The strange Staten Island abduction of a 13-year-old boy twists again. The boy, who said he was taken at knife point while walking to catch a bus to school, had been handcuffed and stripped to his underwear in Brady's Pond, had told police he was attacked by someone he met on MySpace. Which is confusing, because the boy had originally said a stranger attacked him, but then police suspected there was another story. But now......

Wow. If Natasha Lyonne were to write a book, it would have to include how to become a B-list starlet (maybe B+-list in the indie world) and a regular in the gossip pages (easy when you date Eddie Furlong and get into fights with others), rent an apartment from Michael Rapaport, trash it, get thrown in jail, and have your landlord write an article about you in Jane magazine. The Daily News has details on......

Even more audacious than the Eldridge Street marijuana farm that was upstairs from a nursery school, it seems that the Gambino crime family had huge pot operation in Brooklyn and Queens near schools. The federal authorities busted the ring yesterday, and we think Newsday quote sums up the operation: "An organized crime operation that's produced high-quality marijuana since 1997 at a 100-acre upstate farm, a Bayside house and a Brooklyn warehouse outfitted with hydroponic troughs......

The FDNY has not had a good couple of weeks. The big story was that this past weekend, it was discovered that there was a basement "sex shrine" at an embattled Bronx firehouse. Last summer, a woman alleged that she was raped by firefighters in the firehouse, after striking up a relationship with a firefighter in an Internet chatroom, and the Department of Investigations had been evaluating the firehouse. One of the pieces of evidence......

Federal agents seized tons of cigarettes being illegally sent to the U.S. The Daily News reports that a DHL employee provided the tip, which led to finding the cache of cigarettes at JFK. A Swiss company, Otamedia, has been selling cigarettes over the Internet. A carton of Marlboros would run $13.95, which could mean a savings of $50 without paying for various taxes. And if you happened to order cigarettes online, be warned - the......

There was a crazy brawl at Plaid on East 13th Street over the weekend - and Courtney Love was not involved! This recipe for disaster seems to be a bunch of men, probably a lot of alcohol (it happened at 4AM), disagreements, and a knife. The Daily news reports one of the injured "was dancing when he found himself in the midst of a brawl. He did not know that three of his friends were......

This sounds like the Keystone Kops, but it actually happened: Yesterday morning, a 15 year-old girl arrested by police managed to get out of her handcuffs and hit the cop watching her with them, enabling her to escape. A female plainclothes sergeant from the juvenile crimes squad was guarding her, but the suspect managed to get her left hand out of the handcuffs. And then she hit the sergeant with the other half of the......

When 75 year old Rabbi Raymond Sultan didn't appear at the Young Israel of Midwood senior center for a few days, workers were suspicious. So, after one worker went to Sultan's Midwood apartment to check up on him and discovered an odd smell, the police were called. And then the police found that Sultan had been killed by his middle-aged cross-dressing roommate. The Daily News recounts a police source's encounter with suspect Howard Goldstein:Goldstein was......

It's bad enough that the N train gets a bad rap with its slow service (it's the "Never" train, whereas the R is the "Rarely"...the W is "Whenever" and perhaps the Q is "Quixotic"), but this weekend has been no good. There was a stalled train and then a man was stabbed to death on the N train yesterday. The stalled train occured in Brooklyn, due to an electrical issue, and was eventually rerouted to......

Another woman has been found dead in Inwood Hill Park. Police believe that 39 year-old Ellis Romero, who was shot twice in the head, died in the park. The Post notes that firefighters had to wash away all the blood from the crime scene. A neighbor said that Romero, who had two children, was nice but had a "complicated personal life." Of course, this murder makes upper Manhattan residents wonder if Romero's murder is related......