New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

The New York Police Department is searching for a man who violently attacked and sexually assaulted a woman in the elevator of a Washington Heights building, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

It appears that the suspect followed his victim for some time, a 42-year-old woman, into the lobby of a St. Nicholas Ave. apartment building at 3 a.m. on Monday, jumping on her when she got into the elevator.

The attacker fled once the elevator doors opened. Authorities have withheld the identity of the victim, who was treated at a local hospital and then released. Further details on her condition or any description of her attack are currently unknown to New York Criminal Lawyers, though an elevator camera shot of a man in a baseball cap has been captured of the suspect.

A former union boss claimed the formerly-influential head of the city’s largest contractor’s association as a major crime family’s contact for corrupt construction unions, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The ex-union boss claimed the contractor was a messenger for a powerful mob capo who carried orders to the unions in the late 1990s. The contractor is currently on trial in Manhattan Federal Court for allegedly lying about his ties to the crime family, sources told a New York criminal Lawyer.

The ex-boss confessed to bribe-taking in 2004 and says he was only following the contractor’s orders to give union cards to mob favorites. When he refused to raise a “totally corrupt” union official to a management position, he says he was warned by the contract, “If you don’t, you’re going to be in a world of hurt.”

Illegal prescription drug use continues to rise, and is becoming a greater problem for law enforcement, says a New York Criminal Lawyer. The number of DUI cases involving a prescription drug rather than alcohol also continues to rise. Unfortunately, prosecuting such charges can be rather difficult.

Many states don’t even have or require tests to quantify how what drugs might be in a driver’s system, nor is it always easy to prove that such a person is impaired. “What we and other states have run into historically is that there is a well-developed system to quantify the amount of alcohol in the human body,” a Florida prosecutor told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

He continued on to say: “…when you have an oxycodone or an opiate, we do not have a well-developed way to quantify the amount of drugs so that a jury can then compare that value to a standard established as an unlawful when operating an automobile.”

A fan ran onto Yankee Stadium field during a game to confront A-Rod about his love for Cameron Diaz, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Apparently, the fan had a crush of his own on Diaz, and did not enjoy the competition.

The 33-year-old fan was taken down by security at the Stadium when he tried to rush the third baseman at the top of the fifth inning during Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, tackling him to the ground.

Police found a picture in the suspect’s pocket of Alex Rodriguez with his face crossed out and a drawing of a small gun pointed at his head. Written on the photo were the words, “You gotta go, buddy.” As for A-Rod, he had no comment, perhaps smarting over his team’s painful 10-3 loss to the Texas Rangers.

The New York Police Department is on the lookout for a dreadlocked man who they claim has assaulted three different women in two separate attacks, sources reported to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The suspect’s first victim was a 25-year-old woman. He grabbed her from behind and pulled off her underwear before he was able to fight her off, police told a New York Criminal Lawyer. According to police, he choked the victim, reached up her dress and pulled off her underwear before she was able to fight him off.

The same suspect approached two other women four days later, 25 and 28 years old, as they walked home from a subway station. He pushed them into the backyard at Pershing Crescent and Manton St., sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The women fought against their attacker, who was wearing a brown leather jacket at the time. He attempted to grope them and take the underwear of one of the victims, according to police.

A city correction officer claims she was roughed up by police after witnessing a shootout involving cops, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. According to her, they forced open her door, attacked her, and held her for three hours.

The 44-year-old corrections officer said she opened her door to her East New York, Brooklyn apartment right after cops and a teenage shooter fired shots at each other in a stairwell one night. She opened the door, fearful for her 18-year-old daughter, who was supposed to be coming to the apartment, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. According to police, she was holding a gun at the time.

“Police smashed in my door,” said the corrections officer to a New York Criminal Lawyer. She said they also hurt her 13-year-old son. “They kicked my son and smashed my head off the table. They seized my gun and my badge and detained me for three hours.”

A computer specialist in Arizona has pleaded guilty for his role in an Internet stock-fraud scheme, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He has already been in prison for a similar charge.

The 41-year-old computer specialist admitted in federal court in Trenton that he misrepresented stock prices for thinly traded stocks between November 2007 and February 2009, promoting them through such means as spam and then taking over the brokerage accounts of third parties.

He also pleaded guilty in August 2009 for his part in a scheme lead by another man, this one from West Bloomfield, Michigan. Prosecutors labeled this man once as “the world’s most notorious illegal spammer.” The computer specialist was sentenced to a year in prison for that case and released in April 2010. His accomplice is currently serving a 51-month prison term.

Cops have revealed images from a surveillance camera which shows a thief who tried to take a purse from a woman, but didn’t quite manage to do it, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. The thief, or would-be thief, followed the 63-year-old woman into the elevator of a building on Surf Ave. in Coney Island, sometime in the afternoon of October 12, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

“You have money! Give me money!” the thief yelled as the elevator went up, cops told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The woman might have had some money in her purse, but the criminal never found it. According to the police, he took her purse and removed a black, zippered pouch. Once they both came out of the elevator, the crook saw there was no money in the pouch, but decided he had taken enough time and ran away.

The suspect was described as African-American, standing 5 feet, 8 inches in height. He was wearing jeans, a striped sweater, white sneakers, and a do-rag. The police have set up a hotline so that anyone with details can find the suspect before he makes another attempt.

Divorce papers from the parents of Mike “The Situation” Serrentino reveal terrible circumstances that may have impelled the transformation of young Mike into his famed muscle-bound TV persona, The Situation, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned.

Both of the The Situation’s parents committed adultery, and both of them beat each other, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Mike’s father once threatened to cut his mother “into pieces”. She told him she’d be just fine with going out to “find someone else to (have sex with),” according to newly revealed information.

“The Sorrentinos were the most dysfunctional family I ever met!” a family friend told a New York Criminal Lawyer. “Mike’s father had a bad temper and the mom had a sharp tongue. When they butted heads, they were explosive.” Mike, 29, is now a celebrity and is currently appearing on Dancing with the Stars. He has two brothers, 35 and 31 years of age, and a sister who is 23 years old.

The Betty Ford Center is doing more than treating Lindsey Lohan for her drug addiction, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. She is also being treated for an apparent addiction to e-mail and Twitter.

Sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer that Lohan was “only allowed to use her phone for two hours a day, and only to keep in touch with family and close friends.” The source continued. “Before, she would repeatedly and compulsively e-mail her friends if she was ever in a situation where she felt lonely, and she would vent on Twitter.” Limiting phone privileges is common practice at Betty Ford. According a source, it “allows her to concentrate on herself.”

Sufolk County Criminal Lawyers have learned Lindsay’s mother is getting some help of her own from the mother of Kim Kardashian. According to a source, “[Kardashian’s mother] has been offering support and had [Lohan’s mother] stay with her in L.A. when Lindsay appeared in court. Kim has also struck up a friendship with Lindsay, and because Kim doesn’t party, doesn’t touch drugs, and doesn’t really drink, they hope she’ll be a good influence.”