Jessie Graham
The Archive
PLEA IN 'WRONG MAN' SLAY
January 4, 2003 | 5:00amA career criminal pleaded not guilty at his arraignment yesterday on murder charges for a 1992 Queens killing that cost a wrongly convicted man 10 years behind bars. Jarrett Smith...
STAIN OF GUILT NAILED QNS. BANK BANDIT: DA
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amSuspected stick-up artist Andre Rogers was literally caught red-handed. After a Nov. 21, 2001 robbery at a Greenpoint Savings Bank in Flushing, Queens, Rogers was found a block away, his...
KID-PORN RAP FOR DENTIST
December 13, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens dentist who moonlights as a youth basketball coach was busted for toting child porn - homemade films that investigators are examining to see if they feature his underage...
ADA WHO FIBBED IN SLAY TRIAL QUITS
December 6, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens prosecutor has resigned after being demoted by the DA for misleading a judge about the whereabouts of a key witness in a murder case, authorities said yesterday. Claude...
QUACK BACK IN BUTT BIZ
December 4, 2002 | 5:00amA phony doctor facing trial for maiming and injuring clients in a Queens plastic-surgery clinic has resurfaced in South America, where he's hung up a shingle and started performing medical...
PROSECUTORS ADMIT SLAY-CASE MISTAKE
November 13, 2002 | 5:00amThe Queens DA has asked a judge to toss out a murder conviction and order a new trial for a man accused of killing a club owner - after admitting...
WENDY'S CASE JURY PICKED
October 23, 2002 | 4:00amThe 12 jurors selected in the death-penalty trial of alleged Wendy's massacre mastermind John Taylor are scheduled to begin hearing testimony in the tragic case next week. "We have a...
2ND SUSPECT CLEARED IN '96 RAPE AND SLAY
October 4, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens man who was the second person accused of committing a gunpoint rape and a murder during two days in 1996 was cleared of all charges yesterday. The jury...
RAGER AIMS CAR AT TICKET-WRITER: COPS
October 4, 2002 | 4:00amA man who was double-parked in front of a Queens courthouse tried to mow down a court officer for giving him a ticket, authorities said yesterday. The driver, who told...
MET TALKS TO DA ABOUT POT 'PLOT'
October 3, 2002 | 4:00amMet pitcher Grant Roberts, who was seen in a newspaper photo last month smoking marijuana, met with Queens prosecutors yesterday over a possible extortion plot. Met groupie Jodi Turner is...
RAPE VICTIM TELLS JURY OF GUNPLAY BY SLAY SUSPECT
September 21, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens woman who was snatched off the street and raped at gunpoint told jurors yesterday her attacker fired his gun inches from her head - and prosecutors say he...
LL HIP-HOPS TO THE AID OF BUSTED PAL
September 4, 2002 | 4:00amSqueaky-clean rap legend LL Cool J made a surprise appearance in Queens Supreme Court yesterday, racing to the aid of a friend who was arrested following a Labor Day clash...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 17, 2002 | 4:00amA plaster bust of Elvis in a tiny Dutch town wept "miracle" tears yesterday on the 25th anniversary of the beloved crooner's death, the statue's owner said. Elvis impersonator and...
SEX-RAP PRIEST: I'M INNOCENT
July 20, 2002 | 4:00amA Kenyan missionary priest accused of molesting a 12-year-old boy during a Father's Day outing in Queens vowed to fight the charges yesterday - after he refused a plea deal...
DA BIDS TO BITE 'HOT DOG' PILOT PAIR
July 18, 2002 | 4:00amA pilot busted for July 4th air antics that frightened beachgoers and authorities on heightened terror alert told investigators he and his friend were "hot dogging" when they flew close...
CRANE SMASHES QNS. COURTHOUSE
July 16, 2002 | 4:00amA 170-ton crane being used to renovate a Queens courthouse toppled over yesterday, striking the building and injuring two people, authorities said. The State Supreme Court building in Jamaica was...
BOGUS GOODS, $1M SEIZED IN QUEENS
July 11, 2002 | 4:00amPolice recovered $1 million in cash and thousands of counterfeit high-end goods from a Queens home used as a money-laundering base for a multimillion-dollar narcotics ring, authorities said yesterday. Cops...
'OBSTRUCTION' COPS IN THE CLEAR
June 26, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Queens detectives have been cleared of obstruction of justice after they were accused of blocking a prosecutor from questioning a drunken colleague following a fatal car crash four years...
'OBSTRUCT' COPS IN THE CLEAR
June 26, 2002 | 4:00amTwo Queens detectives have been cleared of obstruction of justice after being accused of blocking a prosecutor from questioning a drunken colleague following a fatal car crash four years ago....
HUNG JURY IN ST. JOHN'S SHOOTING
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens judge declared a mistrial yesterday after jurors deadlocked in the case of a man accused of shooting into a crowd and paralyzing a St. John's University football player....