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Murder Charges For Teen Accused Of Shooting Mother And Another Man At Sheepshead Bay Houses

(Photo: mikey k / flickr)Police charged a 15-year-old girl with murder after she allegedly confessed to gunning down two people [/15-year-old-girl-taken-into-custody-after-cops-find-two-bullet-riddled-bodies-at-the-sheepshead-bay-houses/] , including her mother, in an apartment at the Sheepshead Bay Houses last week. The NYPD announced Monday that the teen, Destiny Garcia, who lived in the apartment with her

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Two Bandits Hold Up Liquor Store On Avenue Z, Cops Say

(Photo: Google Maps)Two bandits stormed an Avenue Z Liquor store Sunday night and drew a pistol on an employee while demanding cash, police say. The heist occurred just after 7pm at the Friendly Liquor Discount Store located at the intersection of Avenue Z and Sheepshead Bay Road, according to

Police & Fire

15-Year-Old Girl Taken Into Custody After Cops Find Two Bullet-Riddled Bodies At The Sheepshead Bay Houses

An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)Police took a 15-year-old girl into custody after authorities discovered two bullet-riddled corpses Sunday night inside an apartment at the Sheepshead Bay Houses, according to the NYPD. Police said they found the bodies inside the fifth-floor

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Thief Steals Package From Hallway, Winds Up With Lame Baby Monitor

(Photo provided by the NYPD)Each December, as if on cue, Grinch-like crooks come out of the woodwork [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/12/watch-crook-stealing-packages-porches-holidays/#.VoVeIMArLu0] and take advantage of neighbors’ good will and holiday cheer by swiping gift packages from porches and hallways — and there seems to be little

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Thief Steals Package From Hallway, Winds Up With Lame Baby Monitor

Source: NYPDEach December, as if on cue, Grinch-like crooks come out of the woodwork [/watch-crook-stealing-packages-porches-holidays/#.VoVeIMArLu0] and take advantage of neighbors’ good will and holiday cheer by swiping gift packages from porches and foyers — and there seems to be little police can do to stop it. Occasionally, these thieves get

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Man Robbed At Knifepoint After Craigslist Deal Goes Bad, Cops Say

(Photo provided by the NYPD)A 32-year-old man was robbed at knifepoint on Christmas eve by someone responding to the Craigslist ad for his iPhone 6, police say. The pair met just before 8pm near Avenue U and East 16th Street, according to the NYPD. The suspect entered the victim’

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Graffiti Complaints In Sheepshead Bay Up By 525 Percent This Year, Report Finds

> Photos from Today’s Graffiti Clean Up! #BeforeAndAfter [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeforeAndAfter?src=hash] #ActionsSpeakLouder [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActionsSpeakLouder?src=hash] #CommunityPolicing [https://twitter.com/hashtag/CommunityPolicing?src=hash] #QualityOfLife [https://twitter.com/hashtag/QualityOfLife?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/8y83wUd4iZ [http://t.co/8y83wUd4iZ] — NYPD 61st

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Cops Charge 23-Year-Old Driver Involved In Fatal Crash On Gravesend Neck Road

(Photo: Qfamily [https://www.flickr.com/photos/dasqfamily/348368964/] / Flickr) Cops arrested the driver of white van who struck and killed a 77-year-old woman last week while she crossed Gravesend Neck Road near East 21st Street. The NYPD says 23-year-old Zafrom Ghafoor has been charged with failure to yield and

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Standoff Between Cops & Emotionally Disturbed Man On Neck Road

A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” from his barricaded Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why the man needed

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‘Disturbed’ Man Sparks Standoff With Police At Gravesend Home

A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” who had barricaded himself inside his Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why

News

Anti-Commie Hooligan Strikes Again With Childish Graffiti On Sheepshead Bay Road

Graffiti on the vacant storefront on Sheepshead Bay Road. (Photo: Sheepshead Bites)The anti-commie crusader who has been harassing local politicians appears to have struck again — this time scrawling a belligerent and homophobic message on the window of a vacant storefront on Sheepshead Bay Road. A tipster sent us a

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Police Search For Credit Card Skimmer Who Damaged ATM At Kings Highway Citibank

Photo provided by the NYPD.Cops are searching for a suspected credit card skimmer who put a Kings Hishway Citibank’s ATM out of commission this summer when he tried to jam a device into the machine. Police say the suspect entered the Citibank located at Kings Highway and East