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Contractor Arrested For Sparking Friday’s Ditmas Park Fire, Says FDNY

Cortelyou Road & East 17th Street, Friday April 14. (Photo by Dina Rabiner/BKLYNER)A Brooklyn contractor has been arrested for sparking the blaze on Friday in Ditmas Park [/kitchen-fire-causes-traffic-backup-cortelyou-road/] that had traffic backed up on Cortelyou Road. Though a witness originally heard from firefighters that the flames sparked in

Police & Fire

[Updated] Man Allegedly Murders His Cousin Inside Their Ditmas Park Apartment

380 East 18th Street, Jan. 25 (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)[Update 1/26 9:30am: Osama Osman, 42, has been arrested and charged with murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon.] This morning, cops found a man beaten to death inside his Ditmas Park apartment. The victim’s cousin,