Results tagged “crimefile”

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.

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."

." 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.

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.

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.