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The Office of Charles Hynes, the Brooklyn (Kings County) District Attorney has indicted Samuel Kellner with an accusation of a rather clever extortion scheme. The Grand Jury has alleged the following: Mr. Kellner, aware that Rabbi Baruch Lebovits was facing charges prosecuted by the Kings County District Attorney, induced children to report additional, false allegations [...]
Just learned about this case. If the allegations are true, not only was a NYPD officer committing armed robberies, he was violating the city’s residency rules by living in New Jersey. From NorthJersey.com: FBI used cellphone data to track suspect in Carlstadt perfume heist Thursday, December 9, 2010 Last updated: Thursday December 9, 2010, 5:59 [...]
We’ve spent nearly a decade in the neighborhood. In that time, few indicators of petty crime. Last night, someone put a brick through our car window and took our GPS. We’d become complacent about leaving the GPS in view. It feels as though something has changed – but perhaps it’s only a matter of our [...]
In a disturbing – but, alas, unsurprising – report in the Times of February 6th, William K. Rashbaum reports that NYPD precincts, in order to revise downwards the value of items reported stolen (making, for instance, a grand larceny – a felony – into a petit or “petty” larceny – a misdemeanor) have resorted to [...]
From The Daily News, Thugs slay Brooklyn social worker Douglas Smith in fight over exercise equipment: A Brooklyn social worker described as “the picture of health” was slain at his neighborhood gym in a feud over exercise equipment. Douglas Smith, 50, was knifed and clobbered with a hammer by a pair of muscleheads who attacked [...]
Tom Robbins of the Village Voice reports in Back to School for Bus Hoods that a pair of brothers who served as top officials of the union representing city school bus drivers pleaded guilty today to extortion charges in Manhattan federal court.Nick and Paul Maddalone became, respectively, the fourth and fifth high-ranking executives of Local [...]
We understand that early this morning (or late last night) the Gulf Station (which includes the Dunkin’ Donuts) suffered an armed robbery. As of this morning, the entire station was blocked off with crime scene tape. It’s our understanding that no one was injured; we’ll try to provide further details as we acquire them.
Made right here in Kings County by Sullivan Walsh: Walsh Metal Works. Yet another indication of the abundance of brilliant artists, artisans, inventors, and engineers in Brooklyn.
From Kim Zetter on Wired – Thief Steals Sensitive Data from NYPD- and from a “secure building” which also housed backup servers for Google and Yahoo. Personal information on more than 80,000 current and retired New York police officers was stolen from a supposedly secure data warehouse that stored NYPD pension fund data. The stolen [...]
From the Office of Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes: Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the indictment of Keith Phoenix, 28, and Hakim Scott, 25, in the murder of Ecuadorian immigrant José Sucuzhanay, whom the defendants believed was homosexual. District Attorney Hynes was joined in the announcement, by New York City [...]
We have reliable intelligence that a neighbor was the subject of an attempted robbery in the Parade Ground on a recent evening – just outside the building which houses both the Parks and Police Departments. We’ve also been told – but not yet been able to confirm – that arrests have been made in the [...]
According to National Terror Alert, a shot was fired into a girls’ yeshiva in Williamsburgh on Monday; no injuries reported, no arrests. Link to “Shooting At Jewish School For Girls In Williamsburg Brooklyn”
Bob Herbert sometimes behaves like a very clever hunting dog, alternately flushing his prey and waiting quietly. Of late, he’s been hunting a canard – in this case, a riot which seems not to have occurred. He makes a compelling case that the Kings County District Attorney’s office seems to be persisting in an unjustified [...]
Al Baker reports in November 23rd editions of the Times that the city’s homicide rate is the lowest in years: New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 homicides this year, by far the lowest number in a 12-month period since reliable Police Department statistics became available in 1963. But within the [...]
We have a secondhand report that a knifepoint robbery occurred sometime earlier today, the victim someone who’s a regular visitor to our building – 1110 Caton Avenue (Stratford & Westminster). Unfortunately, this is a reasonable predictor of increased risk of additional robberies. We’ll try to obtain additional information and post it as soon as possible. [...]
According to a press release dated today, the Brooklyn D.A.’s office has obtained guilty pleas from two defrocked brokers in Clinton Hill. This is, of course, a good thing. Not clear if any of the complainants were local. My guess is none. (This is one of the great advantages of white-collar crime: you can rip [...]
According to the Times, Thursday 30 August: A Brooklyn man was charged yesterday with fatally shooting another man near Prospect Park last week, the police said. The police said that the suspect, Tony Canales, 26, shot Antonio Bruce, 25, of Stanley Avenue about 11:20 p.m. on Aug. 22. Mr. Bruce was shot once in the [...]
From the Times’ “Metro Briefing” on Thursday, page B4 of the print edition, link to online archived version here A man who stopped to help a driver in a disabled car on the Prospect Expressway early yesterday was killed when a drunken driver in a third car smashed into his car and the broken-down vehicle, [...]
Because many of us are having conversations about the same subjects – and this blog might help in aggregating those little conversations – to find consensus and a larger, clearer voice. Here are the issues that I find myself discussing, often, with neighbors: traffic on Caton Avenue noise safety pollution Green energy issues – solar [...]