CRIME & SAFETY
Michael Brown Jr. Killed In Meadowbrook State Parkway Crash
The wreck happened at around 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, on the Meadowbrook State Parkway in Hempstead. New York State Police said a Porsche was speeding in the northbound lanes when it struck a Toyota and a Nissan and overturned in the shoulder near exit M5. The Porsche driver, identified...
NYC mom charged with murder in shocking beating death of 6-year-old who begged for her life: cops
A Bronx mom was charged with murder in the brutal beating death of her 6-year-old daughter – who neighbors say had begged for her life before her shocking end, cops said. Lynija Eason-Kumar, 23, was arrested Thursday in connection to the early-morning May 26, 2023 slaying of little Jalayah Eason inside the family’s squalid apartment at NYCHA’s Forest Houses, according to authorities. The mother had initially told cops she found the girl cold and not breathing inside a closet in their 12th-floor unit on East 165th Street, sources said at the time. Eason-Kumar claimed she tried to administer CPR, but Jalayah would not...
Fugitive Duo Caught On Mundy Lane In Mount Vernon: Police
The arrests of Dion Johnson, age 38, and Yolanda Lower, age 46, who were both wanted in connection with a stabbing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were announced by the Westchester County Police Department on Monday, April 22. According to the department, the events leading up to the arrests began when authorities...
Immigrant found dead behind NYC pizzeria was ‘hissy-pissy drunk,’ local who wheeled him there on office chair says
A Staten Island man found dead behind a local pizzeria was “hissy pissy drunk” on the ground just hours earlier — according to a neighbor who cops say helped wheel him there in an office chair. John Young told The Post the victim, identified by sources and neighbors as Julio Morocho, 34, was sprawled out on his driveway early Sunday — and asked repeatedly to be taken to the pizza joint. “My daughter is a nurse and she called me and she said there was a man passed out in the driveway,” said Young, 61. “So I told my daughter, ‘Go over...
Serial Shoplifter With 46 Prior Arrests Accused of Stealing from Multiple Nassau County Stores
The Second Squad reports the arrest of a Bellport man on April 24, 2024 at 1:08 PM for multiple larcenies that occurred in Nassau County. According to Detectives, an investigation was conducted that led to the arrest of Emmitt Smith, 43, of 545 Post Avenue. During the investigation it was determined that defendant Emmitt Smith was responsible for the following larcenies:
Man hits two boys, both 12, in the face in Brooklyn: NYPD
GRAVESEND, Brooklyn (PIX11) – A man is accused of assaulting two 12-year-old boys in Brooklyn on April 18, according to the NYPD. The attack happened on Kings Highway in Gravesend around 4:43 p.m. The man allegedly approached the two teenagers and struck them in the face, causing minor injuries, according to authorities. The victims were […]
Inside Harvey Weinstein’s Overturned New York Conviction
New York’s highest court announced on Thursday that they would be overturning Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction — dropping his lengthy 23-year sentence. Though Weinstein will continue to serve time due to additional charges he faced in Los Angeles in 2022, the controversial ruling is anything but insignificant. To discuss this New York ruling, the lead attorney for the Harvey Weinstein New York case, Donna Rotunno shares her reaction to finding out Weinstein’s conviction was being overturned, her thoughts on whether the ruling was just, and how this impacts Weinstein on a grand scale. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum
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