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New York Police Behaving Badly Cost City $35 Million

Posted on April 13, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on March 12th that New York City controller William Thompson released a report that the city paid out $35.2 million in settlements last year a 40 percent jump from just the previous year. Police procedures, such as false arrests and excessive force, are costing the taxpayers heavily in a time when all efforts and sacrifices must be made to use taxpayer money for critical services...

Hall County Murder and Rape of 4 Year Old, Defendant Pleads Guilty

Posted on April 10, 2009
The gainesvilletimes.com website reported in an account on March 13, 2008 that Cornelio Zamites will plead guilty to the rape and homicide in Georgia of a 4 year old girl. Zamites agreed in order to avoid the death penalty and the district attorney agreed on this plea in order to secure a conviction...

Georgia Child Porn Sweep Nets 23

Posted on April 08, 2009
The ajc.com website reported in a story on March 10, 2009 that local, state, and federal agents had conducted a state wide sweep in Georgia which had resulted in the arrest of 27 people and more than 100 computers being confiscated. Two teenagers were amongst those arrested for possession of child pornography in Georgia...

Former Falcon Sentenced For Cocaine

Posted on April 06, 2009
The wbstv.com website reported in an account on March 13, 2009 that Ken Tippins, former Atlanta Falcons player from 1990-1995 will serve four years in jail after pleading guilty to a cocaine charge according to Charles Stines, Alapaha Chief Assistant District Attorney...

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Bronx First Degree Manslaughter Charge against Officer

Posted on April 03, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in a story that there is a correction from their original story on March 13, 2009 that Officer Rafael Lora faces first degree manslaughter charges in New York for the deadly shooting of Fermin Arzu, 41, in May 2007...

Bronx Forgery and Abandonment of Five Year Old

Posted on April 01, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in a story on March 13, 2009 that Paul Casson, 28, an EMT was arrested and charged with forging a nurse?s signature and abandoning a five year old at the hospital. A spokeswoman for the Department of Investigation said that Casson did not want to wait and fill out the necessary paperwork so he forged the necessary documentation required before he left the hospital...

Augusta Armed Robbery Nets One, One Wanted

Posted on March 30, 2009
The wrdw.com website reported in an article on March 13, 2009 that Richmond County investigators were searching for one suspect who committed armed robbery in Georgia. Police say that they were able to apprehend one of the suspects, Maurice Overstreet who is now in jail...

Staten Island Drug Charges Against Dr. Arrested For Prescribing Steroids

Posted on March 27, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in a story on February 10, 2009 that Dr. Richard Lucente, 37, had been arrested on charges that he illegally sold steroids to bodybuilders. Lucente is also the main doctor involved in a steroid scandal involving NYPD officers...

New York Domestic Violence Case of Soprano?s Vincent Pastore Settles Out Of Court

Posted on March 25, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an account on February 10, 2009 that Vincent Pastore, 62, known as Sal Bonpensiero on the HBO television series called The Sopranos, had agreed to settle out of court for being accused of domestic violence in New York...

New York DWI Of Cop Killer May Go Back For Life

Posted on March 23, 2009
A report from nydailynews.com stated that a convicted NYPD cop killer may have to go back to prison to finish his remaining 25 to life sentence for violating his parole. Albert Victory, 68, was convicted in 1968 for the murder of NYPD officer, John Varecha, outside a disco located in Manhattan...

New York DWI Manslaughter Leaves One Alive

Posted on March 20, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on February 9th, that a woman who described herself as the mother of New Jersey officer Martin Abreu, 25, was placing the blame of the car accident on the dead female victim and the other pedestrian who was seriously injured...

New York White Collar Crimes, Modern Crooks ?Never Steal Anything Small?

Posted on March 18, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an account on February 10th that today?s modern crooks are the leaders of our financial institutions who have sent the economy into a downward tailspin, thrashing the American way of life with their New York white collar crimes...

Man's Body Dragged Through Queens and Brooklyn

Posted on March 16, 2009
The nydailytimes.com website reported in a story on February 11th, that Manual Gaspar Latuna Sanchez, a cargo van driver, inadvertently struck and picked up a body that had already been hit, dragging it for 17 miles. According to police reports an SUV first hit a man trying to cross at 108th St...

Queens Violent Crime Kills Landlord

Posted on March 13, 2009
A nydailenws.com report from February, 11th stated that Rosario Prestigiacomo, 64 was killed with a knife while inside his apartment in Ridgewood on Green Ave. According to police reports, Prestigiacomo was the landlord there and family relatives said that he owned the apartment...

