Crime and Courts

A change-of-plea hearing is set for Thursday for a man charged with conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions

Garcia was seen on video kneeling on a man’s backside May 2 after pulling a stun gun on him, leveling him in a crosswalk, hitting him in the face and shoulder and dragging him to an East Village sidewalk

An ex-New York City Transit subway conductor was arraigned on charges of grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly stealing about $114,000 in Workers’ Compensation payments from NYC Transit, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Giovanni Seminerio, 48, of Alva, Florida, was arraigned Wednesday on a 22-count indictment in which he is charged with second-degree grand larceny, first-degree offering…

Police said that man driving in upstate New York was found during a traffic stop to have two kilograms of cocaine hidden inside two boxes of children’s cereal

One of New Jersey’s most infamous cold cases entered another chapterbwhen the state’s Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a woman’s 2016 conviction for killing her 5-year-old son 25 years ago should be thrown out

The white officer broke into the Black family’s home during a bachelor party in Nashville, then used a racial slur and threatened the family inside

The self-improvement guru whose organization, NXIVM, attracted millionaires and actresses among its adherents, was sentenced to 120 years in prison Tuesday on convictions that he turned some followers into sex slaves branded with his initials

A college student visiting New York City was the unintended target of deadly gunfire Saturday morning in Brooklyn, police said. Police officials say 20-year-old Ethan Williams of Indiana was found around 2:30 a.m. on Eldert Street with a gunshot wound to his chest. He later died at Wyckoff Medical Center. The victim’s family says the Indiana University student was...

A suspect is in custody after officers say he stole a marked car in New Jersey and led police on a chase to Brooklyn. In the span of roughly half an hour, officers pursued a stolen vehicle out of Bayonne and chased the suspect until he crashed around 1 a.m. after leading police through at least two boroughs of New…

A former inmate at New Jersey’s Fort Dix facility conspired to smuggle contraband into the prison by way of drone, federal prosecutors announced last week. Prosecutors allege 27-year-old Johansel Moronta worked alongside three other men in a scheme to deliver contraband to inmates at the federal prison; charges have already been filed against the other three, they say. Moronta’s...

The cat that was seen jumping from a burning apartment in New York City will get to keep its nine lives. Aaron Ganaway was in the right place at the right time Saturday when he captured the moment an orange cat jumped out of a second-story window in Harlem after moving flames forced the pet off the ledge and down…

A man was arrested in connection with a blaze at a New Jersey apartment building that left two men dead and multiple other people injured, authorities announced late Sunday night. Brandon Adams, 34, was charged with two counts of first-degree felony murder, a release from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said. The release said authorities determined Adams, who is homeless,…

Two New York City Police officers and several tenants were injured at an apartment building in Harlem after a man wanted on domestic violence charges locked himself in a room and set it on fire. Cell phone video from a nearby building shows the flames pout of of the second-story window Saturday afternoon. The fire ignited at the Lincoln Houses…

A federal judge denied a second motion for a new trial from convicted self-improvement cult guru Keith Raniere. Raniere, the disgraced leader of a self-improvement group in upstate New York convicted of turning women into sex slaves who were branded with his initials, faces the possibility of life in prison after he was convicted last year by a federal jury...

A man who says he was wrongly convicted in the 1994 rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Putnam County was released on bail Friday. Andrew Krivak’s release comes more than a year after the conviction against him was vacated following newly discovered evidence in the killing of Josette Wright. He has maintained his innocence in the child’s...

