company and union officials to discuss allegations ... More >>
News
August 11, 2010
Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
Omar ThorntonThe Hartford Courant has a thorough look at yesterday's shooting rampage that killed eight employees at beer distributing company Hartford Distributors Inc., in Manchester, Connecticut. Omar Thornton, 34, was brought in front of company and union officials to discuss allegations ... More >>
News
August 25, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
News
September 22, 2010
Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
Blogs
October 15, 2010
Another Brooklyn Precinct Probed For Fudging Crime Stats
Another Brooklyn police precinct is under investigation for manipulating crime statistics, the Voice has learned. This time, police sources say, it's the 77th Precinct in Crown Heights. So far, "numerous" officers and detectives have been grilled by the Quality Assurance Division, the NYPD u ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2010
Murder Inside the Good Stuff Diner on West 14th Street — Updated, With Video
The scene outside the diner at 9 a.m. on Saturday as CSI investigators comb the interior of the restaurant and a cop stands guard. Corey Scott, a/k/a Young ClassikSunday morning update: Police have identified the victim as Corey Scott, 28, of Flatbush, Brooklyn. He was shot two times ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2010
Is the East Village Facing a Return to the Bad Old Days of Crime?
In today's East Village street crime round-up: A string of wanton mayhem and violence over the past two days, including a drug-related shooting that left three injured, a stabbing that left one dead, and a cell phone robbery that left one perp in tears. The '70s are back, baby. Well, not exac ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2010
Cops Less Likely Than Ever To Shoot You
The Wall Street Journal says city cops aren't "trigger happy" after reviewing a new NYPD report that said police officers were involved in fewer shootings and fired fewer bullets last year since the department started tracking shooting statistics in 1971. So why are police keeping guns in the ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
NYC Pickpockets Are On the Endangered Species List
Guess you can start keeping your wallet in your back pocket again. The Daily News says pickpocketing -- that age-old relic of urban petty crime -- is nearing extinction. Because the only pickpockets left are practically fossils themselves.
Blogs
December 2, 2010
Murder Stats Say Drugs Really Will Kill You
If you had any doubt that drugs are dangerous, the Daily News wants you to think again: The paper crunched some crime statistic numbers and found that drugs were a factor in more than half of the city's slayings, and the exclusive motive in 12 percent of New York homicides. More fun murder s ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2010
Bronx Church Burglar Suspect Nabbed by Cops
Police say they have arrested and charged a Bronx man on two burglary counts, and are investigating him as a suspect for a string of eight other similar burglaries at churches and parochial schools in the Bronx's 50th and 52nd precincts.
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Ray Kelly, Hounded by Voice Revelations, To Revamp NYPD Handling of Sex Crime Complaints
Eight months after the Voice's NYPD Tapes series began revealing widespread manipulation of crime statistics — including the downgrading of rape complaints that in at least one case allowed a predator to continue his assaults — a commission appointed by Police Commissioner Ray Kel ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2011
Violent Robbers in the Bronx — New Ones
Cops are asking for help in finding the jerks responsible for a couple of violent robberies this week in the Bronx, one in the north and the other in Morrisania. On Monday, at about 5:50 p.m., a 74-year-old man was hit from behind by a scumbag at the corner of Park Avenue and Gouverneur Place in ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day's Eve, Brooklyn Protest Against Recent Shootings of Five Teens
On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Brooklyn residents, clergy, and community leaders held an angry rally in Fort Greene protesting the most recent outbreak of violence in the borough. Among the tragedies prompting the Sunday rally, a 16-year-old girl was shot in the face Saturday in front ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Ruth Madoff Shunned at Son's Memorial
When Mark Madoff, son of disgraced Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, killed himself in December, his mother Ruth traveled to Greenwich, Connecticut for the memorial service, but was not allowed in by Mark's widow Stephanie, according to a report by People appearing in today's New York Post. Instea ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2011
Lara Logan: The Rape Question, and a Scandalous NYPD Connection
