CRIME & SAFETY

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island family indicted in a 2022 police raid that turned up several illegal firearms inside their Concord home are on pace to settling each of their cases in state Supreme Court, St. George, including the dismissal of charges for the two younger defendants.

‘This scene was chaos: multiple victims, a house on fire and a madman on a rampage on a mission’

Police say the situation began when a young girl called 911 and reported that her cousin was killing her family.

Two boys reported missing in Newark were found in the city early Sunday morning when officers responded to a car crash involving what turned out to be a stolen vehicle occupied by the pair and two others, authorities said. The boys, ages 14 and 10, were taken to a local...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Perhaps if Tommy DeVito, Joe Pesci’s character in “Goodfellas,” had a smartphone on him, he could have avoided getting whacked as he was lured into what he believed was a home where a Mafia “making” ceremony was supposed to take place.

UPDATE, 12:35 p.m. -- Authorities have identified the motorcycle rider who died in the overnight crash. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A motorcycle rider died after midnight Sunday when the vehicle’s operator lost control of the bike and struck a guardrail on the West Shore Expressway, authorities said. FDNY...

She was brutally beaten last month when a student knocked her down to the ground before pummeling her

A 39-year-old man was shot early this morning on South Second Street in Williamsburg, police say.

Jaclyn Elmquist was seen stumbling down the sidewalk on Thursday night before her body was discovered in the trash compactor of a high-end building

A neglected Bronx subway underpass has turned into a hellish open-air drug market that’s making locals afraid to even walk down the street — and has at least one local pol seeing red. The Kingsbridge D-train underpass has been plagued by rampant drug use since the end of the pandemic, with zombie-like addicts shooting up in public — and no one is doing anything about it, according to residents and City Councilman Oswald Feliz (D-Bronx). “The illicit drug selling and use, as well as other quality of life issues, has made the underpass unwelcoming and in some days unwalkable,” Feliz wrote in...

They’re stocked, locked, and loaded.  Hundreds of Big Apple supermarket and bodega owners are arming themselves as the epidemic of violent theft continues to plague their businesses. Over the past year, the United Bodegas of America and the Bodega and Small Business Group said they’ve helped at least 230 store owners apply for their gun licenses, connecting them with concealed-carry classes required by the state to obtain a permit.  The National Supermarket Association, which represents roughly 600 independent grocers, estimated a quarter of its members in the city are packing heat, compared to 10% pre-pandemic. “You see the necessity because the city is getting...

NYPD Auxiliary officers are volunteers who assist police officers by patrolling subway stations, monitoring block parties and other events.

BAYONNE, NJ - An investigation by members of the Bayonne Police Department Detective Bureau into a string of vehicle burglaries has led to an arrest, Captain Eric Amato announced. According to Amato, Jayson R. Ruiz, 51, Bayonne, has been charged with five counts each of Burglary and Theft, four counts of Criminal Mischief, Dealing in Stolen Property, and Possession of an Imitation Firearm.  The month-long crime spree started on October 7, Amato said in a report, when Ruiz reportedly broke into a vehicle through the side window in the area of West 56th Street and Avenue C and removed approximately $5,000 worth of tools. Through an additional four incidents dating between October 9 and October 29, Ruiz reportedly stole an additional $8,200 in tools and $1,500 worth of audio equipment. The investigation also revealed, Amato said, that Ruiz had been privately selling the stolen proceeds.