The video clip that appears to show a Utica road cop planting drugs during a traffic stop last February doesn't tell the whole story, Utica police Chief Mark Williams insists. Although the officer is seen removing a bag of white powder from his pocket before reaching into the vehicle with the same bag half a minute later, Williams claims the full video shows that the officer, Paul Paladino, had earlier found the drug's in the suspect's pocket. He then temporarily placed it in his own pocket as he continued to search the perps and the vehicle, Williams says. more ›

This video obtained by the Utica Phoenix upstate seems to show a policeman taking a bag of white powder out of his pocket and planting it inside a vehicle while searching it for drugs during a routine traffic stop. If this is what it appears to be, it's got to rank up there among the more boneheaded Barney Fife moves in idiot cop history (and there's a LOT of history), because the incident was captured on the cop's own dashboard camera. Watch for the 1:02 mark, where the officer produces a small bag from his pocket before leaning into the car then, 30 seconds later, comes out holding the same bag... like he just found it. more ›

Hey, look at this, Facebook is good for not only taunting the federal authorities trying to arrest you, it's also good for them to succeed in catching you! The Daily News reports that U.S. Marshals arrested Victor Burgos, 29, who was wanted upstate "on multiple arrest warrants for domestic violence and harassment of his ex-girlfriend" after he posted this message on Facebook: "Catch me if you can, I'm in Brooklyn." more ›

Early this morning a security guard was stabbed to death in Brooklyn as he was returning home from a night out. Anthony Blair was walking on Atlantic Avenue (recently named the outer-boroughs’s deadliest street) near Hunterfly Place when he was knifed in the neck near a Getty gas station. Cops haven’t yet said if there’s a motive in the killing of the 44-year-old from Guyana, according to the Daily News. As of this afternoon police haven’t made any arrests, but gas station clerks are looking through security footage to find a suspect. more ›

The beaver that was rescued from the East River by an NYPD SCUBA crew Fiday near the United Nations has reportedly died. According to CityRoom, the 40 pound animal was on its way to Utica to be treated by a wildlife medical specialist, but expired along the way. more ›