Lara LoganAfter news of the vicious attack last Friday in Cairo on CBS reporter Lara Logan, the worms started crawling out of the woodwork. So far, the foremost twit on Twitter has been NYU fellow Nir Rosen, whose crassness cost him his job, as my colleague, Joe Coscarelli, notes. But all this s ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Jared Loughner Indicted on 49 Counts
Jared Lee Loughner has been charged with 49 counts by a federal grand jury, Politico reports. The 22-year-old is being charged for the January 8 shooting in Tucson, where he allegedly killed six people and injured thirteen more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke ... More >>
News
March 9, 2011
NYC's Ten Worst Tenants
We hope you don't live next to these people
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Brooklyn Heights Residents Reminded to Lock Doors Because They Live in New York City
Lock your doors. Even if you live here. This story kind of blows our minds. In Brooklyn Heights, people apparently feel so safe that they don't bother, most of the time, even locking their doors, or their windows. Maybe we're paranoid. (Yes, we're paranoid.) But, come on! It's the city! (We h ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Anthony Callao, 18, Fatally Beaten in What NYPD Considers a Hate Crime
NY Daily News, via MySpaceThe death of Anthony Callao, an 18-year-old who was fatally beaten Saturday night, is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD, according the the Daily News. Callao, who had recently graduated from high school, was attending a party in an abandoned house in Wo ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Serial Killer Dorothea Puente Is Dead, But Her Cookbook Lives On
Amazon.comFirst class murder, first class recipesConvicted serial killer Dorothea Puente died in Central California Women's Facility prison on Sunday. But her legacy will live on past her death. And not just the legacy of her murders, but her culinary one. Yes, Cooking with a Serial Killer ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2011
Today in El Diario: Murder-Suicides More Common Among Men Than Women
Women who kill the entire family much rarer than men Murder-suicides and multiple murders are common among victims of domestic violence and their abusers, according to experts interviewed by Spanish-language daily. The news comes shortly after Lashonda Armstrong, 25, drove her car into the ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Long Island Serial Killer Victims, Plus Atlantic City Women, All on Facebook After Death
Eight murdered women -- four found on Long Island among ten total bodies and four found in Atlantic City years ago -- have all shown up recently in fake Facebook profiles, the Philadelphia Daily News reports today. The creepy and sparse page for Kim Raffo, for example, found in 2006, features ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
Long Island Serial Killer Could Have Wife and Kids: A Personality Profile in Order of Surprise
Serial killer experts, criminologists, an ex-FBI profiler, and two New York Times reporters have worked together to bring us this terrifying personality profile for the man -- yes, he's almost definitely a man -- who could be responsible for the 10 sets of human remains found so far on Long I ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2011
Wilbert Elvy, Drunk Driver, Really Quite Insistent on Driving Drunk
We are fans of drinking, yes, but never drunk driving, because, you know, you could really hurt someone (and often do). Thus it is with great disappointment that we heard the tale of Mount Vernon man Wilbert A. Elvy, 46 (certainly old enough to know better!), who was arrested in the wee hours ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, NYPD Officers, Found Not Guilty of Rape
Moreno on the standThere is a verdict in the trial of NYPD officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, who had been accused of raping a 27-year-old East Village woman they were called to help home on a drunken night in 2008. This comes on the seventh day of deliberations. Moreno, 43, and Mata, ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2011
Long Island Serial Killer Connection: Cocaine?
This week's issue of New York magazine has the most in-depth feature yet about the serial killer search spooking locals this year, with body after body being found near Long Islando's Gilgo and Jones beaches. Though remains from 10 bodies have been discovered in the area, the case for a seria ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
NYC District Attorney Busts 25 in Child Porn Ring
Twenty-five people were charged this afternoon with "possessing images or videos showing the sexual abuse of children," the New York Times reports, as announced by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The felony charges include promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessin ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Long Island Dead Bodies Reward Raised to $25,000
Way too many bodies have been found since December along the Jones Beach, Gilgo Beach and Ocean Parkway area of Suffolk County, Long Island. The four identified so far -- Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Melissa Barthelemy -- are thought to be the work of a Lon ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
