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The NYPD is seeking help in locating a 14-year-old neighbor Chavis Pubill, missing since Saturday. Pubill was last seen on July 23 around 12:45pm at 309 Lafayette Avenue, according to police reports. He is described as a black man with brown eyes and black hair, 5 feet 4 inches
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Photos via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gangsters who lured a rival out of a Coney Island store [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/06/two-gang-members-convicted-luring-shooting-rival-coney-island/#.V5ejZ5MrI9c] and then shot him from behind multiple times, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison today following their murder conviction, Brooklyn District
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Pidgey takes Fort Greene Park. (Photo via tonygalephoto [https://www.instagram.com/p/BH60OBUAmxt/?taken-at=239919494&hl=en])It was a wonderful hot summer night for a moondance, but not for a war with Pikachu. Police awarded 37-year-old neighbor Albert Wang with a summons instead of Pokécoins for being
Bensonhurst
Photos via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gangsters who lured a rival out of a Coney Island store [/two-gang-members-convicted-luring-shooting-rival-coney-island/#.V5ejZ5MrI9c] and then shot him from behind multiple times, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison today following their murder conviction, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced today.Brooklyn
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Walt Whitman Houses (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus / Justin Fox)Police have identified a woman who was shot and killed [/blog/2016/07/22/cops-help-identifying-woman-killed-whitman-houses/]at the Walt Whitman Houses last Thursday, as 26-year-old Coral O’Brien from Los Lunas, New Mexico. When police found her, responding to a call at
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Council Member Laurie Cumbo and Assembly Member Walter T. Mosley (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)Council Member Laurie Cumbo [/?s=cumbo] and Assembly Member Walter T. Mosley [/?s=mosley] took a stand alongside activists at the Whitman Houses following the killing of an unidentified woman last week. Cumbo and
Central Brooklyn
Alley near 68 St. Paul’s Place. (Screenshot via Google Maps)NYPD officers found the body of a Flatbush man stabbed in the chest on Sunday; the body was found in an alley just blocks from the Parade Grounds, according to police reports. At 10pm on July 24, police discovered
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https://youtu.be/5h47wZw7MpE Cops are searching for a man wearing bright red sneakers, who they say is wanted for several cellphone robberies that occurred on Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk recently. In the first incident, the suspect punched a 25-year-old male victim in the face on the boardwalk and
Bensonhurst
https://youtu.be/5h47wZw7MpE Cops are searching for a man wearing bright red sneakers, who they say is wanted for several cellphone robberies that occurred on Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk recently. In the first incident, the suspect punched a 25-year-old male victim in the face on the boardwalk and
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The Walt Whitman Houses (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)The NYPD is asking for your help identifying a woman who was killed in a homicide at the Walt Whitman houses. The woman is described as “white/Hispanic” and between the ages of 20 and 35 by police. She was
Bensonhurst
The intersection of the hit-and-run, 17th Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue. (Source: Google Maps)A Queens woman has succumbed to her injuries after being struck by a motorcycle in a hit-and-run outside New Utrecht High School [http://www.newutrechthighschoolnyc.com/] earlier this month, cops say. Huiling Huang, 47, had been
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Jason Forgetta. (Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office)A Ditmas Park man was convicted of predatory sexual assault and other charges after impersonating a cop and brutally raping a 26-year-old sex worker in a Sunset Park hotel room in 2014. Jason Forgetta, 39, was found guilty of three counts