New Yorkers are staying put and apparently not committing nearly as many crimes, according to the official stats released Wednesday by the NYPD. Citywide crime is down almost 17% compared to the same week last year, with dramatic drops in violent crime — shootings down 23.5%, rapes down 69% and assaults down 9%. Crime in the subway, which had grown…

A former teacher sentenced to 30 years in state prison for gunning down her boyfriend in 2014 will get a new trial after filing for appeal. Virginia Vertetis, 57, was convicted in 2017 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of retired New York City cop Patrick Gilhuley in her Mount Olive home. An appeals court released its decision Wednesday and vacated…

The sentencing of a former Wake Forest University assistant basketball coach convicted of assault for fatally punching a man in New York City has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. A spokeswoman for the Queens district attorney’s office said Jamill Jones’ March 18 sentencing has been adjourned to June 16. Jones was convicted of assault last month for delivering the...

Members and other associates of a violent Bronx-based gang, known as the Black Stone Gorilla Gang, were arrested on Wednesday by DEA agents, NYPD officers, and U.S. Homeland Security agents, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said. In all, authorities say fourteen individuals face federal racketeering, narcotics, and firearms charges. Three were already in custody and four others are still being sought.  Among...

A vicious stabbing inside a 24/7 New York City deli was caught on camera and police are now searching for the suspect. Police say a dispute led 30-year-old Goni Guzman to allegedly stab a 35-year-old man multiple times inside the Regal Gourmet Deli in Chelsea just after midnight on Sunday. The surveillance video inside the corner store shows Guzman pinning…

Authorities arrested seven more suspects over the weekend in connection to the vicious attack of a 15-year-old girl in Brooklyn. The girl was taken to a hospital in stable condition following the disturbing attack on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights Thursday. She was later released, and was recovering at home. Jarring surveillance video shows the moment the group of young…

A woman fatally beat her male roommate with a tape dispenser, a shower rod and other items during a dispute inside their southern New Jersey home last month, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, was charged Wednesday with murder and four weapons offenses, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Thursday if she has retained an attorney....

The prank involves a person being tricked into jumping in the air as two people on either side kick their feet out from under them

Robert Williams was arrested Feb. 9 after police say he ran out of bullets, laid down on the floor of a Bronx stationhouse and threw his pistol aside

A former correctional officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually abusing a woman housed at the federal lockup in Manhattan — a facility that has drawn mounting criticism for security lapses such as the death last year of financier Jeffrey Epstein. The officer, Colin Akparanta, admitted using his authority to coerce the inmate into sex acts in 2017. He pleaded guilty…

A federal appeals court has upheld a $21.7 million verdict against a Connecticut rabbi accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage boy in the early 2000s

The convict was charged in the death of a woman whose body was found in a vacant home, but her head, feet and hands were removed and not inside the home

Jury selection wrapped up Tuesday with 11 alternate jurors seated for the trial of millionaire New York real estate scion Robert Durst, who is charged with murdering a friend inside her Benedict Canyon home in December 2000.

A New Jersey man was indicted in connection to the brutal machete attack of his ex-girlfriend in the Bronx late last month — an attack that forced her to undergo “reconstructive and life-saving surgery,” prosecutors say. Hector de la Cruz, 27 and of Paterson, was arraigned Tuesday on attempted murder in the second degree, two counts of first-degree assault, two…

A New Jersey man faces luring charges after he was captured in an online child predator sting conducted by a private citizen, authorities said. Phillip Stone, 33, of Lacey Township, was also charged Monday with attempted sexual assault, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Tuesday if he’s retained an attorney. The charges came a day...

New York City police are searching for at least two men who scammed over two dozen elderly residents out of thousands of dollars in just over a month. Authorities say the suspects would call up victims, telling them that their relatives were having legal troubles and money was needed to bail them out. The suspects would then pose as carriers…

Authorities have said Ray convinced his victims they were indebted to him, subjecting them to grueling hourslong interrogations that included sexual exploitation and humiliation as he deprived them of food and sleep

Video released by the NYPD shows the alcohol-fueled scuffle between several irate Uber passengers in early February. The driver, Mohammed Al-Gahaffi, pulled over in the Upper East Side after he spotted the passengers drinking during the ride, police said. Off camera, police said one of the passengers sucker punched the driver. Al-Fahaffi has spent 25 days hooked up to a…

The prosecutor said that one of the victim’s feet got caught under a tire after she stepped forward at the same time Drago accelerated and “did the unthinkable.”

