A former NYPD detective was convicted of beating, raping and setting his wife on fire, after Tampa jurors refused to believe his claims that his wife and a masked man were trying to kill him. Christopher Hanney is now facing a possible life sentence for the crime. more ›

A man killed himself on Saturday inside a Midtown South Precinct jail cell while in police custody for a domestic violence arrest. Officers found 40-year-old Alexander Gonzalez hanging by his shirt at around 3:20 p.m. According to the Daily News and the Post, Gonzalez had turned himself in on charges that he had assaulted his wife. Gonzalez was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, but died a short time later. more ›

On Staten Island, serial domestic abusers are going to have start wearing GPS tracking units that will text their victims when they get too close. "To many domestic abusers, an order of protection is just a piece of paper," Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said yesterday, announcing the plan. "It does not deter these relentless scofflaws from constantly terrorizing and attacking their victims. I refuse to stand by and continue to watch this happen time and again without trying to do something about it." more ›

The Queens woman who admitted to killing her husband was found not guilty of second-degree murder by a jury today. Barbara Sheehan, 50, had argued that she shot her husband Raymond in self-defense, fearing for her life after 17 years of abuse. more ›

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg defiantly stood by his decision not to disclose that Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith resigned in early August because Goldsmith had been arrested for domestic violence a few days earlier in D.C. Bloomberg said, “I make no apologies for either the fact that Mr. Goldsmith has left city service, or for treating the Goldsmith family with basic decency as he left." Then Goldsmith spoke out later in the afternoon, releasing a statement to the NY Times, "As a former employee, I , not the mayor, should have more fully disclosed the reasons for my resignation. I thought the immediacy of my resignation mooted the need for further explanation. I was wrong. The lack of a fuller disclosure I now regret as I regret loss of my public service career and the intrusion my children have experienced... I regret the criticism of the mayor for his support of my family." more ›

Mayor Bloomberg made his first remarks about former Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's resignation due to a domestic violence arrest in D.C.—and not his crappy Blizzageddon response, as most assumed. And in true Bloomberg fashion, those remarks were defiant...like kayaking-during-Hurricane Irene defiant. He told reporters this morning, "I make no apologies for either the fact that Mr. Goldsmith has left city government or for treating the Goldsmith's family with basic decency." more ›

Mayor Bloomberg was probably thinking he could discuss his praiseworthy Hurricane Irene preparations during his weekly radio show today. Instead, he cancelled his appearance over the controversy of how former Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith resigned his position: While the Mayor's office said that Goldsmith was pursuing "private-sector opportunities in infrastructure finance," Goldsmith actually resigned because he had been arrested for domestic violence in Washington D.C. more ›

Brian Anscomb, an attorney who resides on the Upper East Side, seems to have anger management issues when it comes to cell phones and his girlfriend, according to court papers obtained by the Post. On July 10th, Anscomb, 37, allegedly snapped his 23-year-old lady friend's phone in half during a dispute, then gave her a black eye. Now the so-called "iPerp" is back in trouble: law enforcement officials tell the Post the patent attorney "stuffed an iPhone down his girlfriend's throat" during a domestic dispute in their "posh" York Avenue home on July 16. more ›

Up until November 2010, if there was no obvious visible physical evidence of strangulation, prosecutors were forced to lower charges against the perpetrator to a non-criminal count of harassment. But NY State has improved its choking laws since then, adding a criminal count of obstruction of breathing or blood circulation to the law, which can be proven with other courtroom tools, including witness testimony. And since the new law has been implemented, over 2,000 people have been arrested under it. more ›

Police are still investigating the death of Bronx woman Tina Adovasi, who went missing over a week ago, but many believe they already know who is to blame: former NYPD housing cop, and her ex-husband, Eddy Coello. "We know who did it—he did it. We're working on the chain of evidence and connecting all the dots," a police source told the Post. more ›

Eddy Coello, the former NYPD housing cop who is being called a "person of interest" in the death of his estranged wife Tina Adovasi, met with police yesterday. No charges were filed against Coello, who has a history of domestic incidents, but he adamantly refused to give investigators a DNA sample. "He was asked if he would give a DNA sample. We asked him to look at certain pictures. He refused. And then he left," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. This comes as his ex describes her terrifying abusive relationship with him. more ›

A body found in Yorktown Heights has been identified as missing Bronx woman Tina Adovasio. Adovasio, a mother of four, was missing since last Friday, after getting into an argument with her estranged husband, former NYPD housing cop Eddy Coello. Coello is considered a "person of interest" and refused to give a DNA sample this morning. more ›

The Post reports that the national sales director of free newspaper AM New York was arrested for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend earlier this month. Apparently Ronald Spears was "was taken out of the paper's offices in handcuffs by police on Nov. 17 and charged with four counts of misdemeanor assault... He is alleged to have brandished a frying pan, pushed his girlfriend to the ground and attempted to strangle her while screaming, 'I am going to teach you not to mess with me." more ›

Charges have finally been brought against David Johnson, the longtime aide to Governor Paterson who was at the center of an alleged cover-up scandal that ended his boss's election campaign. Last month a judge concluded that Paterson did not break any laws when he repeatedly contacted Johnson's ex-girlfriend, Sherr-una Booker, after Johnson allegedly choked her, tore off her Halloween costume, and threw her against a mirrored dresser last October. But the judge did recommend that the Bronx D.A. consider bringing charges against Johnson, and today the D.A. brought it. more ›