NYPD Crime Stats: Half The Year Over, Neighborhoods Seeing Spikes in Burglaries and Larcenies
Well, the year is nearly half over, and it's time to do a bit of handicapping of the city's crime statistics. In general, some sections of the city are experiencing a spike in assaults, and a rash of economic crimes--burglaries and grand larcenies, mainly. Overall, citywide crime, according ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Who Is — and Isn't — the Sunset Park Rapist?
Three weeks ago, the cops arrested William Giraldo, 24, for allegedly raping one of four women who they think are victims of a serial rapist in the Sunset Park area of Brooklyn. But Giraldo (who was arraigned on the day he was supposed to be getting married in Florida) was charged with only one of ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
Edward De Sear, Law Firm Partner, Charged With Distributing Kiddie Porn
Edward De Sear, via LinkedIn Edward De Sear, a top-ranked capital markets lawyer and partner at international firm Allen & Overy, was arrested by the FBI yesterday at his New Jersey home on charges of distributing kiddie porn on the Internet. Reuters reports that he appeared in federal court ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2011
SlutWalk NYC Preparing to Take Over Union Square
Occupy Wall Street is not the only protest in town. Starting around 11 a.m. today, SlutWalk NYC will be in Union Square Park to challenge sexual violence in New York and abroad. If you're expecting to see every participant strolling the streets dressed in lingerie and stilettos, think again. ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the Anti-Violence Project, Named "Champion of Change" by the White House (Q&A)
Sharon Stapel, the Executive Director of the New York Anti-Violence Project, was named a "Champion of Change" for her work with domestic violence in the LGBT community, the White House announced yesterday. "[I]n honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Valerie Jarrett will join White Hou ... More >>
Film
November 2, 2011
Tower Heist: Stealing From the Rich to. . . Make a Funny Movie
Sharon Stapel, the Executive Director of the New York Anti-Violence Project, was named a "Champion of Change" for her work with domestic violence in the LGBT community, the White House announced yesterday. "[I]n honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Valerie Jarrett will join White Hou ... More >>
Film
November 30, 2011
Outrage
Sharon Stapel, the Executive Director of the New York Anti-Violence Project, was named a "Champion of Change" for her work with domestic violence in the LGBT community, the White House announced yesterday. "[I]n honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Valerie Jarrett will join White Hou ... More >>
News
December 14, 2011
He's No Angel
The federal informant the government doesn't want you to know about
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Renewed Firestorm Over Orthodox Sex Abuse in Brooklyn
brooklynda.orgKings County District Attorney Charles HynesThe relationship between Brooklyn's Orthodox and Hasidic communities and law enforcement has always been a delicate one. Our cover story last summer looked at how hard it is for victims of sexual abuse to get past religious leaders and ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2011
NYPD, FDNY Year-End Numbers Show Overall Good News, Some Trouble Spots
A bit of good news as the passing of 2011 nears: homicides were down five percent for the year, the overall crime rate was flat, and fires killed just 64 people, the second lowest number of fire fatalities since 1916, the mayor's office says. But the neighborhood crime numbers reveal several ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Bank Robberies Have Almost Doubled in the Last Year in New York City
While the general message from the Bloomberg administration has been that crime is down, that people are healthier, that everything is groovy, the New York Times City Room blog reports on a crime increase in one area: Bank robberies in New York City nearly doubled from 2010, when there were 2 ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Attempted Murder of Ex-Girlfriend
District Attorney Cyrus Vance has announced that Ramon Lalondriz-Castillo, 26, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision in connection with the shooting of his ex-girlfriend. Lalondriz-Castillo pled guilty to Attempted Murder in the Second Degree. O ... More >>
More >>

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

25% Off Dinner

Toscano's

1544 2nd ave
new york, NY 10028
10% Off Purchase

Hawkers

225 E.14th St
New York, NY 10003

More Popular Coupons »

Browse Voice Nation

Blogs

News

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

News

News

News

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

News

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Film

Film

News

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Find A Coupon

Popular Coupons

Now Click This