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NYPD Tapes Update: Queens DA Richard Brown's Report on Whistleblower Cop Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown's announcement last week that neither the police nor Jamaica Hospital committed any crimes when NYPD Tapes whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft was dragged from his apartment by police and involuntarily held in a psych ward raises a whole lot more questions than it ... More >>

Queens Man Pulls Gun In Gas Line (While Waiting To Fill Up His BMW)

There's a gas shortage in New York following Hurricane Sandy's wrath, and it's caused people to go to great lengths to fuel up.Some people have spent hours waiting in gas lines. Others have pulled loaded guns on other motorists (allegedly) in order to cut the line -- as is the case with a Queens man ... More >>

Brooklyn Punk Accused Of Tasering Gay Man Charged With Hate Crime

Zapping a gay guy with a Taser will likely land you in the clink. Screaming hateful slurs while doing it will likely land you in the clink for a long, long time.Case in point: 23-year-old Joseph Desmond, who currently is charged with a hate crime for doing exactly that.According to the Queens Distri ... More >>

Slain Guardsman Posthumously Promoted To Sergeant; Investigation Into Shooting Continues

The National Guardsman fatally shot by an NYPD detective earlier this month was laid to rest on Friday. He also got a promotion.Guardsman Noel Polanco held the rank of specialist in life. Friday, he was posthumously promoted to sergeant."This is a promotion for outstanding accomplishments and servic ... More >>

Mother Of National Guardsman Killed By Police To Meet With Queens D.A.; Al Sharpton To Speak At Funeral

Cecilia Polanco, the mother of 22-year-old National Guardsman Noel Polanco -- who was unarmed when he was gunned down by an NYPD sergeant last week -- will meet with the Queens District Attorney, a spokesman for the woman says.Queens D.A. Richard Brown said last week that his office already is inves ... More >>

Bronx Man Faces Terrorism Charges For Drunken Facebook Death Threat

Just in case you're considering getting shitfaced tonight and then firing off some angry Facebook posts threatening to kill your boss, you should be advised that you could potentially be hit with terrorism charges -- as is the case for a Bronx man who wants his boss to "suck the gun" before he blows ... More >>

Queens Mom Gets Prison Time For "Mercy" Stabbing Of Disabled Son

A Queens woman is heading to prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the 2011 stabbing death of her disabled son. What makes the story even worse is that the victim, 39-year-old Rene Veras, begged his mother to kill him the day of his death. What makes the story even more heartbreaking is th ... More >>

Here Are Nine Ways Queens Pols Think They Can "End" Gun Violence

With a dramatic spike in shootings the past few months, it's officially the "Summer of the Gun" here in the Big Apple -- and elected officials in Queens think they have figured out a way to "end gun violence."The pols' nine-point plan probably won't "end" gun violence, but it's a start, and a great ... More >>

National Night Out Against Crime In New York: Eight People Shot

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, several district attorneys and other law enforcement officials celebrated the "National Night Out Against Crime" yesterday by walking around the city at night in a show of solidarity against crime across the country. Criminals in New York celebrated the "Night Out" by shooting ... More >>

Queens Lawyer Jason Bohn Hit With First-Degree Murder Charge In Death Of Girlfriend; Prior Beatings Led To Escalated Charge

If the allegations are true, Astoria law grad Jason Bohn is a pretty big creep -- in addition to allegedly murdering his 27-year-old girlfriend, he's also got a history of beating the crap out of her, which is why a grand jury added a first-degree murder charge to the the second-degree murder charge ... More >>

Queens Man Accused Of Going On Meth-Fueled Burglary Spree -- And He Brought His 3-Year-Old Along For The Ride

Apparently somebody couldn't find a sitter...A Queens man was arrested early Tuesday morning after he allegedly went on a crystal meth-fueled burglary spree. Like any good parent, he brought his 3-year-old daughter along for what essentially boils down to an (alleged) criminal's version of "bring yo ... More >>

3,000-Count Indictment Nets 9-Year Prison Sentence For Kiddie-Porn Creep Elvis Infante

Queens resident Elvis Infante's got a pretty extensive collection of videos. Unfortunately for him, they're all of kids having sex, so he's heading to prison for a while.Infante, 35, was sentenced today to up to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of possession of child smu ... More >>

David Diehl DUI: How Much Does A 304-Pound Lineman Need To Drink To Hit .182 BAC? Answer: A Lot

New York Giants offensive lineman David Diehl was arrested over the weekend after crashing his 2011 BMW into two cars in Queens allegedly while drunk.According to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, the 304-pound lineman's blood alcohol content was .182, which is more than twice the legal limit. ... More >>

Oxycodone Epidemic: Feds, Locals Bust 100 for Dealing Prescription Pills, Including Two Doctors and a Nurse

