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Blogs
December 3, 2012
Arrest Made In "Gentleman Groper" Case (Again)
Authorities have arrested a man they say is responsible for multiple gropings in Manhattan earlier this year -- again. In April, police arrested Karl Vanderwoude for the series of gropings credited to the so-called "Gentleman Groper," a moniker given to the groper because of his rather dapper appear ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
Teenage Pizza Delivery Boy Indicted For UWS Rape And Hell's Kitchen Burglary
A little more than a month ago, we told the story of Cesar Lucas - a 16-year-old who worked for Sal's Pizzeria on Tenth Avenue and, after making a delivery, reportedly entered an Upper West Side apartment to find a woman inside. The woman told authorities that Lucas proceeded to rape her while her 7 ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2012
Hudson River Park Rapist Opts For The Old Four Lokos And Weed Defense
A convicted sex offender accused of violently raping a woman at Hudson River Park last month told police that he doesn't know if he raped the woman because he'd consumed five Four Lokos before the attack -- but that was only after drinking vodka, and smoking weed and K-2, a brand of synthetic mariju ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2012
Former NYPD Officer Nicholas Mina Cops Plea; Admits To Stealing NYPD Guns And Selling Them To Drug Dealers
A former NYPD officer admitted in court today that he stole several NYPD-issued firearms from fellow officers and sold them to a Queens drug kingpin over a six-month period earlier this year.The plea deal accepted by former officer Nicholas Mina, 32, includes a 15-year-prison sentence when he's sent ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2012
Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes Has New Challenger: Former Attorney For DSK Accuser Kenneth Thompson
The attorney who represented Nafissatou Diallo -- the hotel maid who accused French pol Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her in a Manhattan hotel last year -- announced yesterday that he's looking to unseat longtime Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, and there's already suggestions that the ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
MTA Wants To Raise Tolls (Or: MTA Wastes $800,000 a Year on Idling Vehicles)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority claims to be strapped for cash and plans to pass its money problems onto consumers by raising subway and bus fares in March. It also hopes to increase the toll on the Verrazano Bridge from $13 to $15. So how could an agency with a 2012 operating budget of $9 ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2012
Tunnel Burglar Hit With Whopping 28-Year Prison Sentence -- And He Didn't Even Kill Anyone
*UPDATE* We've compiled a list of what McAleese stole that would warrant such a lengthy prison sentence. Ribs and Saki are involved.When 43-year-old Shawn McAleese was tunneling his way into Manhattan businesses to steal stuff earlier this year, he probably didn't think he could potentially face mor ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2012
Accused Ex-Assemblyman Jimmy Meng Called Star Witness Against Him Just Minutes After Getting Released From Jail
Is this guy friggin' serious?!Just minutes after getting released from jail on $1 million bail yesterday afternoon, former Assemblyman Jimmy Meng -- who currently is charged with fraud in a somewhat hilarious faux-bribery case -- actually called the very witness who ratted him out to federal authori ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2012
Roberto Nunez (Allegedly) Is Pretty Good At Murder; Sucks At Getting Away With It
A less-than-legal immigrant living in New York City is allegedly pretty good at murder -- according to authorities, he blew away three people as they all sat in a parked car in Harlem last month during what an indictment filed this afternoon in a Manhattan criminal court describes only as a "crimina ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2012
Michael "Rape Cop" Pena Pleads Guilty To Additional Charges; No Time Added To Extreme Life-Sentence
Michael "Rape Cop" Pena did something today that's somewhat admirable; rather than put his victim through the torture of another trial, he pleaded guilty to additional charges stemming from his attack on a 25-year-old teacher -- charges on which a jury deadlocked when he was convicted of three count ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2012
Andrew Cuomo: "Extreme" GOPers Will Have To Answer to Voters For Killing "Public View" Marijuana Bill
As we reported yesterday, State Senate Republicans killed a bill proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo that would further decriminalize marijuana in the Empire State by closing a loophole that makes having weed in public a misdemeanor, while possessing weed in private is only a violation.No skin off the ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
Weed Fans: Senate Republicans To Blame For "Public View" Marijuana Buzz-Kill
As we reported earlier, a bill that would decriminalize the "public view" loophole in New York's marijuana possession law appears to be dead in the water -- and weed fans are pissed. The Drug Policy Alliance, one of the many groups pushing the bill, is holding Republicans in the Senate responsible f ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2012
Pressure On Trinity Church To Call Off Occupy Wall Street Trespassing Charges
Trinity Church, a massive New York land owner with an estimated $1 billion in real estate holdings, is once again at odds with Occupy Wall Street, the movement that sprung up in its back yard. The relationship between Trinity and Occupy has been fraught almost from the start, but tensions escalated ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2012
Etan Patz Arrest: Is It Really An Open and Shut Case?
