Chalk one up for the evildoers: A man told the police that he was walking past 203 East 89th Street at 7:50 p.m. on Jan. 1 when he spotted a political protest in progress. A male, described as approximately 18 years old, 5-foot-8, 120 pounds and with short black hair, was scrawling “Bush sucks cock” Read More
Chalk one up for the evildoers: A man told the police that he was walking past 203 East 89th Street at 7:50 p.m. on Jan. 1 when he spotted a political protest in progress. A male, described as approximately 18 years old, 5-foot-8, 120 pounds and with short black hair, was scrawling “Bush sucks cock” Read More
Sexually transmitted diseases and a reduced bank account aren’t the only drawbacks when visiting a prostitute, as one apparently disappointed and critically wounded customer discovered on May 24.
The victim, a 37-year-old Philadelphia resident, was patronizing a house (or rather apartment) of ill repute at 1270 First Avenue around 3 p.m. when something went terribly Read More
What would you do if you found a ring on the street, an obviously expensive ring? After looking around to make sure you weren’t on Candid Camera or America’s Funniest Home Videos, would you give it to your significant other, claiming to have dropped by Cartier or Harry Winston on the way home, as out Read More
Moonlighting holding down two or three jobs at one time-has become a lugubrious way of life for many Americans. But their second job doesn’t usually involve truck-jacking, unlike the suspect that cops arrested on April 5.
The perp’s legitimate career was as a delivery man for a meat purveyor in Hunts Point, according to the Read More
With two recent arrests, the police are starting to make a dent in the Upper East Side’s latest crime pattern: the theft of wallets and purses from baby strollers, taken while the moms are otherwise distracted by their high-maintenance tots, shopping or even, on occasion, by doting passers-by-who are in fact accomplices to the thieving Read More
The preying by craven perps upon distracted young mothers pushing strollers continues unabated. On Jan. 6 at 6 p.m., a 30-year-old East 87th Street resident was shopping in Gristede’s with her newborn when her wallet, heretofore in the pocket of her stroller, mysteriously vanished.
The victim claimed not to have seen anything suspicious and said Read More
Perp Pulls Off Crime,
But Then Pushes Luck
The first rule to a successful life in crime is resisting the temptation to press your luck, as one overreaching perp did on April 27. On that date, the suspect visited Champagne Video, at 81st Street and First Avenue, at around 8 p.m. and absconded with Read More
Big Comeback For
Grand Theft Auto
There are certain dos and don’ts that one should observe when encountering an NYPD safety checkpoint-those security posts set up on streets across the city to nab ne’er-do-wells, from drunk drivers to potential terrorists. Perhaps first and foremost, you should take care not to back up at a Read More
Cops Stage Intervention
During Crook-aholic’s Spree
If you’re a thief, it’s humiliating enough to get caught in the first place. But to be arrested three times in two weeks, as one suspect was recently, ought to be enough to send any self-respecting crook into therapy.
“That guy was arrested an inordinate number of Read More
