In this city of crazies, lots of people joked that a judge’s ruling to release mental patients from group homes and allow them to live in their own apartments was nothing special. But not Post columnist Andrea Peyser, who calls the decision (cue eye-roll) "insanity." Peyser opines that the move will strengthen “the army of the damned,” leading to more incidents like a 2005 stabbing by an unsupervised mental patient who went off his meds and attacked a baby. She also accuses the judge who made the ruling, Nicholas Garaufis, of a potential conflict of interest. more ›

Federal prosecutors in Newark will arraign two NYPD officers and one former officer today in connection with an armed robbery of about $1 million of perfume from a New Jersey warehouse. According to the AP, the cops are among five people charged with robbing In Style USA’s warehouse, which distributes high-end fragrances, on February 9th. According to the complaint, the officers, Richard LeBlanca and Brian Checo, entered the warehouse brandishing guns and badges, yelling, "NYPD! Hands up!" more ›

Damn brah, the feds are hell bent on harshing the vibe this summer. On April 9th, three men were nailed on Staten Island for moving "large quantities" of marijuana from as far away as Mexico using a mobile-home. Now that's what we call a Wide Bong Load. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tailing the mobile home observed it pull over around 9:30 a.m. on a service road to the Goethals Bridge. They say suspects Joseph Pousa and Anthony Orfanos, both from Queens, then unloaded 13 parcels filled with marijuana from the mobile home to a rental van. Investigators then tailed the duo, who were still shamefully oblivious to the surveillance, to a warehouse where a third suspect, Joseph Wiseman, rolled up in a totally inconspicuous gold S.U.V. And after reading this account in the Staten Island Advance, we've gone from the usual surge of outrage over the government's draconian drug laws to thinking New Yorkers really deserve more circumspect drug smugglers than these alleged clowns. They were charged in Brooklyn federal court for their failed attempt to distribute marijuana. more ›

The Daily News reports that firefighters found a pot-growing operation in a commercial warehouse on Decatur Street yesterday morning. They had just put out a fire in a building next door when "Somehow the smoke-eaters sniffed out the pot in a three-story building next door and called the cops," who then removed 80 to 100 marijuana plants. The building's super says he was clueless because the "growing area because it was chained off and padlocked." This is just the latest in the timeless tradition of the authorities dealing with incidents and then stumbling onto pot farms (examples 1, 2, and 3). more ›

The police raided a Flushing warehouse and found $4.5 million worth of counterfeit goods. NY1 reported there were 50,000 pairs of sneakers, about 40,000 fake purses, and thousands of articles of clothing. more ›