A New Jersey police officer has been arrested for allegedly attempting to spark a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl. Woodland Park Police Officer Steven Vigorito Jr., 39, has been charged with attempted aggravated sexual assault as well as luring and enticing a child—he met the alleged victim while assisting her family in an unrelated police matter. "What is so disturbing about this, is the person who was to assist the family, ends up preying on the family," said Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes. more ›

A 63-year-old man who tried to hook up with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl came in for a surprise when the "teen" turned out to actually be an undercover cop. Michael Gruda was arrested on Monday night for an attempted criminal sex act with a minor. Between this and the City Island bar crackdowns, it seems like we could have a 21 Jump Street reality show in addition to a movie. more ›

A 20-year-old Connecticut babysitter has been charged with sexual assault after allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Loni Bouchard was booked on July 12 after an investigation that lasted three months, for second degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor, and illegal purchase of liquor, ABC reports. Police believe that Bouchard plied the boy with alcohol. Bouchard was charged a second time with sexual assault on July 29 in another incident with a teenage boy, but it's unclear if it was the same child. more ›

It isn't just the LES that is feeling getting pressure from the law to stop serving booze to minors—it is happening in the Hamptons, too. Just as the NYPD is cracking down on underage drinking in town, police in the Hamptons fired a summer salvo police last weekend arrested six bartenders in three locations for serving booze to minors. more ›

With Four Loko's danger past us, the NYPD is back to worrying about Nutcrackers. Last year the 34th Precinct in upper Manhattan declared war on the guys who peddle Nutcracker—a sweet homemade cocktail illegally sold to legal and underage drinkers—and this year they are planning on redoubling their efforts. "We want to get this off the street, especially when they are selling this garbage to little kids," Captain Jose Navarro of the 34th Precinct told DNAinfo. more ›

A 31-year-old subway conductor was busted on Thursday for sending sexually explicit messages and attempting to meet with whom he believed to be a 14-year-old girl on the internet. The person on the other side of the IM screen turned out to be an undercover cop, and Louis Velez was arrested when he showed up to meet with his underage lover. Queens DA Richard Brown said in a statement, "For all its good, the Internet is also an open door to your home which allows sexual predators easy access to your children. Once a predator believes he has found a vulnerable target, he can move with surprising speed - as this case frighteningly illustrates." more ›

More details about the 16-year-old who was allegedly prostituted by a pimp to former Giants great Lawrence Taylor. The girl's sister told the Daily News that the pimp, Rasheed Davis, forced her to say she was 19, "She said she had no choice but to go along with it. She doesn't blame Mr. Taylor because he had no idea (she was a minor)." more ›

Remember "nutcracker" — the bootleg concoction of booze and fruit juice sold in barbershops and bodegas uptown? Did you know you can make $20,000 a year selling it? A man who has mixed and distributed the sugary street cocktail for the past six years sat down with the Manhattan Times and described the trade. more ›

An underage gambler has cost the Atlantic City Hilton Casino over $115,000—the second-largest fine for underage gambling in the city's 31-year history of casino gaming. (Last year Bally's Atlantic City was slapped with a record-setting $157,500 fine for letting an underage customer gamble; the legal age there is 21.) The Hilton's teenage gambler, identified only as "M.R." by the gaming commission, was granted a player's account at the Hilton in 2007 and even given a free room. He was 19 at the time, but gave fake identification indicating he was 24. During the next 16 months, "M.R." traveled repeatedly to A.C. from Brooklyn, and in February 2008, he was arrested at a different casino for underage gambling. Still, the Hilton didn't know his real age until April 2008, when the Gaming Enforcement Division found a record for "M.R." at the Hilton, and notified the casino. But the next day, the casino permitted him to gamble some more, for nearly three hours. Linda Kassekert, chairwoman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, tells the AP, "We have a big concern about it because kids can make themselves look older, and that's problematic." Especially if they get lucky. more ›

Two years after 18-year-old New Jersey resident Jennifer Moore was raped and killed after a drunken night at Guest House, the Post checks in on the Chelsea club scene and finds it as decadent as ever. Robberies and assaults are up, and last week "the club-lined block between 10th and 11th avenues was rampant with drunken teens and twenty-somethings stumbling around, vomiting and collapsing." Also, no I.D. = no problem! "At the very club where Moore was served, a young woman wasn't even carded at the door last week…‘For a while, it was harder,’ said Alan Rogers, 20 of Hoboken, NJ. ‘Last year, I saw a lot of smokin' girls turned away. This year, not as many. Which is sweet.’” High five? more ›

First she nabs Mariah Carey's old manager to represent her. Now Ashley Dupré, also known as "Kristen," the hooker who serviced former governor Eliot Spitzer, is suing Joe Francis and his "Girls Gone Wild" operation for $10 million in damages. She says the GGW video was taken when she was underage. more ›

A 15-year-old Queens resident stole his father's minivan and took his friends out for a 3 a.m. drive, in what cops say could have been his first time ever behind the wheel. Police say he was speeding when he lost control, hit a light pole and then a tree in Great Neck. Two 14-year-old girls sitting in the back were ejected from the car. It appears that neither of the girls were wearing seat belts. more ›