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A New Jersey woman has admitted she fabricated an allegation of rape against a man who's now serving a 20-year-sentence for the alleged assault. William McCaffrey, 31, was sentenced in 2006 after Biurny Peguero Gonzalez testified that he and two other men raped her at knife point in a van parked in Upper Manhattan in September 2005. But she now says she made the whole thing up, to cover for a fight with some of her women friends. Last year, new scientific developments enabled investigators to retest the DNA from bites on Gonzalez's arm; no "Y" chromosome was found, meaning the bites could not have come from a man.

The Nassau County Highway Patrol saw a number of cars street-racing on the Long Island Expressway at speeds of over 100 mph, "weaving across several lanes of traffic," according to Newsday. The police chased the drivers, and when they pulled them over, one of the drivers--Anil Isaac of Queens-- had the vanity license plate "HEYOFFCR"! Isaac, along with brothers Ziad and Riad Mohamed and Rajesh Prashaud, were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and reckless driving. They apparently claimed they had been drag racing on Route 231; their cars, a BMW, Nissan, and Infiniti were impounded.