Joe Mcgurk
The Archive
B'KLYN LIVERY ROB-CRASH MAYHEM
July 1, 2006 | 4:00amMore than a dozen people who witnessed a Brooklyn car crash that injured an 8-year-old boy yesterday helped nab the robber who sent a livery cab careening into traffic, police...
COP-BIG BRO IN SEX STING
July 1, 2006 | 4:00amThe brother of the city's second-highest police official was nabbed in a prostitution sting after he solicited sexual favors from an undercover cop in Queens, authorities said yesterday. Vincent Grasso,...
TEENS IN 'BIAS BASH' ATROCITY IN B'KLYN
June 30, 2006 | 4:00amThree white Brooklyn teens were charged yesterday with committing a hate crime after they pummeled three black kids riding their bicycles on a Gerritsen Beach street and incited onlookers to...
CITY STINGS HAUL IN 55 ILLEGAL GUNS
June 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's crackdown on sales of illegal guns netted 55 firearms and three suspects after investigations spanning five months, police said yesterday. In one probe, undercover cops said they bought...
SUSPECT DIES IN CUSTODY
June 29, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man arrested in Astoria for drug possession died in police custody after he repeatedly smashed his head against a window inside a police van, cops said. The man,...
HUSBAND HAMMERS WIFE: COPS
June 27, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens mom was savagely beaten over the head with a hammer by her estranged husband yesterday as their two terrified youngsters looked on, police said. The berserk husband, Chang...
KID RUN OVER IN 'REVENGE'
June 27, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx teen was critically injured yesterday after a man ran him down with his car in retaliation for shooting a friend, cops said. Abdul Stanley, 17, allegedly shot the...
ATM THIEF GOES BALLISTIC
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA man set off a small explosive device last night in a failed attempt to rob an automated teller machine in the West Village, police said. No one was hurt...
ONE-ARMED & 'DANGEROUS'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA homeless man missing his right arm was charged yesterday with luring an autistic teen into a Brooklyn alley and trying to molest him. Juan Armando Barasona, 53, was busted...
PORN-SHOP HOLDUP SPREE
June 17, 2006 | 4:00amCops are searching for a ski-masked gunman who has been knocking over adult video stores and hotels in Queens and Manhattan in a three-month robbery spree. The bandit wanted in...
TEEN SUBWAY STABBERS LOOSE
June 17, 2006 | 4:00amPolice are trying to locate two teen thugs who knifed a teenager aboard a Brooklyn subway as he was heading to school. Cops said the suspects attacked the 16-year-old victim...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 13, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police want to identify this man (above), who allegedly robbed a Greenwich Village boutique. The suspect walked into a clothing shop on East Eighth Street near University Place...
MYSTERY OVER FATAL BX. STABBING
June 9, 2006 | 4:00amA woman was found fatally stabbed inside her Bronx apartment last night, police said. The body of the 33-year-old was found by a relative who returned to their East 162nd...
30G QUEENS FIREWORKS BUST
June 8, 2006 | 4:00amTwo men, one a hospital fire-safety director, were busted last night unloading $30,000 worth of illegal fireworks from a rental van in Queens, authorities said. Paul Marcell, 26, of Queens,...
SUBWAY FLASHER IS DOT-DUMB
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amTalk about being caught with your pants down. Police arrested a Manhattan subway flasher after one of his grossed-out victims gave officers an Internet address that was emblazoned on the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Four black teenagers were charged with a bias assault last night after allegedly taunting a white teenager with racial epithets before robbing and beating him on a Sheepshead...
BIG-TIME BURGLAR BUST IN BROOKLYN
June 7, 2006 | 4:00amA man responsible for a string of burglaries in Brooklyn and Queens was busted yesterday, police said. Hector Morales, 22, was charged in 17 burglaries since March after he was...
MURDERS SOAR AS BULLETS FLY
June 6, 2006 | 4:00amMurders are up 12 percent in the city so far this year over the same period in 2005 - a rise sparked by an increase in gun violence, police statistics...
HARLEM MAN STRANGLED
June 6, 2006 | 4:00amAn elderly man found dead in his East Harlem apartment over the weekend had been strangled, authorities said yesterday. Police were questioning a suspect early today in the death of...
QNS. COUPLE IN 'BABY BEAT' SHOCK
June 2, 2006 | 4:00amThe parents of a Queens infant were being questioned last night after they tried to dump him in a hospital with a fractured skull and third-degree friction burns on his...