A Westchester grand jury has cleared two police officers of any criminality in the controversial shooting death last year of a Pace University football player, prosecutors said today.
The Westchester County DA's office said the probe, where more than 400 people were interviewed, yielded no indictments by the grand jury into the tragic death of… Continue
A YouTube video showing cops punching an unruly Rutgers University student from Long Island was burning up the Internet on Monday night.
The minute and 43 second video, taken by a witness viewing the incident from a perch above the scene, shows Elliott Marx, 20, of Lindenhurst being punched as five New Brunswick, N.J., police arrest… Continue
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Pop star Bruno Mars told a Las Vegas judge Friday that he'll plead guilty in state court on Valentine's Day to a felony cocaine charge that would be wiped from his record if he stays out of trouble for a year.
Mars, whose real name is Peter Hernandez, and a trio of defense lawyers agreed not to contest police accounts that he possessed 2.6 grams of… Continue
LAS VEGAS — Pop singer Bruno Mars is taking a plea deal in Las Vegas to be allowed to pay a fine, serve probation and have a felony cocaine possession charge against him dismissed, authorities said.
The 25-year-old Grammy nominee is due before a Las Vegas judge Feb. 4 to waive an evidentiary hearing so he can plead guilty and be sentenced in state court, his… Continue
Louisiana rapper Big Unk aka Mr. Real Estate has lawyered up to defend himself against drug charges stemming from a raid of his house, where police allegedly seized over 150 pounds of marijuana.
Mr. Real Estate, born Reggie Smith, was arrested on January 5th and charged with possession of the weed, a gun, over $500,000 in jewelry and $72,000 in cash… Continue
The NYPD is investigating whether cops angry that they were forced to work weekends got revenge by swiping guns from a lieutenant's office, sources said Monday.
Internal Affairs Bureau investigators descended on the 103rd Precinct stationhouse in Jamaica, Queens, on Saturday night after Lt. Charles Minch reported his service pistol was missing from his locker, the… Continue
Cops are on the hunt for a group of Queens bandits who hold women captive in cars during robberies - even stuffing one into a trunk.
On April 14, two or three men put a 63-year-old woman into a trunk of a car near Grand Central Parkway in Utopia - releasing her only after a female accomplice made a withdrawal with her ATM card.
The Gramercy Park block that houses the Police Academy is filled with bogus street signs aimed at creating exclusive spaces for the would-be cops, the Daily News has learned.
Neighbors of the police training facility, long frustrated by cop cars parked on the block, were furious to learn of the scam.
"Police own the block," griped Nordal McWethy, a 31-year… Continue
A troubled off-duty cop was stabbed in the stomach during a wild predawn fight at a seedy Bronx strip club, police said Saturday.
Modesto Alamo - already under investigation by the NYPD for an alleged assault - was in stable condition hours after the drunken, 5 a.m. brawl at Crazy Horse Cabaret in Eastchester, cops said.
WABC-TV weatherwoman Heidi Jones stood silently before a judge Wednesday as she was formally charged with falsely telling cops a mystery man attacked her in Central Park.
Wearing a black skirt suit and burgundy patent leather pumps, Jones did not utter a word as prosecutors told Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Lynn Kotler Jones faces two misdemeanors - and up to a… Continue
THE STORY BEHIND THIS VIDEO IS THAT THE LAGRANGE MISSOURI POLICE DEPARTMENT ACCUSED THIS FEMALE AMERICAN BULLDOG NAMED CAMMI OF BEING VICIOUS AND THAT IS THE REASON THEY SHOT HER AND AS YOU CAN SEE SHE WASN'T VICIOUS AT… Continue
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 routine traffic stop in Queens early Sunday turned up an extraordinary amount of marijuana - 513 pounds of the stuff, police said.
The case unfolded after Clement Hunter, 30, made the mistake of driving his rented Dodge Caravan through a red light at Farmers and Merrick Blvds. about 4 a.m., police said.
Officers tried to pull him over, but Hunter took… Continue
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM! IF THE COPS RAIDED WAKA FLOCKA'S PAD WHAT WAS GUCCI MANE DOING THERE? THEY WAS LIVING TOGETHER? LOL! I ALWAYS WONDERED THAT! HOW CAN THEY HAVE BEEF WHEN WAKA IS SIGNED TO GUCCI'S LABEL! LMFAO! FAKE BEEF TO SELL RECORDS! Rapper Waka Flocka's house took a serious beating Thursday when cops raided the place looking for drugs and gang…
Tensions over tickets have reached a boiling point at a Brooklyn precinct where officers are considering a day-long summons boycott.
"We've talked about it," said one police source familiar with the possible slowdown in the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "Nobody feels this is right, asking us to write summonses just to meet a quota."
Neighbors in a gritty Bronx neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after cops and federal agents cracked a brazen drug gang that had terrorized their streets.
Thirty-two members of a Hunts Point drug syndicate known as "Satan's Bloods" were either arrested in morning raids by law-enforcement, were already jailed or being sought, authorities said.
The members ranged in age from 19 to 52 years old, and have street nicknames such… Continue
The NY Post has a couple of excerpts from Jay’s book DECODED.
* His First Arrest
Jay-Z’s first arrest came at age 16. He was dealing in Trenton, because his friend “Hill” had a supplier there. Hill had enrolled in the local high school, and one day when Jay-Z went to meet him, he got caught with crack in his pockets on the campus. Since he had no prior arrests, the police let him go, but they confiscated his supply. In order to make up the… Continue
United States border police involved in one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history discovered a 600-yard drug smuggling tunnel that was part of a sophisticated operation used to transport tons of marijuana between Mexico and southern California, authorities said Wednesday.
The tunnel was equipped with a rail system, lighting and air vents, stretching the length of six football fields underground… Continue