A three-man burglary team has spent the last three months targeting mom-and-pop pharmacies throughout New York City, stealing cash and opioids — but NYPD detectives may have scored a break in the case after their last heist, officials said Saturday. Cops recovered clear surveillance images of one of the men responsible for the 10 heists … Read more
A video recording of a man with a bullhorn shouting vile anti-Islamic obscenities outside a Brooklyn mosque has left worshippers rattled and local politicians including Gov. Hochul decrying the hate-filled act. The unidentified man, whose face is covered by a ski mask and who appears to be wearing a Make America Great Again red baseball … Read more
Two headphone-snatching hooligans are being sought for robbing seven people in a weeklong spree in lower Manhattan and Staten Island, police said Thursday. Cops believe the young suspects use the Staten Island Ferry to transport back and forth between the two boroughs following the first robbery on Feb. 10. The thefts have continued through Tuesday, … Read more
The president of the probation officers union on Monday blasted the way Department of Probation leadership handled the case of the 5,000 bullets that went unaccounted for from the NYPD’s firing range at Rodmans Neck in the Bronx. Dalvanie Powell told the Daily News the two female probation officers who discovered the problem last July … Read more
More than 100 Department of Correction officers turned out Friday at an Upper West Side hospital to applaud the release of a female colleague who was seriously injured after she was punched in the face by a man held on Rikers Island who is accused of also previously attacking an MTA station agent. The officers … Read more
A 14-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in Queens in a possible gang attack, police said Friday. The victim was stabbed in the abdomen around 3:30 p.m. near 38th St. and Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, police said. Medics rushed the boy to Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, but he could not be saved. … Read more
A federal appeals court has rejected fallen R&B star R. Kelly’s bid to overturn his New York sex trafficking and racketeering conviction. Kelly, 58, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, argued through his attorneys that he didn’t run a racketeering enterprise because his employees … Read more
The mother of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in the bathtub of their Brooklyn apartment told police she was baptizing her daughter when the child tragically drowned, prosecutors revealed on Sunday. Mother Karla Espinal, 26, faces charges of felony assault, child endangerment and reckless endangerment after her daughter Madelyne Tavarez’s death at the … Read more
A New York City financier convicted of drugging and raping a teenage girl, creating child sex abuse material and a litany of other offenses committed against minors — including after his arrest — was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his depravity on Tuesday. Michael Olson, 56, who pleaded guilty to a 10-count indictment … Read more
A man’s decomposing body was found hog-tied off a Queens expressway Tuesday morning, police sources said. The grisly discovery was made just before 9 a.m. in the weeds off a section of the Clearview Expressway near Union Turnpike that cuts through Cunningham Park. It’s suspected that the victim had been shot, according to a police … Read more