Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'arrest'
May 11, 2008
Dennis Farina, two seasons as Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order, was arrested at LAX Airport when security found a loaded .22-caliber pistol in his briefcase. Oops! TMZ reports that Farina "was apologetic and cooperative" when he explained he had the "gun in his briefcase when he drove from Arizona to L.A. and forgot it was there." Farina also added he was a veteran of the Chicago police force, but that wasn't enough, because......
Continue Reading "Former Law & Order Actor Tried to Fly with Gun"May 10, 2008
After his DWI arrest led to admitting an affair and a 3-year-old love child in Virginia, Representative Vito Fossella returned to Staten Island to rampant speculation of his imminent resignation. Not only has the media predicted a resignation could come soon, the Advance reports House GOP leader Rep. John Boehner and Republican National Campaign Committee head Rep. Tom Cole have contacted Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan to see if he's interested in the seat.......
Continue Reading "More Details About Fossella's Affair as GOP Looks for Other Options"May 7, 2008
The tabloids are really running with Representative VIto Fossella's DWI scandal. Today, the Daily News and Post get a hold of the Alexandria, VA police report and go to town. The News reports the police officer who pulled Fossella over noticed his "stained red" lips; Fossella said he "had about two or three glasses of wine"--the Congressman had a blood alcohol level of 0.17, twice the legal limit. The cop also wrote, "The subject stated......
Continue Reading "Vito Told Police He Was Drinking Vino"May 4, 2008
Even though Representative Vito Fossella is apologetic and looking for forgiveness, there are still questions about the woman who picked Fossella up from the Alexandria, VA jail. Laura Fay is described as a 45-year-old retired Air Force colonel, who is a single mother with a young daughter. Susan Del Percio, Fossella's newly hired consultant to deal with his DWI crisis, told Staten Island Advance the congressman and Fay became friends when she was a House......
Continue Reading "Press Descends on Fossella's Post-DWI Ride"May 3, 2008
Representative Vito Fossella, who was arrested for a DWI outside of DC on Thursday, said, "This was an error in judgment. This mistake will not happen again." The Republican congressman held a press conference yesterday, to face the media and apologize again for his arrest. While he did not go into the details of his arrest, the Alexandria, VA arrest warrant indicated his blood alcohol was 0.17--twice the legal limit--and the police charged him with......
Continue Reading "Rep. Fossella Says He Won't Resign After DWI"May 2, 2008
Vito Fossella, the lone Republican Congressional representative from New York City, was arrested early yesterday morning for driving while impaired outside of Washington, D.C. Fossella, whose activities leading up to the arrest are not known (his day events included the NY Giants' visit to the White House), issued this statement:"Last night I made an error in judgment. As a parent, I know that taking even one drink of alcohol before getting behind the wheel of......
Continue Reading "Rep. Vito Fossella Apologizes for Drunk Driving Arrest"April 26, 2008
Six employees at a Manhattan S&M club were arrested this week and arraigned on misdemeanor prostitution charges yesterday. The women were busted for offering more than the standard whips, chains, and ropes that other dungeons offer. The six women, ranging in age from 19 to 39, allegedly offered to extend their services to full sexual intercourse for an additional $220. That's when undercover cops had to say the safety word, "Busted." Presumably, they weren't trussed......
Continue Reading "S&M Club Women Busted For Playing Nice"April 26, 2008
Three UPS employees and a fourth man were arrested earlier this week after police followed a package filled with heroin to a 29th St. address. The package had been identified as being filled with drugs at a UPS distribution hub in Kentucky. The package was delivered to its intended address at 104 West 29th St. by an undercover cop dressed as a UPS employee and the NYPD then sat on the address. Eventually, three UPS......
Continue Reading "Men in Brown Are Men in Orange After UPS Heroin Bust"April 19, 2008
So, CNN personality Richard Quest was arrested early Friday morning for drug possession when police found in Central Park well after the park's 1 a.m. curfew. Sure, the initial reports said Quest told police he was carrying methamphetamime in his pocket, but leave it to the NY Post to add the really detailed details. Not only did Quest have drugs, he also had a "rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and......
Continue Reading "Kinky Details of CNN Anchor's Central Park Arrest"April 18, 2008
Well, CNN reporter Richard Quest is nothing but honest. He was charged with drug possession after the police found methamphetamime in his pocket. How did they know? The NY Times explained that Quest "volunteered, 'I have meth in my pocket.'" The police stopped Quest because he was in Central Park (around West Drive and 64th Street) at 3:40 a.m., well after the 1 a.m. curfew (it's open again at 6 a.m.). Police try to enforce......
