Detectives are grilling a man they believe hacked up a 26-year-old woman whose remains were found strewn about a Brooklyn park, sources said. The man, believed to be victim Brandy Odom’s roommate, was taken into custody at his home on 148th Road near 253rd St. in Rosedale Saturday. No charges were immediately filed. On April […]
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(Google Maps Street View) A 25-year-old man walking along a Brooklyn street sustained a graze wound to the head amid a hail of gunfire that erupted Friday night, authorities said. The victim was on E. 93rd St. near Winthrop St. in Brownsville at about 7:15 p.m. when a gunman opened fire, blasting six shots, police […]
An off-duty city bus driver is accused of drunkenly slamming her car into a Brooklyn cop early Friday, officials said. Raquel James, 27, was driving past Winthrop St. and Rockaway Parkway in East Flatbush when she weaved into the police officer’s path about 3:15 a.m. The cop, who was investigating a report of gunfire from […]
(Google Maps) A city teacher is accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with a high school boy in their Brooklyn school’s bathroom, police said Wednesday. Andre Braddy, 35, was busted Tuesday on charges of sexually abusing the 15-year-old boy at Public School 235 on Flatlands Ave. in Canarsie, according to police. Authorities said the […]
A jilted husband was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for slicing his estranged wife’s neck months after she sent him a break-up text, leaving her dead and nearly decapitated. “I will never get over this,” Shanice Wright, 26, the daughter of victim Karen Bartley-Ashley told reporters after the sentencing. “I’m still […]
What to Know Police in Brooklyn are investigating after a man claims him was beaten up by an attacker because he is Jewish Menachem Moskowitz suffered a black eye and broken rib after he was beaten by a man on an East 46th Street sidewalk in Crown Heights Another Jewish man was also attacked in […]
COLLEEN LONG and DEEPTI HAJELA AP, 5:00 PM NEW YORK (AP) — A television actress best known for playing a young Superman’s close friend was charged with sex trafficking, after federal prosecutors said she worked as a slave “master,” recruiting unsuspecting women to a cult-like group led by a man who sold himself as […]
A Brooklyn doctor became an unfortunate target of New York City’s Lucchese crime family, as he was coerced into handing over 230,000 Oxycodone pills or face serious consequences. Anthony Gardo reportedly cautioned the medical practitioner that if he wrote any prescriptions without the mob’s permission, he would have been fed to “the [expletive]
Cops charged mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor early Friday for his role in an attack on a bus outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 29-year-old former UFC champion turned himself in at the 78th Precinct Stationhouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he was slapped with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief, […]
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A pair of Brooklyn teenagers who took to social media 90 minutes after the Florida high school massacre were given a curfew by a judge and released to their parents after getting charged for threatening to shoot up their charter school. Joshua Schecter and Cole Carlberg were charged on Thursday with making […]