The former cop who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teacher was just sentenced to 75 years to life in prison. According to the Post, this means that Michael Pena "must serve at least 75 years before even seeing a parole board." more ›

The police have released a sketch of a man suspect of trying to rape a woman who was jogging in Riverside Park on Friday evening. According to police, the 24-year-old woman was on a wooded path inside the park around 6 p.m., between West 125th and 122nd Streets, when a man approached her from behind. more ›

For the better part of the last month, former police officer Michael Pena had been on trial for the alleged rape of a 25-year-old school teacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August. Jurors heard eyewitness accounts, doctors testimony, and the victim's first-hand account of being attacked—and ultimately, Pena was found guilty of three counts of predatory sexual assault. But the judge declared a mistrial on the rape charges because of a deadlocked jury. Today, everyone is trying to make sense of what happened—but one juror has vowed to not lose any sleep over the case: “This was not fun,” juror Lloyd Constantine told reporters. “This was hard work. It was difficult, painful work...There’s no law that says a jury has to reach a verdict.” more ›

Three men have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 60-year-old woman Tuesday morning in the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Carlington Haye, 30, Georges Etienne , 20, and Jonathan Nelson, 21, have all been charged with rape, robbery, sexual abuse and burglary in the assault. "They were creepy. I saw them walk into the building. I felt like I wanted to go inside and lock my door," one witness told the Post. more ›

Five men and a woman have been indicted for allegedly kidnapping, gang raping and prostituting a 15-year-old runaway girl in an Ozone Park, Queens house they were illegally squatting in. According to Queens DA Richard Brown [PDF], 22-year-old Gary Council was the brains of the operation, which also managed to involve a bogus lease signed by "Raymond Kelly," the much criticized sex-peddling site Backpage.com, a man named Junior Goldring and threats against a Queens homeowner. more ›

The NYPD describe the suspect as "a light skinned male black, approximately 20 to 25 years old. He is approximately 5'9, with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt with white lettering in the front." Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Crime Stoppers, either by calling 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or going to www.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.com. more ›

A 60-year-old woman was sexually assaulted yesterday morning by two men just after opening the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Now police are trying to find the two men they say are responsible. more ›

Two of the four NYPD detectives who were stripped of their guns and badges after surveillance footage allegedly showed them drinking wine at a Washington Heights restaurant while on duty have been ordered to go to rehab. The four detectives, all of whom have been placed on modified duty from the 33rd Precinct, were directed by the department to go to the facility upstate, according to DNAInfo. This comes as one of the detectives—Det. Douglas Strong—is also being investigated for questionable behavior towards a 36-year-old waitress in the back of Parrilla Steakhouse on Feb. 16. more ›

The NYPD detective who is accused of questionable behavior with waitress at a Washington Heights restaurant—while on-duty—claims that he's innocent. At least that's according to a NY Post source, with information about what Detective Douglas Strong told his union lawyer. more ›

The 36-year-old waitress claiming that a veteran NYPD detective may have taken advantage her in the back of a Washington Heights restaurant says he returned her underwear to her in a plastic bag the next day. “The last thing I remember is him patting the bed and telling me to sit down next to him,” the waitress, whose name is being withheld, told the Daily News. “I remember trying to slide away from him, bob and weave. He was like, ‘Come here, everything’s all right. I’m not gonna hurt you.’” [Ed. note: This has been revised to reflect changes in the Daily News' story.] more ›

A Bronx cop has been suspended by the NYPD after being accused of fondling a woman's butt and crotch and then punching her in the face at a nightclub this weekend. Officer Melvin Thomas, 33, was off-duty at the time of the alleged incident, which occurred at the Eros Lounge around 4 a.m. Sunday morning. He maintains it wasn't just him making trouble though—and he's got the shiner to prove it. more ›

A new report downplays the seriousness of an incident in which four NYPD detectives allegedly consumed alcohol on duty and focuses on a "possible rape" a detective may have committed against a waitress. more ›

Four NYPD detectives have been stripped of their guns and badges and placed on modified assignment after surveillance footage allegedly shows them drinking wine while on duty at a Washington Heights restaurant. According to the Times' police bureau chief, IAB is also investigating if one of the detectives had a sexual encounter with a waitress. "We are investigating whether or not one of the officers sexually assaulted this woman," the paper's NYPD source said. more ›

In spite of having DNA evidence that linked two men to a 1993 gunpoint rape, the Bronx DA's office had to drop the charges partly because of a police backlog and partly because, as the Daily News reports, "Prosecutors then dragged their feet in the case despite having enough evidence against the cousins, failing to file charges until the day after statute of limitation expired, admitted Steven Reed, a Bronx district attorney’s spokesman." So now one of the suspects is laughing about it. more ›

