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Criminal Assault

  • 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 trouble ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    McDonald's Employee Rayon McIntosh Won't Be Facing Charges in Metal Rod Beating Case

    The video of the incident at the Greenwich Village McDonald's The dramatic saga of the McDonald's employee who attacked two unruly female customers at the West 3rd Street location of the burger chain has come to an end. The employee, Rayon McIntosh, was cleared of felony assault charges after spe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Cop Hits Man with Beer Bottle, Police Say

    A North Carolina cop smashed a beer bottle against a man's head during a poker game, police say.

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Guard Thwarts Armored Truck Robbery Outside Williamsburg Deli

    ​Don't come between a security guard and his breakfast. The New York Post reports of a struggle earlier this morning between a masked assailant and a security guard outside of East Williamsburg's Late Night Deli on Metropolitan and Olive Street (the Post incorrectly reported it as Oliver St, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Greenwich Village McDonald's Employee Beats Two Unruly Customers With a Metal Rod

    ​Yesterday morning in the early hours a McDonald's employee assaulted a pair of female customers with a metal rod. One was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull and broken arm, while the other sustained only minor cuts and bruises. Another patron of the world's largest fast-food chain m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    'Baby Fat Larry' Wants Looser Curfew, Less Mom and Dad

    ​Anthony Durso, better known as "Baby Fat Larry," an associate of the Colombo crime family, is trying to shake his 7 p.m. curfew because it's cramping his social style. "He is a 27-year-old man and would like to have some leisure time away from his parents and his home," his lawyer wrote in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Michelle Anglin and Kollen Robinson, Off Duty Cops, Guilty In Attack On Bronx Motorist

    ​A Bronx jury has found two police officers guilty for their role in the assault of two men during a traffic dispute, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson says. The officers, Michelle Anglin, 40, and Kollen Robinson, 27, were found guilty of official misconduct. They face up to a year in ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Police Seek Suspect in Rape of Brooklyn Parks Worker

    The NYPD is looking for a man who raped a Parks Department employee on Thursday, August 19, at 9 a.m. in Brooklyn. The victim, a 29-year-old woman, was inside the park house at St. Andrews Playground on Atlantic and Kingston Avenues when she was assaulted by a man armed with a box cutter. The suspec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Sen. Kevin Parker, "The Flatbush Firecracker," Faces Assault Trial Aug. 16

    ​Brooklyn's battling state senator, Kevin Parker, faces dual headaches this month. One is a primary challenge by perennial candidate Wellington Sharpe who is making his second bid to take Parker's job away. Headache Number Two considerably complicates Headache Number One: On August 16, Parker ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Michael Bautista, Charged with Assaulting Girlfriend and Cop, Escapes Custody

    ​Michael Bautista, charged with beating up his girlfriend and assaulting a police officer, is on the loose. Yesterday morning he managed to convince court officials at East 161st Street that he was a different detainee, one held on a lesser charge, and they let him go. If the charges are tru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2010

    12-year-old Luis Martinez of Brooklyn found stabbed on Queens Parkway

    Police are are questioning two teenaged suspects in the Saturday night stabbing of 12-year-old Luis Martinez of Brooklyn. Initial reports suggested that Martinez, who was found bleeding from multiple wounds on the Jackie Robinson Parkway, was thrown from a car, but police are now saying that he walk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2010

    Jersey child stabbed to death in Morningside Heights (updated)

    csnyder ​The News is reporting that Alejandro Morales, who has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the death of Anthony Maldonado, has a history of encounters with the law. According to records, they say he has multiple prior arrests and convictions for larceny, dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2010

    Somebody Got Murdered: Young Father of Two Fatally Stabbed Outside NYE Party

    View Larger Map DATE: Friday, Jan. 1, 2010, 2:53 a.m. LOCATION: Vicinity of 369 Ashford St., East New York, Brooklyn. A Queens man was stabbed to death early on New Year's Day near the above address in the once murder-plagued East New York section of Brooklyn. Kirk Holgate, 21, of 126th Avenue in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Ruben Diaz Asks: If Hiram Monserrate Rates an Investigation, Why Not Kevin Parker?