The mother and son got out of their car, mom armed with what appeared to be a metal pipe and the son with a handgun, and approached a man in a vehicle before fatally shooting him and smashing his car’s windshield, court papers allege

Authorities seized over 21,000 single-dose wax folds of heroin, some of which contained fentanyl and some of which was stamped with the same brand names that have been linked to eight fatal overdoses in the state

A Virginia woman who pretended to be a psychologist, treating hundreds of patients and even testifying as a medical expert during custody hearings in court, was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison. Family after family testified in court in Stafford County on Friday about the damage done by Sharonda Avery. These families trusted Avery so much and were so…

A woman is recovering after she was pushed onto the subway tracks at a station in Times Square, police said Friday. The 28-year-old victim suffered minor wrist injuries after a man pushed her from the northbound N/Q/R platform near W 42nd Street and 7th Avenue, according to the NYPD. Police say a man with shaggy hair, beard and navy...

An upstate New York congressman says he and his family were threatened with a dead animal and a brick bearing a family member’s name at his home in Corning

Ken Kurson, an associate and ally to Jared Kushner and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was taken into custody Friday on charges of cyberstalking activities that date back to 2015. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn allege the former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer used several aliases to file false complaints, post negative reviews and make unsolicited contact with…

A Long Island man has been arrested after he allegedly raped two 13-year-old girls this year, according to police. Suffolk County Police say Brendan Sullivan, 20, of Bohemia contacted the victims through Snapchat and had sexual contact with them in March and August. Sullivan was arrested on Thursday, police said, and he had previously been arrested in May on child…

The court ordered the dismissal of up to 1,400 failure-to-appear warrants that are more than five years old for nonviolent minor offenses that were issued against juveniles

Maxwell parried a long list of inquiries about Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual proclivities and her interactions with an accuser and other young women, insisting she never saw the financier have sex with anybody

Authorities continue their search for a prisoner who escaped near Harlem Hospital Thursday morning, according to a senior law enforcement official. The man had restraints around his ankles and was wearing sweatpants at the time he escaped from custody. The law enforcement official tell News 4 New York, 25-year-old Mason Burwell, an alleged gang member who had 22 prior arrests,…

A report says officers planned to make an arrest after one of the suspects told police by phone that he had been discharged from the hospital and was returning to the hotel — even though he had already packed his things and the couple was already on their way back to New York

Suffolk County Legislator William Spencer — who is also an ear, nose and throat specialist — faces drug-related charges after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to meet with a woman with whom he could swap pills for sex, two senior law enforcement officials said.

Suffolk County Legislator William Spencer — who is also an ear, nose and throat specialist — faces drug-related charges after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to meet with a woman with whom he could swap pills for sex, two senior law enforcement officials said.

A New Jersey couple has been rescued after two men allegedly kidnapped them and forced them to take money out of the ATM. Cliffton police say Paul Dunlop and Travis Mann walked up to a man and a woman in a parked car near the corner of Main and Vreeland Avenues late Friday and identified themselves as police officers. The…

The depositions were taken as part of a lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who had accused Maxwell of aiding Jeffrey Epstein in her abuse before she was an adult

A man wanted in connection with a triple shooting at a Bronx restaurant and club that left a 19-year-old woman dead has been nabbed at JFK Airport — with a one-way ticket to the Dominican Republic, law enforcement sources tell News 4. Members of the Bronx Violent Felony Squad apprehended Domingo Berroa at Terminal 4 around 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, just…

The report found that compared to white drivers, Black drivers are 59 percent more likely to be arrested, more than twice as likely to have their car searched or be searched and 84 percent more likely to be restrained

Federal authorities arrested a New Jersey man over the weekend for threatening the life of a sitting federal judge for what the man claimed was an “unacceptable” delay in his case, prosecutors say. William Kaetz, a 56-year-old Paramus man who previously sued the U.S. government for allowing “socialists and Muslims” hold federal jobs, is accused of obtaining the judge’s...

