CRIME & SAFETY

Well, hairs to swift justice! In the days since his alleged involvement in a recent viral wig-snatching incident, a Manhattan attorney is gone from his post as an associate at a New York City law firm.  “He is no longer with our firm,” a spokesperson for Leader Berkon Colao & Silverstein LLP told The Post Wednesday regarding the alleged hair-puller, whom social media sleuths have identified as Anthony Orlich.  On its official LinkedIn profile, the office, too, announced the man’s departure, saying in part, “We take seriously any inappropriate behavior by any employee, whether inside or outside the workplace.” “This associate is no longer with the...

NEW YORK - Damion Comager and Ivana Paolozzi, the parents of 3-month-old Genevieve Comager, whose body was found in a wooded area in the Bronx, appeared in court Wednesday. They are being charged with murder and concealing their daughter's body. "He said it was a mistake," Donald Comager said. Donald Comager is Genevieve's paternal grandfather. Speaking from Louisiana by phone, e said his son Damion Comager, 23, maintains the death was an accident. The medical examiner ruled Genevieve's death a homicide. "That day, I don't know if he was upset or frustrated," Donald Comager said. "All I know, he loved his daughter." Damion Comager and...

A 65-year-old man fatally shot a mugger who appeared to have threatened him with a pen during a botched robbery in Queens early Wednesday — and prosecutors are now weighing if murder charges should be filed, authorities said. The man was walking home around 2 a.m. when the 32-year-old alleged robber came up to him at a driveway leading to a parking garage on 82nd Avenue near Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens, according to cops and law enforcement sources. The erratic mugger demanded cash and cigarettes while flashing an unknown sharp object, the sources said. That’s when the older man then pulled out...

Well this is new... and awesome. A police department in New York state recently took to Facebook to share the meaning behind new signage on one of their police cruisers, and it could save a life. Police officers can have several types of partners, both human and animal. You've most...

A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of his colleagues on the force, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that lets people with a connection to law enforcement avoid traffic tickets.Though not officially recognized by the NYPD, the laminated cards have long been treated as a perk of the job. The city’s police unions issue them to members, who circulate them among those who want to signal their NYPD connections — often to get out of minor infraction like speeding or failing to...

Recording the police can be an effective tool for transparency and oversight, but a new report shows how far the New York Police Department will go to keep from being filmed. Courts have generally upheld a right to film so long as citizens don't physically obstruct official police business. But police departments are constantly relitigating the question. In 2018, for instance, North Carolina police claimed that a right to record the police did not include a right to livestream the police. A federal appeals court rejected that argument in February.

A 58-year-old man was found dead by his wife hours after he was punched in the head by a relative during a clash in the victim’s Brooklyn apartment — and the death has been deemed a homicide, police said Wednesday. James Keitt was discovered dead on his living room couch by his wife in their Starrett City apartment on Elmira Loop near Pennsylvania Ave. at about 7:40 a.m. Sunday, cops said. ...

At 11:20 a.m., store personnel and security said five Black men wearing face masks entered the store and took 23 clothing items, ripping them from their security devices, police said. One of the suspects reached to his side and said he had a gun, though no firearm was displayed, police...

According to investigators, Jay Bryant, 49, was seen entering the Queens studio where the hip-hop artist, whose real name is Jason Mizell, was shot to death.

A Manhattan man who allegedly attacked, robbed and then raped a 21-year-old woman who was walking to a subway station in East Harlem earlier this year has been indicted, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Geovanni Romero Gonzales, 26, who has been charged with rape in the first...

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Two teens, a boy and a girl, were shot inside a Brooklyn bodega before school Wednesday morning, according to police. The shooting happened outside the Wise Deli and Grill, next to the entrance to the Franklin Avenue-Botanic Garden subway station. Police believe the 16-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy were innocent bystanders, […]

Two Bronx tots had to be given Narcan this week after ingesting drugs in separate incidents that led to each of their parents being arrested, police said. In the first case, a 2-year-old girl “showed signs of an opiate overdose” after swallowing “an unknown substance” inside an apartment on East 181st Street near Arthur Avenue in Belmont around 1:40 p.m. Monday, authorities said.  Her mother, Cassidy Reid, 37, rushed the girl to the pediatric emergency room at St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was administered Narcan — the leading version of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone — and stabilized, according to cops and court documents. An...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — The Carlisle Police Department is searching for a man who allegedly scammed $80,000 out of a victim. Ruofei Yang, 34, of New York, is charged with one felony count each of theft by deception - false impression and criminal use of communication facility. Anyone with...

Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James’ Office of Special Investigation released its report on the death of Ronald Anthony Smith, a man who was fatally hit by a cop car last year. The investigation included crash reconstruction analysis, a review of body-worn camera, security camera video and...

A 42-year-old man was shot 10 times and left to die in a Bronx lobby late on Memorial Day, cops said.  Clifford White, 42, was found pumped with bullets when the NYPD responded to a 911 call of a male shot inside the building on Boston Road near East 168th Street around 10:50 p.m. Monday, cops said.  White, who was shot in the torso, was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.  He lived in another building on the block. No information about the suspect was available Tuesday morning, and no arrests have been made.  The motive for the deadly shooting remains under investigation. 

A New York man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a Jewish man wearing an Israeli military hoodie last December. Suleiman Othman of Staten Island, N.Y., will spend two months in jail and serve three years of probation, which Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said “should send a message that this kind of intolerance has serious consequences.”