Former IMF head and the Sofitel's most infamous guest Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under investigation by authorities in his native country for his involvement in a prostitution ring. BBC News reports that authorities have summoned him for questioning next week, and he can be detained for as long as 48 hours. more ›

A tourist from Texas reportedly experienced a New York nightmare last weekend. While visiting the city the 19-year-old says she was sexually assaulted in her midtown W Hotel room. Since the assault, the NYPD have arrested two Swedish tourists they say were involved in the crime. more ›

The Daily News has awful details about the Bedford-Stuyvesant home invasion-turned-sexual assault. According to the News, "When their victim, who was tied in a bedroom, refused the sexual demands, 'the defendant threatened to shoot her,' [Brooklyn ADA Wilfred] Cotto said of the youngest in the crew." And that suspect is 13-years-old. more ›

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 ›

Le Bain, the steamy Meatpacking District nightclub with the sexy roof bar perched atop the lusty Standard Hotel, is getting some very bad press today after a Brooklyn man was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in one of the bathrooms. According to investigators, Philip Manning, 34, met the unidentified 23-year-old woman at Le Bain early Monday morning, when he offered to buy her a drink. She claims he escorted her to a different part of the club, forced her into a bathroom, and refused to let her leave until she performed oral sex on him. more ›

Police arrested a man accused of attacking a woman in her East 7th Street apartment early on New Year's Day. According to the Post, passers-by heard the victim yelling, "Please don't rape me!" more ›

The NYPD had a chance to arrest accused molester Steven Pappas in 2009—but blew it because they didn't believe the 12-year-old who said he'd been sexually assaulted by a man posing as a police officer. Until now. Yesterday, police arrested Pappas and accused him of raping a 15-year-old boy he tricked into his van last week by flashing a police badge. more ›

Police say a man impersonating a police officer sexually assaulted and then robbed a Queens woman last month. According to NBC New York, "The woman, 52, was posting flyers at about 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 along 41st Avenue in Flushing when she was approached by a burgundy van or SUV with four people inside. The suspect displayed a business card with a police logo and told her it was illegal to post flyers, asking for her identification, police said." more ›

Convicted rapist Vincent Heyward received a sentence of 428 years in prison yesterday after being found guilty of dozens of felony charges for sexually assaulting five women in Hamilton Heights and Chinatown. Prosecutors told NY1 that Heyward's victims gave statements before the sentencing, and that Heyward received one sentence of 200 years to life, along with a consecutive sentence of 228 years. more ›

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn framed by Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party? Journalist Edward Jay Epstein sure seems to think so, and lays out several "mysteries" in the New York Review Of Books surrounding the downfall of the man who many believed would be the next president of France. more ›

Last weekend police released surveillance footage of a man accused of groping a woman from behind as she boarded a train at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station and asked for help identifying him. According to a NYPD spokesperson, the system works: a tip came in and 50-year-old Staten Island man Samuel Mangum was arrested. more ›

Police are searching for a man whom they believe is behind at least two broad daylight sexual assaults against elderly women in Bed-Stuy. You may recall that at the end of last month a man entered a retail establishment in the neighborhood and attempted to rape a 77-year-old woman. She was able to fight him off and escaped unharmed. ("I think he was trying to choke her and take her clothes off," one area resident told CBS 2.) Now investigators believe the suspect has struck again, forcing a 61-year-old woman to the back of her store on Friday afternoon and trying to rape her. more ›

This week, the owner of West Village celebrity-magnet restaurant Da Silvano was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit—parking garage manager Samuel Cruz claims Silvano Marchetto fondled his genitals twice. Marchetto's spokesman Mike Paul countered today that Cruz is just a petty extortionist: “Silvano’s only mistake was giving him large tips in the past, which created a money-hungry monster.” And then Paul made the ill-advised decision to compare Marchetto's situation with that of Penn State and JoePa. more ›

The owner of West Village celebrity-magnet restaurant Da Silvano was hit with sexual assault lawsuit. According to the Post, parking garage manager Samuel Cruz claims Silvano Marchetto fondled his genitals twice. And the Post's lede is "Maybe he just wanted to know if the noodle was al dente." more ›

Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman as she was boarding the M train at Broadway-Lafayette on the morning of November 10. According to DNAinfo, the 42-year-old victim was groped from behind but was unhurt otherwise. After sexually assaulting her, he fled, but the NYPD has obtained surveillance video of the heavy-set suspect. more ›