Another twist in the murder case of Queens dentist Daniel Malakov: The sister of his ex-wife - who remains in jail for plotting to kill Malakov - was arrested for threatening Malakov's brother. more ›

The father who wanted to give up his 6-month-old baby out of desperation has told the police he wants to surrender. Carlos Rodas, 27, was overwhelmed when his 14-year-old girlfriend and the mother of the baby left him to care for their daughter, so he, his sister, and her boyfriend, a livery cab driver, worked out a plan for the driver to leave the baby at a Queens fire house. more ›

Yesterday, the Post reported City Councilman Dennis Gallagher, the Queens politican accused of raping a woman last summer, was offered a plea deal that would "keep him out of jail and off the sex-offender registry" and possibly force him to resign office. more ›

The Queens DA's office and NYPD revealed new details about the killing of a Queens dentist. and why his estranged wife was arrested for murder and conspiracy. Daniel Malakov, who had been fighting with wife Dr. Mazultov Borukhova over custody of their young daughter, was gunned down at a playground last October when taking the 4-year-old to his wife for visitation. more ›

Three and a half months after Queens orthodontist Daniel Malakov was gunned down at a Queens playground in front of his young daughter, his estranged wife was arrested for his murder. Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova was charged with murder and conspiracy and taken to a precinct house from her Forest Hills home. Malakov's mother told the Daily News, "They're dirty...her whole family, mother, sisters, all of them are animals. They committed such a dirty act, and I ask God for them to get everything they did to me, so that it would come back to them from God." more ›

The family and friends of slain dentist Daniel Malakov yelled at murder suspect Mikhail Mallayev (pictured) in a Queens courtroom yesterday. Malakov was gunned down last year when he was dropping off his daughter to his ex-wife at a Queens playground. His brother yelled, "Hang him up!" as other yelled "Shoot him!" and "Take off his head!" when Mallayev left. more ›

On November 25, 2006, groom-to-be Sean Bell and his friends were leaving the Kalua nightclub in Queens when undercover police confronted them. In the confusion that ensued (the police thinking the men were armed or were going to the car to retrieve a gun, uncertainty over whether the police identified themselves leading Bell and his friends to think they were being carjacked) five undercover cops fired 50 times at Bell's car. His friends Joseph... more ›

The Department of Education is charging a temp with stealing $50,000 in fake overtime. The tip off? When Tyrone Avila would claim he was working 85 hours a week - when he really supposed to work less than 40 hours a week. The Daily News reports that Avila had been temping as budget analyst for the DOE since 2001, but "he didn't start padding his time sheets until 2005 when his mother-in-law developed mental problems... more ›

The Queens DA's office is allegedly split over how to handle a Halloween night fight in Howard Beach. more ›

Police believe that 14-year-old Mohammed Nasser acted in self-defense when he fatally stabbed his stepfather on Wednesday night. Nasser said, "Well, he threatened me and my family, so I had to do what I had to do to protect my brother and my mother and my other little brother." more ›

The police raided the office of Queens City Councilman Dennis Gallagher yesterday - and they were looking for DNA evidence of a sexual assault. The Juniper Park Civic Association President Robert Holden told the Sun he saw police officers taking evidence, "They just had boxes they were carrying. Bags and boxes of their tools." The Post got details of the alleged crime:

Gallagher met the woman at Danny Boy's, a bar where he's a regular, on Dry Harbor Road near both his district office on Metropolitan Avenue and his family's home, according to several sources. The sources said the two had apparently noticed each other on earlier visits to the bar. more ›

hallway of Newtown High School, located at 48-01 90th Street, and stated, “I have to cut your hair.” When Harpal asked, “For what, it is against my religion,” the defendant allegedly displayed a ring with Arabic inscriptions and stated, “This ring is Allah. If you don’t let me cut your hair, I will punch you with this ring.” It is alleged that Harpal initially refused to go into the bathroom with the defendant because he feared that the defendant would hurt him with the scissors. more ›

A Lower East Side woman was charged by the Queens DA's office for not delivering English bulldog puppies after customers paid for them. The Queens DA's office believes that Janet Goris never actually had any puppies when she advertised on various websites that she was looking for to find puppies a "loving home" and requested that interested parties only pay the shipping costs. Of course, the shipping costs were $300-400 a pop. more ›

