Authorities are still investigating an incident over the weekend in which police shot a 61-year-old man on Linden Street near Myrtle and Wyckoff avenues who was carrying a BB gun in the street. Police say the man refused to drop {read more...}
The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in locating the following missing child who was last seen on Jan. 22, leaving the lobby of his Starrett City residence on Vandalia Avenue. He is Patrick Alford, age 7. He was last seen wearing a red T-shirt, blue jeans with black sneakers.
by Associated Press (), published online 02-02-2010
Cops: He Used Paint Thinner
To Light Roll of Toilet Paper
By Colleen Long
Associated Press
BROOKLYN — Brooklyn residents were stunned Tuesday when they found that the man whom police claim set the fire at 2033 86th St. in Bensonhurst that killed five
Police are searching for suspects in several Brooklyn robberies committed between late November and earlier this month. The suspects hit several commercial warehouses in Park Slope, Red Hook, Sunset Park and nearby areas, usually bearing firearms and in some cases {read more...}
BROOKLYN -- Two suspected drug dealers fleeing their crashed blue compact car bearing South Carolina license plates and a windshield “Student Driver” placard after it sideswiped parked cars on Remsen Street were apprehended by 76th Precinct officers who had chased {read more...}
Report Given at Community
Council; Cop of Year Honored
By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN – During the past year, crime continued its dramatic drop in Downtown’s 84th Precinct, according to statistics given by Capt. Mark DiPaolo at Tuesday night’s meeting of the 84th Precinct Community Council.
In the precinct, which also includes Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and DUMBO, overall crime decreased 18 percent for the year. There was only one homicide – ironically, on New Year’s Eve – when a young man killed
The son of a New York City police detective has been shot to death outside a public housing project in Brooklyn.
Sean Hayes was shot Monday near a playground at the Marcy Houses. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. {read more...}
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A man whose last known residence was Brooklyn shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter and her babysitter at the girl's suburban home in New York before walking out the
DOI: Brooklyn Resident Was
Buying, Selling Real Estate
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn housing project tenant was arrested by the city Department of Investigation (DOI) on charges of fraudulently being the recipient of public benefits while concealing her income.
A Brooklyn man has been charged with murder in connection with the killing of another man during a poolroom fight, according to the Daily News. Mauro Lopez, 49, was arrested soon after gunfire erupted at an informal pool hall in {read more...}
Monday’s Harrison Place fire in which a 17-year-old girl was killed is now definitely being called arson by NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne and by the Fire Department. Browne said the NYPD has a video of people entering an empty {read more...}
BROOKLYN -- Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the House Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee, released a new study showing that thefts of the top five most popular electronic items rose 43 percent since 2007.
Former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice Gerald Garson is home for the holidays, according to the Daily News. Garson — convicted of taking $1,000 in cash and a $275 box of cigars to settle custody in a divorce case — left {read more...}
Dwight Newton, a former Brooklyn Museum manager, admitted recently that he stole more than $600,000 by making out checks to phantom employees, according to the Daily News. Under his plea bargain, he must return all the money he stole, and {read more...}
JAY STREET — Jingzhi Li, 46, was sentenced this week by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Sheryl Parker to 65 years in prison for the attempted murder of three victims at the seafood warehouse where he used
