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 it turns out the attacker, William Marcus, did randomly seek out the boy.
1
more ›
Results tagged “crimefile”
S.I. Handcuffing-Abduction of 13-Year-Old Was Random
Your Landlord, Michael Rapaport
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 Rapaport's article: Rapaport owns a building on East 18th Street and let Lyonne rent an apartment in it. All was okay, until 2003 when other tenants complained about Lyonne's habits:
"People were going in and out of the apartment, [one of the tenants] was telling me about the late-night parties, and 'random dudes sprawled out on her sofa at all times. [Another tenant] had a little dinner party. Natasha was screaming up at them throughout the party."Plus, when he inspected her own apartment last December (after she was jailing for trashing a neighbor's apartment and threatening to molest the neighbor's dog), "It looked like a grenade had gone off," with smashed glasses in the kitchen and "standing water in the clogged tub with flies hovering over it." Who knew Jane magazine could be a chronicle of apartment woes? And we can't imagine having Michael Rapaport as our landlord: Gothamist would just think about his character in beautiful girls and wonder if he'd plow snow in front of the apartment when he's mad.
Pot Empire Busted In Queens and Brooklyn
." Those mobsters are relentless: Pot farm with stolen electricity. The Queens location, where the pot farm was in the basement, had a strong exhaust fan to remove the "pungent odor." The ringleader, Peter Zuccaro, is currently serving time in a Florida prison.
FDNY Problems
And it's not that great when a FDNY spokeman gets nailed for coke possession. Mike Loughran, who is a civilian member of the FDNY and was arrested for snorting coke on in midtown over a week ago, claims a friend handed him a bag of coke. When he saw a police officer, Loughran "faked a yawn and tossed a Ziploc bag full of white powder onto the low, cigarette-littered rooftop of a nearby restaurant." But the police weren't fooled; they got the bag and charged him. Just think - there used to be a time when the big problem at firehouses was toxic urinal deodorizers.
Illegal Cigarettes Seized
New York City, which has very high cigarette taxes, has filed a complaint against Otamedia, which has had trouble with tobacco giant Philip Morris for selling cigarettes online. Mayor Bloomberg wanted people to "blow the whistle" on the local bodegas that sell them ciggies without tax. And here's the city's Everybody Loves A Quitter program to stop smoking.
Stabbing At Plaid
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 also injured." Another clubgoer said that Plaid is "the only club I know of that doesn't pat you down," with a friend chiming in, "Alcohol and young people in a small dark place only brews trouble. How can you not search people?"
more ›
Arresting Disappearance
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 handcuffs. The Daily News reports that the sergeant, whose face was covered with blood from a cut near her ear, "jumped in the back of the van and tried to restrain the teen, but the 155-pound suspect managed to jump from the van and fled down the street." The NYPD version: "There was a violent struggle between the sergeant and the suspect." The NYPD has been looking into better procedures to transporting prisoners, but Newsday noted: "Security of female prisoners, however, remains a challenge because their thinner wrists make it easier to slip out of handcuffs, though yesterday's escapee is medium framed, 5-foot-5, 155 pounds." The police were still looking for the suspect, who was wearing a bubble jacket and still had the handcuffs on her right hand.
more ›
Made For The Tabs: Murder, Cross-Dressing, Religion
"It's the craziest thing I've ever seen: a cross-dressing Hasidic killer," said the source. "He had a full face of makeup on - with a beard."
N Train Means No Luck
subway schedules, which the MTA has details on.
« Previous
1
Next »
send a tip
tips@gothamist.comsubscribe
Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from Gothamist.