Is there a problem with the arrest in the Etan Patz case? So wonders New York Times Columnist Jim Dwyer in today's newspaper. Dwyer suggests that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg were awfully quick to convict suspect Pedro Hernandez, before the full investigation was done. Quoting ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Etan Patz Suspect In Custody; Pedro Hernandez Tells Cops He Lured Boy With Candy Before Killing Him
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly announced this morning that a suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz is currently in custody.The suspect has been identified as Pedro Hernandez, who was arrested yesterday in Camden, New Jersey.Kelly says Hernandez made statements to police implicating ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Etan Patz Murder: Suspect Pedro Hernandez Says He'd "Done Something Bad And Killed A Child"
The video above (compliments of NBC New York) is of a press conference held by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly regarding the arrest of a suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.The suspect has been identified as Pedro Hernandez, 51, who was arrested yesterday in Camden, New Jersey. Kel ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2012
Is Again Pursuing A Rape Conviction For "Rape Cop" Michael Pena Even Worth The Trouble?
Embarrassment to the badge Michael Pena, also known as "Rape Cop," was sentenced yesterday to 75 years to life in prison for the brutal sexual attack of a young teacher last summer, during which the now-former NYPD officer dragged the woman into an alley at gunpoint and forced her to have sex with h ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Fox News "Mole" Joe Muto Claims Manhattan D.A. Raided His Apartment
Fox News "mole" Joe Muto claims (via-Twitter) that his apartment was raided this morning by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and several of his mole-y gadgets were confiscated. "I just got search warranted at 6:30am by a very polite crew from the DA's office. Took my iPhon ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Etan Patz Disappearance: Search Of SoHo Basement Suspended, Turns Up Zilch...So Far
The search for clues in a SoHo basement in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz was suspended indefinitely last night -- and, so far, it's turned up precisely zilch.FBI agents and NYPD investigators spent the last four days tearing up the cement floor of a basement just blocks from where P ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Etan Patz Disappearance: Search Resumes, "Target's" Mugshot Surfaces
The search for new evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz resumed this morning, and a photo of the "target" of the investigation, neighborhood handyman, 75-year-old Othneil Miller, has surfaced.The mugshot to the right was taken several years ago after Miller was arrested in Florida for dri ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Etan Patz Investigation: No Body, Lots Of Concrete
About 40 FBI agents and New York City police officers lugged hundreds of pounds of concrete out of a basement in SoHo today in their search for new evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.As of this writing, authorities have not found a body in the basement of 127 Prince Street, where neighb ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Etan Patz Disappearance: Authorities Dig Up SoHo Basement, Identify "Target" Of Probe
Law Enforcement officials confirm to the Voice that investigators have dug up the concrete basement of a SoHo building in search of evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.Additionally, sources say the "target" of the investigation is a neighborhood handyman named Othneil Miller, 75, who wou ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2012
Puffy-Approved Rapper "G. Dep" Found Guilty Of 1993 Murder
Trevell Coleman, a rapper who uses the stage name "G. Dep" -- and who once was signed to Sean "Puffy" Combs' label, Bad Boy Records -- was found guilty this afternoon of second-degree murder for the 1993 slaying of a Queens man during a robbery-gone-wrong in East Harlem.The kicker: the case was cold ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2012
Assemblywoman Takes Aim At New York's Rape Laws In Light of Pena Conviction
Following a jury's failure to convict Michael Pena, the NYPD officer on trial for allegedly sexually attacking a teacher at gunpoint while off-duty, of rape, the New York Daily News reports that Queens Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas wants to introduce a bill that would broaden the state's definition ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Michael Pena, "Rape Cop," Convicted. DA Cyrus Vance Vows "No Mercy" At Sentencing
