The owners of a Roosevelt Island bodega were busted for swindling over $1.5 million from a wheelchair-bound homeless woman and using the stolen cash to fund a lavish lifestyle, prosecutors announced on Thursday.
Read MoreWith jury selection set to begin Monday in front of Justice Michael Aloise, questions about the arrest and initial police interview of Chanel Lewis — the man accused of the murder — have persisted for years.
Read MoreA day after a Ridgewood guidance counselor was charged with allegedly punching a cop while defending an emotionally disturbed students, children and parents at Grover Cleveland High School said they had the educator’s back.
Read MoreAn off-duty firefighter was arrested on Tuesday, police said.
Read MoreA Queens jury convicted a married couple who coerced a 21-year-old woman into sex work out of a Flushing hotel.
Read MoreThe judge explained that Harris, who grew up in Coney Island, was beaten by her mother with a belt as a teenager and never knew her father. He said that the unexpected death of her only child drove her to live on the streets while worked as a prostitute with a crack cocaine addiction.
Read MoreThree pharmacies in Queens will serve as safe drop-off locations for unused prescription drugs as part of Saturday’s National Drug Takeback Day, Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced on Monday.
Read MoreThe Department of Consumer Affairs is taking a shady Jamaica home furnishings store to the mat.
Read MoreA pair of Fresh Meadows property owners are in hot water for skipping out on paying almost $500,000 in taxes and deceiving their tenants’ leases in order to profit off the sale of the building, authorities announced on Tuesday.
Read MoreAuthorities say a dozen people collaborated to smuggle nearly 4 million cigarettes from Virginia to New York City and resell them in Queens and Staten Island, dodging over $1.3 million in city and New York state taxes.
Read MorePolice arrested a Jackson Heights resident on Monday for his role in a violent assault by the white supremacist Proud Boys gang in Manhattan on Oct. 12.
Read MoreA Queens straphanger was threatened by a knife-wielding man aboard a Flushing-bound No. 7 train during an early-morning dispute, cops said on Monday.
Read MoreMore than 400 people made the trip to Universal Church on Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside on Saturday in order to attend the Second Chance Summons Warrant Forgiveness Event, where over 350 participants were able to get their low-level summonses cleared without fear of arrest, according to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown.
Read MoreIn the face of a federal attempt to limit the rights and recognition of transgender individuals, New York City protections for the transgender community will remain strong, advocates say.
Read MoreA Queens man was found guilty on Thursday for attempting to rob a pawn shop in Melville, Long Island with another man while wearing disguises but failing to cover the license plate of their getaway car.
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