Central Brooklyn
(Photo via NYPD)Yesterday, cops found a surprising bounty in a Flatbush apartment: a loaded handgun, crack cocaine, and a foot-long South American lizard. Emergency service units and field intelligence officers busted into an apartment on East 21st Street near Woodruff Avenue, with a search warrant, just before 6:
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Hugo Smith)A Ditmas Park man was arrested in broad daylight on Cortelyou Road yesterday for conspiracy to sell drugs in a narcotics ring, said officials. Anthony Legros, 33, was caught by feds at Marlborough and Cortelyou Roads at 4:14pm on Tuesday, April 4, according to NYPD
Central Brooklyn
1 Parade Place on Saturday, April 1. (Photo by Carly Miller)A short-lived by smokey fire tore through the first floor of a four-story apartment building near Prospect Park on Saturday. The flames sparked at 1 Parade Place at the corner of Parkside Avenue on Saturday, April 1.
Central Brooklyn
(Photo submitted by Kim Walker)Saturday morning, March 11 was Mike Smith’s funeral [/community-mourns-70th-precinct-officer-found-dead-apparent-suicide/]. He worked in Community Affairs at the 70th Precinct, so the public saw more of him than the average police officer. When Dominic Scotto transferred out of
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYPDPolice are looking for a man suspected of two rather eclectic robberies only blocks apart in Midwood earlier this year. The suspect broke into Empire State Colon & Rectal Surgery at 1928 Bay Avenue between 5pm on January 31 and 8am on February 2, according to info just
Central Brooklyn
By Lisa Flaugh and Paul Frangipane Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the trial of a former teacher who went to the witness stand to staunchly deny charges that he forcibly touched five girls who were students at a Ditmas Park elementary school. “I never, ever, ever touched a
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Central Brooklyn
Video via NYPDSurveillance video via NYPD [Update 3/21: Police have arrested two 21-year-old men in connection with this assault, who have been charged with gang assault, robbery, and menacing.] A man was critically injured after being pummeled and then robbed at a fried chicken joint on Ocean
Central Brooklyn
If you are curious which neighborhoods paid the most in parking tickets, RentHop just released a report and data visualization [https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/nyc-parking-tickets-down-2016-manhattan-averages-10-tickets-per-household] based on Open NYC Data, comparing the tickets issued and paid by neighborhood
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a teenage girl who went missing from her Flatbush home on Saturday. Naomi Barker, 14, was last seen on February 25 at 8:45am near East 29th street and Glenwood Road, according to NYPD. She is described by police as a black female, 5
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYPDOn Thursday, a Flatbush man with a record of domestic abuse confessed to killing and dismembering his wife, who had been missing for one month. Diana Rodriguez-Martin, 43, was reported missing last week — at which point she hadn’t been seen in one month, said cops. Her
community
(Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)This week, news about ICE raids and arrests [https://news.vice.com/story/immigration-raids-hit-major-cities-throughout-u-s] in several U.S. cities rippled throughout immigrant communities in Brooklyn, after a leaked Department of Homeland Security document [http://www.thenyic.org/ICEmemo]
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Nine alleged gang members were indicted yesterday on charges of stealing more than $94,000 from banks using counterfeit checks. In two years, the defendants and co-conspirators reportedly deposited 241 counterfeit checks into 71 bank accounts at Bank of America, TD Bank, Capital One,