The driver of a car whose passenger gunned down a New York police officer on Monday has been charged with possessing a weapon. Lindy Jones, 41, was also charged Wednesday with possessing a defaced firearm, according to the New York Daily News. The passenger in the car — and the man who shot Officer Jonathan …
A New York Police officer was fatally shot in Queens on Monday during a traffic stop. Officer Jonathan Diller, 31, was struck in the torso just beneath his bullet-resistent vest. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where he died, WABC reported. Police said Diller and his partner had approached a vehicle that had been parked …
Some of the men who allegedly beat New York City police officers while they were making an arrest last month were taken into custody in Arizona, although it’s not clear what charges they faced since their release in New York did not require them to stay there. Seven men were arrested after the incident over …
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 …
An altercation between a woman and a police officer during an arrest in Harlem is now under internal review by the New York Police Department. News 12 Brooklyn said officers were arresting 22-year-old Elvin James for an August 12 attempted murder when a group of people intervened. A video of the incident shows one woman …
Two police officers in New York City were gunned down Friday night, leaving one officer dead and the other in critical condition, WABC-TV reports. The shooting comes the same week that two other NYPD officers were shot, one on Staten Island and another in the Bronx, according to WNBC-TV. In Friday’s attack, authorities identified the …
New York police are searching for a man accused of exposing himself to a young girl while on a city bus. According to police, the incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. on August 18, as the suspect and victim rode the MTA B15 bus traveling through Brooklyn, in the Crown Heights area. The girl, 13, told …
Police in New York City are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting two women in Brooklyn this weekend. Pix 11 and the New York Post report that police believe two victims were attacked by the same suspect early Sunday morning in Williamsburg. A 25-year-old woman and a 27-year-old woman both reported a similar …
New York City officials have agreed to pay $625,000 to a woman whose 1-year-old son was forcefully taken from her arms during a filmed arrest last December. Jazmine Headley, 24, filed a federal lawsuit in August, months after her arrest at a social-services office in Brooklyn. Headley waited three hours in the packed waiting room …
Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer who was fired on Monday for using a prohibited chokehold during Eric Garner’s fatal 2014 arrest, is reportedly suing the police commissioner for his job back. Lawyer Stuart London told the New York Post that the ex-officer will file a lawsuit under Article 78 of the state Civil …
An NYPD officer reportedly took his own life Tuesday morning, marking the eighth officer in the police department to die by suicide this year. Unnamed officials told the New York Post that the 35-year-old officer died from self-inflicted injuries at his Yonkers home at around 3 a.m. The unidentified officer, who worked in the Bronx …
Authorities in New York say they have arrested three men on multiple criminal charges and are seeking to identify another suspect in a pair of incidents involving water poured on local police officers. According to CNN, the first occurred on Saturday when a cop was doused with liquid on Saturday as he worked in Brooklyn. …
