A Bronxville, New York, police sergeant murdered his wife and two sons before taking his own life on late Friday night. Clarkstown Police said they found the bodies of Watson Morgan, 49; Ornela Morgan, 43; and 10- and 12-year-old boys shortly after midnight Saturday morning. The four had all been shot. “At this phase of …
New York police shot and killed a man who was allegedly holding his mother at knifepoint in their Bronx apartment Saturday morning. The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified, reportedly told his family he was going to kill them and then himself. A 19-year-old family member made the 911 call that brought …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
Investigators identified the couple who died in Wednesday’s crash at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani. The Villanis were from Grand Island, and both were 53, Niagara Falls Police said. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Villanis vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, hit a curb and went …
The FBI announced Wednesday night that it had finished its investigation into the airborne car crash at the Rainbow International Bridge in Niagara Falls and concluded there was no terrorism involved. The agency’s Buffalo field office said that no explosive materials were found on the scene and that it had turned the investigation over to …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that there was no evidence a car crash and explosion at a Niagara Falls border crossing was terrorism, nor have any explosive devices been found at the scene. “At this time, there is no indication of a terrorist attack,” Hochul said, according to NBC News. “Let me repeat …
Federal authorities have busted a major counterfeit ring, seizing tens of thousands of counterfeit luxury products worth more than $1 billion and charging two people with trafficking in counterfeit goods. Adama Sow, 38, and Abdulai Jalloh, aka Troy Banks, 48, were arrested on Wednesday after agents seized more than 200,000 counterfeit bags, clothes, shoes, and …
A New York landlord has been charged with the murders of his girlfriend and two tenants after he showed up at a police precinct and told officers he was having issues with his tenant and “did something bad.” David Daniel, 54, gave the officers the address in the St. Albans section of Queens Tuesday morning, …
A Long Island man has been charged with menacing and endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly pointed a gun at a 6-year-old boy retrieving a bag of candy mistakenly left on his doorstep. Manhasset police said the incident happened Saturday evening when a mother tood her daughter, two sons, and a nephew …
A New York mother has been charged with with poisoning her 4-year-old daughter with “life-threatening levels” of seizure meds. Authorities say they believe Tajahnae Brown, 23, suffers from Munchausen’s syndrone by proxy, in which someone induces or invents illness in someone in their care for attention. Prosecutors say Brown made 190 trips to medical providers …
A New Hampshire man, accused of stalking an upstate New York resident and business owner on the ground and by air for the past four years, was arrested again this week for violating protective orders against him. Police told the Albany Times-Union that Michael Arnold, 65, was arrested on his way to the William H. …
The man accused of kidnappng 9-year-old Charlotte Sena from an upstate New York state park last weekend was previously charged with choking someone during a domestic dispute. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Craig N. Ross Jr was charged in 2017 with a misdemeanor count of criminal obstruction of breathing. Police records show that officers responded to …
