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Flatbush Man Indicted For ‘Hate Crime’ Beating On Q Train

A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz / Flickr)Today, 27-year-old Antoine Thomas was indicted on charges of assault as a hate crime for allegedly punching a woman in the face and knocking her unconscious while shouting homophobic slurs on a Brooklyn-bound Q train in May [/two-women-assaulted-separate-subway-incidents/]. “Brooklyn is a model

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Teen Charged In 2015 McDonald’s Brawl Gets Prison Sentence After Violating Plea Deal

Police stand guard outside the McDonald’s at 943 Flatbush Avenue after brawl, March 2015. (Photo by Corner Media)The alleged leader of a group of teenage girls who viciously beat up a teen in the Flatbush Avenue McDonald’s in 2015 [/blog/crime/video-shows-four-girls-attacking-teen-adults-nothing-flatbush-avenue-mcdonalds/] , has been sentenced to four

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Midwood Travel Agent Sentenced For Stealing $350,000 From Pakistani Customers

The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)Yesterday, a Midwood travel agent was sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for pocketing $350,000 from Pakistani immigrants for whom he was supposed to make travel arrangements to Mecca.

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Sunset Park Waitress Pleads Guilty To Fatally Stabbing Man With Fruit Knife

By Lisa Flaugh, Brooklyn News Service A 36-year-old waitress pleaded guilty Friday to fatally stabbing a man who argued with her last year inside the restaurant where she worked on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park. Lan Shui Yu pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree before Justice Neil J.

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Flatbush Man Indicted For Murdering & Dismembering Wife

Today, a Flatbush man was indicted for murdering and dismembering his wife early this year, said Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Phillip Martin, 42, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter, and concealment of a human corpse. When he was arrested on February 16, Martin confessed

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Flatbush Man Indicted For Murder After Cops Found Girlfriend’s Body Parts In His Freezer

Cops found body parts inside Moses’ apartment at 185 Erasmus Street. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Brooklyn man, who is a registered sex offender, has been indicted for murdering and hacking up his live-in girlfriend, whose remains were reportedly found scattered between a freezer and a waste station in January

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Lucchesse Indicted For Murder Of 3-Year-Old Jaden Jordan

Salvatore Lucchesse leaving the 61st Precinct in police custody. (Photo by Lloyd Mitchell/Sheepshead Bites)Today, a Gravesend man was indicted on murder and other charges for beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son to death in December [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/jaden-jordan-toddler-life-support-pronounced-dead/] . Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, was indicted for

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Alleged Serial Child Molester Protected By Kensington Yeshiva With $2.1M Settlement, News Outlets Say

Yeshiva Torah Temimah, Ocean Parkway. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Kensington Yeshiva reached a historic $2.1 million settlement with two former students who accused a teacher of sexual molestation, the NY Post reports [http://nypost.com/2016/10/23/brooklyn-yeshiva-settles-with-sexual-assault-victims-for-2-1m/] this week. The settlement, originally made in secret, was

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Brighton Beach Murder Suspect Claims To Have Demons In His Head That Made Him Kill His Ex-Girlfriend’s Lover

Brooklyn Supreme Court. Photo by Ron Coleman.A man who is on trial for the murder [/woman-testified-ex-brighton-beach-murder-case/] of his ex-girlfriend’s lover confessed to detectives that there was a demon inside of his head during the killing. Mikhail Chernyaev allegedly confessed to an NYPD detective that he took the life

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Poly Prep Students — Including Bon Jovi’s Son — Given Booze, Cigars, And Hooker During Cuba Trip: Lawsuit

Source: Poly Prep Country Day School website. (9216 7th Avenue)Two Poly Prep Country Day School [http://www.polyprep.org/podium/default.aspx?t=127337] students — including Jon Bon Jovi’s son — were taken on a cigar and booze-fueled trip to Cuba and shared a hooker on the school’s

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Coney Island Resident Sues Trigger Happy Cop For Firing At Dog

(Source: GerritsenBeach.net / Flickr)Elizabeth Villafane, a resident of Coney Island, is claiming in a lawsuit that a New York Police Department officer fired one to two shots at her and her dog, according to a DNAinfo article [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140103/coney-island/dog-owner-claims-police-shot-at-her-during-arrest-for-walking-without-leash] . Villafane has three kids

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Brooklyn Supreme Court Halts Construction Of Brighton Beach Bathrooms… For Now

Source: NYC Dept. of Parks and RecreationOpponents of the planned construction of the new public bathrooms in front of the Oceana luxury condo buildings (50 Oceana Drive West) scored a victory as the Brooklyn Supreme Court signed a preliminary injunction blocking the city from continuing construction, at least until a

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Weinstein Wants Voters To Extend Retirement Age Of Judges

Source: assembly.state.ny.usNew York State Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein is hoping voters will approve a law that extends the required retirement ages of judges past 70 years old. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is reporting [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/judges%E2%80%99-retirement-age-will-be-voters-2013-08-21-173000] that Weinstein and other advocates believe

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Alleged Serial Killer Accused Of Killing B’hurst, Bay Ridge Shopkeepers Claims DA Is Suppressing Alibi

Source: Franconia Township Police Dept.The bizarre odyssey of Salvatore Perrone, the man implicated in the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, keeps getting stranger. When Perrone was arrested last November, he had wearily confessed to two of the slayings [/john-doe-duffle-bag-arrested-and-charged-with-murders-of-shopkeepers/] before falling asleep in police custody. Now, standing before

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Crooked Cop’s Four-Day Prison Sentence Slashed To One Day

Hockenjos (Source: NYDailyNews.com)Diego Palacios, the police officer kicked off the force after his bogus arrest of a Sheepshead Bay man [/accused-of-trying-to-run-over-cop-sheepshead-resident-uses-video-to-prove-lies/] , may have been sentenced to four days in prison [/diego-palacio-arrest-john-hockenjos-sentenced/] – but he served only one night. New York Post picked up [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/

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In Pursuit Of Insanity Defense, Levi Aron’s Lawyer Cites Schizophrenia, Inbreeding

Howard Greenberg, standing with the rest of Levi Aron's defense team (Source: Robert Stolarik via The New York Times)The newest addition [/aron-gets-new-lawyer-along-with-better-shot-at-insanity-defense/] to confessed child-killer Levi Aron’s defense team continued to go after an insanity plea at a court hearing earlier today. Lawyer Howard Greenberg cited factors including