A 31-year NYPD veteran who battled his way back from cancer collared his last criminal in Times Square yesterday. Detective Nelson Dones saw 26-year-old Fernando Francis allegedly swipe an iPhone from an undercover detective on the N/Q/R platform. "It was closing the door the way I would have loved to close the door on my career," Dones told DNAinfo. "I wanted to be proactive." A colleague says Dones, who worked for the Transit Police when it was a separate bureau, is skilled at spotting subway thieves: "He has the eyes. He has the X-Ray vision." He also apparently has a voice "just like Al Pacino." HOO-AH. more ›

The NYPD transit officer who filed a complaint against his superior for unwanted sexual advances has been sued by his boss for slander. Deputy Inspector Thomas Connolly's lawyer tells the Daily News that there are "no merits" to Sergeant Nelson Fernandez's claims that Connolly suggestive sucked his pen, called him "sexy," and inappropriately rubbed his arms on duty. "Fernandez knows it's going to be investigated and he knows that a superior officer, in the midst of that complaint, is going to have to put his career on hold," Connolly's attorney continued. It's not just his career: Thigh Massage Mondays have been in limbo at Transit District No. 4 since June! more ›

The NYPD's crackdown on subway riders who put their feet up on seats or walk between cars has been going on for so long now you can't even really call it a crackdown—it's just the way things are. But some straphangers still haven't gotten the message, and continue to provide transit police with easy pickings for their monthly quotas. One such fish in the barrel was Jay Reisberg, 64, who got caught walking through subway cars on June 9th. He tells the NY Post police were writing him a $75 ticket when he got an additional bonus ticket, for not taking his hands out of his pockets. more ›

The owner of Billy’s Antiques and Props on E. Houston was hauled off in cuffs after more than a decade hawking subway signs in his store. Yesterday around 11 a.m. a swarm of NYPD officers accessed the establishment with bolt cutters, reported Young Manhattanite. According to Billy Leroy, who was released 8 hours later, they came for the subway signs sold in his junk shop. “Sadly I think it is the end of the subway signs at Billy's,” he said in an email to NYC the Blog, adding that “My question to the MTA is why did they act now and not 12 years ago, but all this will be played out in court." more ›

A great story: On Wednesday, the NYPD had alerted news organizations about two brothers missing in Manhattan since Tuesday. And a NY1 intern Nicole Porette, who had seen the notice, recognized the boys when she was walking by the 14th Street and 8th Avenue A/C/E station! more ›