Rikers Island

Teenage Pizza Delivery Boy Accused Of Raping UWS Woman, Said He Was 'Horny'

This has to be the most bizarre news story today.Cesar Lucas, a 16-year-old pizza delivery kid, was filling an order on the Upper West Side around 12:30am last night. When he was finished delivering a pie to a customer, he noticed a door that was unlocked nearby in the same building. Inside, a mothe ... More >>

Leib Glanz, Former Rikers Chaplain, Pleads Out to Housing Fraud

A genius at gaming the system until recently, Leib Glanz, the former Rikers Island chaplain cut loose for organizing a bar mitzvah party in a jail, and his brother, Menashe, pleaded guilty today to housing fraud, theft and lying in federal court in Manhattan. Federal prosecutors say the two men def ... More >>

Top Staff Shakeup On Rikers In Wake of Recent Bad News; Two More Slashings, Too

A major shakeup in the upper echelons of the city Correction Department took place late last week, amid word of two more slashings, including one in the troubled teen jail, the Voice has learned. Three senior Correction officials were reassigned, including the Assistant Chief of Security Mark Scott ... More >>

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 >>

G-Dep: Gangster Rapper/Convicted Murderer/One Admirable S.O.B

As we reported last week, Puffy-approved rapper G-Dep was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a decades-old murder he probably would have gotten away with if he hadn't turned himself in nearly 20 years later. G-Dep has since explained to the media his decision to rat himself out -- and he's now, pre ... More >>

Brooklyn Man Accused of 144 Counts of Sexually Assaulting Young Boys

CBS 2​CBS reported last night (the story was originally broken by the New York Post) that a Midwood man is accused of 144 counts of sexual abuse of two young boys. Andrew Goodman, 27, is charged with assaulting one boy aged 11-15 and another aged 13-16 from 2006 onward and taping it on a webca ... More >>

Face Tattoos Not Super-Duper Compatible With Life of Crime

When considering a criminally focused lifestyle, or even just a singular instance in which you rob a restaurant or store or person with eyes, one should know that a large, recognizable facial tattoo may be incompatible with said life of crime or singular instance of theft. The name of the game is "i ... More >>

Ceferino Perez, Cocaine Kingpin, Did Excellent Photoshop Work

​Ceferino "Papo" Perez, an East Harlem cocaine kingpin, was apparently so fond of Al Pacino's role in Scarface that he did some pretty amazing Photoshopping and put his face right on top of Pacino's in the movie poster (check it out, at right). The results, which he displayed on his nightstand ... More >>

Anne Sinclair, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Celebrity Third Wife, Is Paying All of His Bills

The happy (?) couple​Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ex-IMF chief facing attempted rape charges in New York City, is out of Rikers Island on a $6 million bail package, right into another money-burning arrangement. The armed security officer he's required to keep with him at all hours of the day ru ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Gets 'No Sympathy' From Bloomberg, Digs Smiley Face Emoticons

​The French are concerned about images of the jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of rape, in NYPD handcuffs, because pictures that depict a suspect detained work counter to justice, according to French law. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has little worry about that -- or concern for jus ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn In Handcuffs Is Not Okay, But Revealing Rape Accuser's Name Is?

​Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, is currently in a Rikers Island cell awaiting his next court date after being accused of rape by a 32-year-old maid in the Sofitel hotel near Times Square, where Strauss-Kahn was staying last weekend. Since the dramatic arrest, the media whirlwind has ... More >>

The Cinco de Mayo Charade

Its organizer sits in jail for raping his daughter. And the parade of his sympathizers marches on.

