Announcements
BOROUGH PARK – Cops are investigating an assault that took place two weeks ago and needs the public’s help. On August 14 at around 10:20 p.m., a 59-year-old man was walking out from a deli on Fort Hamilton Parkway near 49th Street. When he walked out, an unidentified
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Image courtesy of NYPD[UPDATE: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:15am] The police have arrested two suspects in connection with the below incidents. Deandre Diagle, 19, of East New York is being charged with four counts of robbery and four counts of assault. Michael Bellevue, 20, of Flatbush is
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EAST NEW YORK – The man who raped a woman earlier this week was arrested and charged after he turned himself in. On Saturday, August 3 at around 3 a.m., a 26-year-old woman was walking home. When she was near Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard, a man approached her and
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS — A 1-year-old boy who was in a stolen vehicle was found safe in Crown Heights Monday evening. At around 7 p.m. Monday, the boy’s mother left her child in a car in the area of Kingston Avenue and Dean Street as she went to buy groceries,
Central Brooklyn
Terence Monahan, Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and James P. O’Neill at a monthly crime briefing in Sugar Hill (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN — As citywide crime declines, shootings are up so far this year compared to 2018, particularly in Brooklyn North’s precincts, the NYPD said
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CROWN HEIGHTS—The NYPD has sent dozens of additional police officers to a pocket of Brooklyn that in recent months has seen an increase in shootings and homicides, a department official said Monday. NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and
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MIDWOOD – Cops need help searching for a man that pushed and yanked a necklace off an elderly woman earlier this week. On Monday, June 24 at around 12:47 p.m., an 88-year-old lady was walking on East 21st Street between Avenue J and Ocean Avenue when a man approached
Central Brooklyn
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill hold a media availability on crime statistics at One Police Plaza on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeCROWN HEIGHTS—Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that the city will be “very aggressive” in response to an uptick
Central Brooklyn
RED HOOK – An FDNY firefighter was arrested yesterday for choking his girlfriend. His girlfriend was also arrested — for choking the firefighter. On Sunday, February 17 at about 11:30 a.m., 34-year-old James Samuel, who was off duty, was arrested and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and unlawful imprisonment.
Coney Island
Source: Nodar Kherkheulidze via Wikimedia CommonsCONEY ISLAND – Posing as a paralegal, a Coney Island man defrauded immigrants by taking their money and filing fake asylum applications. Now, he’s facing charges. Vadim Alekseev, 42, of Coney Island, was hit with a 21-count indictment yesterday, facing charges of scheme to defraud,
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CROWN HEIGHTS – Two suspects robbed a 60-year old man in the hallway of his Crown Heights residence on Monday, firing a gunshot in the process. The incident occurred just before 1:00 pm on Monday, July 30, in the area of Lincoln Place and Buffalo Avenue, said police. The two
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] DOWNTOWN – On Friday, a daylight shooting on Fulton Mall sent onlookers running after a number of men were involved in a verbal dispute that turned violent, with shots fired that sent three