Watch: New York man armed with bicycle seat defends teen attacked by group of people
NEW YORK — Surveillance video from a Brooklyn bodega shows a good Samaritan armed with a bike seat fighting off a group of men as they attacked and robbed a teen.The group, armed with knives and a metal pipe, brutally beat a 17-year-old teen in front of a Bushwick bodega and stole his moped, police said.
Police: Man throws victim onto Brooklyn subway tracks, hits him with metal lock
NEW YORK — Police are looking for a man they say threw a person onto subway tracks and hit him in the head with a metal lock.Two men got into an altercation late Wednesday night, March 27 inside the 95th Street subway station, police said.That's when the attacker allegedly threw the 29-year-old victim onto the southbound train tracks.People in the station helped the victim back onto the platform, but the assailant hit him in the face with a metal lock that was attached to a string, police said.The victim was later hospitalized.Video of the incident released by police shows the victim near the third rail and he lies down between tracks, apparently attempting to go underneath a train if one were to come.
Suspect in mob boss slaying could face lethal Mafia justice: 'Somebody's going to try'
NEW YORK — As Anthony Comello sits in jail on murder charges, he may have more than legal problems to worry about — namely, whether the Mafia is going to get its hands on him.The man he is accused of killing was the reputed boss of New York's Gambino crime family, Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, and for that, Comello is almost certainly marked for death by the underworld.
Suspect in slaying of Gambino crime boss flashed 'MAGA' slogans in court
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — The man charged with killing the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family wrote pro-President Donald Trump slogans on his hand and flashed them to journalists before a court hearing Monday, March 18.Anthony Comello, 24, was arrested Saturday in New Jersey in the death of Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali last week in front of his Staten Island home.While waiting for a court hearing to begin in Toms River, New Jersey, in which he agreed to be extradited to New York, Comello held up his left hand.On it were scrawled pro-President Trump slogans including "MAGA Forever," an abbreviation of President Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." It also read "United We Stand MAGA" and "Patriots In Charge." In the center of his palm he had drawn a large circle.
Source: Suspect in murder of reputed Gambino boss wanted to date his niece
NEW YORK -- He left his fingerprints on the license plate and maybe wore his heart on his sleeve.A law enforcement source said Saturday, March 16 that Anthony Comello, the 24-year-old suspect in the gangland-style murder of reputed Gambino crime boss Francesco “Frank” Cali, wanted to date one of Cali’s nieces.Comello was allegedly upset by Cali’s family standing in the way of that.Comello is accused of pumping 10 bullets into Cali Wednesday night, March 13 after allegedly smashing into Cali’s Cadillac SUV with a blue pickup truck and exchanging tense words with the alleged godfather outside Cali’s Todt Hill home.It was the first execution of a mob boss in New York City in more than 30 years.Gambino godfather Paul Castellano was ambushed outside Sparks Steakhouse in December 1985, paving the way for John Gotti to ascend the organized crime ladder to the position of don.Cali allegedly had strong ties to the Sicilian mob.Surveillance footage showed Cali’s shooter handing the 53-year-old crime boss the damaged license plate from his SUV and then firing on Cali.
Smell of cooking fish suspected in death of food allergic 11-year-old boy
NEW YORK — An 11-year-old New York City boy died on New Year's Day after a possible allergic reaction to fish, police said Wednesday.Camron Jean-Pierre was pronounced dead Tuesday at a hospital after police discovered him unconscious and unresponsive at his home on East 82nd Street in Brooklyn's Canarsie neighborhood, according to the NYPD.Police initially responded to reports made at 7:24 p.m. that day about an unconscious person at the home.People at the scene told investigators Jean-Pierre was allergic to fish, and someone in the home was cooking fish, NYPD officials said.Although Jean-Pierre was not believed to have consumed any fish, he may have had an allergic reaction to it, police said."Timing is everything in a food allergic reaction, and it can go downhill rather fast," said Dr.
New York City police using firearms at lowest rate on record
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department said Wednesday that officers are using Tasers more frequently, while firing on suspects fell to the lowest level since the department began tracking the use of force.The department's 2017 use-of-force report showed that officers opened fire 52 times last year, a 28 percent decrease from previous year.
Police: Video of toddler yanked from mother at social services office doesn't tell the whole story
NEW YORK — The New York City police commissioner said Friday that a more complicated and "chaotic" story is emerging from a witness video that went viral showing a tug-of-war between a New York mother with a toddler and police yanking the boy from her.Police said an internal review found that Jazmine Headley had used the child as a shield to avoid arrest on Dec. 7 at a Brooklyn social services office.According to the review — based on information from witnesses and officers at the scene with body cameras — the 23-year-old woman became verbally abusive and bit the arm of a security employee at the Human Resources Administration who tried to remove her after she sat on the floor, blocking others.
