Robbery

Deputy Chief Michael Marino in Stop and Frisk Trial: 'Do Your Job or Suffer the Consequences'

When then-NYPD Capt. Michael Marino arrived as a commander in the tough section of Brooklyn known as East New York, he was appalled at what the 400 officers in the command considered to be work. "They were doing five [summonses] a month, which was just not enough to address the problem," he testif ... More >>

For the First Time in 20 Years, New York's Crime Rate Is on the Rise

While Bloomberg brags about his record, the city's crime rate is on the rise

What Should You Wear To Rob a Bank?

Blame Sex and the City... Today brings us news of the "Burberry bandit," a man who reportedly robbed 14 Manhattan banks to fuel his high-fashion addiction, according to the New York Post. Cornell Neilly, 21, supposedly used the haul from the heists to buy "$400 sneakers and a Burberry shirt" whic ... More >>

James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond Implicated Himself in 1994 Tupac Shakur Attack: Court Testimony

For nearly two decades, drug lord James Rosemond, a/k/a "Jimmy Henchman," denied accusations of his involvement in the near-fatal 1994 ambush of rap star Tupac Shakur at New York's Quad Recording Studios that marked a pivotal moment in American pop history. The attack on Tupac triggered a bicoastal ... 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 >>

Woody Barrington, NYPD Detective, Penalized For Downgrading Robberies to Lost Property

The Police Department has taken 40 vacation days from a detective who was charged with downgrading robbery complaints and filing them as lost property in a Brooklyn precinct, the Voice has learned. Det. Woody Barrington, a 17-year veteran assigned to the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park, lost the vacat ... More >>

Charles McDowell, Convicted Livery Cabbie Killer, Gets Life

Charles McDowell, who shot and killed livery cab driver Amadou Ndiaye in August, 2009, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson tells us.

One Glove Bandit Strikes Again, Robs Third NYC Bank

FBI ​The latest bandit in town is the "One Glove Bandit," named thusly because his gimmick -- and every criminal needs a good gimmick these days -- is that he wears a single glove, à la Michael Jackson. So far, he's robbed three NYC banks, the latest being a Chase Bank in Flushing yesterday morni ... More >>

The Bank Robbery That Would Become 'Dog Day Afternoon'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 31, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 35 Littlejohn & the mob: Saga of a heist By Arthur Bell Tuesday, August 22. Home about 10 p.m. A message from a friend on my cassette phone unit. "Just heard a couple of homosexuals are holding up a bank ... More >>

Crimson Gold

Gun-Toting Robbers Attack in Parkchester

Cops are looking for three thugs who robbed at gunpoint and assaulted a man who let them into a Bronx building at 1580 Metropolitan Avenue about about 7:30 Sunday evening, January 30. Video released by the NYPD indicates that the 34-year-old victim, by the way he so freely opened the front door of ... More >>

Scruffy Bank Robber Sought in Crown Heights Stickup

Bank robbery suspect​Cops are looking for a scruffy bank robber who held up the Apple Bank at 318 Albany Avenue, near Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, around noon Tuesday, February 1. The guy walked up to a teller at 12:14 p.m., displaying a silver handgun and handing over a note deman ... More >>

Two Guys With a Shotgun Walk Into a Bronx Bodega . . .

Bronx cops are looking for a couple of heavyset, ski-mask-wearing, blue-jeans-drooping, tan-work-boot-clad thugs who robbed a bodega at 1888 Walton Avenue on January 7. They came into the store at about 10:25 p.m., showed everybody a shotgun to prove how tough they were, and ordered employees and ... More >>

Who Is This Scumbag Robber? He Stuck Up a Delivery Guy in the Bronx.

Scumbag robber​Cops are looking for a jerk (right) who stuck up a delivery guy at 10:20 p.m. on December 29 in the South Bronx, in the NYPD's 42nd Precinct. The robber approached the 21-year-old Asian  guy who was delivering food to 631 East 168th Street, hit him on the head with a gun, and t ... More >>

Christmas Eve Robbers Still Sought

The NYPD asks the public for help in solving a Christmas Eve robbery at Today's Mobile, Fifth Avenue and 28th Street. At about 6 p.m. that day, three people described as black males entered the store. One tried to distract the store employee while the two others tried to grab merchandise. One of ... More >>

Dear Hollywood: Leave Massachusetts Alone!