The Feds and local authorities this week rounded up 98 people involved in the trafficking of prescription drugs like oxycodone, including two doctors and a nurse. Law enforcement officers executed dozens of search warrants, and sued a Brooklyn pharmacist to bar him from dispensing the highly addicti ... More >>

Queens Mom Hit With 10-Year Prison Sentence For Shaking 7-Month-Old Baby To Death

A Queens mom is headed to the joint after pleading guilty to manslaughter and assault charges in the shaking death of her 7-month-old daughter.Nyemah Nickens, 21, of 22-88 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after pleading guilty last month to first-degree assault ... More >>

WTF Was A Guy Doing With $20,000 In Cash At JFK Airport (Besides Leaving It On A Luggage Cart)?

The Queens County District Attorney's Office announced yesterday that a baggage handler at JFK Airport was arrested on theft charges after he took $20,000 from a computer bag a traveler mistakenly left on a luggage cart last month.In its announcement of the alleged theft, the Queens District Attorne ... More >>

Upstate Cop Falls For NYPD Child Sex Sting; Sent Penis Pics To "14-Year-Old Girl" (Read: Undercover Cop)

If you're a middle-aged man having sexually charged conversations online with someone you believe to be a 14-year-old girl, we've got news for you: 14-year-old girls aren't interested in you, and chances are you're really talking to a cop looking to lure pedophiles into some sort of cyber pervert-tr ... More >>

Queens Creep Admits To Shaking 2-Month-Old Daughter For Three Full Minutes; Baby Currently On Life-Support

Remember all those PSAs reminding people to "never shake a baby?" Well, there was a reason for those ads -- shaking a baby is incredibly dangerous (not to mention cruel and sick), a reality that a Queens baby, who currently is fighting for her life, learned the hard way.Just to make this story sligh ... More >>

Stomach-To-Ass Fat Injection Earns Queens Spa Owner Presumed 2-Year Prison Sentence

If your plan to achieve Kardashian-booty is to take fat from your stomach and have it injected into your ass, do yourself a favor and have an actual doctor perform the procedure. Or at the very least, don't let 29-year-old Barbara Nieto do it -- she pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that she unlaw ... More >>

Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Dumped Newborn In Hospital Trashcan, Gets 10 Years In Prison For Baby's Death

When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for him. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan in the bathroom at the hospital. He died seven days lat ... More >>

Carlos Quezada Raped An 8-Year-Old -- And Now He's Going To Prison For A Long, Long Time

Here's a tip for anyone considering raping an 8-year-old: don't friggin' do it! And then throw yourself in front of a bus.That advice probably would have come in handy for convicted kid-raper Carlos Quezada, who will be a guest of the state for the next 22 years to life after being found guilty of c ... More >>

Queens Hobo Convicted Of Manslaughter In Beating Death Of "Good Samaritan" Nicholas Nowillo

A homeless Queens man may have landed himself a nice, warm bed -- unfortunately for him, it will likely be at a state prison, and if prosecutors have their way, he won't be allowed to leave for up to 25 years.Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 47-year-old Eric Cherry's been found guilty of ... More >>

Report: New York Had 114 Child Abuse Fatalities In One Year

A report released by two New York district attorneys shows that New York is on the hook for more than seven-percent of all child abuse fatalities in the entire country.The report -- released by Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown and Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes -- looked at data from 2010, ... More >>

Bronx Teen Accused Of Stealing A Friggin' Bulldozer And Demolishing A Playground

​If there's one thing that's more fun than a playground, it's demolishing one with a friggin' bulldozer!That's what Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown says a 17-year-old Bronx boy did earlier this week, destroying a brand new playground in Far Rockaway during what we'll assume was the m ... More >>

Kew Motor Inn, Alleged "Haven" For Hookers, Closes Its Doors (With A Little Help From The City)

​The Kew Motor Inn, located in a residential section of Kew Gardens, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, was a "haven" for hookers and their pimps. So was the Par Central Motor Inn, which also is located in a residential area of Kew Gardens.Thanks to the city's "nuisance abatement ... More >>

Manuel Mayi: 21 Years After Teen's Murder, Mother Lacks Answers (UPDATE)

On March 28, 1991, Manuel Mayi was beaten to death by a mob in Corona, Queens. At the time, as many as 10 white individuals chased the 18 year-old Dominican for 16 blocks. They then hit him with baseball bats, fatally cracking his skull. Cops made three arrests. The District Attorney tried one ind ... More >>

Queens Couple Accused Of Kidnapping/Torturing Disabled Woman; Kept Paralyzed Victim Against Her Will For Over A Year

