The DA is throwing the book at the one-legged ex-con millionaire who was convicted of assaulting a Russian stripper in January. Manhattan prosecutors want to sentence Thomas Hartmann, who was found guilty of smacking Sophia Kandelaki with his Rolex watch, to a year in prison for the misdemeanor assault. Hartmann's lawyer has asked for more time to respond to the prosecutions' 11th hour demand: "We're hoping he can stay out (of jail) altogether," said Joseph Tacopina. more ›

Two Rikers Island corrections officers have been charged with covering up a brutal assault on an inmate in 2009. 49-year-old Victor Rodman, who has been part of New York's Boldest for almost a quarter century, allegedly visited another guard, 43-year-old Michelle Hubert, in July of 2009 when a fight broke out between inmates. Investigators tell Newsday that Rodman broke an inmate's nose and caused permanent vision loss in one eye. "These defendants are charged in a disturbing inmate assault and cover-up, betraying their integrity and the city's trust in them," the city's Department of Investigation's commission Rose Gill Hearn said. more ›

Police in Queens arrested off-duty corrections officer James Robinson today and charged him with rape, assault and wrongful imprisonment. Details on the charges are still scant but a source tells us the charges are "domestic." more ›

A man killed himself on Saturday inside a Midtown South Precinct jail cell while in police custody for a domestic violence arrest. Officers found 40-year-old Alexander Gonzalez hanging by his shirt at around 3:20 p.m. According to the Daily News and the Post, Gonzalez had turned himself in on charges that he had assaulted his wife. Gonzalez was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, but died a short time later. more ›

According to the Post, conductor Thomas Christopher, 35, allegedly got into a verbal argument with the 18-year-old boy aboard the southbound R train as it traveled near the 36th Street station in Astoria around 3:50 a.m. today (DNAInfo claims the incident occurred around 11 p.m. last night). The conductor lost his cool and allegedly punched the teen. Christopher, an MTA employee since March 2007, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges. more ›

Have you ever noticed some shady character mucking about in a subway station on the opposite platform, on the other side of the tracks, perhaps yelling profanities and acting belligerent, and thought yourself, "Golly, I'm glad that ne'er-do-well isn't on my side! Over here I can enjoy my Lady Chatterley's Lover in peace." Well, it seems the other side of the tracks isn't so very far away, as one unfortunate man discovered earlier this month at the 6 train station at Lexington Avenue and 77th Street. more ›

Last week, all charges were dropped against the McDonald's cashier who used a metal rod to beat two customers who slapped him and then jumped over the counter at the West Village location in October. Rayon McIntosh, who served ten years for the manslaughter death of a friend in 2000, vowed to never work at a McDonald's again after the experience, but worried about finding new work after video of the incident went viral. But the Post reports that he's back on his feet: he’ll be distributing and marketing free restaurant booklets put out by a Harlem real-estate company. “I hope people don’t recognize me. I don’t want the attention. I’m glad to be back to work,” McIntosh told them. more ›

Last week, a jury voted to dismiss all charges against the McDonald's cashier who used a metal rod to beat up two customers who slapped him and then jumped over the counter at the West Village location in October. While 31-year-old Rayon McIntosh is off the hook, a jury has now voted to indict Denise Darbeau and Rachel Edwards, the two women who jumped over the counter, on burglary charges. more ›

One night in March of 2009, a 26-year-old student who would only tells the press her first name, Christine, was eating pizza on the Upper East Side when she was approached by Dzemal Kolenovic, 33. Kolenovic resides in Brooklyn, but he's very proud of his Albanian identity, as Christine would soon find out when he was beating her to a pulp outside the establishment. more ›

Yesterday, a jury voted to dismiss all charges against the McDonald's cashier who used a metal rod to beat two customers who slapped him and then jumped over the counter at the West Village location in October. Rayon McIntosh told DNAInfo he was relieved the jury agreed that he was acting in self-defense during the altercation on October 13, and added that he and other employees had been asking management to get security for their location for months: "We were begging them to get security," McIntosh told them by phone. "The McDonald's itself is a problematic store. It has a high, concentrated number of people every day. In the Village, it's crazy." more ›

A jury has voted to dismiss all charges against the McDonald's cashier who used a metal rod to beat up two customers who slapped him and then jumped over the counter at the West Village location in October. According to DNAInfo, the jury agreed that 31-year-old Rayon McIntosh was acting in self-defense during the altercation on October 13. "Over the last 11 days the grand jury considered the evidence and voted to dismiss in the interest of justice," Assistant District Attorney Jaime Mendoza said. "We ask Mr. McIntosh be freed." more ›

A second boy has admitted to throwing a shopping cart, hitting a woman who has been in a medically induced coma since the incident. The boy had been at an East Harlem shopping center when he and a friend lifted the cart over the railing; in Family Court, he said, “Me and [the other boy] threw a shopping cart off the fourth floor of the mall." more ›

When you watched that video of a McDonald's employee going mental on two customers last week—in self-defense!—did you think to yourself, "gee, that McDonald's looks really familiar, haven't I heard about crazy stuff happening there before?" You did? Well, you were right! The McDonald's in question, located at 136 West 3rd Street off Sixth Avenue, has had more than its fair share of violence over the years and yet, according to a DNAinfo source, when offered off-duty NYPD officers to patrol the restaurant it declined the offer. more ›

