Posts Tagged ‘NYPD’

Breakdown in Collection of Evidence Means Deadly Drivers Go Free

Written by NYPress on June 6, 2012. Posted in Blog, Breaking News

New Yorkers have an excuse to feel a little less safe on the streets as NYPD officers are failing to meet their investigative duties. (by Alissa Fleck) In the middle of a July night last year, Clara Hayworth was crossing the street in Fort Greene with her husband, when she was fatally struck by a
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Man Plans to Play Piano Across America: Starts tour in NYC

Written by NYPress on June 5, 2012. Posted in NY Press Exclusive

by Adel Manoukian Dotan Negrin decided to fulfill his dreams of playing music, seeing new places and meeting new people by taking his piano and dog named Brando across America, traveling with few belongings in a 12-foot Box truck the 25-year old bought off eBay. This year, Negrin is taking his upright 88-keys and
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Updated: New Jersey Man Arrested in Etan Patz Case

Written by Marissa Maier on May 25, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, News OTDT, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized

While the excavation of a Soho basement on Prince Street in April yielded almost no clues into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, who went missing from the area in 1979, it appears the NYPD might have a new suspect in the case. Police commissioner Ray Kelly officially remained mum on the identity of the
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Neighborhood Chatter

Written by Marissa Maier on May 23, 2012. Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

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Manhattan Borough Board Unanimously Passes DREAM Act On Thursday, May 17, members of the Manhattan Borough Board unanimously approved New York State DREAM legislation, a number of bills promoting higher education and civic engagement opportunities for students in New York City neighborhoods, regardless of their immigration status. New York City’s immigrant population, the largest of
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Crime Watch: Thief Sprays Clerk in Face

Written by Our Town Downtown on May 21, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

Unclean Getaway Around 3 p.m. on a recent Sunday, a store clerk at a Financial District department store observed a man shoplifting on the premises. The 57-year-old clerk pursued the man, who reacted to the chase by spraying the clerk in the eyes with an unknown substance. The thief then dropped the bag containing the
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UES Rapist Pleads Guilty

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on May 11, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Crime Watch our town, Our Town, Uncategorized

Last summer, the Upper East Side was terrorized by several different perpetrators of sexual assaults, and early last week, a man arrested for two of those crimes pleaded guilty to rape and sexual abuse. Jason Quinones, who is 22 and was 21 at the time of the attacks, admitted to raping a woman in her
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UNC Students Promise to Sit Out Bloomberg’s Speech

Written by City & State on May 10, 2012. Posted in Breaking News

When Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to this year’s graduating class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sunday, a group of 40 to 50 students are planning to skip his speech. That’s because they already got the message Bloomberg sent by shutting down Occupy Wall Street last fall, as well as the
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Crime Watch

Written by NYPress on April 26, 2012. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT

Handing It Over Apparently, in an urban metropolis, even the public bathroom isn’t safe from enterprising robbers, or so a recent incident reported by the NYPD would indicate. A 57-year-old woman was at the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in the early afternoon when she made her way to the restrooms. After selecting a stall, she placed
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New Leads in the Etan Patz Case

Written by Andrew Rice on April 20, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Uncategorized

After 33 years, it looks like law enforcement might have a new lead on the disappearance of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old who was last seen walking to his school bus stop in Soho on May 25, 1979. Forensics teams from both the NYPD and the FBI assembled at 7 a.m. yesterday morning at the basement
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Tax Schemer Indicted on Tax Day

Written by Andrew Rice on April 18, 2012. Posted in Breaking News

It was announced, yesterday, on Tax Day that Peter Murmylyuk was indicted for masterminding a money swindling scheme that robbed taxpayers of $450,000, after a joint investigation by the Manhattan DA and the Department of Homeland Security. Murmylyuk, a Russian national living in Brooklyn, created the fake employment website jobcentral2.net, where he is accused of
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