​A Queens couple is charged with kidnapping and torturing a 58-year-old disabled woman they kept against her will for more than a year -- all while beating her, starving her, and stealing her social security checks.Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown says the couple, Patrick Donovan, 42 ... More >>

Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Threw Newborn In Hospital Trash Can, Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter; 10-Year Prison Sentence Expected

​When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for the boy. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan. He died seven days later -- and now Lama is likely ... More >>

Ray Lengend, Alleged Racist Fire-Bomber, Hit With Hate Crime Charges For Attacks On Mosque, Hindu Temple

​In what appear to be actual hate crimes, a Queens man has been hit with a 36-count indictment alleging that he fire-bombed multiple buildings -- including a mosque and a Hindu temple -- during a New Year's Day crime spree that ended with the suspect telling investigators how much he hates Arabs, ... More >>

Grace Peterson-Hagendorf, Queens Teacher, Pleads Not Guilty To Charges She Choked Out 6-Year-Old Student

​A 59-year-old Queens teacher is in a bit of trouble, which tends to be the breaks when you allegedly choke out a student...who's only six years old.Grace Peterson-Hagendorf, a substitute teacher at Public School 22 in Flushing, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she choked out a 6-year- ... More >>

Five Men, One Woman Indicted For Imprisoning/Raping/Drugging/Pimping 15-Year-Old Girl

​Six people have been indicted in connection with the rape, kidnapping, and torture of a 15-year-old girl who was snatched off a Brooklyn street corner last month.The story, as told by Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown, is pretty horrific -- the girl was drugged, gang raped, and pimped ... More >>

Adrian Schoolcraft To Meet With Queens Prosecutors Next Month

​The Queens District Attorney has scheduled a sit-down early next month with the police officer who was dragged by police to a psychiatric facility and held for six days, after reporting allegations of misconduct to NYPD investigators, the Voice has learned. The meeting could be an indicatio ... More >>

"Depressed" Queens Woman Threw Toddler to His Death

WCBS-2​Today in awful news: Police have arrested a 53-year-old woman in Queens for throwing a three-year-old boy to his death from a seventh-floor balcony in Flushing last night.

Former Jet Blue Flight Attendant Steven Slater Will Always Be News

​Steven Slater, the renegade airline steward who shot to cult stardom when he walked off the job by sliding out of a plane's inflatable emergency slide and onto the tarmac at JFK with two beers in-hand, can't catch a break. While he was in court yesterday, copping a plea that would allow him t ... More >>

Steven Slater's Sad Fizzle, Or, the Working Class Hero Gets a Psych Eval

​Oh, what a difference a month makes. Back on August 9, the world heard tale of the wayward JetBlue flight attendant who lost it during an altercation with an angry passenger, deployed the emergency exit chute, grabbed two beers, and high-tailed it from the plane, which was parked on the tarma ... More >>

Church Bingo Scam in Queens Nets $830,000, Old-School-Style

​We thought this "oldest trick in the book" sort of con only happened in movies with smooth-talking snake-oil preachers and gullible townsfolk, but clearly, we were the gullible ones here! According to ABC, three wayward church-goers implemented a bingo scam in Jackson Heights that netted them ... More >>

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The Rise and Fall of Internet Sports Bookie and Poker Pro James Giordano

From Bluff magazine to court, James Giordano was wired for success until Queens prosecutors captured him in their web

Man Faces Year in Jail for Opening (Grounded) Plane Door

At a time when most of us are afraid to say "bomb," or even "Bombay" or "La Bamba," within 15 yards of an airport, we must take our hat off to Robert McDonald of Crescent, England, who opened the emergency door of his Delta flight last night because he felt like getting out. We know how it sounds, ... More >>

Mob Expected at DA Candidate's Kick-Off Party

Cyrus Vance Jr.'s campaign to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan District Attorney is holding its big kickoff fundraiser on March 31st. Tickets range from $50,000 (event chair level), to $500 (mere guest). The event will be held at an interesting location for an aspiring crime-busting DA: Fr ... More >>

Feds Pledge Bell Shooting Probe and Sharpton Promises Hit-and-Run Protests As Cops Walk

The Sean Bell Curveball For Cops on Trial

Prosecutors' 'acting-in-concert' theory in chaotic shooting of Sean Bell misses the mark, observers say

Teacher in Queens Sends Graphic Emails to Students: DA

Sean Bell Shooting Victim Arrested in Queens

Name That Criminal

In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

Mets Fan Murdered Mom After Loss: Queens DA

Deviled Jam

Prosecutors backing off on hate crime charge in beating of Queens Satanist

They'll Take Manhattan

Activists again eye Central Park, central streets

Bias Murder Revisited

After 11 Years, Hope for Justice in Latino’s Beating Death

Justice Delayed

Eyewitness Accounts of 'Hate' Crime Vary