Suffolk County police pulled a man who had been swerving on County Road 19 in Holbrook on Thursday night—and found that he seemed "confused" and couldn't locate paperwork. And then the driver admitted he had been swerving so he could blow into his ignition interlock device. more ›

A convicted pedophile was arrested in Brooklyn for taking pictures of a 9-year-old girl. David Zimmer, 40, was arrested Jan. 2 in Borough Park for photographing the girl in the hallway of the building where they both live. But Zimmer's brother claims there was nothing wrong with the photos: “None of the pictures he took were inappropriate. My brother is a very kind, sweet person.” more ›

Eric Nederlander, scion of the Nederlander Broadway theater clan, was arrested last night for violating an order of protection when he allegedly went into his girlfriend's West Village apartment, pulled Nancy Okun's hair and yelled, "You’re cheating on me." more ›

Last year, the federal authorities charged a police officer for violating the civil rights of a 31-year-old black man, claiming that officer Michael Daragjati falsely arrested him can called him a "n-----" Now, Daragjati's lawyer says they have a plea scheduled. more ›

The NYPD are not known for giving out frivolous tickets or making frivolous arrests, unless you happen to be reading the bible in a playground after dark or eating doughnuts in a playground unaccompanied by a child. So it may shock you to hear of another case in which the NYPD aggressively arrested a suspect who, it turned out, had committed absolutely no crime: “I was under the impression that it was very illegal to walk up the hill,” said tourist Aaron Vansintjan about his frustrating experience. more ›

The playgrounds in this city are not intended for public use—don't you remember what happened to the doughnut girls? Patrick Beberfield apparently did not when he stepped outside for a breath of fresh air in the park near his Bed-Stuy home, all because of the smell of a dead chicken. But try telling that to the cops. more ›

When actress Ellen Barkin Tweeted her anger about the NYPD's apparent "random arrests" of innocent people in the wee hours of New Year's, she set off a firestorm of criticism from other Twitterers when she criticized the NYPD ("People being thrown in police vans, arrested for 'jaywalking'What happened to the NYPD of my youth?Who are u all?Shame shame on u all") and Mayor Bloomberg ("Fuck all of u,Bloomberg & every1 goose-stepping behind u.I cannot believe what I am seeing.U protect nothing.U ARE the violence in my city") and complained about a cop shoving her. But what do the cop-types on NYPD Rant think? more ›

A man who was arrested for attempted larceny in Washington Heights died in police custody after suffering an apparent asthma attack last night. The 52-year-old suspect, whose name hasn't been released yet, was allegedly caught breaking into a car; he fled into Tommy’s Grill, near the corner of West 158th and Broadway where police caught up with him. As he was being arrested, he told officers he was having difficulty breathing and said he had an asthma inhaler in his pocket. more ›

A spokesman for the city's Office of Emergency Management was suspended without pay after an incident in Soho on Wednesday night. The Post reports that Seth Andrews crashed his city-owned car and then threatened a female police officer who was arresting him, "I’m going to choke you, just watch out. You’re done. I can’t wait to get you on Staten Island. You just watch your gun." more ›

An off-duty cop was busted this week for drunk driving after she took an eight-mile cruise down a Long Island parkway...in the wrong direction. more ›

The body of a newborn baby girl was found in a Washington Heights alley on Tuesday. Now police have charged the mother of the baby with self-abortion. more ›

Brandon Watts has unwittingly become the face of Occupy Wall Street, after bragging about losing his virginity while camping out at Zuccotti Park and then landing on the front page of the Daily News after being beaten and bloodied by cops. The 20-year-old allegedly knocked a hat off a police officer and threw an AAA battery and pen at cops as well and was arrested. And he was apparently bailed out by OWS. more ›

Allie Loftis, the 13-year-old teen who apparently ran away from her suburban Massachusetts town on November 4 and had been last seen at the Port Authority Bus Terminal last Friday, was found in NJ yesterday. And police have arrested Jorge Garzon and charged him with "aggravated sexual assault, child endangerment and child abuse." more ›