Continue Reading "CNN Reporter Violates Park Curfew While Carrying Meth"April 14, 2008
How does a guy who molests women on the subway get started? The Daily News found the disturbing answer to that and other questions with a jailhouse interview with serial subway pervert Freddie Johnson. Johnson was arrested for the 53rd time--and the 29th time for a sexual offense--last week when undercover police saw him rubbing up against a Hunter College freshman. His life of crime origin story: Seeing a man rub against a woman on......
Continue Reading ""Recidivist Transit Grinder" Blames Big Apple Babes"April 13, 2008
Three men are under arrest today after a fourth man was found dead at the foot of a stairway in a Harlem building. 1010 WINS reports that when police responded to a call regarding a trespasser, they found a man hog-tied, unconscious and unresponsive. He was declared dead at the scene by emergency service workers.The dead man was identified as 33-year-old Shamod Murray. He was allegedly caught relieving himself in a hallway at 341 Lenox......
Continue Reading "Death of a Urinator"April 12, 2008
Two Mets fans were arrested Wednesday at the team's home opener when they kicked a Shea Stadium seat to pieces and tried to smuggle it out of the facility. While it's not unheard of for fans to claim souvenirs during a stadium's last stand, what the pair failed to consider was that they were at the season home opener, not the final game. A Shea security guard saw Darrell Wassil, 30, and Christopher Yatsko, 22,......
Continue Reading "Shea Souvenir Hunters Top Yanks Bunting Bozos"April 11, 2008
The serial sexual predator, who had been arrested 52 times (29 were for sexual offenses) and was arrested for a 53rd time on Wednesday after sexually assaulting a woman on the 6 train, was eligible to be legally institutionalized. However, a State Supreme Court Judge decided to parole him. The state's attorney general argued for institutionalization under a new law to keep uncontrollable sex offenders off the streets. But Judge William Wetzel compromised by setting......
Continue Reading "Judge Decided to Let Subway Perv Prey On It"April 6, 2008
A 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter in the Friday night death of a Columbia graduate student. According to a Daily News source, the boy bragged to his 15-year-old friend before chasing Ming-Hui Yu, "Look what I do to this one." The teen and his friends apparently hassled Yu, a 24-year-old Ph.D. student in statistics and a teaching fellow, at the median at Broadway and 122nd Street. The Post reports one "punched......
Continue Reading "13-Year-Old Arrested in Columbia Student's Death"March 30, 2008
Accused assistant to Murray Hill Madame Kristin Davis, Grace O'Toole, turned herself in yesterday, perhaps realizing that escape from both the NYPD and the NY Media was an impossible mission. After her alleged boss was arrested and jailed on $2 million bail for running a prostitution ring linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, O'Toole took off, although she was described very accurately by someone who witnessed her flight as wearing over-sized sunglasses, and carrying......
Continue Reading "Murray Hill Madam's #2 Turns Herself In"March 29, 2008
New York Ranger forward Sean Avery may be on thin ice with any woman he's currently seeing, as his name popped up in the spreadsheets of Murray Hill madame Kristin "Billie" Davis. The distaff pimp was arrested after being linked to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer--one-time state attorney general and longtime whore connoisseur. Avery denies that he knows Davis or ever used a prostitute, laughing off the incident as a practical joke by someone familiar with......
Continue Reading "Of Hookers and Hockey Players"March 28, 2008
Okay, not all the details of East Side madam Kristin Davis's black book are revealed, but quite a few are highlighted in the Daily News today. Davis, busted earlier this week for running a prostitution ring in Manhattan apartments, reportedly has the "largest black book in America." In reality, the black book is actually a computer spread sheet that "logs more than $1.1 million in business" from a variety of men, some of whom gave......
Continue Reading "Murray Hill Madam's Black Book Details Spilled"March 28, 2008
A 25-year-old female math teacher and track coach at Wantagh High School was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student. Heather Kennedy was arrested yesterday, charged with statutory rape and released on $35,000 bail. According to police, the student had text-messaged Kennedy on March 19 and picked her up. After a few hours together, they went to the Massapequa High School parking lot where he "asked his teacher...if she wanted to have sex......
Continue Reading "Long Island Teacher Accused of Sex with Student"March 26, 2008
Yesterday afternoon a 32-year-old woman was busted for running a prostitution ring on the East Side of Manhattan that charged $900/hour for its services. Kristen Davis (no relation to the Sex and the City star...probably) operated four websites, sending her gals to one of two apartments she kept for the illegal trysts (the magic apparently happened at both 229 East 53rd Street and 533 Third Avenue). Davis was arrested at her own apartment, at 235......