A good Samaritan stopped a long-haired man from sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman on Staten Island this week. Vince Corrado was taking the garbage out when he heard the girl scream in West Brighton at around 9 p.m. on Monday: “It was a scream of terror, just blood-curdling. I saw someone under a car in front of my house and yelled, ‘Who the hell is it?’ I see a guy get up and run off down the block and then I see a girl stand up," Corrado told the Post. more ›

Police are hunting for a man who sexually assaulted a woman entering her Greenwich Village apartment building last week. The 23-year-old woman was grabbed from behind around 2 a.m. on September 8; the attacker beat and sexually assaulted the victim before fleeing. The suspect was caught on camera walking down the street in a gray suit and open-collared white shirt, and is described by police as a 35-year-old Hispanic man, standing around 5-foot-8 and weighing roughly 180 pounds. Below, you can check out a video of the suspect: more ›

Jack Shephard would frown upon this. LOST (and Party of Five) actor Matthew Fox was detained by cops in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday night, TMZ reports. Fox allegedly drunkenly assaulted a woman outside of a bar there after being blocked from boarding a party bus she was driving. more ›

Remember Claudia Charriez? She made it to the semifinal round on America's Next Top Model in 2006, but was disqualified after she revealed that she had been born a man. She's back in the news now—because she says her firefighter/FDNY calendar model boyfriend assaulted her, because he thought she was flirting with other men at Flashdancers. "He pinned me into a telephone booth and strangled me, then let go and started crying," she told the Post. more ›

Police are searching for a man in connection with an attempted sexual assault in Brooklyn in which the 'Spider-Man-like' perp climbed through a window to get into the victim's apartment, and then groped her buttocks. more ›

Police in the town of North Branford have arrested 24-year-old Candace Kiley for assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a party last month...because she was supposedly making eyes at Kiley's 30-year-old boyfriend. You stay classy, Connecticut! more ›

James Moss, the 53-year-old, 6'2", 270 pound Staten Island father who burned his 9-year-old son's hands and stuffed him in the oven last year pleaded guilty to the awful crime back in May. The Staten Island DA's office announced the plea and the fact that he will be sentenced on Friday today. Moss faces up to seven years in prison for the attack, but he could get less since his son, Christopher, is expected to urge the judge to be lenient. more ›

While a grand jury decides whether or not to indict 37-year-old attorney Brian Anscomb on felony strangulation charges after he allegedly attempted to shove his iPhone down his 23-year-old girlfriend's throat, Anscomb appeared in court yesterday to sign a protection order preventing any contact with the woman. According to the criminal complaint, Anscomb, who is an intellectual property lawyer at Norris McLaughlin and Marcus, wrested open his girlfriend's throat with his fingers "then force-fed her his iPhone so violently that she suffered cuts in her throat." more ›

The Pennsylvania construction worker accused of viciously beating and sexually assaulting a woman at a Midtown bar—because she refused to dance with him—pleaded guilty yesterday. Mbarek Lafrem had originally tried to blame the victim, a pediatric nurse, claiming, "She was trying to push me so I punched her in the face twice and pushed her back in the stall," but yesterday his lawyer said, "He felt it was the right thing to do at this juncture." more ›

A 22-year-old Bayonne, New Jersey man is in a coma after a large group of teenagers beat him to within an inch of his life early Sunday morning. Dawid Strucinski, a recent criminal justice graduate from Rutgers University who is described by a friend as "one of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life," was walking home from a convenience store around 3 a.m. when he intervened to help a buddy being attacked by the mob. CBS 2 reports that he suffered severe head trauma from the assault, and this surveillance video shows his assailants, who numbered between 13-20, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head while he's down. more ›

While the NYPD has begun taming the junkies of Union Square, the West Village, and especially Christopher Street, remains a hotspot for donut riots, drug dealing, and senseless violence. A 69-year-old man who has lived in the neighborhood tells the Daily News, "You take your life into your hands when you come down here, especially after dark." Though the overall crime rate is down in the 6th precinct, "there has been a surge in the numbers of felony assaults," and robberies have also increased. Walking the area, a reporter saw a "stumbling man" approach a police officer. The man "opened his mouth and lunged towards the officer's neck." After being arrested, a cop said of the man, "He was acting like a vampire. I don't think I've seen that before." more ›

An NYPD officer who was accused of smashing a man in the face with his baton during a road-rage incident two years ago plead guilty to the assault yesterday. Officer Marc Rios, a 13-year NYPD vet, was sentenced to probation as part of his plea deal, but was immediately fired from the force. more ›

A robbery suspect who was un-handcuffed while appearing before a judge in the Manhattan Supreme Court went "berserk" yesterday, injuring four court officers and sending two to the hospital. While suspects are typically kept chained in the courtroom, Court Justice Renee White apparently prefers it when prisoners are left uncuffed as they enter and exit her courtroom, according to a courts spokesman. more ›

And here we have the harrowing video of a Park Slope woman getting attacked on 16th Street by a man described as "a short, Hispanic man with a stocky build." The video was shot from someone's front stoop surveillance camera, and includes sound, so you can hear the woman's blood-curdling screams of terror as she tries to break free from her assailant's grasp. The only thing that stops this video from being completely disturbing is that she manages to break loose as concerned neighbors emerge from their houses. The video also shows the attacker pulling up his pants as she flees. more ›