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The Bronx A young punk swiped a teenage girl’s iPhone on the subway, police said. The 17-year-old victim was sitting on a southbound 6 train nearing the St. Lawrence Avenue stop...
Cops stop man from jumping off roof in dramatic struggle
The engineer who designed the work site where a teen hardhat was killed Thursday slit his wrists and threatened to jump off the roof of his Brooklyn home Friday —...
Police shoot man in leg after gun battle in Brooklyn
NYPD cops fired 84 rounds at a gunman who turned his weapon on them shortly after shooting a man during a robbery early Friday — but he was only struck...
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The Bronx Four armed bandits have been preying on businesses and pedestrians across the borough in six stick-ups since April, cops said. After an April 17 robbery at a Soundview supermarket,...
Bank exec busted in assault of Times Square desnudas
An out-of-town Bank of America executive assaulted two topless desnuda street performers in Times Square Wednesday night after he accused one of them of pickpocketing his wallet, police sources said....
Times Square desnuda busted for offering oral sex to cop
A Times Square desnuda has showed her true colors, offering a cop oral sex as her handler tried to peddle drugs to undercover officers, law-enforcement sources said. Destiny Romero, 20,...
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Brooklyn Investigators released the police sketch above of a suspect who allegedly raped a 19-year-old woman in Canarsie. The victim was walking along Rockaway Parkway near Avenue N at about...
Suspect in gun bust hid tiny weapon in his briefs: cops
A Bronx man stopped for drinking alcohol in public had a dirty little secret — he was carry a very small gun. Cops were on patrol near basketball courts at...
Bride robbed of $30K in jewelry, electronics days before wedding
A bride-to-be had a trove of family heirlooms swiped from her Brooklyn pad and the crook got away with nearly $30,000 worth of valuables, police said. The burglar sneaked into...
Broken-nail slay suspect may have burned beau alive: cops
The Queens slay suspect done in by her broken nail might have burned her boyfriend alive, authorities said Tuesday. “A woman kills her boyfriend because she thinks he is cheating...
NYPD escapee went barhopping after slipping out of cuffs
Tiffany Neumann spent her night on the lam partying at the South Street Seaport after she escaped police custody by wriggling out of her handcuffs that were chained to a...
Bratton warns of tough times ahead due to 'war on cops'
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday endorsed the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's controversial theories about the "crumbling" of poor black families -- and warned that the country faces "tough...
Cops nab woman who escaped police custody while in handcuffs
The woman who slipped out of handcuffs over the weekend and escaped from police custody was nabbed inside a relative’s house early Tuesday, cops said. Tiffany Neumann, 23, walked out...
Broken fingernail leads police to woman arrested in boyfriend's murder
A Queens murderer done in by her broken fingernail may have killed her boyfriend by burning him alive, cops said Tuesday. "A woman kills her boyfriend because she thinks he...
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Brooklyn A suspect tried to force himself on a 34-year-old woman in Bensonhurst, authorities said. He grabbed the victim from behind at 74th Street and 20th Avenue at about 2:30 a.m....
Fireman smokes out a pair of burglars breaking into his car
Two burglars were caught breaking into a firefighter’s car in the East Village early Friday — by the Bravest himself. Jason De Jesus and pal Andre Kinard allegedly were rummaging...
Nitwits busted for stealing air freshener from firefighter's car
Two nitwits’ plans to ransack a car in the East Village went up in smoke Friday when firefighters saw one inside their fellow Bravest’s vehicle, sources said. Jason De Jesus,...
Gunman kills man, wounds three others at crowded hookah lounge
A gunman opened fire inside a packed Brooklyn hookah lounge, fatally shooting a man and wounding three others early Friday, police said. The victims – all in their 20s –...
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The Bronx Police are looking for persons of interest in a Bedford Park shooting that left one man dead and another wounded last weekend. Almame Drammeh, 23, and a 36-year-old...
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Brooklyn Cops on Wednesday released surveillance images of two of three suspects wanted for robbing three people at gunpoint during a home invasion in Brownsville last month, cops said. The...