Federal narcotics agents busted a heroin operation at a Bronx auto shop this month, severing a million dollar supply chain that stretched to Long Island, court records indicate. They raided Mobile Creations, a luxury car customizing shop, on Feb. 7 after nabbing a Suffolk County drug dealer attempting to sell 68 grams of heroin. The [...]
A 27-year-old pregnant woman was shot outside a Brooklyn school Friday afternoon by her ex-boyfriend, police sources said. Daisy Torres, believed to be four months pregnant, was struck in the chest and rushed to Kings County Hospital, where doctors told police she is expected to survive. The health of her unborn child was not immediately [...]
A California mom was arrested after neighbors spotted her 12-year-old daughter wandering the streets naked and scrounging in the trash for food , police said. Tracy Lynn Betts, 40, was taken into custody on Thursday on suspicion of child endangerment. Betts worked as a teacher’s aide at an elementary school in a Temecula neighborhood. Betts [...]
Two wiseguys pleaded guilty Friday to extortion charges related to a racketeering scheme that the feds say stocked mob-controlled New York strip clubs with smuggled eastern European women, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced. Alphonse Trucchio, a Gambino family capo, and Christopher Colon, a Gambino associate, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to extorting two [...]
The shooting in the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building in Long Beach reportedly involved a dispute between an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and his supervisor. The agent shot his boss and then was killed by another agent. A confrontation between federal law enforcement agents erupted in gunfire Thursday evening in Long Beach, leaving one [...]
200 bags of crack were found inside an oven in a drug stash house in Brownsville yesterday during a raid that resulted in 14 arrests. Investigators say the apartment was in the same building where a teenager allegedly shot and killed Zuranna Horton from the roof as she shielded children from gunfire outside an elementary [...]
An 11-year-old Pittsburgh boy suffered nine hours of vicious abuse from his mother’s boyfriend before dying of his injuries, all because he failed to vacuum the apartment, police said Sunday. Anthony Bush was watching Donovan McKee while his mother was at work on Saturday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The 29-year-old savagely beat the boy for [...]
Waka Flocka associate and Murda Team rapper Ra Diggs who bragged on Twitter about getting away with murder might have tweeted too soon, authorities say. Federal prosecutors have charged Ronald (Ra Diggs) Herron with three brutal slayings — including one connected to his online boasts. A Brooklyn Federal Court grand jury indicted him on Monday [...]
Two men, who sources said were high on drugs, went on a joyride through Manhattan with a stolen city DEP truck Friday night — hitting four cars before smashing into an upper East Side barbershop. Raynel Green, 32, and Raymond Moore, 36, found the keys to the Department of Environmental Protection rig before swiping it [...]
Police raided a Chelsea apartment yesterday and discovered an enormous cache of counterfeit Apple products and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones worth almost $1 million retail, cops said. Officers began staking out the building on West 28th Street near Seventh Avenue after an arrest last month when they saw a man leave the building with [...]
A man was shot dead and then his body burned and dissolved in acid because his killer feared he might “dob him in” over a hydroponic cannabis operation, a jury heard today. Prosecutor Mark Gibson said Leonard Borg took his victim, Peter Rule, to a factory in Campbellfield and shot him 10 times with a [...]
A reputed mob boss known for his wide girth and reputation for violence was sentenced to 25 years in prison today in a federal court in Chicago. Michael “The Large Guy” Sarno also was ordered to pay nearly $US1.8 million ($1.67 million) in restitution. A jury convicted Sarno, 54, and four co-defendants in 2010 of [...]
Man suspected in his wifes disappearance has killed himself and his two young sons by blowing up the house where he lived. Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, is believed to have triggered an explosion at his home in Washington state shortly after his children arrived for a supervised visit on [...]
Four teens — including a 13-year-old — are under arrest in connection with a broad-daylight home invasion that degenerated from armed robbery into the sexual assault of a Brooklyn woman for nearly an hour, sources said yesterday. The ski-masked gang allegedly followed her 24-year-old boyfriend to their Bedford-Stuyvesant home and forced their way in at [...]
Police used a Stun Gun on a woman who had been blocking a McDonald’s drive-thru for more than 20 minutes. Evangeline Lucca, 37, had cut the line and refused to leave before she was served. Employees, meanwhile, refused to attend to Lucca because she cut the queue. Authorities in Hope Mills, North Carolina, say Lucca [...]
Police say two cops found a stolen iPhone after they heard it ringing inside the pants of a 14-year-old suspect. Around 4:30 p.m. Friday, two officers were patrol near the Jefferson Houses by 2nd Avenue and East 112 Street when authorities say they saw a teen grab an iPhone from a woman who was walking [...]
A Southwest Houston man shot himself after a standoff with police Friday, authorities said. The man, a suspect in the stabbing of a 4-year-old girl, led police on a 30-minute chase before holding SWAT officers at bay at his home at 7957 W. Airport Friday morning, police said. At about 12:15 p.m., SWAT officers breached [...]
A Transportation Security Administration agent swiped $5,000 from the jacket of a passenger passing through security at JFK, police say. Video surveillance cameras caught Alexandra Schmid, 31, of Brooklyn, taking the cash from the man’s jacket pocket Wednesday night as it moved along an X-ray conveyor belt, Port Authority Police say. Schmid wrapped the cash [...]
An NYPD auxiliary cop was caught with a slew of sickening kiddie porn at his upstate home, the New York State Police said. Daniel Sayer, 59, was arrested and charged with two felony counts of possessing child pornography, officials said, and is being held in lieu of $15,000 cash bail in Orange County Jail. He [...]
A dozen people were charged Wednesday in a $250 million scam in which New York-area cell phone customer accounts were pilfered to clone cell phones. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said “tens of thousands” of customer accounts were stolen and used in the lucrative black market international calling scheme. The crackdown stems from a investigation [...]
