On Friday, the EMT response over a dying Brooklyn woman was partially thwarted by her 22-year-old son, according to the Daily News. Dexter Carter ended up punching one of the EMTs working on Diane Carter, and a police source says, "He prevented EMS from rendering medical service to his mother." more ›

The NYPD is looking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of punching then robbing someone near Central Park on Wednesday. The weapon of choice? An ice pick! more ›

Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arraigned on a hate crime in a Manhattan court room yesterday following his arrest for assault earlier Friday. Young has been accused of drunkenly making anti-semitic comments (shouting "F***ing Jews") during an exchange with four tourists, and then tackling one of them. Young apologized after his arraignment: “I sincerely regret what happened last night...I take this matter very seriously, and assure everyone that I will do everything I can to improve myself as a person and player.” more ›

Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arrested earlier this morning for allegedly striking a man outside a Midtown hotel. According to the Post, "Cops were called to the hotel around 2:40 a.m. after Young, whose ballclub is in town to play the Yankees tonight, pushed the man to the ground, sources said." more ›

Did you realize that Calvin Klein, 67, had been dating a man 46 years younger than him? If you didn't, then you'll need to look at this Google Image search (SFW, at least for the first few screens) before understanding why everyone is reporting about how Klein's former boy-toy Nick Gruber was arrested at his Greenwich Village apartment earlier this morning. more ›

Comedian Jackie Mason, 75, had to call the cops on 48-year-old paramour Kaoru Suzuki-McMullen when they ended up in a physical altercation over a domestic dispute Friday morning. At least we got an answer to that age old joke: how many hoarders does it take to beat up an aging Jewish comedian? more ›

Yesterday, a MTA worker was arrested for allegedly punching a subway rider in the face at the 138th Street 6 train station in the Bronx. Police said that Phylathia Monroe got out of the subway token booth to confront a passenger and then allegedly assaulted her. Last night, the victim, Janet Ojeda, told WCBS 2, "She came [out] and she swung me against the gate and she picked me up with one hand and she was just looking straight into my eyes … like… I started seeing a blur. And I’m trying to get air. And she could hear me, but she didn’t let go. It was scary. All I was thinking was if I was going to see my family again." more ›

Earlier today, a MTA worker was arrested after allegedly punching a subway passenger in the face at the 138th Street 6 train station in the Bronx. more ›

The woman seen in a MTA surveillance video being beaten and apparently abducted at a Long Island Rail Road station has come forward to tell the MTA that she's "safe." more ›

Three men have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 60-year-old woman Tuesday morning in the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Carlington Haye, 30, Georges Etienne , 20, and Jonathan Nelson, 21, have all been charged with rape, robbery, sexual abuse and burglary in the assault. "They were creepy. I saw them walk into the building. I felt like I wanted to go inside and lock my door," one witness told the Post. more ›

A veteran Queens elementary school teacher was arrested yesterday after allegedly assaulting a 6-year-old student. Grace Peterson-Hagendorf, a retired teacher working as a substitute at PS 22 Thomas Jefferson in Flushing, allegedly pushed a girl into her chair around 10 a.m. Wednesday, twisting the girl's neck with enough force to cause pain and bruising. Her husband Arthur Hagendorf defended her to DNAInfo, "I think she was falsely accused of this. She would never hurt a child in any way, shape or form." more ›

A 60-year-old woman was sexually assaulted yesterday morning by two men just after opening the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Now police are trying to find the two men they say are responsible. more ›

A Bronx cop has been suspended by the NYPD after being accused of fondling a woman's butt and crotch and then punching her in the face at a nightclub this weekend. Officer Melvin Thomas, 33, was off-duty at the time of the alleged incident, which occurred at the Eros Lounge around 4 a.m. Sunday morning. He maintains it wasn't just him making trouble though—and he's got the shiner to prove it. more ›

The man who attacked a 73-year-old grandmother in East Harlem two summers ago has been convicted of attempted rape and assault. Prosecutors said that Kentrel Whitaker, 33, approached the woman, who was out for her morning walk on the FDR Drive jogging path in East Harlem, in August 2010—he threw her to the ground, beat her, removed her clothing and tried to rape her. He was only stopped from completing the rape because a passer-by intervened. more ›

A Bronx teacher has been arrested and accused of repeatedly punching and sitting on top of a 12-year-old student. Evelyn Tirado, 53, has been accused of assaulting Brigitte Aznaran last Thursday at Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School in Morrisania. “She grabbed me by my arms, threw me to the floor and starting hitting my arm,” the sixth grader told the Daily News. “Then she sat on top of me like I was a chair. I was crying. I don’t ever want to see her again.” more ›

The career criminal who was arrested for allegedly raping and beating a woman at the Bowery J train station was drunk, according to his ex-girlfriend, who told the Post, “He wasn’t himself. He didn’t realize what he was doing." more ›

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 ›