It turns out that Orlando Santos, who was shot and killed after a police chase on the Major Deegan Expressway late Friday night, had several prior arrests for drugs and guns, and was currently wanted on a drug warrant. Police had tried to pull him over for a busted headlight near Prospect Avenue and East 163 Street, but he refused to stop and raced onto the Major Deegan, where he got caught in construction zone traffic. And that's when he started crashing into pregnant ladies. more ›

From kidnapping babies over Hot Pockets to preferring knives over guns in their violence, the people of Staten Island have their own special way of committing crimes (and hate crimes). And the story of the stripping, speeding and screaming Anthony Maniscalco of Grasmere just adds to the mystique. more ›

A Long Island woman stopped by an officer for running a stop sign turned the afternoon into a movie-worthy car chase by leading officers down Route 231, getting cornered in a parking lot, and then using her car as a battering ram to smash through four patrol cars blocking her path. In the 11-minute pursuit Mary Quinn, 47, struck four cars and attempted to run over several police officers before being arrested. more ›

A dramatic Brooklyn car chase yesterday turned into a veritable "demolition derby," leaving two police cruisers totaled and the getaway car flipped. Police in an unmarked vehicle witnessed three robbers hold up a Valero gas station at Sutter and Euclid Aves. around 3:15 pm. The thieves, with two guns drawn during the robbery, made a run for it in their grey Chevy Tahoe, but slammed into a cop car while driving down a one-way street the wrong way. They then reversed and rammed into the cop car; the suspects tried to turn quickly, but lost control and flipped the car. Two suspects, Eugene Hester and Darren Mack were taken to the hospital with charges pending, while the third ran away at the scene. At least no one asked to finish their crack this time. more ›

So let's say you've just led police on a four-mile-long high speed car chase, which only came to an end after you struck a state police cruiser and slammed into the center median barrier of I-84. Do you get out of the car, admit defeat, and demurely go with the police? Or do you tell them to wait while you finish smoking your crack cocaine? more ›

Karen Schmeer, the longtime Errol Morris editor who was hit and killed Friday night by a frenzied getaway driver, has been called “one of the greatest editors of her generation.” The industry professional, who edited "The Fog of War" and many other documentaries, was crossing W. 90th Street yesterday when she was struck down by a car fleeing from the police. Its driver and passengers had just robbed over-the-counter allergy medicine from a local CVS, and fled on foot from the scene of the accident with cops giving chase. more ›

A suspect was injured in an overnight shootout with police during a high-speed chase that ended in the St. Albans section of Queens. Around 3:30 a.m., Nassau County police began pursuit of the green van that matched the description of the getaway car from a home invasion robbery reported while it was in progress in Elmont, Long Island. Suspects fired at police and twice hit the cop car, but neither officer inside was wounded. A police official told the News, "Shots started to come out of the van toward our officers. There were exchanges over possibly two miles." Soon after crossing the border into Queens, the van was sidelined with a blowout, leading police apprehending four suspects, one of whom has been shot in the arm in the crossfire. Inside the van, cops found a semiautomatic rifle and a revolver. Two other cops were injured in an accident while responding to the scene. None of the reported injuries were life-threatening. more ›

Three teenagers were struck by a speeding car in the Van Nest section of the Bronx. The teens, ages 15, 16, and 17, are hospitalized and police are searching for the car's occupants, who fled on foot. more ›

in the car. Yet this is exactly what a Roosevelt man did in Hempstead last night. more ›

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. The running time is longer than a usual Hollywood blockbuster but the steady stream of oozing fake blood, rapid fire witty details and laughs at movie clichés are never boring. more ›

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Sidewalks aren't only for pedestrians - they seem to be made for cars after they are hit by other out of control cars. Yesterday afternoon, an out of control Lexus hit two parked cars after spinning across two lanes on Lexington Avenue near East 62nd Street. The parked cars then hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk. The NY Post says the victim, a Venezulan tourist, was "slumped across the trunk of the car, her legs dangling above the ground." The woman was admitted to New York Hospital in serious condition, but was upgraded to stable. The police did not press any charges yet, but the cause of the crash is still unknown. Oh, and the Lexus caught fire. more ›

Two hit-and-run incidents in Brooklyn and Queens have left two men dead this weekend. The Brooklyn accident was in the Carnarsie section - stolen car chase/drag race, where the cars' speeds were around 70-80 MPH, resulted in a man riding a mountain bike on Avenue L getting hit. A witness told the NY Post that the stolen car dragged the bike for a while and another witness said, "The guy went up in the air, and the bike went up in the air, and the bike came down and smashed the whole windshield." The biker did not an identification on him, and the stolen Ford Probe was abandoned (the other car was driven by a friend, and police believe the Probe's driver left in the friend's car). more ›

A few nights ago, there seems to have a really nutty car chase involved a minivan with a family in it. WABC 7 says the chase started in the LES, when police wanted to pull over a a blue minivan that hit a couple cars at Essex and Delancey. But the driver decided to keep driving, heading over the Williamsburg Bride, until he crashed into more cars at South 5th and Havemeyer! It sounds like a bad movie (or funny comedy) - luckily the injuries suffered by eight people (six from the minivan, two cops) were not too serious. more ›

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Our favorite Baldwin brother is Daniel Baldwin (reasons: starred in Homicide; does not own annoying 'hip' restaurants; does not bother us with his political views; does not seem very boring; is the "fat" Baldwin), who is now going to star in a new cable series called "The Strange Detective". The show, according to the Hollywood Reporter, is about a "San Francisco detective who, during a car chase on the Golden Gate bridge, plunges into the ocean; he survives, but begins to experience 'rips in time,' having visions of events that have occurred in the places he visits, which are sometimes related to the cases he is working." Which makes us wonder about Baldwin's "cocaine psychosis" at the Plaza Hotel a couple years ago, where apparently the police found a "naked, bloodied, incoherent Baldwin 'acting irrationally'" with a porn film at full blast no less, and whether Baldwin experiences any rips in time from that experience.
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Five men in a white Toyota SUV were involved in a stolen car chase and finally arrested in Brooklyn, with one passenger in possession of 50 bags of crack. more ›