The mother suffered facial fractures in the crash and her 8-year-old daughter’s legs and pelvis were fractured

Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month sentence for an alleged neo-Nazi from northern Virginia who pleaded guilty last year to weapons violations

A woman and her son, both of Florida, have been indicted in connection with two murders that remained unsolved for 25 years in New Jersey, prosecutors announced Thursday. Last month, Dolores Morgan, 66, and her 47-year-old son, Ted Connors, were each charged with two separate counts of first-degree murder in connection to the deaths of Ana Mejia and Nicholas Conner. On...

The man was issued a credit card by the nonprofit that was supposed to be used only for official business, but he used it for tickets to events he attended with friends and family

A man was injured following a shooting at the Spring Valley Transit Center parking lot in Rockland County Thursday afternoon. The incident took place around 2 p.m. at 1 Municipal Plaza, according to police. The victim, who is about 30-years-old, was taken to Westchester County Medical Center. His condition is unknown. Police say they are actively searching for two individuals…

A central New York woman pleaded guilty to her involvement in concealing the death of a tenant and taking his Social Security retirement benefits, prosecutors said. TammyLynn Sterling Barthelmess, 62, of Little Falls, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to steal government funds and three counts of bank fraud, the Utica Observer-Dispatch reported. Barthelmess also admitted to concealing the death of...

The man was driving an SUV that struck two people, one of whom was a 15-year-old boy, as they walked home from the teen’s job in 2019

A former co-owner of a New Jersey pharmacy pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a kickback scheme that netted him millions of dollars. Igor Fleyshmakher entered a plea in federal court in Newark to conspiracy and tax evasion. The U.S. attorney’s office said Fleyshmakher and several others used their positions at two pharmacies in Union City, New Jersey and the...

A Queens woman has been convicted of drowning her 2-year-old daughter in 2016 by holding her head under water

The search of the Times Square offices comes after women filed a lawsuit claiming Nygard enticed them, some as young teenagers, to his estate in the Bahamas where he gave them drugs or alcohol and then raped them.

Vance believes the case dispelled myths about the so-called “perfect rape victim” — the belief that rape only occurs between strangers, and that victims wouldn’t ever maintain contact with their abusers

A man tried to blow up an SUV at the Pentagon on Monday morning and was found later in Arlington National Cemetery. Matthew Dmitri Richardson, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, faces federal charges after Pentagon police say he tried to blow up an active-duty service member’s Land Rover at about 10:55 a.m. Monday. He appeared in court in Alexandria, Virginia, Tuesday...

A 35-year-old Bronx man was sentenced to six years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision for “savagely beating and biting” his ex-girlfriend, according to the district attorney. Koran Hilliard was sentenced Tuesday after being found guilty of second-degree assault, bribing a witness, fourth-degree tampering with a witness and 29 counts of second-degree criminal contempt last December, according to Bronx…

A New Jersey doctor who authorities said described himself as “Candy Man” and “El Chapo of Opioids” faces prison and fines after he admitted prescribing opioids without a legitimate medical purpose. Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, on Monday pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of controlled dangerous substances, conspiracy to distribute them and falsifying medical records. “This defendant knowingly…

A 49-year-old man has been indicted on 16 counts, including first-degree felony murder and first-degree robbery, in the disappearance of a 65-year-old woman who vanished in September and is presumed dead. Prosecutors said Tuesday that her former boyfriend and roommate, Ronald Teschner, killed Jacqueline Terrulli and lit her 6,000-square-foot New Jersey home ablaze. Authorities found the mansion completely engulfed in…

A former probation officer in New Jersey has admitted intimidating a woman he supervised on probation to have sex with him or she would go back to jail. Henry Cirignano, 48, of Wall Township, pleaded guilty Monday to sexual assault by coercion and official misconduct. Cirignano threatened to create false probation violations unless the 23-year-old provided sexual favors to him…

Perhaps even worse, the man believes he’s not the only victim the robbers have struck, with several of his friends with similar watches having recently been attacked and robbed

