Police officials announced that the man killed by plainclothes narcotics officers in Brooklyn Sunday night had been on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Darin Richardson had shot and wounded a Cobb County, Georgia police officer in 2005 and had been on the run the past two-plus years. Richardson was being followed by police after they suspected he had a concealed weapon (he had been "fiddling with his waistband") as he left a bodega in East......

Time Out NY has a list of PETA's most wanted in the city. The organization has 25,000 of its 1.6 million members based right here, and while we wish they'd have a crack team of those members targeting folks like Brooklyn's Cruella DeVil, here are some of the big offenders. • The Ringling Brothers circus is back in town in March 2008 and PETA is again questioning the way the circus treats its animals. The......

The authorities gave details about the Philadelphia apartment of Rebekah Johnson, the woman suspected of shooting a Staten Island commune leader last year. Like how they found an AK-47 rifle and 1,000 rounds of ammo. Johnson was arrested on Monday, after being on the run for over a year. She was a "most wanted" fugitive and had even been featured on America's Most Wanted multiple times, but she drew attention of investigators when she registered......

Last year, Rebekah Johnson went on the lam after allegedly shooting the leader of a Staten Island commune. Over a year later, police found Johnson after she got off a train in Philadelphia yesterday morning. Johnson, who had dodged the authorities after the shooting, was tracked down after she "bought a car in Delaware using her real name, and opened a post office box in nearby Cherry Hill, N.J." per the Post. And the final......

A jury has been selected in the trial of Peter Braustein, the journalist suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting over many hours a former colleague. Braunstein was the subject of a month long manhunt that took investigators from NYC to Memphis, where he was captured at the University of Memphis. According to the NY Post, the jury is made up of seven men and five women. Nine have post-graduate degrees; there's a female lawyer, female......

Residents in NY and Pennsylvania breathed a huge sigh of relief when Ralph "Bucky" Phillips surrendered to police last night. Phillips is wanted in the shootings of three state troopers - one of whom died from his injuries - during his many months on the lam after breaking out of an Eric County jail. Phillips had been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list (the NY Times noted, "just three names down from......

The Post reports that the police are investigating whether there's a link between the murder of Brooklyn teen Chanel Petro-Nixon and the NJ teen Jennifer Moore who was killed after a night of clubbing. Police have been showing a photograph of the suspect in Moore's murder, self-proclaimed pimp Draymond Coleman, in Petro-Nixon's Brooklyn neighborhood. In June, Petro-Nixon was on her way to an Applebee's to apply for a job, and she never made it home......

After a decade of being featured on America's Most Wanted, Charles "Chaka" Raysor turned himself in at a Brooklyn police precinct. Raysor, who had been a "Most Wanted" fugitive on the program 11-13 times, had been indicted in 1996 for leading a drug gang that made weekly profit of $90,000 in Bed-Stuy. The gang which was called "The Killers" was also accused of killing many people, including three people they wrongly thought would testify against......

Not that we'd want to be on any most wanted lists, but those crazy anti-smoking fascists in City Hall have come up with a new list that we really wouldn't want to be on: The Most Wanted Smokers List. It lists people who tried to get around city and state tobacco taxes by buying their smokes online from various websites. Only problem was the city got a hold of their names and purchases histories......

NBC4 is reporting that suspected fake-firefighter perv Peter Braunstein has been captured on the campus of the University of Memphis. Apparently he was recognized by a student, and stabbed himself in the neck before he was apprehended by university police. ABC has some details... NBC has some more... CBS chimes in... America's Most Wanted... Daily News... UPDATE: Jossip reports: "Braunstein screamed: "I'm the guy the world is looking for" and then proceeded to stab......

The man suspected of attacking a former coworker has been spotted in Cleveland. According to America's Most Wanted, Peter Braunstein traveled to Cleveland (NYC to Hoboken to Newark then a bus!) in early November, telling people he was a movie producer or writer from LA, visiting strip clubs, placing ads in the Cleveland Plain Dealer looking for a driver, and calling himself "Peter Bronson." Braunstein was spotted in Brooklyn in mid November, which is possible......

The Daily News has fun bit of reporting today called "Whatever happened to..." in which they track down ten front page headliners from the past year and give a brief little update on them. That sounds fun, you say, so where is the link? That, my friend, is the problem. For some reason the News doesn't think you deserve to read it online (unless, and this wouldn't be that surprising, we're just too stupid to......

A graffiti arist, Oliver Siandre, with the tag "Kiko," was arrested for criminal mischief yesterday, after tagging at least fifty locations in Astoria. And you know who made one of the first calls to the police when "Kiko" started to appear? You got it: City Councilman Peter Vallone. In the Post, Vallone says, "He tagged private homes and the columns at Athens Square Park, apparently because he was trying to impress his girlfriend," who lives......

There's something oddly satisfying about a fugitive, wanted by the NYPD for killing his girlfriend, being turned in by his new girlfriend. The NYPD told the media that Gary Jackson, who had been on the run since beating Joneese Davis to death in a Bronx apartment building in November 2003, was returned to the city over the weekend; he will be charged with Davis's murder. Jackson had been in Florida, and a girlfriend there found......

I was looking to get myself a set of those Iraq's most wanted playing cards that they are giving out to soldiers, and I had found a bunch of auctions on ebay for them with bidding going into the hundreds of dollars. Turns out you can buy them for $5.95 - they claim to be printed by the same company that printed them for the government, although these were not actually issued by the government......

With the recent New York tragedy of the undercover cop killings (with the surreal capture of one suspect while he was dressed as a women, in a wig and bra - "the ugliest woman" a witness who called in the tip had seen) and the series of killings in Queens and Brooklyn (which are incredibly scary, when you think about how often you go to the corner store or bodega...crazy people just coming in......