The NYPD announced that a man on a 4 train had been arrested "after he allegedly lifted an iPhone from a plainclothes decoy police officer’s backpack Sunday," according to WCBS 2. more ›

A 43-year-old man was fatally shot in the abdomen yesterday in Inwood by an undercover plainclothes detective during a drug bust—and the man's son says it was a tragic misunderstanding. According to police, an unidentified detective tried to arrest a 23-year-old man selling drugs at 26 Post Avenue by Dyckman Street shortly after 5 p.m. Somehow John Collado, Sr., the shooting victim, got involved. NYPD sources tell ABC 7 Collado was part of the drug deal, but his son tells DNAinfo he just happened to be walking by, saw his friend getting assaulted, and tried to help. more ›

Some people just never learn, we guess? Just months after he finished a 20 year prison stint for shooting his estranged wife, 72-year-old Charles Baeza was arrested last night for allegedly trying to buy a gun and a silencer to snuff out his girlfriend. more ›

Last night, while working in a gun buy-and-bust operation, an undercover police officer fatally shot a man who tried to rob him at gunpoint in Brooklyn. The cop was buying six guns from a 22-year-old gun trafficker at 193 Knickerbocker Avenue when another man showed up and pretended to rob them. The second man pointed his .380-caliber gun at the gun dealer and then at the cop, who fired three times. more ›

It's been a long, difficult and mostly silent decade for R&B superstar D'Angelo, since he released his hit album Voodoo and set rock critic emeritus Robert Christgau's heart on fire. But even though he hasn't released any new music, he's still had some time for extra-curricular activities. To that end, the singer appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to plead guilty to disorderly conduct for asking an undercover cop for sex last year. more ›

There should probably be a bit more inter-departmental communication: two cops from the 81st Precinct were arrested yesterday after barging in on an Internal Affairs Bureau sting operation and arresting an undercover officer on bogus charges. more ›

Saying they need to "make some changes," Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said yesterday that he would be suspending an undercover patrol designed to catch men engaged in sexual activity in Newark's Branch Brook Park. He made the move after Credit Union of Atlanta CEO Defarra 'Dean' Gaymon was discovered masturbating in the park, and fatally shot during an altercation with a cop two weeks ago. more ›

The Long Island mom who tried to engage an undercover cop to kill her husband couldn’t afford a full-priced hit, but she could throw down for a day at the spa. Susan Williams spent the hours before her arrest primping for her mug shot. The beautician who cut and colored her hair and did her eyebrows says she “got a lot of compliments” when the photo went public. During the prolonged appointment Jessica Zinman says the murderous mom talked about her kids and “dating, how hard it is to date." The hairdresser added that "we didn't ever talk about her husband” more ›

A Long Island woman lost her $500 down payment, after learning that the hitman she’d hired to kill her husband was actually an undercover cop. Though Susan Williams wanted her husband gone, she worried she didn’t have the funds to pay for a full kill. According to DA Kathleen Rice, "Initially it was, 'I want him hurt,' then it became, 'I want him gone.'” But when she was offered a bargain price she gladly accepted. "When the $20,000 amount was thrown out" by the purported hit man, "she then made it clear what she wanted him to do," the DA said. more ›

In a sad twist of fate in Long Island City yesterday, a man who was on his way to make a food delivery to police officers was struck and killed by a man who had just made an illicit purchase from cops and was driving wildly while trying to avoid their chase. 27-year old Pablo Pasaras was riding his bike on 35th Avenue en route to deliver food from the restaurant Antojitos Cibaeno to nearby housing officers when he was plowed into by the black Range Rover driven by Martin Ocasio. The 33-year-old Ocasio had just bought drugs from undercover officers and was racing away from an unmarked squad car giving chase when he slammed into Pasaras and a nearby parked car around 6:30 p.m. Ocasio has been arrested nine times previously, including several for drug charges. Pasaras, a father of three, was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital. A family member called him "a very nice guy" and "a very good father." more ›

Just over a week after an undercover NYPD officer fatally shot 49-year-old Shem Walker, loved ones and community leaders gathered around his mother's Clinton Hill stoop, the site of the deadly altercation in which the details still remain unclear. Bitterness over the incident was clearly in the air yesterday with the harshest words coming from Councilwoman Letitia James, who said, “I say to the NYPD, get your lies straight." The Brooklyn DA's office is currently investigating the shooting as the identity of the officer remains unknown—just that he is a seven-year NYPD veteran and is also black. A minister at the vigil yesterday said, "Police officers are paid to protect and serve, but they are also paid for their judgment. Too often it is the case that their judgment is off with people of color." Tonight a funeral will be held for Walker at Full Gospel Assembly of God with Reverend Al Sharpton delivering the eulogy. more ›

More on the story of the Brooklyn army veteran who was killed by an undercover cop during a drug sting in Clinton Hill. The Daily News now reports that the "undercover cop was wearing earphones to keep in touch with his NYPD team and didn't hear an irate Brooklyn homeowner's command to get off his stoop until it was too late...When the undercover officer didn't budge from the Clinton Hill stoop Saturday night, resident Shem Walker kicked the man he thought was a vagrant in the back of the head, sources said." One source said, "With the earphones on, the cop just didn't hear anything. The next he knew, someone had kicked him, and the fight starts, with a tragic end." The police have contended that Walker grabbed the cop's gun; some witnesses say they didn't hear the cop identify himself as a police officer. more ›

It's been over a day since news first broke that a man had been fatally shot outside his mother's Clinton Hill home by an undercover cop and there are still many more questions than answers. We know that 49-year-old Shem Walker stepped outside his mother's brownstone on Lafayette Avenue for a cigarette and discovered a plain clothes cop sitting on her steps. A witness says that he heard Walker shout, "Get out of here or I'll move you myself!" and that the two then tumbled down the steps. Walker is said to have had a reputation of shooing people off the family's steps with success. more ›

A 49-year-old handyman who was up from Pennsylvania visiting his sick mother in Clinton Hill was shot last night by an undercover cop in a separate drug bust that went awry. Shem Walker had just finished cooking his family dinner when he told them that was going out to buy cigarettes in the Brooklyn neighborhood around 8 p.m. more ›