New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

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.”

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.