    ​You may recall that in Hiram Monserrate's darkest days -- back before the judge in his assault case let him off with probation -- fellow state senator and member of the "Gang of Three" (which muscled the senate for favors last year) Ruben Diaz Sr. complained that there was a racist component ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Crime Beat: A Gem of a Robbery in Far Rockaway -- If You're a Goon

    The owners of Gold Fashion Jewelry in Far Rockaway are unlikely to be as gracious with bandits as Long Island deli owner Mohammad Sohail. Thugs roughed up workers at the Far Rockaway gem joint and absconded with cash and jewelry.

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2009

    Dominic Carter convicted of attempted assault

    ​Former NY1 political reporter Dominic Carter was found guilty of third degree attempted assault on Friday in the beating of his wife. Ramapo Justice Arnold Etelson found that Mrs. Carter's injuries were not serious enough to support a misdemeanor assault charge.

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Cops Seek Public's Help in Stabbing Death

    View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, 2:05 a.m. LOCATION: Allerton Avenue and White Plains Road, The Bronx.  The police say a man was stabbed to death early Sunday at the above intersection. He had been stabbed repeatedly. He was taken to Jacobi Hospital where he was declared dead. The Da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Cop Who Drove Into Old Man After 6 Hours in Bar Charged with Assault

    An NYPD sergeant has been charged with assault and vehicular assault after hitting a 68-year-old man with his car. On the morning of June 28, Sergeant Joseph Spiekerman, 43, had been at a bar at York Avenue and 85th Street (presumably Bailey's Corner) from the end of his shift at midnight until 6:3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Stabbed to Death in Brooklyn

    View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 at approx 11:25 p.m. LOCATION: Inside of 128 Lewis Ave, Brooklyn. A 42-year-old Brooklyn man was stabbed in the chest Monday night, the police say. He was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was declared dead. His identity has not been released by t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Monserrate Guilty of 1 Misdemeanor in Slash Trial, Won't Lose Senate Seat

    While we were all chasing balloons, Hiram Monserrate more or less got off: in his girlfriend-slashing trial Monserrate was found guilty only of one misdemeanor assault charge. He was looking at felonies, which would have made him subject to removal from the state senate, so this is a big win for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Sister Stabs Brother Over Cashed Check

    View Larger Map DATE: Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, 9:22 a.m. LOCATION: 370 East 153rd St., The Bronx. The police have arrested 58-year-old Maxine Vereen of the above address in the stabbing death of a neighbor, Jerry Williams, 72. Williams was stabbed in the chest. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Aspiring Boxer Stabbed in Pre-Dawn Brawl

    View Larger Map DATE: Saturday Oct. 3, 2009, 4:05 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 301 East 75 St., Manhattan. The police say they have arrested Exequiel Reyes, 23, of Valentine Avenue in the Bronx, in the murder of an aspiring boxer, Omar Gaspar, outside the above address early Saturday. Gasper, 19, of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2009

    Reggae singer slashed with samurai sword in Brooklyn

    ​Garfield Dixon of 91st St in Brownsville, who performs reggae dancehall as Major Mackerel, was released from Kings County Hospital with wounds on his hands, arms and face, and missing the tip of a finger, after a neighbor attacked him with a samurai sword early Sunday morning. Dixon says tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Stabbing in East Harlem

    View Larger Map DATE: Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 at approximately 9:49 p.m. LOCATION: Corner of East 103 Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. The police are saying a man was stabbed at the above address Friday night. The victim, 36, was stabbed twice in the back by a suspect in his 40's who fled th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Another Night, Another Fatal Fight Over a Woman

    View Larger Map DATE: Sunday Sept. 6, 2009 at 5:47 a.m. LOCATION: Outside 342 Ridgewood Avenue, Brooklyn. Another night, another fight over a woman. The police say that 21-year-old Jonathan Nuesi, of Etna Street in Brooklyn was stabbed to death in a fight with at least three other men. The Dail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Bushwick Blogger Beaten, Can't Get Police Report

    ​BushwickBK blogger Diego Cupolo tells an unnerving story about some guy beating the hell out of him in front of his building on Grove Street, in "a nice neighborhood full of families and people that work," in an attempt to steal his bike a few weeks back. Cupolo resisted, and took several blo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    New York Rap Crime Wave!