The barter system is thriving when it comes to payments to off relatives. An Astoria man who has been serving a drug-possession sentence at Rikers was charged with conspiracy to commit murder after he tried to hire a hit man last week to kill his mother. And how was Joseph Salvio, who was actually a few days from release, going to pay for the hit? By using three of his mother's fur coats, worth $10,000, as the payment. more ›

The Queens DA's office has charged a man in the murder of 20-year-old Natasha Ramen. And it turns out that Hemant Megnath had raped Ramen in 2005; police believe the Megnath slashed Ramen's throat last Thursday to keep her from testifying about the rape. more ›

The first day of grand jury deliberations in the Sean Bell shooting case ended without a verdict, but a new witness may have emerged. more ›

Jeez, we will never be able to look at someone in a Scooby Doo or Barney costume in the same way again. The Queens DA's office announced that a Queens man was charged with selling counterfeit costumes of characters like the Scoob, the purple one, and Bob the Builder. And how the Queens DA nabbed 43-year-old Julio Quevado is crazy. more ›

Four Queens men tortured and tried to kill Anthony Albaricci because he "allegedly" sprayed the following on one of the men's homes: "Aamer, you scum, pick up your phone." The Queens DA's office charged Aamer Khan, Ali Khan, Christian Diaz, and Joseph Piazza, ages 17-19, with attempted murder, assault and weapons possession for the incident that took place last Friday According to the Daily News, Aamer Khan owed Albaricci money. more ›

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Thirty-one year old Sukni Yoon was arrested and charged with assault, reckless endangerment and child welfare endangerment after he shook his two month old baby daughter so severely that she now has "irreparable" brain injuries. Yoon also hit Hyewan Yoon on the face and bit her leg "with enough force to leave teeth marks," according to the Queens DA's office. When the baby was brought to New York Hospital Medical Center, the staff called the police due to her suspicious injuries. more ›

clip, so Tivino went to the authorities. Well, when you tag your clips "Queens," it's likely that people in Queens will watch them. more ›

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, showing that they truly believe in protecting Piazza, even now that's he's a Padre. more ›

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Nick Minucci, who was on trial for beating a black man in Howard Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Queens DA had charged Minucci with a hate crime when he repeatedly hit Glenn Moore with a baseball bat in June 2005, given Minucci's use of the "n-word," which sparked a discussion of what's in a word when jurors were selected. Minucci continued to deny racism motivated his actions, telling the court after being sentenced:

"I accept responsibility for my actions 100 percent. This had nothing to do with race. This had to do with me going to defend a friend. This was a hate crime because of Howard Beach."

Another terrible car accident claims five lives: A van from Brooklyn Manor, a group home for the mentally ill, crashed into a tree and caught on fire yesterday afternoon in Queens. It turns out that the driver, Guy Thelemaque, who had a suspended license and managed to survive the crash with injuries, swerved the van in order to avoid another car; authorities believes he had been driving well above the 40 MPH speed limit. Four other passengers trapped in the 15-seat Ford Econoline were rescued by passers-by. The Queens DA's office said that none of the passengers were wearing seatbelts, causing them to be thrown forward during the crash. more ›

Proving that murder cases never go cold, the police arrested a man suspected of killing a Queens man in 2001. Edgar Garzon (pictured), a gay set designer, had been attacked and beaten after leaving a Jackson Heights bar, and his death worried the gay community. However, his death was overshadowed by the September 11 attacks. Somehow, in the years since, the police found a suspect who had moved to London after the killing. The NY Times explains how the police worked with British authorities to arrest John L. McGhee:

When Mr. McGhee applied for citizenship there — and lied on his application by not revealing his criminal history — there was an opportunity to bring him home, the officials said. Authorities in London told Mr. McGhee to leave England or face prosecution there, the officials said.

The hate crime trial of Nicholas Minucci, aka Big Nick, began yesterday at the State Supreme Court in Queens. The Queens DA's opening statment argued that Minucci and his friends wanted to intimidate and injure Glenn Moore because he was black, while Minucci's defense lawyer Albert Gaudelli said their dispute was "minor dustup between six young men," especially since Moore and a friend were in the neighborhood to steal. Gaudelli also called the 19 count hate crime trial a politically motivated attempt to bolster black support for Mayor Bloomberg right before reelection. There's a lot of media attention on this case, so much so that the judge had to tell the courtroom "it's not Yankee Stadium, or the movies." more ›

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