Crime and Courts

The former NYPD officer, who at one time guarded City Hall and Gracie Mansion, allegedly attacked a Capitol police officer with an metal pole. The other man, a Queens GOP activist, was said to have climbed through a broken window at the Capitol and held a megaphone. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Thieves see vacant businesses as an opportunity, and use them to gain access to nearby stores, Gus Rosendale has the latest

Two more men were arrested for their alleged roles in the Capitol riot in January, both with NYC ties: One is a retired NYPD officer who once guarded City Hall and Gracie Mansion, the other is a GOP party official from Queens. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, appeared by video c...

A New Jersey man was held in the Burlington County Jail Monday after he was accused of fatally shooting his cousin during an argument

The wife of infamous convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Monday for her alleged role in an international drug trafficking scheme, according to federal prosecutors.

A spokesperson for the New York FBI office said Thomas Webster surrendered Monday at the FBI’s Hudson Valley office on charges filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. related to the events at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6.   A spokesman for US Attorney’s office said Webster will appear in federal court in White Plains Tuesday. Additional inform...

A 21-year-old man from Florida has been arrested on an assault charge for allegedly slashing a 60-year-old woman across the forehead and eyes in an unprovoked attack in the Bronx last week, the NYPD said Sunday. The woman was walking on the sidewalk on East Tremont Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when the stranger came up from behind and tapped&#8...

Police in New York City released a surveillance image of the man suspected of painting a swastika at the site of the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens last week. The man wanted for the anti-Semitic crime targeted the building around 11 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to police. He vandalized a sign at the building’s front steps with a......

A Mexican national accused of coercing women into working as prostitutes around the United States has been extradited to New York to face federal charges

A New Jersey gym owner in jail awaiting trial for his alleged role in the breach of the U.S. Capitol last month has been indicted on charges including assaulting an officer and carrying a dangerous weapon.

A 27-year-old New Jersey accountant is accused of embezzling about $1.2 million from his former employer through the theft of checks, PayPal transfers and Amazon purchases, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office announced. Manuel “Mendy” Goldring, of Teaneck, is facing charged of money laundering, computer-related crimes, theft by ...

An employee for a New York state agency is accused of filing an anonymous abuse complaint against herself in order to collect paid leave. Heather Race, of West Leyden in central New York, was charged with third-degree grand larceny and two other charges related to falsification, the state police said on Wednesday. She allegedly received eight weeks...