    ​It's an unusually bad day for New York rappers and police. First the jakes ran up in Jadakiss's Yonkers apartment and walked out with 5 grams of heroin, 6.5 pounds of marijuana, and $40,000 cash. (Jada wasn't there, and isn't presently wanted by the police--his roommate (?!) seems to be takin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    David Burke Charged With Assault

    ​According to an article in The New York Post, David Burke has been charged with assault by his former driver, who claims that the chef and restaurateur punched him and slammed his head into the trunk of a car after the driver asked to go home to celebrate his wife's birthday. The driver filed his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Suspect Arrested in Staten Island Baseball Bat and Bias Attack

    Police have made an arrest in that Staten Island bias attack we told you about yesterday. The Staten Island Advance says cops have responded to tips and picked up Joseph Sweeney, 23, on charges of second-degree assault as a hate crime, second-degree assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. Luis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    News Roundup: Perez Hilton Gets Punched in the Face, Rihanna/Chris Brown, Flaming Lips, Kate Moss

    --A member of Will.i.am's posse allegedly clocked Perez Hilton in the face last night. The blogger tweeted from a Toronto hotel around 3 a.m. last night: "I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke." Hil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    State Senator Kevin Parker Up on Felony Charges for Camera Smash

    A few weeks back Brooklyn state senator Kevin Parker pleaded not guilty to charges related to his unfriendly encounter with a New York Post photographer, but the Brooklyn D.A.'s office has just upped the ante by bringing second- and third-degree assault charges against him -- felonies that could get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Monserrate Indicted on 6 Counts of Girlfriend-Bashing

    In case you were wondering what happened with that assault case on Hiram Monserrate, the state senator who was arrested in December for hitting his girlfriend, who got cold feet afterward but couldn't stop the wheels of justice from turning: he's been indicted by a Queen grand jury for smacking Karl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Red Sox Fan Who Batted New Yorker Walks

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2008

    Two Arrested in Election-Night "Obama" Beating

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    SI Youth Beaten After Ohio Called for Obama

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Somebody Bail out Christian Bale

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2008

    Brooklyn Man Shot By Cops Faces Sentencing in Scooter Swing

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    When News Breaks, the Voice is There

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    Air America's Randi Rhodes Attacked: Report

    Take care on your next trip to Falmouth, Masachusetts, New Yorkers, at least during baseball season. Last summer William Nestor III of Freeport, Long Island was hit with a baseball bat by local man Robert Correia, in the company of some others who suspected Nestor of being a Yankee fan by evidence o ... More >>

  • News

    December 20, 2005

    Something's Missing

    Crime-stat revelation: 'Lost property' reports mysteriously soar

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2005

    Young Buck Isn't Going to Prison Because Young Buck is Awesome

    Crime-stat revelation: 'Lost property' reports mysteriously soar

  • News

    October 25, 2005

    These Stats Are a Crime

    While Bloomberg boasts of crime drop, the hospitals' work on assault victims is booming

  • News

    March 22, 2005

    Corruption? It figures.

    NY police department's crime stats and the art of manipulation

  • News

    February 15, 2005

    Busted in Brooklyn

    Three activists went out to police the police—and ended up in jail

  • News

    September 21, 2004

    Target: Dissent

    When cops play peacekeeper, free speech too often becomes the enemy

  • News

    December 16, 2003

    Bum Raps?

    When cops play peacekeeper, free speech too often becomes the enemy

  • News

    March 19, 2002

    Foul Shots

    Highlighting College Hoops’ Lowlights

  • News

    December 26, 2000

    Unsportsmanlike Conduct

    College Football's Real-Life Top 25

  • News

    May 18, 1999

    Guy vs. Guy

    Men Take Up Self-Defense

  • News

    December 29, 1998

    Sucker Punched

    Dailies knock out cop-boxer's real record

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