Criminal Investigations

After Helping The FBI, Former State Senator Shirley Huntley Still Gets Slapped With A Year In Prison

At the end of last August, former State Senator Shirley Huntley called for a press conference in her home district of Jamaica, Queens. There, she informed her supporters that she would be arrested the following day for an extensive criminal investigation into her personal expenses. Turns out, betwe ... More >>

Cops Go To Question Westchester Women-Slasher About Cold Case Murders; Find Woman's Body

What are the odds that when detectives go to question a parolee about two cold case murders they find another body in his house? In the case of Westchester killer Lucius Crawford -- who's already served prison time for stabbing six women -- the odds were apparently pretty good, because that's exactl ... More >>

Reminder: Two NYPD Officers Are Being Investigated For Killing/Beating New Yorkers

Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election have dominated the headlines here in the Big Apple for the last two weeks. But let's not forget what was going on in New York before that bitch Sandy dropped by: two NYPD officers are under investigation for what could potentially be pretty appalling cri ... More >>

Charles Davis, Jails Captain and Son of Retired Chief, Suspended For Pounding Inmate With Riot Stick

The son of a former top-ranking Correction Department official has been suspended and is under investigation for beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton after the inmate assaulted his brother, a correction officer, the Voice has learned. Charles Davis, a probationary correction captain, allegedly ... More >>

Ramadan And Bacon Don't Mix. But A Hate Crime?

Throwing uncooked bacon all over a field on Staten Island is a reckless waste of bacon. And it also might be a hate crime, authorities say, when the field is the site of a Muslim religious ceremony -- which it was.Police are investigating pieces of bacon being strewn about John D'Amato Field on New ... More >>

Manhattan D. A. Cy Vance Would Love Your DNA

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's job would be a hell of a lot easier if he had at his disposal the DNA of every person on the planet. But he doesn't, so the DNA of convicted criminals will have to do -- even if those "criminals" are convicted of things like fortune telling, adultery, and being ... More >>

NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal Mushrooms to Other Police Agencies

It looks like we haven't heard the last of the ticket fixing scandal that roiled the ranks of the NYPD. The Albany Times-Union reports that more than a dozen state troopers and officers in at least six other police departments are also under investigation "on charges ranging from misconduct to tampe ... More >>

Rodney Alcala Takes Manhattan; California Serial Killer Coming To New York To Face Two Murder Charges

There's good news and bad news...The bad news is a cold-blooded serial killer is coming to New York. The good news he'll be under lock and key the entire time he's here.California serial killer Rodney Alcala is en-route to the Big Apple where he'll face murder charges in the deaths of two women in t ... More >>

Rashad Tucker, Mattiyas Letang, Teen Inmates, Slashed in Troubled Adolescent Jail

Two teen inmates were slashed Saturday in the latest violent incident at the troubled jail for adolescents on Rikers Island, the Voice has learned. The gang-related incident took place in the law library at the Robert N. Davoren Center, which likely means that the attackers were able to slip weapon ... More >>

Etan Patz Murder: A Tip Of The Cap To Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance

More than 30 years after the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, it seems authorities finally have their man -- and props must go out to Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance for his decision to reopen a case that sat cold for more than three decades.Vance didn't crack the case, nor did he lead po ... More >>

Innocence Project: Cuomo's DNA Bill Doesn't Include Other Measures to Stop Wrongful Convictions

The state legislature and Gov. Cuomo are under fire for on the one hand, backing legislation that requires everyone arrested in the state to provide a DNA sample, while at the same time, not taking other steps proven to reduce wrongful convictions. (These other steps relate to how police and prosecu ... More >>

Mathieu Lefevre Case Prompts City Council Hearing on NYPD's Investigation of Cycling Deaths

In a rare oversight hearing on the New York Police Department's treatment of traffic accidents involving bicyclists and pedestrians, Council members, advocates, and the relatives of slain cyclists expressed anger and frustration at what they say is the NYPD's reluctance to charge the drivers respons ... More >>

Barry Bonds and His Big Head

​Who says there are no new angles to the Barry Bonds perjury trial? Kimberly Bell, who is said to have "dated Bonds" - I love that term; it always conjures up a couple at a malt shop or at a high school football game - "until an ugly breakup in 2003," testified that Bonds threatened to cut of ... More >>

Will Rupert Murdoch's Children Use the Judith Regan Scandal Against Fox News' Roger Ailes?

​Roger Ailes could have a big mess on his hands based on court documents made available today, which allege that the Fox News chairman encouraged a former employee to mislead federal investigators. The exclusive New York Times report quotes court documents indicating a taped phone call exists, ... More >>

NYPD Big Caught in the NYPD Tapes Should be Suspended, Department Judge Rules

​A deputy chief in the NYPD should be suspended for 30 days and get probation for breaking department rules on using human growth hormone, an administrative law judges has ruled. As the Village Voice has reported, Deputy Chief Michael Marino is already under investigation over whether he br ... More >>

Pedro Espada Clinic Gets Uninvited Visitors: FBI, IRS, Feds

​How bad are the financial hijinks by that scalawag state senator Pedro Espada cited in yesterday's civil suit against him by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo? Well, here's one measure: Now they're trying to make a federal case out of it. This morning a dozen FBI and IRS agents descended on Espa ... More >>

Sean Bell Case: Feds Say No Charges, End Probe

Sean Bell and fiance Nicole Paultre Bell.The federal government says it won't charge anyone and is ending its investigation into the death of Sean Bell, who was killed in November 2006 by NYPD cops the night before his wedding in a barrage of bullets outside a Queens nightclub. The investigation is ... More >>

Troopers: Hanging Census Worker Was Suicide, Not Murdered

​You may remember the death of census worker Bill Sparkman in September, in which he was found hanging with the word "FED" scrawled across his chest. As he worked in a rural section of Kentucky, where anti-government sentiment is assumed to be high, some suspected that he had been murdered for ... More >>

Jail Guard Charged In Inmate Assaults

Prosecutors in the Bronx have indicted a correction officer for beating up two inmates and trying to cover up one of the incidents at jail housing teenage detainees. The case emerged from an broad investigation into problems at the Robert N. Davoren Center that started after the fatal 2008 beating ... More >>

After 20 Years, a Bronx Cold Case Is Solved

—and a family's grief rekindled.

Criminal Probe of Deutsche Bank Building Fire Launched

Made for Each Other

The Karr fiasco is over, but Michael Tracey's quest for unlikely suspects in the Ramsey case goes on and on.

JonBenet Flimsy

As the case against John Mark Karr disintegrates, attention turns to CU prof Michael Tracey, who's fingered false suspects in the past

Justice Department's Black Site

The administration censors internal probe of lawbreaking by the Oval Office and the NSA

Tenants to Spitzer: Investigate This!

Your Turn: Shutter the Falls?

Justice Probe of Spy Leak Could Shield Bush

President gives self excuse not to talk about wiretaps

Colombian Coke Caper

Wife of U.S. Anti-Drug Commander Nabbed in Smuggling Case

Feds Finger Labor Boss

Apparel Union Tied to Mafia Shakedown

Hackers' Excellent Adventures

How Underage Pranksters Ended Up in the Middle of an FBI Cybercrime Investigation