A woman in a blonde wig threatened a toddler on a Brooklyn street this week and then stabbed the little girl’s mother as they passed on the sidewalk. The unknown woman began yelling at the 34-year-old mother, who was pushing her 3-year-old daughter in a stroller, at about 3:30 p.m. on Monday and then threatened …
The ex-boyfriend of a woman found dismembered and stuffed into suitcases last month has finally been taken into custody and is being questioned about the murder by police. Police had been looking for the former lover, who has not been named, since finding Dasia Johnson’s body in her Brooklyn apartment on September 21, as CrimeOnline …
A 21-year-old woman whose dismembered body was found in two suitcases in her Brooklyn apartment was working with an organization that helps women in abusive situations, and yet she hid her boyfriend from police when they were inevitably called during their frequent arguments, according to neighbors who said they tried to help the young woman. …
Police conducting a wellness check at a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday afternoon found a dismembered body stuffed into two suitcases. Investigators believe the body belongs to the 22-year-old woman who lived at the apartment but are awaiting the medical examiner’s confirmation of identity and cause of death, WABC reported. Other residents of the apartment building told …
A robber stealing lingerie from an adult video store in Brooklyn on Sunday whacked the store owner on the head with a baseball bat and fought with police who tried to arrest him. The suspect ultimately got away, The New York Post said. The incident took place at about 9:30 a.m. on Sunday at Video …
A Brooklyn mother is accuses of beating her 9-year-old daughter, throwing a bed on her, and ignoring her pleas for help before the girl died. Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney David Ingle said that Shemene Cato, 48, attacked Shalom Guifarro and her 13-year-old sister for two hours on Sunday before the older girl sneaked out and …
New York Police are questioning two people after a 9-year-old girl was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment Sunday afternoon. WABC reported that the girl was pronounced dead on the scene and had trauma to her head and neck. According to the New York Daily News, police responded to a 911 call from the mother. …
A Brooklyn mother who allegedly dropped her 6-month-old son from her second-floor balcony has been charged with attempted murder. Police said that Breindy Meisels, 29, has also been charged with attempted manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child, and abandonment of a child in the early Thursday morning incident, The New York Daily News said. …
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Federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to admit allegations of more twisted acts— including sexual abuse of minors, hush money payments, and physical abuse — as evidence in R&B star R. Kelly’s racketeering trial, set to begin next month in Brooklyn. The new court filing alleges that a “crisis manager” for the star bribed …
The second day of Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s trial for the murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts focused on surveillance video that allegedly shows Bahena Rivera’s black Chevrolet Malibu several times in the are where Tibbetts was last seen. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent Derek Riessen described the painstaking work looking over the …
Lynette Hernandez was thinking about moving to Brooklyn in September to live with her boyfriend, NBC’s Dateline reports. Her mother, Lourdes Pinzón, wasn’t sure that was a good idea, but the 27-year-old was “excited to move to an apartment in Brooklyn,” she said. Hernandez and her 6-year-old daughter Bella were living with Pinzón, but neither …
