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Photo via NYPDAccording to the police, on Sunday, December 6, 2015, at about 5:25am, a 24-year-old female was walking on Bergen Street in Park Slope. Cops say a suspect approached her from behind, grabbed her buttocks, and attempted to pull down her pants. The victim screamed and the suspect
fort greene
Image via NYPD.Christmas week was a good one in terms of crime rates in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Reports dropped across the board compared to the previous week (December 14-20) [/blog/2015/12/28/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-december-14-20/], except for grand larcenies (which stayed the same at 5 incidents) and rapes
Central Brooklyn
Councilman Mathieu Eugene. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Council Member Mathieu Eugene [http://council.nyc.gov/d40/html/members/home.shtml] is being protected by police after a homeless man the council member has helped before began threatening him and his staff, according to the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.
Police & Fire
Photo by Robert S [https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniepicso/]Safety advocated are hailing a new law, sponsored by Senator Marty Golden and Assemblyman James Brennan, as an important tool in protecting commuters and MTA workers from crime and sexual assault. The bill, signed into law this week by Governor
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA 31-year-old man and a teenaged girl have been arrested and charged in the brutal beating, kidnapping, and carjacking of a Bensonhurst woman last week. Authorities believe Stafford Berrian — who has a rap sheet dating back to 2001 — and his 17-year-old accomplice Quiana Hodges, of Queens, ambushed
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Bensonhurst
https://youtu.be/N9FaJhrwhvY A frustrated Bensonhurst man kicked off 2016 in the worst way possible — with two flat tires — after he dared to park his sedan in front of an illegally constructed driveway while visiting family on New Year’s Day. When our tipster returned to the vehicle at
Police & Fire
15-year-old Destiny Garcia is accused of murdering her mother and mother’s boyfriend. (Photo: Destiny Garcia [https://www.facebook.com/julisa.guzman.10?fref=ts] / Facebook)The 15-year-old girl accused of killing two people, including her own mother, at the Sheepshead Bay Houses was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court just
Police & Fire
(Photo: mikey k / flickr)Police charged a 15-year-old girl with murder after she allegedly confessed to gunning down two people [/15-year-old-girl-taken-into-custody-after-cops-find-two-bullet-riddled-bodies-at-the-sheepshead-bay-houses/] , including her mother, in an apartment at the Sheepshead Bay Houses last week. The NYPD announced Monday that the teen, Destiny Garcia, who lived in the apartment with her
Central Brooklyn
Accounts on the Prospect Park Lefferts Gardens Facebook group about the alleged spitter. (Photo Credit: Sue Yellin)The community of Prospect Lefferts Gardens has been on alert for a man dubbed the “PLG Spitter.” In the last two months there have been several posts on the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Facebook
Police & Fire
(Photo: Google Maps)Two bandits stormed an Avenue Z Liquor store Sunday night and drew a pistol on an employee while demanding cash, police say. The heist occurred just after 7pm at the Friendly Liquor Discount Store located at the intersection of Avenue Z and Sheepshead Bay Road, according to
Central Brooklyn
via NYPDThe police are looking for a suspect wanted for swiping an iPhone on the subway early last week. The incident took place on a southbound 2 train stopped at the Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College station on Sunday December 27 around 5:45pm. The man grabbed an iPhone 6S out of
Police & Fire
Cops cuffed two teens believed to have savagely mugged a 55-year-old man in Midwood [/graphic-video-shows-jewish-man-brutally-mugged-in-midwood/] last week, according to the NYPD. Eldin Sabovic, 17, and Baskim Huseinovic, 19, were taken into custody on Thursday and charged with robbery and assault, authorities announced. The teens both live in Midwood — about four