NYC private equity lawyer drugged, attacked women with cattle prods, shock collars: prosecutors

NYC private equity lawyer drugged, attacked women with cattle prods, shock collars: prosecutors

A New York City private equity attorney was accused of drugging, restraining and beating six women — including savage attacks with shock collars and cattle prods intended for livestock — in a bombshell indictment filed in Manhattan on Thursday.  The charges were unveiled against Ryan Hemphill, 43, in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he was arraigned … Read more

Earth Day activists deface Wall St. Charging Bull, then clean it up

Earth Day activists deface Wall St. Charging Bull, then clean it up

Earth Day environmental activists defaced Lower Manhattan’s iconic Charging Bull statue Tuesday, then rushed to clean it up before cops arrived, officials said. Videos on social media and photographs from the scene show a handful of Extinction Rebellion activists spray-painting “Greed=Death” onto the flank of the life-size  Arturo Di Modica sculpture on Broadway near Morris … Read more

Man sleeping under box truck parked in Bronx killed when driver pulls out

Man sleeping under box truck parked in Bronx killed when driver pulls out

A 61-year-old man sleeping under a box truck parked on a Bronx street was killed early Thursday when the driver pulled out of the spot, not knowing anyone was beneath the vehicle, police said. The victim was run over by the Hino 338 truck on Coster St. near Randall Ave. in Hunts Point at about … Read more

One dead, two injured in brawl in upper Manhattan

One dead, two injured in brawl in upper Manhattan

One man was killed, and two others injured Wednesday in a bloody brawl inside an upper Manhattan deli, police said. Police responded to a call of an assault around 5:30 p.m. near Broadway and W. 212th St. in Inwood — where a 24-year-old man was found outside the Ameer Deli and Grill, fatally stabbed in … Read more

DAs Bragg, Clark must crack down on ‘surging recidivism’

DAs Bragg, Clark must crack down on ‘surging recidivism’

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday called on Bronx and Manhattan prosecutors to crack down on recidivist criminals going through their courts and “reevaluate any blanket policies” that put them back on the streets without consequences. “These [blanket policies] are not isolated mistakes or unintended consequences,” Tisch said at the City Law Breakfast at New … Read more

Ex-NYPD cop took bribes to help burglary crew get info from databases: DA

Ex-NYPD cop took bribes to help burglary crew get info from databases: DA

A retired NYPD cop took bribes to search police databases when he was on the force, feeding his criminal cousin info to help members of a burglary ring, prosecutors said Monday. Richard Arce, 54 sold his police shield for cheap, typically taking $40 to $50 for each search, according to Brooklyn prosecutors. He fed his … Read more

Man in ‘Ghost Face’ sweatshirt rapes 50-year-old Queens woman at knifepoint

Man in ‘Ghost Face’ sweatshirt rapes 50-year-old Queens woman at knifepoint

A man in a “Ghost Face” sweatshirt from the “Scream” horror movie franchise raped a 50-year-old woman on a secluded residential block in Queens, police said Saturday. The victim was nearing the corner of 162nd St. and 89th Ave. in Jamaica at about 3 a.m. Friday when the suspect grabbed her from behind, cops said. … Read more

Brooklyn man, 45, killed by gunman on scooter a block from home

Brooklyn man, 45, killed by gunman on scooter a block from home

A man riding an electric scooter fatally shot a 45-year-old man just steps from the victim’s Brighton Beach apartment, police said Saturday. Elijah Scott was outside an apartment building on Brighton 12th St. near Oceanview Ave. just before 10 p.m. Friday when an unidentified gunman opened fire, hitting him multiple times, cops said. A neighbor … Read more

Ivana Trump’s former Manhattan home surrounded by freaky graffiti

Ivana Trump’s former Manhattan home surrounded by freaky graffiti

Puzzling and vaguely threatening graffiti appeared overnight around a Manhattan luxury townhouse once occupied by President Trump’s former wife Ivana Trump, including the ominous message, “We killing u for Ivana Trump.” The graffiti, which also referenced the first daughter, with “My queen Ivanka Trump,” was scrawled in yellow spray paint across five buildings on the … Read more

Man, 33, stabbed in neck repeatedly in Midtown Manhattan mugging

Man, 33, stabbed in neck repeatedly in Midtown Manhattan mugging

A man was stabbed numerous times during a broad-daylight mugging Wednesday afternoon in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, cops said. The 33-year-old victim was walking at 32nd St. and Fifth Ave., just a block from the tourist-destination Empire State Building, around 12:31 p.m. when an unidentified man pushed him to the ground and stabbed him … Read more