On the heels of reports that the feds are investigating City Comptroller John Liu's questionable campaign finances, now the NY Times reports a man who has raised money for Liu has been arrested for fraud: "The charges against the man, Xing Wu Pan, do not mention Mr. Liu, but say that Mr. Pan served as a bundler — or person who gathers donations from a group of contributors — for a citywide candidate in New York for the 2013 election. A person briefed on the matter said the candidate was Mr. Liu." more ›

After sharing surveillance video of a man who allegedly tried to rape a woman in the East Village earlier this week, the police now say they have arrested Imre Meszesan, 35, for the incident. And the tip about the suspect came from a cop who recognized him from a previous arrest. more ›

Last week, the story of a 21-year-old female student who was arrested and held by NYPD for 36 hours for not carrying ID outraged many people—even if the arresting officers didn't do anything explicitly illegal, most agreed it was an unnecessary and unwarranted abuse of power, and the fact that none of the officers stepped up to let Samantha Zucker free during her 36 hour ordeal was even worse. But now the NY Times reports that the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association can explain what happened: Zucker was just a casualty of the ticket-fixing scandal. more ›

A Long Island police officer pleaded guilty to making a woman touch his clothed private parts in exchange for not ticketing her friend. Garrett Mannerz, 34, who resigned from the Nassau County Police Department and was sentenced to 80 hours of community service, was arrested after the victim recorded one of the phone calls he made her. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice siad, "Nassau County is a safer place with Garrett Mannerz off the police force." more ›

Extending the courtesy of ticket-fixing to fellow officers, pepper-spraying peaceful protesters, and planting drugs on innocent suspects to meet arrest quotas are but three of the NYPD's less savory on-the-job exploits which have been put under the microscope via recent high-profile cases. But the NYTimes' Jim Dwyer points us in the direction of one person's smaller story of a particularly frivolous arrest which seems just as ridiculous as those bigger cases: a 21-year-old female student was arrested and held by NYPD for 36 hours for not carrying ID. And as Dwyer so simply puts it, once she finally reached a courtroom, "the judge proceeded to dismiss the ticket in less than a minute." more ›

Three years after the NY Times reported on rampant disability fraud among Long Island Rail Road employees, the federal authorities have arrested ten people for their roles in perpetrating the billion-dollar scam. According to the Times, "Most of the people — those charged in the case include seven former railroad workers accused of making false pension claims, the two doctors and a former federal railroad pension agency employee who helped the workers file the claims — were taken into custody in the early morning hours at their homes by F.B.I. agents and state investigators, the people said." more ›

Last Saturday, a man was arrested for allegedly trying to sell cocaine to protesters at Zuccotti Park and even punching one woman who refused. Now police say that three men threatened the woman because she was pressing charges: "You had our friend arrested — we’re going to kill you. Watch your back." more ›

A 15-year-old boy was taken into police custody for questioning on a series of sexual assaults in Queens. According to the Daily News, "Charges are pending against the teen, who was picked out of a police lineup by a victim in at least one of the attacks, the sources said. His name was not released by the sources." more ›

A Long Island man was arrested by police yesterday and charged with drunk driving with his two-year-old son in the car. Christopher Weiss, 29, was driving his Ford Focus westbound along route 25 in Suffolk County when another driver called 911 to complain he was driving erratically. Certainly the fact that he was driving a car with only three working tires wasn't helping the situation. more ›

While members of Occupy Wall Street were outside a Soho event that Governor Cuomo was attending—to protest his refusal to reinstate the "millionaires tax"— the feminist author and activist Naomi Wolf was arrested. more ›

Expect a downturn in naked celebrity photos: the FBI has arrested a Florida man suspected of hacking into the phones of actresses Scarlett Johansson, Vanessa Hudgens, Ali Larter, Jessica Alba and Emma Caulfield. According to the Feds, the man responsible for showing you Scar-Jo's breasts (NSFW) is likely "a lone wolf, who never got a cent for the pictures he stole... he just did it for the thrill." more ›

As the Squeegee King of New York, Greg Washington had a lot of responsibilities. He's washed countless cars in his day, and he's not afraid to use a little muscle when drivers don't pay. Unfortunately, squeegeeing is not looked kindly upon by the city, nor is busting stranger's cars, so last night, Washington was arrested. For the 186th time. more ›