Continue Reading "East Side Madam with America's Largest Black Book Busted"March 22, 2008
John White is free on bail after being convicted of manslaughter, and yesterday called for the arrest of the father of the 17-year-old Long Island man he killed. His son Aaron filed a complaint with police after Daniel Cicciaro Sr. seemed to threaten his life. White was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two to four years for the death of Daniel Cicciaro Jr., who he shot in the head during an altercation in August......
Continue Reading "White and His Son Calls for Arrest of Victim's Father"March 22, 2008
Police arrested a man yesterday as a suspect in the rapes of two women in the Van Dyke Houses complex in Brooklyn. Thomas Boker was charged with rape and robbery after being taken to Kings County Hospital for a psychiatric examination. Police say that 29-year-old Boker was about to be charged when he started to act disoriented and didn't seem to know who he was. Cops linked Boker to the rapes with forensic evidence. The......
Continue Reading "Arrest Made in Van Dyke Rape Cases"March 19, 2008
The police arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of attacking two women in the West Village earlier this month. The Post reports Anthony Rosado was "picked up" on Friday for the assaults. In the early hours of March 2, a man viciously accosted women in separate incidents on Bleecker Street. In one attack, he threw the victim to the ground, hit her head against the ground and ripped off her pants, while in the other, he......
Continue Reading "West Village Sex Attacker Arrested"March 8, 2008
Police broke up an Upper East Side heroin distribution center this week, located in the rarefied real estate of 75th St. between 2nd and 3rd Aves. Neighbors seemed shocked after police broke down the door of apartment 2B at 242 East 75th, a street unfamiliar with narcotics unit raids. One said, "I was leaving my apartment [and there was a] battering ram and there were cops, so I asked some questions and I found......
Continue Reading "UES High: Heroin Mill on 75th Street"March 1, 2008
After the city was moved by the story of a baby abandoned in the backseat of a livery cab and how the driver dropped off the baby at a fire house, prompting the police and media to look for the baby's relatives, it turns out the livery cab driver was involved in the abandonment scheme. Driver Klever Sailema was arrested today, as were another man and woman. Oh, no. According to the police, "Sailema was......
Continue Reading "Driver, Others Arrested in Abandoned Baby Case"February 19, 2008
The man who attacked two women this weekend after picking them up under the guise of being a legit livery cab driver has been arrested. One of Torkieh Sadagheh's victims, Monica Maneiro of Morningside Heights, hailed his car after getting off work at Scores strip club on Saturday night; the 23-year-old recounts what happened next:"Out of nowhere he just stopped the cab and jumped in the back seat. He grabbed me and had his hand......
Continue Reading "Fake Cabbie Arrested, One Victim Speaks Out"February 14, 2008
A 16-year-old Staten Island girl faces up to a year in jail for sending Myspace friend requests to three people. Melissa Fernino is charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, because she violated a Family Court order of protection that barred her from contacting a 43-year-old woman and her two adolescent daughters. The court order, prompted by Ferino's history of "extremely violent threats," has something to do with a soured relationship between Fernino’s father and......
Continue Reading "Myspace Friend Request Could Mean Jail Time"February 7, 2008
Yesterday, the police arrested a Brooklyn man who posed as a livery cab driver for two rapes in the past year, including one that occurred last Wednesday. Ryan Frison, described as 41 years old and 400 pounds, faces rape, robbery and unlawful imprisonment charges. Last week, a Long Island University student called Frison's "unlicensed" livery cab business and asked for a ride from Brooklyn to Baltimore. When he arrived with a friend, he picked her......
Continue Reading "Fake Livery Cab Driver Charged with Two Rapes"January 26, 2008
Two Jersey City mail carriers were arrested this week for selling marijuana when they weren't delivering most of the mail along their routes. 47-year-old Hector Pacheco Sr. and 37-year-old Al Spencer were arrested Friday afternoon with a third man as police raided a home and finding Pacheco wearing his postal uniform while grinding up marijuana to be deposited in bags that would be sold for $20. Cops seized 4 and half ounces of weed and......
Continue Reading "Jersey City Mailman Made Special Deliveries"January 18, 2008
The family and friends of slain dentist Daniel Malakov yelled at murder suspect Mikhail Mallayev (pictured) in a Queens courtroom yesterday. Malakov was gunned down last year when he was dropping off his daughter to his ex-wife at a Queens playground. His brother yelled, "Hang him up!" as other yelled "Shoot him!" and "Take off his head!" when Mallayev left. Malakov and his ex, Dr. Mazeltuv Borukhova, were embroiled in a bitter custody dispute over......
Continue Reading ""Shoot Him!": Dentist's Murder Suspect Arraigned"
