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
Three suspects in a recent Queens attempted murder had been hanging out right before the incident in a community anti-violence center just one block away from where they shot and wounded a teen, according to police. Police investigating the attempted murder of a teenager searched the offices of a Jamaica-based anti-violence group for evidence on … Read more
A brazen thief stole an elderly woman’s shopping cart that contained $40,000 in cashier’s checks on Wednesday in the Bronx, police said. The 85-year-old woman was approached by an unidentified man around noon on Marion Ave. and E. 195th St. in Fordham, where the thief snatched her shopping cart, which contained an Apple iPhone and … Read more
A homeless man shoved a 23-year-old woman into the side of a train as it pulled into a Washington Heights station Monday morning in the city’s latest unprovoked subway attack, the NYPD said. The victim apparently never saw her attacker, identified by police as 26-year-old Markeese Brazelis, who came up and pushed her as an uptown … Read more
Two young men were stabbed, one fatally, on a Lower East Side street, cops said Saturday. Amir Smith, 20, was stabbed in the chest on Norfolk St. near Broome St. about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, cops said. Cops found a second victim, a 19-year-old man, with multiple stab wounds to his back, near Delancey and … Read more
A 51-year-old man was shot to death on a residential Queens street, cops said Sunday. Sherman Walker was shot in the neck, abdomen and left leg near Murdock Ave. and 204th St. in St. Albans about 6 p.m. Saturday, police said. A man was fatally shot near Murdock Ave. and 204th St. in Queens. (Theodore … Read more
The Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Unit exonerated its 40th defendant, a murder suspect so desperate to avoid returning to prison for a crime he did not commit that he accepted a plea deal that kept him out of jail. Keith Roberts, 67, spent eight years in prison for murder before accepting a plea deal in … Read more
Mayor Adams may face more charges in his historic federal corruption case for allegedly selling his political influence to Turkish powerbrokers in a years-long conspiracy — along with several others in his orbit “likely” to be indicted, prosecutors divulged in court Wednesday. Hagan Scotten, a prosecutor for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ office, made the … Read more