February 5, 2006
Gun battle at Busta Rhymes video shoot leaves bodyguard dead
Busta Rhymes was shooting a video at a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn when a group of young men started getting rowdy, When asked to leave, one of the men drew a weapon, said to be an AK-47, and a gunfight... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 9:12 PM | # | TrackBack
January 14, 2005
Brooklyn man shot 3 times while confronting thugs in his music store, survives
Two armed robbers entered Street Flavors, a music shop in East Flatbush, on Wednesday night, and demanded the money from the cash register. The clerk, Earl "Fats" Dunn apparently wasn't in a giving mood and fought back. Dunn, who earned... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 4:39 AM | # | TrackBack
December 3, 2004
Hostage drama in Brooklyn library
Gerard Joseph was very interested in a female co-worker at the Brooklyn Central Library. He repeatedly begged her for a date, but she wasn't interested. Finally, she relented, but the data didn't go well. When she refused to go out... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 12:47 PM | # | TrackBack
October 27, 2004
Crackhead boyfriend kills computer analyst girlfriend, goes back to sleep
Leslie Beech, 39, was upset with his live-in girlfriend, 56, who asked him not to smoke crack in their Brooklyn home. He apparently responded by killing her, and then doing nothing. When she didn't show up for work, cops went... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 9:22 AM | # | TrackBack
September 27, 2004
Man murdered on N train, discovered at Rector Street station
A man who had been viciously stabbed staggered off the subway onto the Rector Street platform early yesterday morning and died soon afterwards. The victim, who has not been named, was taking the N to the PATH trains to get... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 6:01 AM | # | TrackBack
September 11, 2004
Gunman kills two NYPD detectives in Brooklyn
Two detectives went to question Marlon Legere at his home in Brooklyn because they had received reports from his mother that she felt threatened. The detectives arrived at the scene and blocked Legere's vehicle. As they approached him, Legere grabbed... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 5:43 AM | # | TrackBack
September 10, 2004
Feds bust up $20 million chop shop operation
Astra Motor Cars, a salvage yard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was a front for a "chop shop" operation that produced $20 million in revenues and funded a burgeoning real estate empire that stretched out to the suburbs of Long Island. The... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 12:19 AM | # | TrackBack
September 6, 2004
Father kidnaps son to ensure vegan diet +++
Update (9/8/04, 8 pm): According to NY1, the baby is now in custody of ACS. It's unclear where the baby's dad is. Someone claiming to be Raphael, the baby's father, left this long comment on another blog, in which... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 4:49 AM | # | TrackBack
August 27, 2004
Operation: Family Affair
Authorities have broken up a large drug ring in Brooklyn consisting of 69 people, nearly all of whom belong to one of 5 families in the area. The ring dealt cocaine and heroin at 34 public housing buildings in East... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 6:49 AM | # | TrackBack
August 26, 2004
More food-related violence: Probation clerk attacks colleague over (and with) cheesecake
Melanie, an employee of the Department of Probation, was having lunch with a co-worker at TGI Friday's when they got into a squabble over a slice of cheese cake. As things escalated, Melanie smashed the cheesecake into her companion's... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 5:01 AM | # | TrackBack
August 16, 2004
Brooklyn landlord/tenant dispute gets very ugly; 12-year-old busted
Cops were called to the scene of an argument between a landlady and her tenant in Brooklyn yesterday. The landlady, her 12-year-old son, and her son-in-law didn't want to settle down, so they attacked the cops, even hitting a... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 4:20 AM | # | TrackBack
August 12, 2004
Brooklyn woman cares for cats...a little too much +
Live in Brooklyn and haven't seen your cat in a while? Maybe Claire Angelica has it. Angelica takes in cats she finds on the street, mends them, and finds them new owners. Recently, however, a darker side to this story... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 4:56 AM | # | TrackBack
August 5, 2004
Young Would-be Engineer/Livery Cab Driver Murdered +
Kutub Shiblee was murdered in his Brooklyn neighborhood after exiting a car he had just leased. Shiblee got the car so he could be a livery cab driver to finance his engineering studies at Brooklyn Polytech. Shiblee graduated from Franklin... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 9:34 PM | # | TrackBack
August 4, 2004
Update: Monkey Attack +
That monkey who bit the toddler in the Brooklyn grocery store apparently has a violent past: the NY Post reports that the menacing macaque "bit 6-year-old Shayna Wasserman in front of her Bergen Beach home in June 2003." The... Continue reading...Posted by adm at 4:40 PM | # | TrackBack