New York Sex Crime Offender Russell Harding Fights To Stay Off Sex Offender List

Posted on March 11, 2009
The nydailynews.com reported in a story on February 10, 2009 that Russell Harding, housing czar during Rudy Giuliani?s governor term, is fighting court attempts to place his name and address in a New York state wide registry of sex offenders for life...

Bronx Violent Crime Shooting On Sidewalk Injures Pedestrians

Posted on March 09, 2009
The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on February 11, 2009 that two men began shooting at each other outside the entrance to the Gun Hill Rd No. 5 train station located at the busy intersection of DeWitt Pl. and East Gun Hill Rd. Occurring just before 9 a...

Brooklyn Weapon Carried By Teen Results In Cop Shooting Him

Posted on March 06, 2009

Bronx Drug Crime Leads To Women Being Held Hostage

Posted on March 04, 2009

Brooklyn Hit And Run Critically Injures 2

Posted on March 02, 2009

Staten Island Attendent Killed, No Witnesses

Posted on February 27, 2009

Ponzi Scheme Con-Man May Be Freed On Bail

Posted on February 25, 2009
A report on the NY Daily News website dated January 29, 2009 stated that E. Thomas Boyle, Federal Judge, ruled that Ponzi scheme con-man Nicholas Cosmo, 37 can be freed on bail but will have to come up with more money first. Ordering Cosmo back to jail, Boyle stated that he did not believe that Cosmo, aka as ?little Bernie Madoff,? was a flight risk...

Cobb Mother Furnished Alcohol To Step-Son Causing Fatality

Posted on February 23, 2009
The website 11alive.com reported in a story on January 31, 2009 that police will be charging Kecia Whitfield with reckless conduct and furnishing alcohol to a minor. Garrett Reed was among those consuming the alcohol that, in the end, was a direct cause for the car accident that killed him...

Queens Man Who Killed Dentist Identified

Posted on February 20, 2009
The NY Daily News website reported in a story on January 28, 2009 that two police reports show that murder victim Daniel Malakov had been involved in a heated argument with Mikhail Mallayev, 51 and another nameless Russian man a day before Malakov was murdered...

Athens-Clarke County Man Accused of Killing 3 Siblings

Posted on February 18, 2009
The 11alive.com website reported a story on January 29, 2009 that David Latimer, 52 has been taken into custody after police found three people dead in what appeared to be a shooting. Mike McKeel, Athens-Clarke Police Lt., said Latimer shot his two sisters and brother to death...

Rikers In-House Jail Beatdown Kills Man

Posted on February 16, 2009
The NY Daily News website reported in a story on January 29, that 10 inmates described as thugs were charged with the deadly beat down of Rikers inmate Christopher Robinson, 18, who had been jailed for a parole violation. The inmates are accused of being in a jail club known as ?The Program...

Spitzer Hooker Ring Boss In Scandal Sentenced

Posted on February 13, 2009
The NY Daily News website reported on January 30, 2009 that Cecil (Katie) Suwal, 24 was sentenced to 6 months in prison for assisting her boyfriend, Mark Brener, 63, in laundering illegal money and signing up call girls for the hooker ring Emperors Club VIP...

Harlem Neighbor Shoots Teen Over TV

Posted on February 11, 2009
The NY Daily News website reported in a story on January 29, 2009 that Rodney Lewis, 17 was shot to death by his neighbor who did not want to return a television he had borrowed. Authorities allege that Cloves Roche, 26 was confronted by Lewis to return the 32 inch television he had borrowed...

New York Gambino Crime ?Executioner? On Trial

Posted on February 09, 2009
The NY Daily News website reported in a story on January 30, 2009 that Charles Carneglia is being accused of five murders in New York City. Marisa Seifan, Assistant United States Attorney, accused the alleged Gambino crime family hitman as being an ?executioner? who murdered when he was ordered to or ?felt he was disrespected...

Harlem Crack Supermarket Shut Down By Cops

Posted on February 06, 2009
The NY Daily News website reported in an account on January 29, 2009 that police had arrested 17 people for dealing drugs at a seven story apartment building located at 135 Hamilton Place. According to officials they sold crack at all times from the grand building...

Brooklyn Raids Find Fakes And Realistic Toy Guns

Posted on February 04, 2009
A report from the New York Daily News website on January 30, 2009 reported that Fu Xian Bao, 48 and Xiao Ping Luo, 41, both of Brooklyn, were arrested on charges of trademark counterfeiting, counterfeiting and other charges, and are facing up to 15 years in prison for their white collar crime...

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