Swindling Priests—Not A Good Idea

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Yesterday, a Manhattan man pleaded guilty to cheating 60 priests—that’s 60 men of the cloth, 60 men of God, 60 probably-celibate-dudes … if bad things can happen to them, then none of us are safe. What a notion. The scam earned Robert Riggio, 60 (spooky, isn’t?), $200,000—that’s 200,000 big ones, 200,000 smackers, 200,000 dollars of
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Alternative Kids Get Angry, Who Knew?

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Yesterday, a lunchtime fight broke out in SoHo when a 16-year-old student stabbed a 12-year-old schoolmate.  The assault took place at the intersection of Grand Street and West Broadway near The Door, an alternative private school where “troubled” kids can spend a year if they’ve been suspended from city schools. One witness told the New
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Cop Gets A Beating From Teen Punk

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Yesterday, a Brooklyn high school kid brutally beat an officer before stealing his gun and opening fire, according to police sources. The post calls the attack “unprovoked,” but then goes on to report that the 16-year-old boy was just minding his own business across the street from his school Boys and Girls HS in Bedford-Stuyvesant
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Keeping Your Local Bodega Free of Shootings

Written by John DeSio on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Citing a recent rash of robberies in his eastern corner of The Bronx, City Councilman Jimmy Vacca will propose today the expansion of "Operation Safe Store," a pilot program created three years ago which installs cameras in bodegas to help prevent would be thieves and to catch those who act on their nefarious instincts. "It
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Sex Offenders Illegally Confined

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

The New York Sun reports that two sex offenders, who had been held involuntarily at mental hospitals after their prison sentences ended, were set free into the wild blue yonder this month. They are the first to be released since the state’s highest court ruled that prison officials acted illegally when they transferred more than
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Another Reason Why Jail Sucks

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

It seems a former correction officer will be spending the next 18 months in jail—on the other side of a row of bars. Allegedly, Nicholas Defonte had sexual encounters with several female inmates at a federal lockup. But how do you define sexual relations in this case? Well, Defonte apparently had prisoners perform “sex acts”—or,
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Home Alone, But Without the Macaulay

Written by Kari Milchman on . Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Posts

Apparently, a Staten Island new mom needed a drink so badly that she left her 11-month-old son home without supervision while she paid a visit to her favorite watering hole on Sunday.  Evelyn Gaft, 31, was found passed out in a cab after her two-plus-hour drinking binge and was subsequently arrested. She’s been charged with
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