Police say gunfire erupted at a nightclub in the Bronx early Monday, leaving two people with injuries and a woman dead. Law enforcement sources confirmed a woman was killed after someone opened fire around 7:30 a.m. in the University Heights section of the borough. The shooting occurred on Jerome Avenue and the injured victims were transported to nearby St. Barnabas…

A New York woman nicknamed “Black Widow” for the bespoke funereal clothes she wore at the trial for her estranged husband’s killing will be paroled next month after 12 years behind bars

The NYPD says three teenaged boys are behind a months-long string of robberies that span across three separate boroughs in New York City. From the mid-September through mid-October, police say three teens stole from at least 12 different Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile stores. The first reported robbery occurred on Sept. 11 with the most recent incident on Oct. 13, police…

New York City officials said they shut down an illegal party of more than 200 people who were violating pandemic restrictions at a catering hall.

The NYPD says a man was shot in the neck while standing on the platform of a subway station in Manhattan, police said Sunday evening. The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. and delayed trains surrounding the Chelsea station at 14th Street and 7th Avenue. Despite his injuries, police said the victim walked to Lenox Health and told doctors what happened…

The brother of rapper Fetty Wap was shot and killed in their hometown of Paterson last week, local authorities confirmed. Flowers and candles have been left on the Paterson block where the 26-year-old was shot and killed last Thursday. The victim, Twyshon Depew, was the little brother of rap star and Paterson native Fetty Wap. “Its very unfortunate and my…

A school bus driver in upstate New York was arrested for allegedly driving drunk while six students were on board, police and school officials said. Authorities in Monroe County say Lashonda Griffin faces several charges including DWI and reckless driving after police found her sleeping in the bus with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit, WHEC reported. Griffin…

A volunteer fire deputy chief in New Jersey was arrested this week for allegedly buying illegal firearm suppressors designed to muffle the sound of gunshots, county officials said over the weekend. Matthew Moran serves as the deputy chief of the Carlstadt Fire Department, according to the department’s website. Police arrested Moran on Thursday following an international arms-trafficking investigation by...

Police in Hoboken were in a standoff for around four hours with a man who had trapped his young son with him inside. Video from a witness shows members of the Hudson County Regional SWAT team surround a home off Garden Street Friday afternoon, putting the neighborhood on lockdown. Investigators said they were called to the basement apartment after family…

A man on Long Island was caught by officials allegedly trying multiple times to get absentee ballots for his mother — who died as a result of COVID-19 months ago

The judge said in an order Friday that even though the rules harm religious groups, it is not in the public interest to block them if they are helping prevent a wave of new infections

Police arrested a man they believe to responsible for the attempted sexual assault of an 85-year-old woman in the laundry room of her Brooklyn apartment building

Three Rockland County Jewish congregations are suing New York state and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying he engaged in a “streak of anti-Semitic discrimination” with a recent crackdown on religious gatherings to reduce the state’s coronavirus infection rate. The Manhattan federal court lawsuit filed late Wednesday accused the Democrat of making negative, false, and discriminatory statements about the Jewish Orthodox...

The expletive-filled video shows the state Supreme Court justice shouting at the officer who is subduing his wife during an argument with neighbors before he, too, is grabbed by police officers.

The 23-year-old woman arrested earlier this week after her newborn baby was found abandoned allegedly tossed the baby out her bathroom window then proceeded to throw her clothes in the laundry hamper, shower and sleep, prosecutors say. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday that Sabita Dookram, of Richmond Hill, was arraigned and charged with attempted murder and other crimes…

The man alleges that his father attacked him and he was defending himself when he strangled the older man in their home in 2008; he was also convicted of strangling his mother during the violent argument

A 44-year-old New Jersey man, who is a teacher at a daycare, has been charged after his toddler son was hospitalized and tested positive for methadone, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Roberto Delgado-Gonzalez, of Guttenberg, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child , a crime of the second degree. He was arrested around 7 p.m….

