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The group would then charge drivers $10 to be put to the front of the line to get a fare.

Two Brooklyn men are charged with stealing more than a half-million dollars in three armed robberies of New Jersey check cashing locations that saw female employees bound with zip ties, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The men, 40-year-old Ramel Harris and 38-year-old Neville Brown, are also accused of canvassing check cashing locations in other states, including New York and Pennsylvania, over…

A group of Iranian nationals were charged with hacking into hundreds of computers around the world, including here in the tri-state. Jonathan Dienst reports.

The three accused hackers are thought to be in Iran and have not been arrested, but the Justice Department says the charges make it “functionally impossible” for them to leave the country.

Eight people were charged for plotting to traffic drugs into the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead through the mail and jail visitations, officials said. Suffolk County investigators discovered over the course of three months that five jail visitors and three inmates allegedly conspired to smuggle drugs — including heroin, buprenorphine, cannabis, K2 and more — into the Long Island…