Former New York City police officer Michael "Rape Cop" Pena was convicted yesterday of three of the top charges against him for the sexual assault of a teacher last summer, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance pledges to show him no mercy when he's sentenced in May. "In this brutal attack ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
No Rape Conviction For "Rape Cop" Michael Pena Hardly Means He Beat The Rap
As we reported earlier, former New York City police officer Michael "Rape Cop" Pena has been convicted of several of the top charges against him for the vicious sexual assault of a teacher last summer. However, the jury was deadlocked on whether to convict him of two rape charges -- which is what ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Family of John Collado, Inwood Father Killed by NYPD Officer, Calls for Federal Investigation
A day after thousands marched in Union Square for Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old who was shot in Florida, the family members of the late John Collado gathered in a small law office yesterday afternoon to call for a federal investigation into the Inwood father of five's shooting death at the ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
Luis Martinez Shot In Ass While Fleeing Cops; Charged With Attempted Murder
Alleged would-be cop killer Luis Martinez will have a nice scar to show his new buddies in lock up -- it's on his ass.Martinez, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance says, was shot "in his buttock" while attempting to flee two NYPD officers he'd just tried to kill late last month near Columbia ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Crooked Cop Michael Carsey Convicted Of Lying To Get Search Warrant
It sure is disappointing when the people we trust to keep us safe from the dregs of society turn out to be the dregs of society.Enter New York City police officer/convicted crooked cop Michael Carsey, 31, who was convicted this afternoon of lying under oath in order to get a search warrant for th ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Patrick Alcindor Gets 13 Years in the Slammer for Stealing $1.8 Mil from Medicaid
Patrick Alcindor could spend up to 13 years behind bars for scamming $1.8 million from Medicaid -- charging for pricey prescriptions which he never filled, according to the Manhattan District Attorney. Alcindor, who ran the ring out of a Harlem pharmacy, got caught in March 2010 paying an undercov ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2012
Renata Shamrakova, Personal Assistant to Hilton Ex, Stole Almost $1 Million: Cops
Renata Shamrakova is on the hook for bilking her former boss, Nicky Hilton's Ex-Hubby Todd Meister -- out of more than 900,000 bucks, and she has just been indicted in a Manhattan court. The 27-year-old personal assistant is said to have made unauthorized charges on her employer's credit card and ... More >>
Blogs
February 29, 2012
Ceferino 'Papo' Perez, Cocaine Kingpin and Photoshop Aficionado, Gets 20 Years to Life
Recall Ceferino "Papo" Perez? He's that humble East Harlem coke king who Photoshopped his pic on top of Al Pacino's photo in a Scarface movie poster -- and displayed the masterpiece on his nightstand(!) Perez, 45, pleaded guilty this month to mastermining a massive cocaine ring, which got busted ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2012
Tyrone Hunter Could Spend His Life in Prison for Burglarizing Upper East Side Women
Tyrone Hunter, who terrorized three Upper East Side women in a creepy 2010 crime spree, will spend anywhere from 18 years to the rest of his life in prison, the Manhattan District Attorney announced today. Indeed, the deets of Hunter's crimes are chilling, and it's a good thing he's going t ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2012
Would-Be Granny Rapist Kentrel Whitaker Found Guilty of Attacking 73-Year-Old Woman
A 73-year-old woman was out for her morning walk when Kentrel Whitaker shoved her to the ground, beat her, and tried to rape her. The sex-fiend sicko removed her underwear and straddled her, but a nearby pedestrian saw what was happening and rushed to help. Whitaker also broke several of th ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Mustapha Ouanes Found Guilty in Plaza Hotel Rape Trial
A jury just found Mustapha Ouanes guilty of raping a woman and trying to assault another in his suite at the Plaza Hotel on Jan. 26, 2010, according to the Manhattan District Attorney. D.A. Cyrus Vance announced the conviction of Oanes this afternoon, saying that the rape was a "crime of opportunit ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Reggie Allen, 'MetroDunce,' Indicted on Weapons Charges
Reggie Allen is no criminal mastermind. Cops say that 34-year-old Allen brought two loaded firearms -- including a Tec-9 semi-automatic pistol and a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun -- into a crowded Times Square subway station on New Year's Day.
