Philip Messing
The Archive
Focus on jogger's murder helps cops solve 1995 cold case
The cold-case murder of a Central Park jogger in 1995 has finally been solved — thanks to renewed interest after the slaying of Howard Beach runner Karina Vetrano, The Post...
Outgoing Port Authority exec to cash in with double-dip pension
The outgoing head of the Port Authority is set to receive a retirement benefit reserved for just him and about 50 other execs at the scandal-scarred agency — a double-dip...
Looting of Samurai sword leads to charges against owner, thief
A 29-year-old man who was chasing the thief who had stolen his Samurai sword got the prized possession back -- but then was charged with having it, cops said. The...
Passenger thrown off flight after confronting Ivanka Trump
JetBlue kicked a Brooklyn lawyer and his Hunter College professor husband off a plane at JFK on Thursday morning — after he accosted fellow passenger and future first daughter Ivanka...
Port Authority cops accused of abandoning patrol posts
Is anyone awake at the Port Authority? Just two weeks after The Post exposed how the agency’s maintenance workers routinely snooze on the job, nearly four dozen of its cops...
Kidnapping victim saved when cops bust suspects on GWB
A couple of bumbling kidnappers drove up the East Coast with their prisoner — only to get busted on the George Washington Bridge on Thursday, sources said. Cops pulled over...
Junkie's jarring mugshot is a PSA about the dangers of meth
The arrest of a homeless Manhattan man who went on a drug-fueled bender outside the Holland Tunnel is Exhibit A for why drugs are bad for you, police say. Keith...
Mafia big's grandson literally picked a fight with the wrong guy
Someone get this Mafia prince a pair of glasses. The namesake grandson of notorious Colombo crime family boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico — who recently underwent eye surgery — started...
Assistant DA arrested for wiretapping to spy on NYPD 'love interest'
A Brooklyn assistant district attorney has been arrested on charges of eavesdropping after she allegedly forged documents in order to spy on a love interest who is an NYPD detective,...
Sex offender jumps to death from George Washington Bridge
A registered sex offender with a predilection for child porn jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on Friday. Richard C. Genin, 65, who was convicted in 2011...
Abandoned girl leads cops to dead mom in possible ‘love triangle gone bad’
A 5-year-old girl was abandoned by her dad at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday morning — and when cops went to talk to her mother at home, they...
Dad wanted for murder leaves daughter at bus terminal
A 5-year-old girl was abandoned at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday by her father -- who is wanted for murder, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The little girl...
Port Authority cut elite cop presence significantly: sources
The Port Authority has cut its elite Emergency Services Unit — which protects major area airports and bridges and tunnels from potential terrorist strikes — by more than 30 percent...
Legendary Post reporter Carl Pelleck dies at 84
Carl Pelleck, a legendary reporter for The New York Post who covered the police beat with flair and distinction for decades, has died. He was 84. Pelleck died Wednesday morning...
Guy who owes more than $74K in outstanding tolls finally busted
A scofflaw who breezed through Port Authority tolls a whopping 712 times without paying has finally been busted, officials said Thursday. Aaron Saguay-Gomez of Corona, Queens, ran up a nearly...
Flier tries to hide stolen cash inside a Cheerios box
A female flier swiped $5,600 from a security bin at JFK Airport — then tried to hide it by stashing some of the dough in a box of Cheerios, law enforcement...
Plane carrying VP candidate Mike Pence skids off LaGuardia runway
A plane carrying Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence skidded off a runway as it landed at LaGuardia Airport on Thursday night, officials and witnesses said. No one was hurt...
Ex-cop blasts 'knee-jerk' reactions to police shootings
City officials “haven’t learned their lesson” when it comes to knee-jerk judgments of police shootings, said an ex-cop who was vilified after killing a teen on a rooftop in Brooklyn....
Cops 'won't forget' new commissioner's 'failed' comment
Rank-and-file cops are outraged that Police Commissioner James O’Neill said the department “failed” the bat-wielding woman shot and killed by a sergeant on Tuesday, sources said. Officers have flooded the...
Cabbie uses antenna to beat driver who cut him off
A yellow-cab driver furious about getting cut off in the JFK pickup line ripped off his own antenna and used it to clobber the other driver, cops said Monday. Outmane...