A pregnant 16-year-old was shot outside her apartment on Stanton Street yesterday afternoon in an altercation with her boyfriend. Kimberly Valasquez, who is two months pregnant, was shot shortly after 2:00 p.m. in the second-floor hallway at 210 Stanton Street and was rushed to Bellevue soon after. "Her boyfriend shot her," a girl who identified herself as Valasquez's best friend told the Daily News. "She's out of surgery now—she and the baby are going to be okay."
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Pregnant Teenager Shot In The LES, Boyfriend Suspected
Police Pilfer Peckish Protesters' Pizza At Precinct!
A group of protesters arrested for blocking traffic yesterday during a World AIDS Day civil disobedience action near City Hall say they were not only denied dinner while being booked at the 7th Precinct, but that police also ate two pizzas that were specifically ordered for them by their supporters. This is already the second pizza pilfering scandal to rock the NYPD in as many years; last time it was the "hipsters" who suffered. In this latest incident, police allegedly encouraged the detained activists' supporters to order the pizza.
City Employee Charged With DUI After High-Speed Crash Under FDR
An investigator for the city's Business Integrity Commission was charged with DUI early this morning after his Camry collided with a minivan in a high-speed crash under the FDR. Witnesses tell the Post that 29-year-old Jesse Strauss was going at least 100 mph down South Street around 4:45 a.m. when he hit a minivan as it was turning onto Clinton Street. "I heard two blowing horns and tires screeching simultaneously, then I heard a huge smash," another witness tells the Daily News. Sanitation workers helped Strauss flee from the wreckage despite a broken leg, and the driver of the minivan was in stable condition at Bellevue.
NYPD Eyes LES Bars As Los Feliz Returns
Earlier this month the police shuttered Rob Shamlian's two LES spots Los Feliz and Mason Dixon, citing underage drinking. Los Feliz reopened this weekend and Mason Dixon is expected to reopen soon, but their shutterings have brought new attention to the dramatically increased police presence in the area of late. Bar owners are claiming conspiracy ("There is something amiss when a restaurant with great food, great relationships with the neighbors, no noise complaints, and a responsible policy toward underage drinking gets shut down."), and recent statements from the number two at the 7th Precinct, while denying a conspiracy, certainly should give bar owners pause.
Tatum O'Neal Released, Saved and Smiling After Arrest
Following her Sunday night arrest, Tatum O'Neal held her head high yesterday upon her release from the 7th Precinct, where she spent the night. The actress was busted buying crack and cocaine on Clinton Street, not far from her apartment in The Forward building, around 7:30 p.m. Not even a full 24-hours later she quickly came clean to The NY Post, thanked the cops for saving her, and is even trying to help the guy who sold her the drugs, Alan Garcia.
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