The police say that four teens, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested for "a broad-daylight home invasion that degenerated from armed robbery into the sexual assault of a Brooklyn woman for nearly an hour," according to the Post. more ›

A 15-year-old Jersey City boy was arrested last night in Lower Manhattan for stealing an iPhone on the PATH train in a PAPD operation that involved six plainclothes officers. PAPD spokesman Al Della Fave tells us that the boy was observed riding back and forth between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center stations for just over an hour looking for targets, and just after 8:10 p.m., he allegedly grabbed a rider's iPhone before being detained at Exchange Place. iPhone thieves: those six people on the train probably are watching you! more ›

Cops are searching for a man who brazenly robbed a Greenpoint Dunkin' Donuts this week and escaped unscathed, with a pile of cash (though strangely, no crullers). The crime took place on Monday shortly before 9:30 p.m. at the DD on McGuinness Boulevard near the Pulaski Bridge. A man "approached the counter, pulled a black handgun, ordered the cashier to open the register, grabbed an undetermined amount of money from it and fled in a black car," according to police. No one was injured. more ›

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man suspected of tying up and beating a 23-year-old woman while robbing a Tribeca office on Monday afternoon. more ›

Poor guys, thieves breaking into apartments have another thing to worry about now. In addition to hoping that they don't run into anyone or trip any alarms, now they've got to watch out for folks who set up motion-detecting cameras that send pictures of them red-handed to homeowners. The future! more ›

Three 15-year-old boys playing handball in Sara Roosevelt Park last night at around 7:40 p.m. were approached by a group of six men and one woman. According to the NYPD, the group brandished a pistol and demanded that the teenagers empty their pockets. When they refused, the boys were shot with pepper spray, and the assailants ran. more ›

Seemona Sumasar, the Queens woman who claimed that she was framed for robbery by her ex after she filed rape charges against him, took the stand yesterday and it was reportedly as teary as you might expect. Sumasar's life crumbled—she was separated from her daughter while in jail for seven months, had her house foreclosed on and lost her restaurant—in the ordeal and when she described being bound and raped by her ex-lover, "several [jury] members could be seen wiping tears from their eyes." more ›

Last week, a Queens teenager was stabbed to death as a gang of other teens attempted to rob him of his iPhone. Police have now arrested 17-year-old Stephon Huffman for the botched robbery and murder of Patrick Dixon. more ›

If your arm was nearly chopped in off in a fatal car crash over the summer, then painstakingly reattached through several surgeries, the first thing you'd do when you got out of the hospital is rob your local Little League office with your homeless BFF, right? Totally! more ›

A would-be robber foiled by two plainclothes cops crashed a stolen car into a fence while trying to escape in an early-morning crime on Staten Island. Also, there was a shootout! more ›

Pastrami-lovers, watch your pocketbooks—a thief has been snatching bags from unsuspecting diners at the Houston Street institution Kat'z Deli, and she's still on the loose. more ›

A group of masked ATM robbers are on the loose across Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Park Slope, identifiable only by their signature move: splashing the crime scene with bleach. Wait, where have we seen this so-called "cash'n'splash" move before? Oh, right in that Ben Affleck movie The Town! Kids really do imitate celebrities these days. more ›

The pilot of the deadly helicopter crash in the East River on Tuesday has a less-than-savory past—he's a convicted felon for his role in a carefully planned robbery in Staten Island 32 years ago. more ›

A pair of stab-happy livery cab robbers are on the loose in the Bronx, and police are asking the public for help finding the suspects after a string of attacks. In the first incident, which took place on September 18, one of the suspects hailed a livery cab near Boston Road and Allerton Avenue at around 11 p.m. and asked to go to East 223rd Street. Upon arrival, the suspect choked the driver by wrapping something around his neck, held an unknown object to his side and demanded cash. more ›