A New York jury found former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape in the case of Jessica Mann and guilty of first-degree criminal sexual assault in the case of Mimi Haleyi, acquitting him of the two most serious counts of predatory sex assault. Those two counts of predatory sex assault, which carried a max sentence of life…

A suburban New York library guard who was stabbed to death on the job had loved her work, her relatives said Monday as she was laid to rest and the suspect was indicted on a murder charge

A series of anonymous bomb threats were made against Jewish community centers in New York, Governor Cuomo said Sunday. The threats were emailed to members belonging to at least 19 JCCs, officials said. Cuomo said the threats are part of a wider series made against JCCs nationwide. It was not immediately clear how many threats were made to JCCs within…

A $10,000 reward was offered in New Jersey for information about a deadly stabbing outside a nightclub. Four men were stabbed outside Chez Maree Nightclub in Plainfield, New Jersey, early Sunday morning, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. One of the men, whose name was withheld pending family identification, was pronounced dead, officials said. The other three victims were…

A thief with a penchant for stealing jeans has caught the attention of the NYPD. The man accused of stealing from stores in midtown Manhattan allegedly got away with almost $9,000 in denim jeans and nearly an additional $1,000 in purses. Police said the man struck eight stores within a three-week period in January. The thief hit a Banana Republic,…

The mother claimed at the time of 2014 arrest that her 5-year-old son disappeared when the two were at a carnival in May 1991, but investigators doubted her story — which changed several times

A lawyer for the 76-year-old Silver declined comment, though it is likely that attorneys will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case

What started as a quick trip to a bookstore in a New Jersey town for a teenager and her mother quickly turned into a horrifying bathroom experience — and an arrest

The DA said that while he was not in the office at the time of Blanchard Glaudin’s December arrest for a rape that occurred the month before, he would instruct his team to review the case thoroughly

Two men charged in the stabbing death of a woman found in a southern New Jersey park last year have been indicted on murder charges. Luis Colon-Molina, 36, and Wilfredo Boulones-Cruz, 50, both of Camden, also face charges of felony murder, armed robbery, carjacking and weapons offenses in the indictment that was recently handed up by a Camden County grand…

The DA said that while he was not in the office at the time of Blanchard Glaudin’s December arrest for a rape that occurred the month before, he would instruct his team to review the case thoroughly

A Maryland police officer’s 17-year-old son tried to sell marijuana products on Snapchat and messaged his address to his alleged killer less than an hour before his death, court documents say.

A man accused of firing a gun into the crowded bleachers at a New Jersey high school football game last year, killing a 10-year-old boy, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other charges. Alvin Wyatt, 31, of Atlantic City, did not speak during the brief hearing. He could be sentenced to life without parole if convicted. Wyatt is charged…

A worker at a Bronx deli was shot and killed as he stood behind the counter while the gunman fired multiple shots, police said.

According to a criminal complaint, Charles Barry presented himself as an MTA employee in an effort to dupe a tourist, whom he sold a dud MetroCard for $ 32 — just one of his many alleged scam victims

The man is accused of leaving a message for Rep. Schiff in which he threatened to “put a bullet” in his forehead, and threatened to drive someone to “assassinate” Sen. Schumer

A man has been charged in the killing of two men, including one who was hacked to death with a machete in New York state’s Long Island, police said

Investigators allege the 31-year-old was asleep in a bedroom with a loaded .9mm handgun next to him when his young son took the weapon and went into another room and accidentally shot himself

A female security officer working at a Rockland County library died after getting stabbed multiple times by an attacker who lunged at her after she told him to lower the music on his phone, according to authorities. The incident occurred at the Finklestein Library in Spring Valley around 2 p.m. Tuesday, officials said. Officers rushed to the third floor, where…

A family friend of a pizza delivery driver who was recently gunned down in Baltimore says he had fled war-torn Syria to seek a better life

Police said the suspect tried to escape right after the attack, but several library patrons jumped into action and held him down until police arrived

Authorities say a 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a Manhattan park in December.

A woman who fatally stabbed her mother during an argument at their northern New Jersey home has been charged with murder, authorities said. Malika Jones, 22, also faces two weapons counts stemming from the slaying in Rahway, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday. Jones remains in custody pending a detention hearing, and it wasn’t known if she’s retained...