Video shows FedEx delivery workers brawl with mourners outside New York mosque
NEW YORK — Emotions were already running high Monday afternoon during a funeral procession outside of a New York City mosque when a FedEx delivery truck seen on cellphone video accidentally clipped one of the pedestrian mourners, according to police.The mourners outside Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, surrounded the truck to prevent it from leaving the scene.
'Wanted for dropping his fiancee's ring!' NYPD seeks couple after it fell through grate during proposal
NEW YORK — Police have an urgent message for the couple who lost their engagement ring in Times Square: We have the ring.The New York Police Department says a man was proposing to his girlfriend just before midnight Friday when he dropped the ring and it fell about 8 feet (2.4 meters) down a utility grate.The couple asked police for help, but emergency service officers could not immediately find the sparkler.Eventually, they found it.
89-year-old scholar who fled Nazis dies after subway shove from rushing commuter
NEW YORK -- The New York Times calls Dr.
NYPD salutes K-9 just before she loses cancer battle
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department gathered about 20 saluting officers and held an aviation flyover to honor an Emergency Services K-9 just before she died.The New York Daily News reports the 5-year-old bloodhound named Angel was diagnosed with cancer in August.
Daughter of hero officer killed on 9/11 graduates from NYPD Police Academy
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. - The daughter of a New York Police Department officer killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks graduated from the NYPD Police Academy on Monday.
'Tooth' 4-year-old brought home from day care was crack cocaine
NEW YORK — A 4-year-old girl brought crack cocaine home from her New York City day care, the child's mother told WPIX.Sabrina Straker said she was horrified when her daughter, Serenity, showed her the capsules and explained she'd put one of them in her mouth.
Baby boy dies after being pulled from water near Brooklyn Bridge
NEW YORK — A baby boy died after he was pulled from the water near the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday afternoon, an NYPD spokesperson said.Tourists from Oklahoma had seen the boy around 4 p.m. and Monte Campbell went into the water to get him out, his wife said."You could see its little legs just floating and his head was in the water," Diana Campbell told WPIX. "My husband was like 'I have to go in.'"He waded into the water and used a stick to help him grab the baby, then performed CPR until officers arrived on scene, Campbell said.Police climbed over the safety railing to retrieve the baby, then brought him to the pedestrian walkway where they performed CPR, officials said.
Police: Gang that stabbed 15-year-old to death also attacked 2nd New York City teen
NEW YORK — The same New York City gang responsible for the brutal machete slaying of a 15-year-old boy in the Bronx last week is being blamed for critically injuring another teen days before, police told WPIX on Tuesday.Cellphone video shows a large group of men attacking the 14-year-old victim on the median of the Bronx River Parkway near the East Gun Hill Road exit.Police said members of the Trinitarios gang chased the teen on the busy parkway during rush hour on June 18.
NYPD will start using summonses, not arrests, for marijuana
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department will issue criminal summonses to most people caught smoking marijuana in public instead of arresting them starting Sept. 1.Officers will still arrest people with prior arrests for violent crimes, parolees, drivers and some others under the policy Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill announced Tuesday.People with summonses will have to go to court and pay a $100 fine.Manhattan's district attorney had already announced his office will stop prosecuting most low-level marijuana cases Aug. 1.The state's top health official said Monday that a report on marijuana will recommend legalization.Lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn for the year this week, suggesting it'll be 2019 at the earliest before the issue is considered.
Not a tiger: Raccoon prompts alarming 911 calls in Manhattan
NEW YORK — A false report of a tiger in the streets of New York has caused a social media frenzy.WPIX says the New York Police Department got a call around 8:30 a.m. Thursday about a tiger in Harlem.People on Twitter described a notification from the Citizen app that said police were responding to unconfirmed reports of a loose tiger running around the street.Shortly thereafter, police confirmed that there was indeed a wild-animal sighting.It was a...
New York ranked dirtiest city in America in new report
NEW YORK - New Yorkers produce so much garbage that the city recently landed the top spot on a survey of the country's dirtiest cities."It's so nasty, it's filthy, there's garbage all over the place," Angela Brown told WPIX as she looked at a littered street in Gowanus.The cleaning service BusyBee looked at five categories in their rankings.
New York explosion: Man detonates pipe bomb in 'attempted terrorist attack,' officials say
NEW YORK — A man inspired by Islamic State extremists strapped on a crude pipe bomb, slipped unnoticed into the nation's busiest subway system and set the device off at rush hour Monday in a scenario that New York has dreaded for years, authorities said.In the end, the only serious wounds were to the suspect, Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant and former cab driver, authorities said.