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Party Hard: Daniel Phillips Gets 10 Years in Prison for Setting Fire to Building Post-Shindig
Daniel Phillips must been a little confused by party etiquette: If you go to a fiesta, do bring a bottle of wine -- do not set the host's house on fire. Some of us are flummoxed by even the most basic manners, and Phillips is apparently no exception: The Manhattan District Attorney announced today ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Fake! DMV Clerk Clarence Jenkins Sold Drivers Licenses, Manhattan Prosecutor Alleges
Money can't buy happiness -- but it might buy you time behind the steering wheel if you're a felon who has been kicked out of the U.S. The Manhattan District Attorney says that Clarence Jenkins, a 56-year-old DMV clerk, sold three fraudulent drivers licenses to New Yorkers -- including "at least on ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Ray Kelly's Son, Fox 5's Greg Kelly, Accused of Rape
It has not been a good week for the Kelly family. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is already in trouble with the public after news broke that the NYPD screened a controversial film about Islam for officers at an anti-terror training center. Commissioner Kelly was also interviewed for the film The Thi ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Robert Caballero and Gordon Jenkins Face Charges of Stealing $310,000 from the Poor
What's worse than stealing money? Why, stealing from poor people, of course! And that's exactly what Robert Caballero and Gordon Jenkins are accused of doing, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance. Vance indicted 53-year-old Caballero and 72-year-old Jenkins today on f ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Kevin Clor, Ex-Thruway Lawyer, Charged With Stealing $211,000
A former top lawyer with the New York Thruway Employees union is being charged with looting more than $211,000 from the group. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced 40-year-old Kevin Clor's indictment today. The Buffalo resident now faces two grand larceny counts, as well as ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
NYCLU Sues Manhattan District Attorney for Records on NYPD Patrols
Stop-and-frisk has already been a hot topic in 2012 with folks rallying for better police accountability and others screaming at the mayor at a recent visit to Harlem. Today, advocates from the New York Civil Liberties Union are going after what they see as a very peculiar form of stop-and- ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Chelsea Elliott to Pursue Civil Case Against the NYPD Over Pepper Spraying
Yesterday we reported that Chelsea Elliott, who along with Kaylee Dedrick was pepper-sprayed while protesting with Occupy Wall Street at Union Square on Saturday, September 24, had obtained legal counsel and would be pressing charges against Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the NYPD officer identi ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Feds Investigating 2007 Bellevue Jail Ward Death
Back in June 2008, the Voice examined the controversial beating death of a mentally ill inmate in the jail ward at Bellevue Hospital Center. We reported exclusively that Patrick Miller was beaten severely by five correction officers in May 2007, and that beating probably led to his death by h ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
Manhattan Rabbi Cleared of Rape Charges on Eve of Yom Kippur
Ironic: a Manhttan Rabbi, accused of a crime he didn't commit, is cleared of it on the eve of the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. It can't be easy to ask for forgiveness from a higher power after your reputation's been permanently smeared for no reason whatsoever. Who knows if Bryan Bramly of M ... More >>
News
December 11, 2007
NYPD's Tunnel Vision
The Operation Lucky Bag subway stings were a bust, but now they're back
News
May 22, 2007
Deadly Restraint
Two jail fatalities involve use of force in both cases, but only silence from officials.
News
November 19, 2002
Ash-Blond Ambition
Prosecutor Linda Fairstein May Have Tried Too Hard
News
September 10, 2002
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
For Months, D.A.'s Office Looks for Link Between Central Park Defendants and Confessed Rapist
News
November 17, 1998
Martha Washington Goes Coed
'Suitable Males' Allowed At Women's SRO
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