A thief was busted at a Williamsburg hat store for attempting to pawn off a stolen shtreimel, the distinctive fur-and-velvet hat worn by many Hasidic Jews. The alleged thief, Robert Giuff, brought the hat—which he said he found next to garbage on the street—to a store where he tried to sell it for $350, which is not the smartest move when the owner's name is written inside. more ›

Two women were busted yesterday for allegedly robbing an ice cream truck in Greenpoint, a bold-faced attack on one of America's most sacred institutions. more ›

A 416-pound robbery suspect has been granted a new trial because of the lack of 400 pound guys in the city. An appeals court judge ruled that the lineup he was picked out of was unfair because all the other guys were just too skinny. "Although the fillers were large men, there was a very noticeable weight difference between defendant and the fillers," said the judge. more ›

It seems as though crooked cops keep thinking they can mimic The Shield and get away from it: a veteran NYPD detective was arrested yesterday and accused of perpetrating a series of robberies over the last year. Bronx Detective Kyron Collins, who works in the 52nd precinct, was charged along with two other defendants for robbing "individuals dealing in contraband cigarettes, and other commodities in interstate commerce, at various locations in Manhattan and the Bronx," since October 2010. Perhaps he was thinking of passing it along the chain? more ›

Police are looking for a man who has allegedly robbed two women at Queens subway stations. According to WABC 7, "The suspect approached the victim's, verbally abused them, grabbed their cell phones, and fled on foot." Surveillance footage shows the suspect fleeing down the street, without his shirt. 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 ›

The NYPD released surveillance footage of a man who grabbed a purse out of the lap of a wheelchair-bound woman last month in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. more ›

If you were an escaped prisoner desperately trying to prove your innocence, which local news source would you approach to plead your case? If your first thought was a certain local rag known for its typically classy front pages, then you might want to rethink that plan...since you very well may find yourself back in custody soonafter. more ›

While the NYPD has begun taming the junkies of Union Square, the West Village, and especially Christopher Street, remains a hotspot for donut riots, drug dealing, and senseless violence. A 69-year-old man who has lived in the neighborhood tells the Daily News, "You take your life into your hands when you come down here, especially after dark." Though the overall crime rate is down in the 6th precinct, "there has been a surge in the numbers of felony assaults," and robberies have also increased. Walking the area, a reporter saw a "stumbling man" approach a police officer. The man "opened his mouth and lunged towards the officer's neck." After being arrested, a cop said of the man, "He was acting like a vampire. I don't think I've seen that before." more ›

Say what you will about the perils of gentrification, getting pistol whipped and robbed out of house and home should make one an honorary member of the neighborhood. A group of Brooklyn college students and musicians moved into a cheap apartment on the eastern edge of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, and only two weeks later were robbed at gunpoint of thousands of dollars of musical equipment and beaten with a pistol. more ›

Lanell "Country" Downing probably values his cell phone more than any high-powered executive in Midtown. He might even like his phone more than people who insist on using them as a DJ booth while on the bus. Downing loves his phone because his cell records were the deciding factor for police dropping robbery charges against the 26-year-old Brooklyn resident. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] A robbery and potential hostage situation is currently unfolding at Arrow Wine & Liquor. ABC News reports that witnesses alerted police to a robbery at 1:30 p.m. and at least one suspect is remaining in the liquor store as of 3 p.m. Dozens of NYPD officers are reported as being on the scene. more ›

A Long Island man was arrested after stealing tips jars from two restaurants and a 7-Eleven in Brookhaven Town, and the Suffolk County police say that Laurence Reilly was using the money to support a drug habit. more ›

Yesterday, we told you about the sensational fight at a fancy Lower East Side vintage store between owner Richard Ives and a group of shoplifters that ended with pretty much everyone bloodied up after being thrown through the store's glass window. Today, Ives is out of the hospital and recovering from the attack, which left him with 70 stitches all over his body! more ›

Things got messy when a group of shoppers came into the Pilgrim Vintage Clothing Store on Orchard Street last night, tried to shoplift a $2,500 purse, and promptly threw the owner of the store through his own glass window when he tried to intervene. more ›