White Plains Mayor Adam Bradley was in court today, to face a second round of charges accusing him of abusing his wife. Bradley's troubles have prompted rumors that he will resign, though a spokesman said, "He continues to do the work he was elected to do." more ›

The body of the Queens man who allegedly slashed his pregnant wife’s throat and stabbed her sister washed up near the Whitestone Bridge yesterday, reports the Daily News. Fitzgerald Jolly became enraged last week when his wife announced she was going to have a baby and refused to consider an abortion, flying into a violent rage in front of several children. Both women and the unborn baby are in stable condition, but police found the unemployed construction worker’s vehicle abandoned on the bridge after the altercation, and suspected he had taken his own life. His wife and victim Patrona Kates even wished him dead. "If [the police] find him, I hope they kill him," she told reporters. more ›

Governor David Paterson was intimately involved in an attempt to hush up a domestic violence incident involving one of his top aides, three anonymous sources tell the Times. According to their account, Paterson's interference in the alleged victim's legal action goes even further than what was previously alleged (that Paterson personally called the woman, Sherr-una Booker, and tasked two state workers with pressuring her to drop her legal action against the aide, David Johnson). Sources say that last month, on the eve of the Times's first of many damaging articles about Johnson, Paterson personally drafted a statement he hoped Booker would release to the media. more ›

On the night Governor David Paterson's senior aide David Johnson allegedly assaulted his female companion in her bedroom, the head of Paterson's security detail, Major Charles Day of the State Police, swung into action. Before the NYPD even arrived at the apartment Johnson shared with Sherr-una Booker, Day had already spoken to the woman on the phone. Although the Times has previously exposed alleged State Police interference in Booker's legal action against Johnson, their involvement that night hasn't been reported in such detail, until today. more ›

Pedro Perez, the acting superintendent of the NY State Police, resigned yesterday amid an investigation into his intervening role in the domestic violence case of former Paterson aide David Johnson. He took over as chief just a week ago after Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt, also implicated in the scandal, stepped down. Perez claims he’s leaving not because he acted wrongly, but because he lacks support from the administration and his fellow officers. But Joseph Barrett, the president of the New York State Police Investigators Association, which represents detectives, says, "The position that the State Police find themselves in now is the result of the actions of a few high-ranking officers in management positions, and Acting Superintendent Perez was one of them." more ›

Just a week after State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt resigned amid charges Gov. Paterson used state troopers to intimidate a woman involved in a domestic violence case with a top aide, the man appointed to the position has stepped down. In a letter to the governor First Deputy Supt. Pedro Perez said “that continuing in my position as acting superintendent may be an obstacle to progress of the New York State Police, an agency I love.’’ It's still unclear whether Perez, who the Post says is currently under investigation by Attorney General Cuomo, resigned fearing the consequences of his own role in the scandal, or if working for Gov. Paterson is just that bad. more ›

The drumbeat calling for Governor Paterson to resign is quickening, with Long Island Democrat Craig Johnson calling on Paterson to quit, and the New York branch of the National Organization For Women demanding that he step down. Earlier today State Senator Craig Johnson tweeted, "Worse than Watergate? This time it is the crime AND the coverup." And Baruch College professor Doug Muzzio made this dire prediction: more ›

Governor Paterson personally ordered two state employees to contact a woman seeking an order of protection against his top aide, sources tell the Times. It was previously disclosed that Paterson had a little telephone chat with the woman, Sherr-una Booker, the day before she failed to appear for her third court appearance in the matter. But in today's installment in the Paterson nesting doll bombshell series, the Times reports that the governor's interference allegedly went beyond just a plausibly innocuous phone call, and now there's speculation that his actions may indeed be criminal. more ›

Since being convicted of misdemeanor assault for dragging his girlfriend down a building hallway last October, expelled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate has skipped all three court-mandated domestic-violence counseling sessions and hardly started his obligatory 250 hours of community service. "He was told, 'This is serious,'" a source told the Post. "It was made clear, 'If you miss again, violation is next.'" more ›

Embattled ex-anchorman Dominic Carter has been released early from jail just as new reports come in that he was already arrested once, 13 years ago, for beating and choking his wife. Last month he was sentenced to 30 days for abusing his longtime partner Marilyn, who claimed he’d been using her as a punching bag since 2003. Now we know the episodes go back more than a decade, but she sill blames his behavior on the sad, sordid story of his childhood, revealed graphically this week in a NYMagazine piece. "Those demons that he's carrying around were turned on me," she said. more ›

A woman is suing her investment banker husband, alleging assault and battery, emotional distress and false imprisonment that apparently started well before they married. In court papers filed yesterday, Miryam Allam claims husband Jason Meyers, founder of Aspatuck Holdings, repeatedly hit her and forced her to perform sexual acts "she did not want to do." more ›

State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was found guilty of misdemeanor assault for "accidentally" slashing his girlfriend with a broken glass, was sentenced to probation and community service earlier this month. However, his Senate colleagues were harsh in their 55-page assessment of his actions. According to the NY Times, the panel found he "behaved recklessly and callously after his companion was hurt during an argument at his Queens home, failing to call 911, dragging her violently through a hallway and taking her to a hospital miles away." more ›

Police are looking for the boyfriend of the Queens artist who was discovered dead in her Long Island City apartment on Saturday. more ›