Prison Guard Accused of Offering Prisoner an Early Release in Exchange for Cocaine

​A correctional officer at Rikers Island has been arrested for offering an inmate early release in exchange for three kilos of cocaine. The office of the special narcotics prosecutor released a statement today detailing the investigation of prison guard Robert Whitfield. Whitfield allegedly pr ... More >>

NYC's Ten Worst Tenants

We hope you don't live next to these people

Guy Velella, 1944-2011, State Senator, Rascal, Stand-up Guy

Shiho Fukada/VV​It is October 14, 2000, and Guy Velella -- the ex-state senator and convicted felon who died yesterday at 66 -- is in his home base in the north Bronx practicing the fine art of retail politics. Nobody does this better, and the tell-tale silver-streak in his careful pompadour i ... More >>

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

Lil Wayne Tipped Off by Rikers Jail Staff, Brought Better Food, Allowed Long Visits

Lil Wayne even has a special visitors entrance Looks like hip-hop star Lil Wayne is even more of a VIP at the Riker's Island jail complex than we previously knew. Department of Corrections officials appear to be bending backwards for him, sources tell the Voice. We're told that when guests visit ... More >>

15 Ways to Celebrate June 15th, Drake Day

​Drake's album came out today. If you don't care, or are nonplussed, you are wrong. That said, it's time to lend some positivity to the proceedings. If you have yet to celebrate Drake Day by buying his album -- or are looking to further commemorate the occasion -- we now present you with 15 wa ... More >>

Remy Ma's Victim Presses On With Suit Against Label

Rapper Remy Ma's shooting victim is borrowing legal strategies from suits against pedophile priests to press her multimillion-dollar claim against the femcee's label, Universal Music Group. It's the label's fault, so the argument goes. Remy Ma is currently serving an eight-year jail sentence at Rik ... More >>

The Blessing and the Curse of Lil Wayne's Candy Addiction: Jail Postponement, Eight Root Canals

​Let no one say that the judge who postponed Lil Wayne's prison stay in order for the rapper to get dental work was going easy on the man--TMZ reports Wayne endured an eight-hour procedure on Tuesday that involved eight root canals, significant tooth implant repair, and some much needed grill ... More >>

5 Arrested, Including Alleged Gunman, in Bronx Schoolgirl Shooting

​Five arrests have been made in the case of Vada Vasquez, the 15-year-old who was shot in the head as she walked home from Bronx Latin School on Monday and remains in a coma. The suspected shooter is Carvette Gentile, 16. Other participants in the gunplay that led to Vasquez being struck were ... More >>

After 20 Years, a Bronx Cold Case Is Solved

—and a family's grief rekindled.

Miss California Banned From Competing in Miss Fag Hag Pageant

That's the funny title of a press release that went out promoting the Miss Fag Hag Pageant--a procession of real-life Will and Graces at Comix (353 W. 14 St.) on Sunday May 17, which will feature 10 fruit fly contestants and their tres-gay boyfriends. Says the email, "In lieu of a contender who onl ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>

Jails Commissioner Finally Confronted by City Council

In the ongoing controversy over the murder of teenager Christopher Robinson at a Rikers Island jail, someone in the City Council finally tried to pin down Correction Commissioner Martin Horn on what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did to stop it.    Robinson was fatally beaten i ... More >>

Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

Letters 12.3.08

Barrett on Bloomberg: Where's His Second Term?

Bloomberg Writes His Own Report Card

Thankfully, there's no term limit on the Constitution and its protection of students

Update: Car-Smash "Blog Bust" in Vain?

Remy Ma Sentenced to Eight Years as Papoose Explodes in Anger

Remy Ma Sentenced to Eight Years as Papoose Explodes in Anger

Tale of the Tape

Rewind: The story behind my story of the FBI murder case

What the Jail Guard Saw

Rikers officers encourage gang violence: surprising testimony and the stats to back it up

The Power of Soul Compels You

Risking drunken pawing from her grabby admirers, Sharon Jones obliterates your cynicism

Al Franken vs. Bill O'Reilly

A Leaky Tank Near You?

The Curious Case of CXB

Andre's World

A kid needs imagination to survive high school and jail on Rikers Island

The Suicide of Mr. A

A Mentally Ill Inmate Slips Through the Cracks—Into the Path of a Subway Train

Only Seeing Green

King Kong Landlord Boots Out the Blind on 44th Street

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Device Squads

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Blood Sport

Race Teams Face Off At the Diallo Trial

Sample My Pit Bull

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

On the Bus

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

The Spring '99 Collections

City of Grace

Rudy on duty in the Bully Pulpit