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With apps like Find My iPhone now built into most Mac products–and the NYPD is on it!–it’s still difficult to, well, find one’s iPhone, especially if it’s been stolen. That’s why one canny victim, Nadal Nirenberg, found a new way to find his phone, lost on New Year’s Eve … by posing as a woman on a online dating site. Read More
Did you know recent Emmy-winner Julianne Moore owns $127,000 worth of Cartier jewelry? Or at least she did, before her baubles were stolen earlier this summer from her five-story West 11th Street brownstone. According to police reports, between June 6 and Aug. 28, the actress’s possessions were taken out of her possession, somehow without her noticing. (You know how hard it is to keep track of your designer duds when you are busy being super famous. Sometimes it takes months before you notice that someone’s made a dent in your jewelry closet.)
There are no suspects thus far, but there were contractors working on Ms. Moore’s home during that time. As one of them told The New York Times, “There’s a great deal of activity,” on the site, which Ms. Moore shares with her husband Bart Freundlich and their two children. As in, currently on the site. As in, if you want to try your luck again, go for it! Read More
It was a classic set-up: a trusting, elderly woman with a valuable property and a clever con to separate one from the other.
Brooklyn lawyer Ifeanyichukwu Eric Abakporo and Latanya Pierce have been arrested for allegedly scamming an elderly woman out of her multi-million-dollar property in Harlem, then convincing the bank to give them a $1.8 million mortgage loan on the home, according to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Mr. Abakporo, 52, a Nigerian citizen and resident of Queens and Ms. Pierce, 43, of Brooklyn have been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and bank fraud conspiracy. Read More
Back in November, New York’s local WABC-TV weatherwoman Heidi Jones told police that she had been attacked and almost raped by a Hispanic man in Central Park, who then later followed her home and tried to assault her again outside her apartment. The event had taken place in September, Jones claimed, but she had waited to tell the police until the man had shown up again at her building to harass her. Read More
