Police & Fire
(Photo and video submitted by a tipster who wished to remain anonymous)One driver was killed in a 3-car crash on the Gowanus Expressway near 72nd Street on Saturday late afternoon, said cops. A 29-year-old driver of a white Chevrolet Camaro smashed into an Infinity while driving westbound on the
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A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)Yesterday, feds busted thirty-three members of an Eastern European crime syndicate for “a panoply of crimes” nationwide that include trafficking stolen chocolate and an illegal poker operation in Brighton Beach, said the U.S. Attorney’
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Intersection of Park & North Portland Avenues via Google MapsActing Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that Quashawn Smith, a 25-year-old Fort Greene resident, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for shooting at three NYPD officers sitting in an unmarked car. At approximately 10:45 pm on October
Bensonhurst
(Photo via Tiny Tails/Facebook)Late Monday night, a driver who was allegedly on drugs veered off 20th Avenue and crashed through a pediatric therapy clinic and an animal grooming facility, causing severe damage to both stores. The driver of a 2016 BMW swerved off the road near 74th Street
Central Brooklyn
A 28-year-old man was arrested yesterday, June 7 for drawing swastikas on a public sidewalk on the corner of Avenue J and Coney Island Ave, according to the NYPD. Photo: Yeshiva World NewsThe Ohio resident, Agueybana Quinones, is being charged with two counts of aggravated harassment, two counts of making
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Via NYPDLast month, the NYPD requested the public’s assistance [/cops-looking-pushy-woman-knocked-elderly-man/] in finding the woman seen in the above photos in connection with an assault of an 87-year-old man in Fort Greene. On May 18, inside Pipitone’s Pizza & Pasta located at 100 DeKalb Avenue, police say the woman
Police & Fire
Avenue X and Brown Street, scene of the shooting on July 25, 2016. (Photo via Google Maps)Yesterday, a Brooklyn gang member was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting a teenager in Sheepshead Bay last summer [/police-arrest-assailant-shot-teen-four-times-july-sheepshead-bay/] near a playground. Last July, the 16-year-old victim was standing with
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Officer Dalsh Veve is in critical condition. (Photo: Twitter, NYPD 88th Precinct)15-year-old gang member Justin Murrell is being charged with attempted murder for driving a stolen car that dragged police officer Dalsh Veve [/police-officer-dragged-by-car-in-critical-condition/] two and a half blocks on Saturday. The suspect has a “long rap sheet,” Patrolmen’
Events
A meeting of the Sheepshead Bay Plumb Beach Civic Association will be held tomorrow night,Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Included on the agenda quality of life issues that residents in our community have complained about such as: music from party boats, boat whistles and horns disturbing night time peace, gridlock
Central Brooklyn
Tzvi “Jack” Aron [http://karmabrooklyn.blogspot.com/2017/06/murder-of-child-murderers-brother-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/OruW+(KARMABrooklyn+Blog)&m=1] , brother of the notorious Levi Aron, who was was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison after confessing to the
Central Brooklyn
Tilden Avenue & East 53rd Street, East Flatbush via Google MapsPolice Commissioner James P. O’Neill released a statement Sunday morning regarding an incident that occurred Saturday night that has left a police officer in critical condition. At approximately 11:50pm on June 3, NYPD responded to multiple calls regarding
News
Johnny Jacob was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for first-degree rape Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that 45-year-old Johnny Jacob of Brooklyn has been convicted for the 1998 rape of a 19-year-old woman on the 4th Avenue-9th Street subway platform. Jacob was sentenced to