The personal assistant accused of killing and gruesomely dismembering his former tech CEO boss in the victim’s multimillion-dollar Lower East Side apartment over the summer has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Tyrese Haspil was indicted for allegedly murdering CEO Fahim Saleh in his apartment July 13, a day before his body was found. No new details about the case…

The driver of a stolen car struck a pedestrian in Queens late Saturday night and fled the scene, leaving the injured man to die, police said. The 48-year-old victim was near Bedell Street and Linden Boulevard in the Jamaica neighborhood just before midnight when the driver behind the wheel of a stolen 2016 Ford Mustang GT struck the man, according…

Police in New Jersey are investigating a shooting that left a 47-year-old man dead Friday night. Police responded reports of gunshots near Lafayette Park in Jersey City not long after 8 p.m. Responding officers found the victim unresponsive and he was later pronounced dead at the scene. Officials have identified the man as Teyan Grant of Jersey City. The shooting…

A Queens man has been indicted for allegedly stabbing his 45-year-old wife to death — brutally knifing her in the chest, neck and torso 27 times — as the woman’s daughter watched in horror, prosecutors announced Thursday. Carmelo Mendoza, 41, was arraigned Thursday following a Queens County grand jury handing up an indictment charging the defendant with murder for fatally…

The 24-year-old Brooklyn man who was arrested for allegedly cutting the brake lines of an NYPD van during the George Floyd protests this summer apparently lied on a COVID-19-related loan application, ultimately receiving stimulus money for a nonexistent business, according to the Acting United States Attorney Eastern District of New York. A criminal complaint has been filed in federal...

A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier from Hudson County, New Jersey, was arrested for discarding mail, including 99 general election ballots sent from the County Board of Elections that were intended to be delivered to West Orange residents, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, is charged by complaint with one count of delay, secretion, or detention…

A federal judge ruled the 33-year-old NYPD officer accused of acting as an agent for the Chinese government poses a serious risk of flight and ordered him detained pending trial on Wednesday, according to court documents. In a 16-page detention memo, U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee ruled “no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the appearance of”...

A New York bar patron accused of shoving an 80-year-old, who later died, during a confrontation about the need to wear a mask has pleaded not guilty to criminally negligent homicide.

After the driver involved in a police chase was found to have slit his throat, police went to notify the next of kin at a home in Bellport — where officers found a man and a woman dead inside

Prosecutors said revealing 40 pages each of photographs and documents related to Epstein victims harmed after the time spanned by the charges against Maxwell could jeopardize the government’s ongoing investigation, and scare other victims from cooperating

A group of drug dealers intent on recovering 50 kilograms of cocaine kidnapped an associate’s grandparents from their home in northern New York, ferried them across the Canadian border through a tribal reservation, and held them hostage for two nights until police staged a rescue, U.S. authorities said

A New Yorker accused of shooting a woman because she insulted the mother of his children has been convicted of murder in Maine

A New York City man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to engaging in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy and recording some of the encounters, federal prosecutors said

Police say an argument between two people led to a violent stabbing at a New York City subway station that left one person dead Saturday. A man in his 20s died after suffering multiples stab wounds to his legs, according to authorities. New York City Police released a surveillance image of alleged suspect fleeing the violent encounter at the...

A former chaplain at a Roman Catholic prep school in northern New Jersey faces criminal charges for engaging in “a pattern of behavior” that threatened the welfare of six students, prosecutors said. Salvatore DiStefano, 61, who had been chaplain at the all-boys Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, allowed students to consume marijuana products in his office and tried to entice…

A 25-year-old youth program director in New Jersey is facing charges after being accused of possessing child pornography and luring children, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Jack T. Anderson, of Fair Lawn, was arrested Thursday and is charged with production of child pornography, luring, endangering the welfare of a child, and providing obscenity to a minor, according...

Rick Moranis, star of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” was attacked by an unknown assailant near New York City’s Central Park on Thursday, police said. The 67-year-old actor and comedian had just gotten back from a morning walk and was standing outside his Upper West Side building when the suspect, wthout saying a word, punched him in the head,...

An NYPD officer accused of acting as an agent for China will remain behind bars for now as a judge considers federal prosecutors’ appeal to a previous release order on a $1 million bond, a U.S. attorney spokesman said Friday. Baimadajie Angwang remains in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee stayed...

