According to the Post, a 75-year-old woman was beaten with a nail-studded wooden plank by a homeless man in midtown yesterday evening. Police confirmed the woman was discovered bleeding from the head with bruises all over her body after being attacked by a suspect with a 2-by-4 piece of wood. “I stepped outside and saw a woman laying near a puddle of blood,” said witness Rasheeda Kin, a security guard at a building nearby. more ›

Yesterday, the police identified the suspect who robbed a 78-year-old woman being pushed in a wheelchair last month. Surveillance videos captured the daytime theft of a purse in Bushwick and the footage aired on TV: According to the Daily News, "Cody Santiago, 18, was sitting on a couch in the living room of his family's Bushwick home Tuesday night when the TV began to broadcast the video of the heartless heist, his family said." His mother even said, "Cody, why did you do that?" and when he denied it, she said, "Yes, that's you, Cody. Don't deny it!" more ›

In addition to the $2,000 offered by NYPD crime stoppers, Sen. Pedro Espada and the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation each pledged $5,000 to whoever finds the man suspected of raping a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's in her Bronx apartment building. One investigator told the Daily News, "We have been getting lots of tips with some basic information, and following them up aggressively." A neighbor also recalls the victim ringing her doorbell after the incident, saying, "She was naked and hysterical. My sister Yolanda gave her a robe and tried to comfort her...People are shook up. Nobody is in the halls late at night and I'm concerned about my wife coming home from work." more ›

Police are searching for a man suspected of raping a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's in her Bronx apartment building around 2 a.m. on Monday morning. Police say the man, described as in his early 20s and about 5'7", followed the victim into her building on Benson Street in Westchester Square, and ambushed her as she got into the elevator. more ›

The silver lining to the depressing report that a 72-year-old woman was robbed—at gunpoint—for only two dollars in Farmingville, Long Island: Cops arrested a suspect. According to the police, Ryan Mercorella, 24, allegedly "drove up to a woman who was walking in the Kmart parking lot on Ocean Avenue about 3:40 p.m. Sunday... and asked her for change of a $10 bill. When she said she didn't have any money, Mercorella threatened to kill her, police said, and pulled out what appeared to be a handgun. The woman then opened her wallet, and Mercorella removed two dollars from it before driving off." Newsday reports that Mercorella was charged with first-degree robbery plus a number of other crimes. more ›

Cornelius Abson, who admitted to choking and robbing an 85-year-old woman as well as robbing other victims, appeared in court last Friday. However, his arraignment was postponed because his lawyer requested a psychological exam. more ›

Police are looking for a man who robbed an 85-year-old in a brutal attack. The attack took place in a Crown Heights apartment building's elevator--the victim Lillian France was headed up to visit a relative and about to get out at the 5th floor when a man grabbed her, put her in a chokehold until she lost consciousness, and robbed her of $900--and her cane. Here's the disturbing video: more ›

Wow: When a man tried to rob 86-year-old Elizabeth Maropoulos in Hell's Kitchen on Sunday morning, she told the Post, "Once I realized he was coming after me, I went kick, kick!" Still, she was knocked down and robbed of $100. Luckily the thief, Earl Wearing, was caught--Maropoulos proclaimed him a "bad, bad boy. He's a bastard." And a bartender at the Blarney Stone, where Maropoulos is apparently a regular, said she's a tough lady, "She's taken swings at [troublemakers] and chased them with a broom. She's out there at night directing traffic and bouncing." In related news, police believe someone is targeting elderly women on Staten Island--two women have been shoved and robbed--and a woman has turned up on surveillance video using their credit cards. more ›

The police are looking for two men suspected of robbing an elderly woman at gunpoint on Tuesday afternoon. As the woman entered her apartment on Neptune Avenue, police say two men "forced their way into the apartment, where the tied up the 73-year-old woman at gunpoint before taking her ATM card, pin number and assorted jewelry." more ›