​2010 was the worst year in history for the state of Massachusetts--on film anway. If you live there, you obviously get pink slipped, become a bank robber, get unjustly convicted of something else, and emerge to become a boxer with a fucked-up family. I am not making this up! All in 2010, w ... More >>

Police Seek Suspect in Bronx Robbery

​The NYPD is asking for the public's help identifying the suspect pictured, who's wanted for taking part in an October 29 robbery near Matthews Avenue and Williamsbridge Road, the Bronx.

"UPS Robber" Sought by NYPD

​The NYPD is asking for the public's help identifying a suspect who has worn a UPS uniform to attempt two gunpoint robberies on the Upper West Side, both on Friday, October 29, at West 147th and West 143rd Streets. The suspect, clad in the trademark brown uniform, produced a gun from his UPS u ... More >>

Baby Is Literal Accessory to Robbery; NYPD Seeks Suspects

​Remember the bouquet bandit? The Darth Vader bank robber? Well, the latest in "ruses to help you steal things" seems to be babies. But this goes against our considerable ethics here at Runnin' Scared. Babies are not accessories! You can't just tote them around on crime sprees like a great han ... More >>

Ninja-Thieves Wielding Telephone Cord Rob Diamond District Store

​An armed duo of jewel thieves busted into Namat Inc. diamond store in Midtown yesterday afternoon wearing all black (like ninjas) including hats and sunglasses (less like ninjas), and made off like bandits with $29,000 in cash and $37,000 in jewels, according to the Daily News.

Police Seek Gun-Wielding Suspect in 10 Queens Robberies

​The NYPD is asking for the public's help locating a man wanted in connection with 10 robberies in Queens in the last month. The suspect, pictured, enters commercial locations, jumps behind the counters, pulls out a gun, demands cash, and flees on foot with his take. He's aged 25-30, 5'7"-6'0" ... More >>

Tranny Clown Unsuccessful in Attempt to Rob Bank

​Okay, this is getting out of hand, people. Hot on the shitkickers of Long Island's Darth Vader robber, we have a man in Pittsburgh who robbed a bank wearing a blonde lady's wig and fake boobs. And, um, "clown pants." He used a toy BB gun he had shoplifted from a store to hold up the bank. Als ... More >>

NYPD Quote of the Day: "You Don't Need to Take That Report"

Chad Griffith​Graham Rayman's "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct" chronicles hundreds of recorded hours of cops talking about their jobs between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009. Here's today's outtake:

Quotas and Victim Intimidation? Of Course, Says Another NYPD Veteran

​Marquez Claxton spent 20 years as a police officer and a detective in the NYPD, most recently in Williamsburg's 90th Precinct. He retired as a detective second grade. He worked in narcotics as an undercover, in vice, in domestic violence, and was involved in the investigation of thousands of ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct

RoundUp: Crime Doesn't Pay, Unless You're Just Reading About It

​Here's our Tuesday night crime roundup (complete with celebs, pimps, and Gambinos, for all of you who can't wait for your Us Weekly): Michael Douglas' son Cameron was sentenced to five years in prison for dealing meth and coke. Prior to the sentencing, Douglas composed a handwritten letter ... More >>

Robert Krieg Identified as Suspect in Manhattan Bank Robbery

​The Police would like to speak to Robert Krieg, 42, in connection with the robbery of the Capital One Bank branch at 1001 6 Avenue. According to police in the Midtown South Precinct, a man, who they're identifying as Krieg, entered the bank early Thursday afternoon and demanded money from a ... More >>

Have You Seen... Queens Mostly-Masked Robbers

This crew had a December armed robbery spree in Queens, hitting a mini-mart in Ozone Park on the 9th, a car care center in Bellerose on the 10th, a 7-11 in Kew Garden Hills on the 19th, an a grocery in Forest Hills on the 21st. In this last instance, one of the robbers forgot to pull his mask dow ... More >>

Have You Seen... Nicely-Dressed Bank Robber

​Two guys hit three banks on Monday, making them our first bank robbers of the year; this guy, black and in his 50s, and his accomplice are so far as we know the last ones of 2009. On December 28, they robbed the Capital One at East 34th Street. His accomplice, black and in his 30s, was in a t ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Looks Like Crime Rate Will Drop Again This Year; Murders, Too

​With the year coming to a close, the citywide crime rate as of Dec. 13 looks like it will drop by about 10 percent, with overall drops in every major crime except assault which rose by 2 percent. With 440 murders so far this year, there likely will be fewer than 500 homicides for the year. T ... More >>

Burglary Suspect Linked to 22 Break-Ins Arrested

Julia told you this weekend about an enterprising thief who'd been tied to a series of Manhattan robberies -- 22 in all, targets ranging from a Ranch One on West 46th to a yoga studio at East 86th to a Columbus Avenue barber shop. The perp was said to use a bicycle to get to and from his jobs, and ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Brooklyn Woman Stabbed in Broad Daylight (Update)

