A Brooklyn man accused of raping a woman he kept as a sex slave had a chilling list of penalties for her - including flogging and chaining her to a radiator - if she disobeyed his rules, prosecutors said Friday.
John Hopkins, 45, pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn court to a litany of charges after prosecutors detailed the graphic "master" and "slave" relationship he had… Continue
Two people were found dead and stuffed into the trunk of a parked car on a Brooklyn street on Wednesday, cops said.
Investigators suspect the two bodies found on 52nd St. in East Flatbush about 7:30 p.m. are those of a couple that vanished more than two weeks ago after they left New Jersey to pick up a relative in Richmond, Va., sources said.
A 16-year-old girl's face was slashed and her hand nearly severed after a man pulled out a large blade and knifed her in front of a Brooklyn McDonald's on Wednesday, cops and witnesses said.
The teen was with a group of friends inside the fast-food restaurant at Fourth Ave. and 37th St. in Greenwood Heights when an argument erupted shortly after 7:30 p.m., witnesses… Continue
A snowball attack on a Brooklyn mailman got a teenager arrested when the horseplay turned violent, cops said Thursday.
Walter Ward, 16, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon - snowballs - and assault.
"He's innocent and looks forward to the opportunity to resolve this matter," defense lawyer Jacob Lipsky said following Ward's arraignment last… Continue
A foul-mouthed murderer who made a raunchy request to a Brooklyn judge before his sentencing on Monday received plenty of prison time to rethink his choice of words.
Zaire Paige, 24, was hit with 107 years to life for killing Lethania Garcia and wounding four others in a brazen October 2008 Fort Greene shootout.
A crazed cousin of Romona Moore - whose rape and murder shocked the nation in 2003 - got into a scary standoff with cops Friday, holding his baby in one hand and swinging part of a burning Christmas tree in the other, sources said.
The 2-month-old boy, Tredon, escaped with a broken arm after cops subdued his naked father, 26-year-old Trevor Mann, cops… Continue
A pimp was killed and one of his hookers seriously wounded after a gunman unleashed a spray of bullets into their van parked on a Brooklyn street early Saturday, police said.
Investigators believe David Priestly, 45, was behind the wheel of a green minivan moments before gunfire erupted on the Crown Heights street.
A deranged Brooklyn man fatally stabbed his mother and repeatedly slashed his father's throat Monday before he threw himself in the path of a subway train, police said.
Ryan Devaney survived his encounter with an oncoming G-train and was pulled screaming from the tracks before being rushed to Lutheran Medical Center. He was listed in serious condition… Continue
A woman dressed as a red devil was shot to death and her ex-con boyfriend critically wounded when the couple was ambushed in Brooklyn after returning from a Halloween party.
Ciera Glenn, 25, was shot several times in the chest early Saturday, while her companion Tyree Shelton was blasted in the face, witnesses said. Both collapsed in pools of blood in the lobby of a building at the Sheepshead Bay Houses.
Two people were shot as they shopped in a Brooklyn clothing store on Wednesday, cops and witnesses said.
A 58-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man each took a bullet in the leg after a gunman shot through the front glass of a Pretty Girl store on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in Crown Heights about 7:15 p.m., cops and witnesses said.
Both were transported to Brookdale University Hospital and were in stable condition. No arrests were… Continue
A busted taillight led cops to a car they suspect was used by two gunmen who executed two pals near a Flatiron District nightclub, police sources said.
Cops pulled the driver over in Brooklyn about 1 a.m. Tuesday and held him on an outstanding warrant. Police haven't released his name.
The sources said he has been uncooperative but that he's a suspect in the Sunday murder of Terrance Serrano, 22, and Rashawn Washington, 26, who were… Continue
An adorable 2-year-old Brooklyn boy was beaten to death inside his family's blood-stained apartment for refusing to recite his ABCs - and police charged his mom and boyfriend in the gruesome crime.
Aiyden Davis was unconscious but breathing when emergency medical technicians found him inside a Bedford-Stuyvesant home at 10:30 p.m. Friday, but the child died soon after reaching Interfaith Medical Center.
Police charged the child's mother, Theresa Davis, 27, with… Continue
The final moments of a cross-country Sept. 11 memorial run turned tragic when a woman jumped to her death from the Brooklyn Bridge - just steps from a team of firefighters.
The unidentified woman leaped from the famed span at 6:15 a.m. yesterday and plunged into the waters of the East River below, police said.
Several firefighters rushed toward her before her suicidal plummet but could not reach her in time, witnesses… Continue
Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth looks like he may be in need of a good defense — of the legal kind, now that more details are beginning to trickle out about the Brooklyn stripper who claims she is carrying his child and suing him for $10 million.
Salvatore Strazzullo, the attorney for Silvia Mena, a former exotic dancer at Lookers in Elizabeth, N.J., tells Gatecrasher that his client has an audio tape she made of a phone… Continue
A 14-year-old girl was repeatedly raped, drugged and beaten by two men for two horrifying weeks in a Brooklyn basement, prosecutors said.
Anthony King and Kevin Evans, both 24, were identified by the victim after she escaped from the Crown Heights basement on Tuesday, court records show.
Evans picked up the girl and a female friend, also 14, on April 27 and took them to New Jersey, where they used heroin, officials… Continue
Every time a teen looks in the mirror, she will see the V-shaped scar - a permanent reminder of the violence that erupted near her grandmother's Brooklyn home.
Shantayah Lewis, 17, sat in her room at Kings County Hospital Saturday, calmly reflecting on the Friday afternoon attack that left her with dozens of stitches in the left side of her face.
"My face is too beautiful to be fighting,"… Continue
Jay-Z is expected to attend a ground breaking ceremony for the Nets’ new arena in Brooklyn today (March 11) at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, New York.
The rapper, who owns a percentage of the team, will be joined by developer Bruce Ratner, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson to break ground on the construction for the construction of the Barclays Center, an 18,000-seat arena.
While some may welcome The Nets to Brooklyn,… Continue
On Friday (March 5), Beyoncé spoke in downtown Brooklyn, New York, at the Phoenix House, a nonprofit recovery center for drug and alcohol addiction, to unveil a project she and her mother, Tina, have dreamed of and worked on for years: the Beyoncé Cosmetology Center.
According to the press release, the program is "a seven-month cosmetology training course for adult men and women." L'Oréal has donated all the products to be used at the… Continue