Tag: Crime
As we reported yesterday, one of the motorcyclists involved in the chasing and beating of Alexian Lien–an incident that’s received widespread attention due to a viral video–was an undercover cop. Now, Wojciech Braszczok, an NYPD detective, has been arrested for riot and criminal mischief. According to the New York Times, “more counts could be added.” Braszczok told police of […]
It turns out that undercover detective who as at the scene of the West Side Highway motorcycle chase was involved in beating up SUV driver Alexian Lien, contrary to what was originally reported. NYPD sources say a video–not the one that went viral on YouTube–shows the detective banging on one of the the car’s windows until it […]
Last weekend, a group of motorcyclists out for a group ride were involved in an altercation with a driver on the West Side Highway that resulted in an SUV running over one of the bikers, and the subsequent beating and knifing of the SUV’s driver. Now, it turns out three of the bikers in that […]
Here’s a wonderful photo series from Marc Hermann, who took vintage crime scene photos from the Daily News’s archives, then edited them together with current-day location shots. There’s the Sacred Hearts & Stephen Church burning above the BQE, a big 1940’s car slamming into a lightpole at Classon and Pacific, a fire at 31 Grand Street, […]
Elena Sava Adams, a 57-year-old Romanian-American woman living in Battery Park City, wanted to kill her husband. He wasn’t giving her enough money “to make ends meet,” apparently, and she wanted to collect on a little life insurance money, according to the NYPD. So she went to Brooklyn (less surveillance cameras there, she thought) and […]
In Park Slope, where everywhere you turn it’s organic farm-to-table this and gluten-free latin bistro that, there comes a time when you just really need some greasy, good ol’ fashioned buffalo tater tots. But does that justify armed robbery? After making a delivery on Lincoln place last Saturday night, a 26-year old driver returned to […]
Police shut down no less than 12 massage parlors in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Bensonhurst for alleged prostitution this week, arresting owners, managers and workers. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office is investigating whether workers were “victims of human trafficking, being manipulated or held against their will,” according to Brooklyn Paper, and whether a central organization […]
Whoever you are, you are not as badass as one 54-year-old woman who was the victim of armed robbery last week. The woman was loading a car outside of her friend’s SoHo apartment when two men approached and commanded her to give up her wallet. One of the men put a gun to her head. […]
New York City murders for the first half of 2013 totalled just 156, down 25% percent from the first half of 2012. Homicides hit their lowest number since the early 1960’s in 2012. The NYPD claims that this is a result of placing extra police officers in certain high crime “impact zones” and its anti-gang program […]
The case against Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, a notorious mobster who ran trash trucks in New York and New Jersey, has turned up at least one amazing piece of evidence: a tape, obtained by DNAinfo, that shows Franco and his associates extolling the virtues of Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious. DNAinfo explains: “One of the […]