View Larger Map DATE: Monday Dec. 7, 2009, 1:10 p.m. LOCATION: 160 Menahan St., Brooklyn. A 50-year-old woman was stabbed to death during an apparent robbery yesterday afternoon at the above address. Hazel Clemens of Bleecker Street in Brooklyn was declared dead at the scene. The police say they a ... More >>

Have You Seen... Bank Robbers in Harlem, Staten Island

​ We've been having a bunch of bank robberies around these parts. Can you help out? On November 4, the woman at left hit the Banco Popular Banco Popular located at Broadway and 145th Street. She's said to be white, about 40, 5'2" and pock-marked, and to have a distinctive tattoo on her left a ... More >>

Have You Seen... Subway Hold-Up Men

​ The guy who spent January through August robbing subway passengers -- he's still at large, by the way -- at least got up and went places to mug people. Now we have some cowboys who just wait at the station and pick riders off as they depart, the lazy bums. The first four guys above flocked ... More >>

Did The Jury Foreman Know the Accused Armed Robber? Charlie Hynes' Office Is On the Case

​Here's another reason why we love the Brooklyn criminal court system: a guy's on trial last month for felony armed robbery. One day, a paralegal for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office wanders into the courtroom to drop off some papers. The robbery defendant, Corey Hinds, she notes, look ... More >>

New Photo of Serial Subway Robbery Suspect Circulated

​Remember the guy who pulled 14 robberies on the subway this year? The main suspect's name is Rasheem Williams and he's still out there. NYPD offered first a surveillance photo, then one apparently taken in his youth. Williams is 39 now and police are sending this picture around. If you see hi ... More >>

Have You Seen... Staten Island Livery Cab Robbers

​ Livery cab drivers are having a hard time lately. Three of them have been shot dead in two weeks, and the recently-apprehended subject in the robbery-murder of driver Amadou Ndiaye was caught trying to rob someone else. Now police are looking for a crew that robbed a livery driver on August ... More >>

Have You Seen... Train Robber

​This guy is suspected of no less than 14 robberies on the subway. His MO is to show a knife, or gesture as if he has a gun, then confiscate valuables and demand PIN numbers for the cards. So far he works mostly uptown and in The Bronx. He pulled his first job on January 5 on the southbound ... More >>

Have You Seen... Dunkin' Donuts Robber

NYPD is looking for a man they think committed seven robberies from June 24 through this past Monday. Though his began his spree with a Subway restaurant on East Gun Hill Road in The Bronx, he thereafter concentrated on Dunkin' Donuts outlets in The Bronx and Manhattan, most recently at 55 West 55th ... More >>

Dog Day Afternoon

Somebody Got Murdered: Of Livery Cabs and Love Gone Bad

No one ever said driving a livery cab is an easy job: the pay sucks, the hours are terrible, and then of course, there is always the chance that someone will try to kill you. That's what happened to livery driver Tamiz Din (left), a 50-year-old man of Indian descent living in the Sheepshead ... More >>

Crime Un-Stoppers: Times Says DAs Flubbed Mortgage Scams

New York City prosecutors remained asleep at the switch while mortgage rip-off artists took huge bites out of the Big Apple, reports The Times's Michael Powell this morning in a great top-of-the fold read.Almost a decade after HUD declared the city a foreclosure fraud "hot zone" and schemesters bega ... More >>

Plaxico Fill-In Also Shot, But By Others

In November Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress went to a nightclub and shot himself in the leg (accidentally -- or so we were told), causing Mayor Bloomberg to demand a lengthy prison term for Burress and the Giants to suspend him. Burress was replaced in the waning days of the Giants season by Ta ... More >>

Law and Disorder: The Bank Robber Cop

Rape Stats and Silence

Wu-Tang Clan is Sumthing ta Fuck Wit

The World-Famous Staten Island Hip-Hop Collective Has a Government Informer Working Within Its Ranks; at the Same Time, the Group Is Being Investigated by the Feds for Gunrunning. Coincidence?

My Uncle Vinny

When Vincent Curto was gunned down by police during a robbery nearly four years ago, no one wanted to hear his nephew's accusation that he was brutally assaulted as he lay dying. Until now.

The Case Against Hate-Crime Laws

Federalizing Hate Crimes Will Increase Double Jeopardy

A Year of Living Perilously

How a case of mistaken identity shattered an immigrant family