Gabrielle Fonrouge

About the Author

Gabrielle Fonrouge is an award-winning investigative journalist and national correspondent who started working for the New York Post in 2014. Her work has taken her to Germany, Puerto Rico, the Southern Border of Mexico and just about every pocket of the country where she covered the nation’s biggest stories and news events. Fonrouge covers everything from local crime news to in-depth features and her work reporting on revenge porn, sex trafficking and the Rikers Island crisis has led to state legislation changes and a series of awards. She graduated summa cum laude from St. John’s University with a degree in mass communications and a minor in social justice. Originally from Hollywood, Fla., Fonrouge lives in Brooklyn with her wife and their three cats, Christian, Bellatrix and Rhaegar.

The Archive

Forced overtime, nepotism, low morale spells 'disaster' at NYPD

“It’s no longer a career, it’s just a job and you lose passion for it, you lose that drive to want to do better and go that extra mile.” 

NYC tourist raped while jogging was choked so hard neck bones broke, 'sex fiend' held without bail

Carl Phanor, who police sources say has a "scales of justice" tattoo on his left hand, swayed and said nothing as prosecutors detailed the “clear predatory pattern” he used in...

Vagrant with 25 priors and eyed in 2 previous rapes busted in NYC jogger sex attack

The homeless man who raped and robbed a jogger in the West Village Thursday morning is a serial rapist wanted in connection with at least two other incidents, law-enforcement sources...

Good Samaritan comes to aid of woman raped by stranger on morning jog

The 43-year-old woman was running just before 6 a.m. along Pier 45, near West and Christopher streets, when a man grabbed her from behind and choked her — causing her...

NY man sprung on no bail in Facebook-posted beating executes wife in front of her 3 kids just hours later: cops

Adam Bennefield, 45, is charged with shooting dead 40-year-old Keaira Bennefield while she was taking her young children to school on the morning of Oct. 5, authorities said.

LI teen nabbed with firearm used in Zeldin house shooting: cops

Noah Green was charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm and possession of stolen property Monday in Suffolk County after cops saw him getting into a stolen Honda CRV...

Rikers inmates steal riot gear, briefly take control of intake unit

The inmates, all of whom recently arrived at the jail, had been out of their pens for some reason in the morning and managed to bust into a captain’s office...

Rikers correction officer stabbed 15 times in back of head by inmate

A correction officer was brutally stabbed a horrific 15 times by an inmate facing murder charges at Rikers Island Monday.

Rikers Island detainee is 18th person to die in NYC's prison system in 2022

His death would be the sixth confirmed or suspected fatal overdose in 2022 and the 10th suspected or confirmed one since 2021.

NYC PBA gives Democrat Kathy Hochul $25K while holding out on Lee Zeldin

The donation from the 24,000-member union was made in recent weeks.

Suspect throws wrench at Cardinal Dolan's home at St. Patrick's Cathedral

The tool struck the house’s door and shattered its glass panel before landing in a vestibule area that’s separated from the main residence by another door, cops said.

Cops say this is man who randomly slugged ex-'SNL' star Chris Redd

The suspect was caught on video walking near the Comedy Cellar club on Wednesday night around 9:45 p.m. where Redd, 37, was decked “out of nowhere” and left hospitalized with...

'Observe' and report: MTA's private security guards watch and do nothing as fare-beaters stream past turnstiles

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday claimed the NYPD is doing an “amazing job” making subways safer — even as the MTA is apparently so desperate to help fight soaring transit...

Probe into fatal 'Rust' shooting completed — and charges for Baldwin may be imminent

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office completed their investigation into the fatal “Rust” shooting — and charges against those involved, including Alec Baldwin, may be imminent. 

DOC axes $5M contract after workers brought fentanyl, phones to jail

The Department of Correction has axed a $5 million contract with a Big Apple nonprofit after its workers – who were brought to Rikers Island to help detainees – were...

Alvin Bragg ripped for prosecuting domestic violence victim who claims she killed husband in self defense

Advocates rallied against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on Monday to protest his decision to prosecute a domestic violence survivor – who claims she killed her husband in self defense –...

Who is Rishi Sunak? New UK prime minister succeeding Liz Truss

The new prime minister of the UK Rishi Sunak is a former hedge fund boss who previously helmed the nation’s Treasury and promised to bring “integrity, professionalism and accountability” back...

Inmate commits suicide at Rikers Island, 17th death in NYC's jail system this year

A detainee committed suicide at Rikers Island Saturday, the 17th inmate death in the city's troubled jail system this year, The Post has learned.

Heartbroken widow reveals husband killed on subway tracks was rushing to take her to doctor

Hilda Rojas had been waiting for her husband Heriberto Quintana, 48, to take her to dialysis treatment — but when he never showed up, she learned he’d been killed on...

Chilling video captured NYC subway bump, victim rolling off platform into train's path

The Queens straphanger who was charged with manslaughter for getting into a fight with a fellow rider before he was killed did not push the victim in front of an...