Results tagged “canarsie”

The man whom cops allegedly sodomized in a Brooklyn subway station last October says police are still on his tail. 24-year-old Michael Mineo claims he was innocently relaxing on a bench in a Canarsie playground Monday night when two squad cars arrived and arrested him. "I wasn't doing nothing," Mineo tells the Daily News. "I was just sitting on the park bench talking to a friend. They knew who I was. Of course they did." Mineo is suing the city for $220 million over the alleged sodomy, and three officers are under indictment. But the cops who arrested Mineo Monday are from a different precinct, and police spokesman Paul Brown insists that they only arrested Mineo after he refused to leave and they discovered a warrant for his arrest. Mineo's lawyer Stephen Jackson says the warrant popped because Mineo mixed up the dates on a court appearance last week and failed to certify completion of community service for a prior assault arrest. Jackson agrees that cops are targeting Mineo, telling the News, "Of course they knew who he was. I think two squad cars shows premeditation."

Police have charged a Maryland man for the murder of his wife after he had claimed that the two of them were carjacked while driving home from Brooklyn along the NJ Turnpike. 26-year-old Serika Dunkley Holness was found in the couple's blue Honda Accord along the side of the road in Crumpton, MD with stab wounds and fractured ribs yesterday morning. 28-year-old Ryan Holness told police that a masked assailant carjacked the couple at a gas station along the Turnpike and had them drive him to Marlyand, where the supposed attacker bound him in duct tape and left him on the side of the road. A man who eventually helped him and called police said that Holness did not know how he got to Maryland and the carjacker had hit him in the groin. The couple, who were married in Jamaica two years ago, had a home in Brooklyn as well as in Maryland and were returning from a visit with Serika Holness's aunt in Canarsie.

Yesterday's shooting by NYPD officers of a woman who was repeatedly stabbing a cop with a 12-inch knife could have been prevented if a Taser could have been used at the scene of the incident. But the dangerous conditions of the woman's Canarsie apartment that police entered into wouldn't allow it.

A decorated EMT is being investigated for allegedly shooting several subordinates "for fun" with a BB gun in their Canarsie headquarters. A source tells the Post that Lt. Leonard Tiberi (pictured), an EMT since 1996, was fond of bringing his BB gun to work and shooting at soda bottles. But his superiors weren't too keen on Tiberi's trigger happiness, and he was ordered to leave the gun at home. Nevertheless, he packed heat again one night this month, allegedly choosing targets other than soda bottles, which, to be fair, can get pretty boring targets. The Post's source says, "That night, he took it a step further and shot at the employees a couple of times each as a joke." What a cut-up, that Tiberi! It's all fun and games until you shoot your coworker's eye out, but maybe he didn't see the harm of a little gunplay because his coworkers are all medics. Complicating matters, however, is that everyone Tiberi allegedly shot at were minorities, according to the unidentified source.

Much like the tragic story that had just been seen on screen, an afterparty for the opening night of Notorious turned violent Friday when four men were stabbed inside a Brooklyn nightclub. A chaotic scene emerged as one clubgoer described it, "I didn't know what happened, but whenever people start screaming and running out of a club it means someone either has a gun or a knife, and I wasn't going to stick around to find out which it was."

In a post yesterday about TONY's Essential New York Food Quiz, The Feedbag objects to the description of knish-maker Yonah Schimmel as a "potato-pie pro," wondering: "Are TONY readers really that estranged from their own city that they don't know what a knish is?"