Articles Posted in the Crime Category
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Video: “I Might Have Tacos”: East Haven, Conn. Mayor Joe Maturo’s Outreach Plan After 4 Cops Arrested For Racially Profiling Latinos
emailAMERICAN DREAM TURNS INTO A NIGHTMARE FOR MANY LATINOS IN CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY. Federal authorities announced the arrest of four police officers in East Haven, Conn., accused of a series of offenses against Latinos which make up about 10 percent of the community. Comments made by the Mayor of East Haven, Joe Maturo, to WPIX-TV’s Mario [...]
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High School Soccer Player, Francisco “Poncho” Rodriguez, Shot, Killed
A Los Angeles high school student and soccer player who attended El Camino Real High School was shot and killed Wednesday night near his home in Winnetka, according to multiple media reports. The teen’s high school soccer coach, Ian Kogan, identified him as Francisco “Poncho” Rodriguez, KNBC reported. According to reports, someone was waiting for [...]
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Mother’s Pending Deportation May Have Motivated Hollywood Arson Suspect, Harry Burkhart, 24
Police have arrested a suspect in the 54 car fires in and around the Hollywood area, according to KTLA, and immigration may have motivated the alleged arsonist. The suspect is Harry Burkhart, 24, a German national and a resident of the Hollywood area. He was booked Monday on arson charges and is being held without [...]
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Brooklyn Woman, Delores Gillespie, 64, Burns To Death in Elevator After Man Sets Her on Fire
UPDATE Sunday December 18th 9:04 a.m.: A man suspected of setting Delores Gillespie on fire Saturday afternoon turned himself into police overnight, the AP reports. The 47-year-old man made statements implicating himself in her death and police sources tell the AP he smelled of gasoline. ORIGINAL STORY A 64-year-old Brooklyn woman was killed Saturday [...]
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Off-Duty Cop Injures Suspected Groper in Harlem Subway Shooting
An off-duty cop shot and injured a 22-year-old man Friday afternoon on a subway platform in Harlem after two women said he had groped them, WNBC reports. The shooting happened shortly after 12:30 p.m. on the northbound platform of the A, C, B and D station at 125h street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, [...]
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Dominican Tire Store Owner, Carlos Rosario, 58, Murdered in Brooklyn Shop
The owner of a Brooklyn tire shop was shot three times and killed inside his store Sunday, according to police. Carlos Rosario, 58, of Dominican heritage, died after the gunman entered the Bushwick Tire Shop around 11:35 a.m. and asked Rosario for hubcaps. At this point, the gunman, described as a black man [...]
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Video: Mayor Bloomberg & Police Commissioner Ray Kelley on Dominican Terrorist, Jose Pimental
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg & Police Commissioner Ray Kelley address the media Sunday night on the arrest of Jose Pimentel, 27, of Washington Heights, who was arrested on multiple terrorism-related charges. WATCH VIDEO OF PIMENTEL’S MOTHER, CARMEN SOSA, SPEAKING TO REPORTERS READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ABOUT THE ARREST AND CHARGES The following are [...]
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New York City Dominican ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist, Jose Pimentel, 27, Arrested
New York City officials announced Sunday night that they had arrested a U.S. Citizen born in the Dominican Republic, who was a “lone wolf” terrorist and recent convert to Islam who planned to use pipe bombs to target police officers, post offices and service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, officials say. Mayor Michael Bloomberg [...]
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WorldView Video: McDonald’s Employee Beats Brooklyn Man with Metal Pole
SUBMIT YOUR VIDEOS TO WORLDVIEW!!! Watch the McDonald’s October Beating in NYC! Go back to WorldView What do you think? Leave comments below. Subscribe to the Dos Lives Daily Email Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our DL Podcast on iTunes Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow @DLWorldView Follow @DosLives What do you think? Leave [...]
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3-year Salmonella Outbreak in Utah Traced to Homemade ‘Queso Fresco’ from ‘Mr. Cheese’
Utah Public Health investigators have linked more than 2,000 cases of salmonella since 2009 to homemade “queso fresco,” a popular Mexican cheese, that officials say was made by a man they are referring to as “Mr. Cheese.” Health official were concerned about a high number of salmonella Newport cases in six Utah counties and tracked [...]
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Utah Man Fakes Undocumented Status to Avoid Jail and is Deported to Mexico
A U.S. Citizen lied to Utah law enforcement officials and said he was an undocumented immigrant so he could be deported to Mexico and avoid jail time for drug-related charges, according to an Associated Press report. The man, Jaime Alvarado, 27, lied because he knew that officials will sometimes deport an individual to avoid contributing [...]
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Joshua Flecha of Astoria, Queens Arrested in Connection with String of Sex Assaults in Brooklyn
Police have arrested a man they say could be connected with as many as six of the 20 sex assaults that have occurred in Brooklyn since March, according to a Daily News report. Joshua Flecha, 32, of Queens, was found in a Windsor Terrace street early Monday morning masturbating between parked cars to a pornographic [...]
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Robert Allen and Justin Meskan Convicted of Assaulting Two San Francisco Latinos, but Not of Hate Crimes
Two men with known ties to a racist skinhead group were found guilty of assaulting two Mexican nationals in San Francisco, but not found guilty of a hate crime, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Last Nov. 9, Robert Allen, 29 and Justin Meskan, 29 attacked Alex Cauich, 21 outside the Nitecap Bar and also [...]
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Brooklyn Sex Assault Wave hits 20; NYPD Connects Six More Cases
The New York Police department has added six recent gropings at subway stations to the other sexual assaults that have occurred in Brooklyn since March which brings the total number of attacks to 20, according to the Daily News. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the Daily News that the new cases came to light after [...]
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Video: NYC McDonald’s Cashier Seen Beating Two Female Customers with Metal Rod
A McDonald’s cashier is under arrest for allegedly beating two female customers with a metal rod, just after midnight Thursday night, when they jumped the counter during an argument and threatened him, according to 7online.com. The entire incident in the Greenwich Village restaurant was caught on cell phone camera and shows two women, [...]
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