Crime

66 Wyckoff Ave. Image © 2018 Google Maps photo

Senior violently attacked in Bushwick robbery

A 65-year-old smoke shop employee was attacked recently during a violent robbery, … Full Article

The NYPD's 75th Precinct station house. Image date ©2018 Google Maps

First murder of 2018 hits East New York

Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. Image date ©2018 Google Maps

Bias attacks against Jews reported in Crown Heights

The Dyker Heights Post Office on 13th Avenue is not very popular. This story might explain why.

Dyker Heights mail carrier arrested for hoarding 17,000 pieces of customers' undelivered mail

CRIME

Lamont Wright is on trial at Brooklyn Supreme Court for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Michelle Marks. Photo courtesy of NYS Sex Offender Registry

‘Soap opera’ trial comes to close for accused Brooklyn Bridge Park murderer

Closings arguments were given at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday in the trial of a 55-year-old registered sex offender accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend after she left work near Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. … Full Article

Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding investors of his two former hedge funds. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Martin Shkreli cries before sentenced to seven years in prison

Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, best known for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug and creating a bombastic online persona, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Friday after being convicted of securities fraud last summer. … Full Article

Yuriy Omelchenko was sentenced to three years in prison at Brooklyn’s federal court (shown). Eagle file photo by Rob Abruzzese

Medical assistant gets 3 years for role in $17M southern Brooklyn Medicare fraud

A Brooklyn federal judge called health care schemes a “thorny problem” in the Eastern District of New York before sentencing a medical assistant to three years in prison for his role in a $17 million Medicaid and Medicare scam in southern Brooklyn. … Full Article

Four people involved with the murder of a 64-year-old business owner in Queens were indicted in Brooklyn federal court this week. Three of them face possible life in prison, the four faces up to 20 years. Eagle file photo by Rob Abruzzese

Three from Brooklyn indicted for murder, extortion of Queens business owner

Four men, including three from Brooklyn, were indicted on Thursday for the murder and extortion of a Queens business owner that occurred in October 2017. … Full Article

Yury Baumblit stands next to his attorney, John Stella at Brooklyn Supreme Court. Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane

Former flophouse owner gets jail time for pushing out tenants in Medicaid scheme

A former owner of Brooklyn three-quarter houses was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison on Wednesday for wrongfully evicting residents and pushing them into unnecessary drug programs for Medicaid kickbacks. … Full Article

Arnold Moody stands ready for sentencing at Brooklyn Supreme Court. Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane

Flatbush man gets year in prison for homophobic threats on A train

A 73-year-old Flatbush man was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to brandishing a knife at a passenger on the A train and spewing homophobic slurs at him. … Full Article

District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds up a Naloxone kit while announcing the launch of his office’s new drug treatment program. Eagle photos by Paul Frangipane

Brooklyn DA announces pre-court drug addiction treatment program

With the opioid epidemic plaguing the country, a new program funded by the City Council and launched by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office seeks to keep people arrested for misdemeanor drug possession out of jail and get them into treatment, the district attorney announced Tuesday. … Full Article