Business
360 Neptune Avenue, the site where a construction worker fell to his death in 2015. (Photo: Google Maps)The owner of a Bensonhurst construction company and his businesses have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges stemming from an incident at a Coney Island construction site in April 2015 that
Bensonhurst
A screenshot of the illegal sports gambling site www.stakestake.com [http://www.stakestake.com/stakestake_login_english.asp?m=]Six men from Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island — including one from Bensonhurst — have been charged in a 37-count indictment for running an illegal Internet gambling operation, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken
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Protesters were arrested outside Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson’s house in Clinton Hill earlier this week. At the dramatic scene, which unfolded at around 1am Wednesday, protesters criticized the prosecutor’s recommendation that a judge presiding over the Peter Liang case spare the former officer jail time, reports the
Education
Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thomson/FacebookThe Brooklyn District Attorney’s office is hosting a competitive summer internship program for high school students who live or attend school in the borough, District Attorney Ken Thompson and United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew announced last week. Students with an interest in
Police & Fire
Jerome Leslie. (Photo provided by the Brooklyn DA)A Coney Island has been convicted of murder for the 2013 shooting [/17-year-old-shot-to-death-in-coney-island-on-christmas-eve/] of a teenager walking his dog on Christmas Eve, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced Thursday. Jerome Leslie, 20, faces a life sentence for the shooting, in which he
Education
Seven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high school, prosecutors announced Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from a Brooklyn terminal
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Central Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZC4NxC91Y&feature=youtu.be Video depicting July 13, 2015 shooting at 866 Coney Island Avenue. (Courtesy: Brooklyn District Attorney) A gang which terrorized [/blog/crime/two-men-shot-at-862-coney-island-avenue-monday-night/] parts of Brooklyn, especially greater Flatbush, with gun violence has been the subject of a massive police
Bensonhurst
Tremaine Holmes (Source: Facebook)A Gravesend man has been convicted of murder and attempted murder for the 2013 fatal shooting [/nypd-seeking-tromaine-holmes-in-murder-case/#.VmiNJGSDGko] of a man inside the Marlboro Houses in Gravesend, which left another man with a gunshot wound to the arm, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today. Trial
News
9th Street Vision Center at 332 9th Street. (Image via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/9+street+vision+center/@40.6688591,-73.9856568,3a,30y,210.31h,87.39t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sssnKWyn6O4S8HpxGRdSkKg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DssnKWyn6O4S8HpxGRdSkKg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%
Brooklyn District Attorney
Source: Nodar Kherkheulidze via Wikimedia CommonsA disbarred lawyer has been indicted for allegedly stealing over $1 million from an investor, potential home buyers, and a title insurance company in various scams connected with two distressed properties in the wider Bensonhurst area, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today. Domenick Crispino,
Brooklyn South
Photo by Ditmas Park CornerA year-long investigation into drugs and violence in our neighborhood resulted in a major raid yesterday, August 5, in which police arrested 15 people for narcotics trafficking, as well as one teenager for the murder on Newkirk Avenue and E. 17th Street [/blog/crime/teenager-arrested-charged-with-murder-of-adetunji-ajakaye-at-newkirk-avenue-e-17th-street-nypd] last