Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'yonkers'
July 22, 2008
Take one Yonkers restaurant, add a number of professional wrestlers celebrating Captain Lou Albano's 75th birthday, and you get Jim "The Sandman" Fullington losing it-- to the point where a SWAT team had to be called in to settle the matter. La Lanterna employees called the police because Fullington was throwing glasses at them; the Journal News reports that by the time police arrived, Fullington was "still flinging glasses from a tray at employees" and......
Continue Reading "Wrestler Gone Wild at Captain Lou Albano's Party"June 28, 2008
An 8-year veteran of the Yonkers police department was arrested for allegedly "body-slamming" a woman at a restaurant in 2007. Wayne Simoes was arrested and charged, per the U.S. Attorney's office, "with violation of federal civil rights laws" because it's illegal to for law enforcement to use "excessive force..the course of an arrest, stop, or seizure." In March 2007, Irma Marquez's niece, who was hit with a bottle at La Fonda restaurant, was being treated......
Continue Reading "Feds Accuse Yonkers Cop of Police Brutality"May 24, 2008
Cops made quick work of the case of the murder of a livery cab driver, who was allegedly killed by two teens who have now been arrested. Early yesterday morning, police were searching for suspects after a fight broke out inside a livery cab that left its driver dead with multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen. After being stabbed, Geraldo Guttierez tried to make it to a hospital, but was too badly injured.Mortally......
Continue Reading "Cops Make Arrests in Livery Cab Murder"April 12, 2008
Photograph of security checking the chapel at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers by Julie Jacobson/AP In less than a week, it'll be all Pope Benedict, all the time. And right now, it practically seems that way already, with planners working overtime to make sure the Papal Visit goes off without a hitch. The NY Times has a great article about the logistics involved with the April 20 mass at Yankee Stadium: "How do 530......
Continue Reading "Pope Preparations - and Mania - Well Under Way "February 16, 2008
Michael McGhee, Thomas Wimmer, Patrick Tully, Stella Ibanez, and Jeffrey Alicea A fight outside a Yonkers bar that cost a man his vision in one eye, may cost a number of NYPD members professionally. One of the participants in the brawl on the border of the Westchester city and the Bronx, Thomas Wimmer, has already resigned from the force. Three other officers are suspended without pay after their arraignment Friday on misdemeanor charges related......
Continue Reading "NYPD Brawlers and Brethren Busted"
