New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

A Pace University football player was killed by the police outside a Westchester bar – and his friends claim he was only trying to move his illegally parked car, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The father of a passenger in the football star’s car says the slain student thought he was only being asked to move his car when an officer knocked in the windshield. He was parked in a fire lane.

As the football player began to drive away “an officer jumped out from between cars and started firing, and the next thing [the young men] knew, [one cop] was on the hood,” the passenger’s father told a Staten Island Criminal Lawyer. The student “Yelled several times as they were pulling him out of the vehicle, screaming ‘They shot me! They shot me! They shot me!’”, the passenger’s father continued.

A high-ranking Department of Investigation officer was found dead of a gunshot wound in his car in an Atlantic City casino parking lot, having apparently taken his own life, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He had been reported missing by New York City police only hours before.

The 50-year-old investigator was the DOI’s inspector general, who’s job it was to look into operations of the city’s Health Department and Medical Examiner’s office.

A spokeswoman for the DOI did not confirm the identity of the dead investigator found in Atlantic City, but she did say to a New York Criminal Lawyer, “We are shocked and devastated at the loss of a wonderful colleague. This is a tragic and personal matter.”

A man wielding a dagger was shot to death in Harlem by an NYPD cop, after stabbing two men — killing a neighbor who tried to help the first victim, police told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The 21-year-old knifeman stabbed his mother’s boyfriend and fatally stabbed a neighbor who tried to help before cops could arrive, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Seven NYPD officers happened to be near enough to respond to the 911 call, as they returned from a community meeting and were met outside by the first victim, a 50-year-old man, who was bleeding from three stab wounds. One officer attended to the victim while the other officers, joined by two others went up the stairs to confront the knifeman. The man with the knife charged the police.

“He keeps coming. He is closing the distance between the lead officer and himself, coming at the officers with the dagger,” a deputy police commissioner said to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “The lead officer yells three times: ‘Drop the knife!’ He does not and continues to come… and the [lead] officer fires.”

An off-duty police officer has been accused of pulling his gun on a biker in a road-rage incident, a New York Criminal Lawyer reports. The cop, on the other hand, says he was merely taking out his ID – not a weapon.

The officer denies he ever drew his weapon in the heated Greenwich Village confrontation, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Nonetheless, the 29-year-old cop from the 28th Precinct has been played on modified assignment, at least until the details of the incident are better known.

The biker, a 36-year-old salesman from the lower East Side, the cop aimed a gun at his face after the officer almost hit his bike on Bleecker Street. A police source who knew something about the incident told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the cop only identified himself as a police officer. Another source says the officer only pulled out his department ID card and never displayed his gun to the biker.

Another two men have been charged in the Bronx gang attack police believe began when gang members suspected one of their recruits was gay, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The two new defendants did not enter pleas when they appeared in Bronx Criminal Court, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Police told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the members of the gang used some anti-gay slurs to ask two teen-aged boys and a 30-year-old man about their sexuality. Then, they beat and tortured them in a working-class Bronx neighborhood.

The first new defendant has been charged with robbery, gang assault, and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes, prosecutors told a Manhattan Criminal Lawyer. He is being held on $25,000 bond or cash bail. According to his attorney, he is innocent of the charges.

Yet another attack on gays has happened in New York, this time against a bartender in the city’s oldest gay bar, a New York Criminal Lawyer reported. A 45-year-old man is charged with beating up two other men on October 11, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The suspect made his first attack inside Ty’s Bar, taking his wallet and cutting his face when he punched him, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The 31-year-old victim needed medical attention, including stitches after the attack.

Around ten minutes later, the suspect arrived at Julius Bar, the city’s oldest gay bar, and argued with the bartender after being refused service. “What are you going to do, you f—– n—–,” he was said to yell at the 26-year-old bartender while hitting him in the face. “You are a f—– f—-.”

A Nevada woman, formerly of New Jersey, was arrested on suspicion of abducting her daughter during a custody dispute more than 25 years ago, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 57-year-old woman of Incline Village, Nevada, was arrested in October 2010, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. She is accused of leaving a courthouse in Somerville, New Jersey, with her 6-year-old daughter, during a custody hearing on August 23, 1984.

During the hearing, the girl’s father had full custody of the child, New Jersey prosecutors told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The mother failed to appear for an arraignment on charges of interference with custody and a warrant was issued for her arrest on June 28, 1985.

Nebraska prosecutors have revealed photos of a teenage mother and her boyfriend duct-taping her 2-year-old son to a wall. The pair has already been convicted for the incident, according to New York Criminal Lawyers. They claim to have done it all for fun.

The child was temporarily removed from his mother’s custody, but is now living with his mother again. The mother, 18, has admitted to using drugs.

The mother, 17 at the time of the abuse, was given 10 days in jail and two years of probation. Her 19-year-old boyfriend, an ex-convict, was given a stiffer sentence – three to five years for child abuse and another 12 to 24 months for felony possession of stolen firearms. While under the influence of drugs, the mother held the child down so her boyfriend could tape his body to the wall with bright green duct tape, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has dismissed two charges against the boyfriend of the late model and actress Anna Nicole Smith. He left the other charges, however, to be decided by a jury, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The judge dismissed two counts of obtaining an opiate by fraud against the boyfriend, a court spokesman told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Smith’s boyfriend was also her lawyer. While those charges were dismissed, he still faces nine counts related to allegedly supplying Smith with powerful drugs.

The judge issued these rulings in the criminal trial of the boyfriend and two doctors connected with Smith. They are accused of providing her with large quantities of drugs and drug possession. Prosecutors say she was addicted to pain medication. Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in February 2007, in Hollywood, Florida.

US prosecutors told a New York Criminal Lawyer that Facebook, Twitter, and other websites have been used to promote certain stocks in the fraud technique known as “pump and dump”. This fraud of about $7 million was discovered by authorities during a cocaine-trafficking probe.

The fraud was uncovered in a two-year probe to find suspected drug trafficking by longshoremen and others, sources told New York Criminal Lawyers. These drugs were coming in through the Port of New York and New Jersey.

New York Criminal Lawyers learned from the Manhattan US Attorney’s office that 11 out of 22 people charged used more than 15 websites, Twitter feeds, and Facebook pages to defraud those interested in investing into buying stocks that were then manipulated by others participating in the fraudulent activity.