A New Jersey hypnotist was arrested after allegedly subjecting patients to prostate exams, or asking them to submit to one, when they visited his office, prosecutors said.

A contractor who installed a new window for a New Jersey family has been arrested after the residents found a hidden camera inside their bathroom, according to police. Paramus police on Thursday said officers arrested 47-year-old Romeo Sanchez of West New York last month and charged him with Invasion of Privacy. Sanchez was hired by a Paramus resident to replace…

The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president four years ago cited the coronavirus Thursday as he asked to delay or modify his 26-month prison sentence.

Four alleged members of the Mount Vernon Goonies gang pleaded guilty for their roles in the 2016 death of a 13-year-old girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet, according to federal prosecutors. According to Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, David Hardy, Marquis Collier, Jermaine Hughley and Sincere Savoy…

A man stole a car with a baby inside in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday and then returned the vehicle and child minutes later, authorities say. A witness tells News4 she saw the carjacker park, look around and run.  The car was stolen from Third and K streets NE just after 8 p.m., D.C. police said. It was returned a...

The McMorris family returned to Suffolk court Wednesday, hopeful of moving closer to justice for their son Andrew — a 12-year-old boy who died after a man convicted of driving drunk plowed into him and his Boy Scout troop in 2018. After a delayed sentencing due to allegations of jury misconduct, 61-year-old Thomas Murphy, Andrew’s convicted killer, was sentenced to…

Four people face charges after a couple from northern New York was held hostage in the Quebec city of Magog, Canadian authorities said

A man has pleaded guilty in federal court in New Hampshire to using other people’s identification to make bank withdrawals in six states totaling about $111,000. Court documents say Derrick McKenzie, 61, of Mount Vernon, New York, entered bank branches in New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania and made the withdrawals from other people’s bank accounts….

The teen, who was a week shy of his 16th birthday at the time of the incident, was ordered held without bail after being arraigned on a 16-count indictment

The man faces two counts of attempted murder and four weapons counts after police found two victims in a vehicle stopped on the roadway in Union County following reports of shots fired

Prosecutors said the man invested only a small portion of the money he raised from six victims — but when he did invest, the money was lost even though falsified monthly account statements made seem as though his investors were enjoying excellent results

A former student and Boy Scout is suing the Greek Orthodox Church and the Boy Scouts of America after he used a secret wire to record his alleged molester apologizing for inappropriate conduct

Police have obtained photos of the five people allegedly responsible for breaking a man’s nose last week in Queens. The 59-year-old man was walking in Murray Hill around 6 p.m. Wednesday when five male suspects attacked him, police said Sunday. The group stole the man’s wallet and left him with a broken nose and facial fractures, a police spokesperson...

Police released surveillance video of the moments a car sale went wrong and the alleged buyer took off with the other man’s vehicle. Video of the Sept. 17 altercation shows the alleged thief inspect the now stolen Jeep before hopping behind the wheel and speed away. The Jeep’s owner reportedly met with the potential buyer and concluded a test...

Being open since 1829, Neir’s Tavern in Queens has seen quite a lot. But now as it continues to weather the burden that COVID-19 has placed on restaurants and bars, it has a new fight to deal with

A New Hampshire man who suffered serious spinal injuries when a stage diver landed on his head during a concert in New Jersey has reached a $2 million settlement with the show’s organizer. Jason Kooken, 46, of Exeter, was injured at an April 2017 punk music festival staged at Convention Hall in Asbury Park. His lawsuit claimed that security working…

Authorities on Thursday arrested a 20-year-man in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed an 11-year-old boy in Troy earlier this month. Police in the upstate New York town identified the suspect as Jahquay Brown, and said he was facing a murder charge. He had an arraignment on Thursday afternoon and was in custody, but no information on any attorney…

Donald Trump’s niece followed up her best-selling, tell-all book with a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the president and two of his siblings cheated her out of millions of dollars over several decades while squeezing her out of the family business. Mary L. Trump sought unspecified damages in the lawsuit, filed in a state court in New York City. “Fraud...

