Crime and Incidents

Two penthouses were destroyed in a fire in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village on Saturday night. Firefighters responded to a multiple dwelling fire on top of 838 Greenwich St. just around 8:45 p.m., NY1 reports. By 10:19 p.m., the FDNY Alerts Twitter account said that the fire on the five-story building had been contained. The building was […]

An NYPD detective was shot in Brooklyn on Friday morning after chasing down a suspect. The detective was shot in the leg on Decatur Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood at around 6:40 a.m., reports ABC7. The NYPD tweeted at around 7 a.m. that there would be a police presence on Decatur Street and Tompkins Avenue, and […]

NEW YORK—A New York woman who scaled the stone pedestal of the Statue of Liberty to protest immigration policy pleaded not guilty to trespassing, disorderly conduct, and interfering with governmental administration in her first court appearance on Thursday. Therese Patricia Okoumou, 44, was arrested on Wednesday after she climbed the statue’s pedestal and began a […]

A 62-year-old former federal inspector was charged with one count of attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on July 2. Jesse Rodriguez from St. Paul, Minnesota, used to work as an inspector with the Federal Protective Service of the Department of Homeland Security. He was arrested […]

President Donald Trump’s second son reportedly rushed to aid a woman who had passed out near a train station in New York City, dodging rush-hour traffic to flag down an ambulance. Eric Trump and his security detail stopped to help the unidentified woman near the F train station near 57th Street and Sixth Avenue on […]

Two men were caught on camera attacking another man in the middle of a Bronx street on the morning of June 18. A suspect was later arrested. Video of the incident shows two men approaching the 37-year-old victim before one of them winds up and punches him in the face, knocking him down. While he is […]

A man who was accused of cutting off his wife’s arm and some of her fingers is on police custody, authorities say. Yong Lu, 35, fled his house in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street after attacking his pregnant wife with a knife last Thursday. Lu was found near Niagara Falls on […]

A pastor in New Jersey has been found guilty of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a heating and plumbing company in South Plainfield, New Jersey. The pastor, R. David Keith, 46, swindled about $750,000 out of the family business, RupCoe, owned by Jim Coyle, his wife Lisa and Jim’s business partner Tom Ruperto. They were thrilled […]

A woman who said she had a year-long relationship with three-time Grammy-winning singer R. Kelly filed a criminal complaint against him in Suffolk County on Thursday, in addition to suing the singer in Manhattan and filing a criminal complaint against him in Dallas, Texas. Faith Rodgers said she met the singer when she was 19 […]

Police are still looking for a man who they said violently attacked his wife with a steak knife in their Sunset Park apartment on Thursday, cutting off one of her arms and some fingers. At about 12:20 p.m., police from the 72nd Precinct said they arrived at the apartment, located 55th Street and 5th Avenue, where they […]

Under a bill passed on June 13 by the New York State Senate, anyone over the age of 21 who promotes or profits from the prostitution of minors will be charged with sex trafficking and face 25 years in prison. The bill is now on the desk of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and […]

A Long Island, New York, man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly draining his mother’s bank account of $4.5 million to fund his lavish lifestyle. Samuel Bernstein, 24, of Roslyn, Long Island, was charged with first degree grand larceny after he allegedly accessed his mother’s bank account electronically and took money from a fund she […]

A 10-year-old girl was violently robbed as she was entering her apartment in the Bronx on the afternoon of May 25. The attacker, yet to be identified, followed the girl into the building’s lobby on Holland Avenue in Allerton. He grabbed her cell phone from her and hit her with it. He then threw her […]

A vintage airplane that was flying over Long Island on Wednesday, May 31, crashed on the island, killing the pilot. Pilot Ken Johansen, 52 of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was the only one killed. No one on the ground was injured. The plane crashed, which took off from Republic Airport in East Farmingdale, crashed at 1:52 p.m. along […]

On Saturday, May 26, police say a man snuck up behind another man on Cambreleng Avenue in the Bronx and put him in a chokehold. A few seconds later, surveillance footage shows another man run up to the two on the ground and start to search the victim’s pockets. Police say he removed a cell phone. The […]

A 7-year-old boy from Brownsville, Brooklyn, is dead after he was hit by an MTA bus in the Bronx on Saturday. The boy, Shevone Bethea, was going down Webster Avenue near 184th Street at around 3:30 p.m. when a city bus ran into him, dragging him for almost a block, his family says. The bus driver […]

A pregnant 30-year-old Army veteran was stabbed multiple times putting her in critical condition and killing her unborn child on May 22. Livia Abreu was in her second trimester when she was stabbed by her boyfriend, the accused, Oscar Alvarez, in her apartment at 1027 Walton Ave. in the Bronx, New York, at around 12:30 […]

A 14-year-old-boy is in custody after he allegedly posed as a police officer to rob a blind man in a Manhattan subway station on May 14. The mother of the youth turned him in on Sunday, The Associated Press reported, nearly a week after he reportedly stole the 64-year-old man’s wallet. Police said he offered to […]

On May 13, a homeless man assaulted two women in their 70s before being stopped by a stranger, according to police. The good Samaritan who intervened and restrained the attacker is also said to be homeless. The two elderly women are now recovering from being battered and bruised outside Shopper’s World in Brownsville, Brooklyn; their […]

A crash involving two New Jersey Transit buses in New York City’s Lincoln Tunnel left several dozen people injured on Friday morning. According to CBS New York, 34 people were injured. Of that figure, 7 were seriously hurt. The buses were pulled out of the tunnel and put onto the shoulder. The Fire Department of […]