Rocco Parascandola
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248G PUTS FALSE-BUST DRIVER CLOSER TO EASY STREET
February 25, 2001 | 5:00amThe city has reached a $248,000 settlement with a motorist who filed a federal lawsuit after being wrongly arrested in Midtown by a traffic agent with a history of violent...
BROOKLYN SLAY SUSPECT BUSTED
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amPolice last night arrested the man they say bludgeoned and shot to death a 31-year-old man in Brooklyn while the victim's 3-year-old son watched in horror. Remi Ellis, 33, was...
SEX STALKER TERRORIZING UPPER W. SIDE
February 24, 2001 | 5:00amA serial sexual predator and robber is suspected of stalking women on the trendy Upper West Side, cornering them in their building lobbies as they come home from work, police...
SLAY RAP FOR 5 IN BX. STAB DEATH
February 22, 2001 | 5:00amFive men, including a 15-year-old, were charged last night with stabbing a 20-year-old man to death on a Bronx street, police said. Terrence Ramos was murdered Tuesday night on Morris...
TUGBOAT PLUNGE FEARED FATAL
February 20, 2001 | 5:00amA tugboat worker was presumed drowned yesterday after falling into the water near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge off Brooklyn while trying to climb aboard a tanker that needed fuel, authorities said....
WOMAN BURNED IN S.I. APT. FIRE
February 20, 2001 | 5:00amA 78-year-old woman was critically burned in a blaze that began inside her Staten Island apartment yesterday afternoon, fire officials said. The fire may have been caused by careless smoking,...
BASHFUL HOLDUP GUY GETS STIFFED
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA timid would-be robber walked into a trio of Queens banks demanding money yesterday only to flee empty-handed, police said. The description of the hapless suspect - a Hispanic man,...
MOB HIT EYED AS BRONX MAN IS SLAIN WALKING DOG
February 16, 2001 | 5:00amA Bronx man was fatally shot last night while walking his dog near his home, police said. Moments after Frank Santoro, 45, crumpled to the ground in a hail of...
CIGARETTE FIRE KILLS 73-YR.-OLD IN QUEENS
February 15, 2001 | 5:00amAn elderly Queens woman was killed last night in a house fire that may have been caused by careless smoking, fire officials said. The victim, Grace Pates, 73, was pronounced...
TEEN PINNING MOLEST RAP ON TATTOO ARTIST
February 11, 2001 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old woman being evaluated for a tattoo she wanted on her buttocks was molested by a worker at a Greenwich Village shop, police said yesterday. The suspect, a man...
PLASTIC SURGEON BUSTED IN GUN CASE
February 10, 2001 | 5:00amA plastic surgeon from Mount Sinai Hospital was busted yesterday for illegal gun possession, police said. Dr. Edmond Ritter, 41, was taken to New York Hospital Thursday night after police...
FEARS GROW FOR MISSING B'KLYN LAWYER
February 9, 2001 | 5:00amA 73-year-old Brooklyn lawyer has disappeared, leaving behind in his office bloodstains that police and his family fear may indicate foul play. Sanford Silver, married with one daughter and one...
VANDAL TRASHES CHURCH STATUE
February 8, 2001 | 5:00amA landmark Catholic church near Battery Park was vandalized yesterday when a statue of Christ was knocked off a cross and left at the front door. Police said the vandal...
TWO COPS NABBED IN SEPARATE ACCIDENTS
February 8, 2001 | 5:00amTwo cops have been busted for fleeing the scene after getting into separate off-duty accidents, police said yesterday. In the more serious case, Sgt. Frank Santaromita, an eight-year veteran assigned...
COUNCIL AIDE SLAIN IN BOTCHED BURGLARY
February 7, 2001 | 5:00amA well-liked and charitable 29-year-old City Council employee was murdered inside his Brooklyn apartment by a gunman during a botched robbery, police said yesterday. The robbers, a gunman and three...
B'KLYN WOMAN RAPED
February 7, 2001 | 5:00amA 22-year-old Brooklyn woman was brutally raped at knifepoint in her apartment by a man who followed her home from the subway, police said yesterday. The suspect, a man in...
JAIL OFFICER KILLS BANDIT IN SHOOTOUT AT TAKEOUT
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amAn off-duty correction captain shot and killed an armed bandit in a dramatic confrontation in a Queens takeout restaurant, authorities said yesterday. Capt. Dana Shehee, a correction administrator known to...
DENTIST UP ON SEX RAP
February 3, 2001 | 5:00amA Bronx dentist has been charged with sexual abuse for fondling one of his patients, police said yesterday. Dr. Girish Desai, 52, was cleaning the teeth of a 19-year-old female...
WOMEN JABBED BY TIMES SQ. TEENS
January 31, 2001 | 5:00amTwo women suffered puncture wounds when they were jabbed while walking in Times Square, police said yesterday. Emily Rothenberg, 28, of the Upper West Side, was pricked in the upper...
5 KIDS CHARGED IN GANG RAPE
January 31, 2001 | 5:00amFive boys - two of them 10 years old - have been busted in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Coney Island, police said yesterday. The shocking attack took...