A 23-year-old Long Island woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in what prosecutors have described as the “barbaric” barbell murder of her own mother, authorities said Thursday. Francesca Kiel, of Lynbrook pleaded guilty in July to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 56-year-old Theresa Kiel who was rendered comatose after he attacked her with…

The art dealers and suspected fraudsters allegedly used the identities of deceased collectors to create the fake histories for antiquities they sold

A spokesman for the government of the People’s Republic of China dismissed allegations that an NYPD officer allegedly acting as its agent as “pure fabrication” in a statement issued Tuesday, a day after the cop’s arrest. “The indictment is full of hedging terms such as ‘seems’ and ‘possibly,’ indicating the falsehood of the accusations,” the statement from Wang Wenbin...

A 22-year-old Bronx man has been indicted on murder and other charges in the June stray bullet death of a 17-year-old high school basketball star and academic standout who ended up with a deadly wound to the back at a barbecue. Nahjim Luke was arraigned Tuesday in the June 28 shooting death of Brandon Hendricks, who was killed just days…

A 33-year-old NYPD officer and ethnic Tibetan native of China has been arrested for allegedly acting as an agent of a foreign government and lying to obtain asylum in the United States, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Monday.

The former owners of a Brooklyn meat-packing company featured on a reality TV show pleaded guilty Monday to fraudulently mislabeling lower-quality beef as Prime cuts. Howard Mora and Alan Buxbaum pleaded to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, for using counterfeit USDA stamps to sell the marked-up meat. Mora and Buxbaum formerly owned A. Stein Meat Products from 2011…

A 35-year-old New Jersey man is facing numerous charges for falsely reporting seven incidents to law enforcement agencies between June and September of this year, police say. According to the Ramsey Police Department, Vadim Pinskiy of Fair Lawn, was charged with seven counts of false reports to law enforcement, seven counts of harassment and one count of stalking. Attorney information…

Police are looking for a group of teens who they said shoved the groundskeeper of a Queens golf course to the ground days before the 79-year-old died. William “Bill” Hinchey was pronounced dead three days after he was knocked over at the Forest Park Golf Course in Woodhaven on Sept. 8. Police said Hinchey was trying to shoo off a…

A former “Melrose Place” actress who has already served a prison sentence for a fatal 2010 drunken driving crash in New Jersey is headed back behind bars after a judge agreed with prosecutors Thursday that her initial sentence was too lenient. Saying Amy Locane still refuses to fully acknowledge her culpability in the crash that killed 60-year-old Helene Seeman and…

A man has been arrested and charged for neglect and stealing nearly $90,000 from a 90-year-old New Jersey woman in his care over the course of almost four years, according to Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo. Castor A. Toro, 52, is charged with second-degree theft, second-degree theft by deception, and third-degree abandonment or neglect of an elderly person. Convictions on…

An attorney in New Jersey has been indicted with multiple counts of bank fraud and other crimes for allegedly obtaining, fraudulently, nearly $9 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to prosecutors. Jae H. Choi, 48 and of Cliffside Park, was indicted Tuesday with four counts of bank fraud, four counts of false statements on a loan application, one…

The former deputy chief of staff to the New York City Chancellor of Schools pleaded guilty to child enticement and possession of child porn after trading explicit pictures with the 15-year-old boy over email

A former FDNY EMT — and son of a high-ranking FDNY official — who allegedly impersonated an NYPD officer over the years was arrested for robbing an alleged drug dealer of nearly 200 oxycodone pills, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court of Eastern District of New York. Robert Gala, 28 and of Sheepshead Bay, was arrested…

A New Jersey man who authorities said sought to aid the Islamic militant group Hamas and threatened to “shoot everybody” at an unspecified pro-Israel demonstration pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge