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Crime & Cases September 15, 2011  RSS feed
ROBBERS ON THE LAM
      Police are asking the public’s assistance in tracking down the three suspects pictured above who are wanted for a recent mugging at a Cypress Hills intersection.
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Armed Crooks Came Calling
Three Sought For Phone Store Heists
     Three armed robbers who held up a Howard
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State Employee Arrested, Charged With Pocketing Taxpayer Money
Worked Out Of Kew Gardens Office
     A former employee of the state Department of
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She’s Slain At Bodega
Gunman Sprays Victims In Bushwick
     Walking to a grocery store for a late-
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COP KILLED IN L. I. DWI CRASH
106th Pct. Mourns Loss Of Colleague
     A police officer assigned to the 106th Precinct
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BRIBE DIDN’T PAY
Hospital Ex-CEO Jailed For Greasing Pols’ Palms
     The former CEO of MediSys Health Network, which
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2 TOOK GOLD AT GUNPOINT
Seek Armed Bandits For Local Stickups
     Two armed bandits are wanted by police for
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Affordable Housing Project Breaks Ground In Rich. Hill
HDC Promises 117 Living Units
     Public officials and lawmakers celebrated the groundbreaking
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104th Pct. Blotter
     Persons arrested in recent police actions as reported by the 104th Precinct included the following individuals:
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Man Admits To Punching Baby To Death For Crying
Faces 12 Years For Killing His Son
     A 22-year-old St. Albans man pled guilty last week to firstdegree manslaughter for fatally punching his seven-month-old son in the chest in April 2010 because he had been crying, it was announced.
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He Sent Sex Vids To Teen Girl
Bx. Man To Jail For Net Lewdness
     A Bronx man has been sentenced to up to three years in prison following his conviction in July for engaging in sexually explicit online conversations with a 13-year-old girl and sending her computer links to pornographic videos, it was announced.
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DEA Places Ban On ‘Bath Salts’
Agency Considers Permanent Action
     Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is moving to place a ban on the possession and sale of chemicals or products that contain mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and methylone—the key ingredients of “bath salts”.
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Nab Bklyn. Docs, Patient For Medicare Claim Scam
Snared In Nationwide Crackdown
     Two doctors and one Medicare beneficiary have been charged in connection with an alleged health care fraud scheme operated out of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and various diagnostic tests, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Alleged Terrorist Cuffed At JFK
Say He Had Plans To Join Jihad
     An indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn last Friday, Sept. 9 charging a legal U.S. resident and Albanian citizen residing in New York City with providing material support to terrorists.
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Con Edison Warns About Imposters
Be Careful When Contacted By ‘Reps’
     Con Edison warns its customers to beware of scammers and imposters claiming to be Con Edison employees.
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Nab Gangsters For Fake ID Scheme
Bought & Sold Doctored Documents
     Eighteen individuals—including 14 with ties to a violent street gang based in Jackson Heights—have been charged in connection with a criminal operation that supplied fraudulent government identity documents such as resident alien cards and Social Security cards to individuals.
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State Gun Laws Survive Lawsuit
Licensing Statutes Are Constitutional
     Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that, in a decision in the case of Kachalsky, et al. v.
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Beep Presses For Qns.- Only Districts
Testifies At Redistricting Hearing
     Queens Borough President Helen Marshall said in testimony submitted to the state hearing on redistricting in Kew Gardens last Wednesday, Sept. 7, that it is of utmost importance to have wholly-contained districts inside each borough.
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