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Davontay Grace. Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.Former Thomas Jefferson High School [https://www.tjhsst.edu/] basketball star, Davontay Grace, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for the shooting of his former friend and basketball rival in Sheepshead Bay, Dexter Hopkins, according to Brooklyn
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanThe NYPD’s 62nd Precinct and 68th Precinct will both be partaking in the National Night Out Against Crime [https://natw.org/] tomorrow night, and each claims to throw the best block party in the borough. The 62nd Precinct’s event will take place on the corner
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(Photo via NYPD)Police are searching for a suspect accused of scamming and beating up an elderly man near Prospect Park on June 29. A 70-year-old man tried to buy an iPod from the suspect (pictured above), outside of 730 Flatbush Avenue between Parkside and Woodruff Avenues, near Peppa’s
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Source: mikey k/FlickrAn MTA bus driver was arrested Tuesday for slashing his wife in the neck during a domestic dispute at the their Gravesend home, authorities say. Raymond Soto, 60, allegedly lunged at his 33-year-old son-in-law with a knife around 1:30pm during an argument at their house near
Central Brooklyn
https://youtu.be/1lbiu_Lp6ss Police are searching for a teen who allegedly hurled a rock and shouted an anti-semitic remark at a passing car in Midwood Tuesday. The victim was driving a 2015 Chrysler van northbound on Nostrand Avenue, near Avenue J, around 5pm when the rock came crashing
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Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)An NYPD traffic agent was arrested in Coney Island Tuesday for twice groping the same 29-year-old woman on the R train, according to police. David Cronin, 57, was taken into custody around 3pm at the corner of Surf Avenue
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Photo via Google MapsThe “bored teen” [/bored-teen-accused-of-setting-coney-island-fire-now-faces-armed-robbery-charges/#.V2BlyOYrLe0] who set a deadly mattress fire in Coney Island in 2014 has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for his felony murder and arson conviction, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson today. Marcell Dockery, 18, was convicted [/coney-island-teen-convicted-arson-killing-police-officer/#.V2Bl4OYrLe1]
Police & Fire
Police investigate the car of the driver who sustained the gunshot wound. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)A man who was shot in the crotch in Sunset Park this afternoon had the wherewithal to drive himself more than three miles to the front entrance of Methodist Hospital to
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Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)The man who allegedly shot and killed [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/06/murrow-high-student-murdered-babysitting-3-year-old-nephew/] an Edward R. Murrow High School student — while she looked after her 3-year-old cousin — turned himself in to police Thursday, the Daily News reports [http:
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Sketch of suspect via NYPDPolice have released a sketch of the suspect they are searching for in an attempted rape which took place early Sunday morning in Park Slope [/blog/crime/woman-escapes-attempted-rape-2nd-street/]. A photo of the Acura the suspect fled in after the incident has also been provided. Some details
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Harbor Motor Inn (1730 Shore Parkway), where Buzzetta allegedly beat up a relative through marriage. (Photo: Google Maps)An ex-con who cops believe robbed a neighbor by pretending to be a police officer has apparently been wreaking havoc on Bensonhurst — and his family — since 2005. Two suspects approached a 63-year-old
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Newly released surveillance video, obtained [http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Retired-Correction-Officer-Throws-Tantrum-in-Deli-When-She-Doesnt-Get-Penny-Back-378490965.html] by NBC, related to last week’s cop impersonation incident [/blog/2016/05/06/mischievous-corrections-officer-arrested-impersonating-cop/] shows the suspect’s deli meltdown was sparked over a single penny! Retired corrections officer Joyce Fields, 48, was at the store