A New Jersey Transit bus driver accused of killing a pedestrian in a fatal hit-and-run accident last New Year’s Eve was captured this week as she tried to board a plane at Newark Liberty International airport, authorities said. Fayola Howard, 34, of Bloomfield, was arrested Tuesday, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. She has been charged with vehicular...

When a deli clerk repeatedly refused sell a woman loose cigarettes, she became irate and threatened to “get her man” then return — which is exactly what happened, as the clerk was shot not long after

There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent to police with her address and one word: “CADAVER.” The slip of paper intended to lead authorities…

The owner of a petting zoo where more than 30 pigs were discovered dead and other animals were found sick or injured last summer has been indicted on several animal cruelty charges, authorities said. The counts against Dennis Sugar, 47, of Branchville, were handed up late last month by a Sussex County grand jury. He was due to be arraigned…

A heated argument between two men in a parked vehicle ended when one fatally stabbed the other, authorities said. Javier Ramirez-Jimenez, 48, of Elizabeth, has been charged with reckless manslaughter in the death of Carlos Ariza, 67, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Tuesday if he’s retained an attorney. Elizabeth police found Ariza with a...

In an effort to stop would-be thieves striking at an alarming rate so far in 2020, some stores — including one of the city’s biggest pharmacies — are resorting to new measures

A police officer in Westchester County was arrested and placed on administrative leave following allegations he stalked, sexually abused, and burglarized a woman in Peekskill, New York. Peekskill Police Officer Michael Agovino was charged Saturday after an investigation and audio recording supported allegations the 33-year-old committed several crimes while on duty and in police uniform, a criminal complaint states. The…

The NYPD could be another step closer to finding the person responsible for shooting a Bronx deli worker Friday night. Police released surveillance video Sunday of a man wanted in connection with the shooting. The person walking in the video is seen using a cane and wearing a large blue jacket with a fur collar. The victim was shot inside…

A middle school teacher in New Jersey with experience coaching sports at more than a dozen schools was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office says John Denuto, 43, was arrested Saturday following an investigation that found he allegedly had sex with a minor. The age of the minor was not disclosed by the...

The 36-year-old father of young children was sentenced to a year in prison after he left the dog in the perilous situation following a fight with his ex-girlfriend

Opening arguments have begun in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing eight people in Mississippi in 2017.

A worker at a Bronx deli was shot and killed as he stood behind the counter while the gunman fired multiple shots, police said.

The woman’s daughter had cerebral palsy, was in a wheelchair and couldn’t feed herself

A jury convicted high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti on all counts in his Nike extortion trial on Friday. Prosecutors maintained Avenatti threatened to use his fame to stage a news conference and deliver claims that Nike executives were corrupting college basketball by funding payments to elite young players and their families — unless he was paid millions of dollars to conduct…

A contractor who stole more than $450,000 from 19 homeowners in New Jersey after failing to repair their properties following Superstorm Sandy was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison. George LaRosa, 50, of Barnegat, will also have to pay restitution to his victims. He had pleaded guilty in September to theft by deception. Following Superstorm Sandy, LaRosa —…

A man convicted in a New Year’s Eve party shooting that left one man dead and another wounded will not face a potential death sentence, prosecutors have determined. The Lehigh County District Attorney’s office made the announcement shortly after Vyante Green was convicted Thursday. They said the decision was reached after prosecutors spoke with the slain man’s family and...

A Queens man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his estranged wife to death in a city nail salon as horrified patrons watched earlier this year has been sentenced to prison. William Rivas, a 39-year-old from Corona, received a 25-year sentence Thursday for repeatedly stabbing 35-year-old Carmen Iris Santiago in the Tu S’tilo Salon Spa in Jackson Heights on Aug. 7,…

Police say a man and a woman were involved in a knife fight onboard a packed Flatbush-bound train Wednesday afternoon. The NYPD says that around 5 p.m. officers responded to a call regarding a dispute involving a knife onboard a 2 train at Nostrand Avenue and President Street in Brooklyn. Although they conducted a canvass of the area once they…

Two men whose convictions in a double killing 25 years ago were recently thrown out have been released from prison. Kevin Baker and Sean Washington celebrated with family and friends who had waited for hours Wednesday outside of New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. A state appeals court had ruled last month that newly developed evidence cast doubt on the…

A father who was driving drunk when he caused a crash last year that killed his infant daughter has been sentenced to five years in state prison. Leroy Iglesia, 34, of Blackwood, must also serve three years of supervised release after he’s freed from prison. He had pleaded guilty in December to vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated. The charges…

A man walked out of the D.C. jail on Wednesday night after 25 years of incarceration for a crime he says he did not commit. A note found in an old police homicide file was a key to his early release. Calvin Bright, 47, had been convicted of the 1994 killings of Tammy Peay and William Ramsey in Northeast Washington….

Lawrence Ray, previously known for his role in helping to send former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to prison, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Wednesday.

The defense said the son planned to sell his home and the home where his parents lived so he and his family could move to Puerto Rico, and his father confronted him about the plans

A prosecutor said police went to the home for a wellness check and discovered the woman with blood on her arm and the victim on a tarp with a gunshot wound, and found what he called the “beginning of a grave”

The woman allegedly spent the money on rent, car loan payments, credit card bills, hundreds of online purchases and her wedding at a venue in Burlington County

Prosecutors accused the agent of infiltrating the U.S. DEA in 2011 and assisting a drug-trafficking ring known for slaughtering its rivals

The former Fairfield town employee allegedly stole money from a mentally disabled woman whose finances were put in his care under the wishes of her dying father

A church’s financial manager stole more than $500,000 to pay for her wedding and many other personal expenses, authorities said. Taisha Smith-DeJoseph, 43, of Willingboro, faces numerous charges including theft, misapplication of entrusted property and failure to file personal income tax returns, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday. The charges stem from an investigation that began when officials with…

Michael Avenatti’s lawyers told jurors in a closing argument that the combative California attorney was following a client’s wishes when he threatened to expose Nike’s role in a college basketball scandal

Lawrence Ray — the federal informant whose information helped lead to the arrest of former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik — has been arrested by the FBI on sex trafficking and other charges, according to the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Ray “targeted a group of college students and others for indoctrination and criminal…

The man entered the plea understanding he will get the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison, and told the judge the teen “didn’t deserve what happened to her”

The man suspected of shooting two police officers in separate ambush attacks over the weekend said he was mad at police, in part, because of a previous encounter with officers two years ago. Robert Williams was jolted with an electric stun gun during a 2018 DWI arrest, two senior law enforcement officials told News 4. He allegedly made the rambling…

The then-freshman set a dryer sheet on fire then threw it into a garbage can where he previously had discarded fireworks, sparking the blaze

A Mexican model and actress denies a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped the woman in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013

Religious and elected leaders from across New York City gathered outside 1 Police Plaza on Monday to urge for public safety and unity after two police officers were shot and injured over the weekend. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, himself a former NYPD officer, joined business, community, religious and elected leaders to speak outside NYPD headquarters around noon. The event…

A New Jersey man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and business partner almost three years ago and dumping her dismembered remains in a waterway has been sentenced to life in prison. Raphael Lolos, 43, was given the maximum sentence Friday in the death of 31-year-old Jenny Londono, NorthJersey.com reported. Bergen County prosecutors said she was killed in her Edgewater apartment and...

Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial has unfolded this past month in a 15th-floor courtroom in New York, but its reverberations are being felt far beyond

Police in the Bronx want to find the man responsible for smashing a barbershop window and injuring a 2-year-old boy inside. Ian was in the barber’s chair at Osvaldo’s Barbershop on Kingsbridge Road last week when the suspect smashed the shop’s window with a baseball bat, police said. A relative at the shop jumped into action to shield the...

The NYPD rushed one of its officers to a hospital after an ambush-style shooting in the Bronx. Two officers were seated in a marked patrol van in the Hunts Point neighborhood around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when a suspect allegedly walked up to the van, engaged the officers in conversation, then pulled out a gun and fired into the van, said…

A homeless man found beaten to death behind a house had been attacked before and was planning to testify against members of the MS-13 gang at a trial

A Los Angeles amateur basketball league’s founder has told jurors that Michael Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public.