New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

A Manhattan party girl who first showed a love for red when patronizing a Financial District hair salon soon proved that color had a deeper significance than her hair color. New York Criminal Lawyers have determined she lead a double life.

“I want red!” was Anna Chapman’s demand to her hair stylist, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Hairdressers at the salon say that when Chapman first came to the salon, she was a brunette.

“The first time she came in, it was just for a blow-dry. She came in with brown hair and I said ‘I’ll fix your color,’” the stylist related to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “And she said ‘Yes, I want red!’”

A man from New Dorp and a friend of his robbed his own father’s safe. They were caught mere hours later by the police. The stolen cash was found in the New Dorp man’s shoe, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The two alleged thieves, 19 and 21 years of age, took the safe from the 19-year-old’s home on Hylan Boulevard near Bancroft Avenue at 2:30, one Monday afternoon, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The alleged robbers allegedly stole $6,300 in cash, along with some jewelry, passports, and credit cards. Police were able to catch the suspects six hours later at the home of the 21-year-old alleged thief and found the cash stuff into the shoe of the 19-year-old suspect, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The suspects were taken away by the police and charged with grand larceny a spokeswoman for a district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Further details on the crime, the victim, or the alleged thieves are not available at this time, and it is not certain if more will be made available in the future.

A silver-tongued grafter who claimed to be royalty had to suffer jail like any common citizen after being charged in a $7 million Ponzi scheme. The Manhattan financier had fled to North Carolina when he learned he was under investigation, prosecutors told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Dressed like a commoner in Nike running shorts and a T-shirt, he was brought back to Manhattan to face charges of grand larceny, forgery, and securities fraud. The financier pleaded “not guilty” and was held without bail.

“His scheme involved all manner of deceit. He lied about who he was, how he was managing his clients’ finances. And he even forged back documents to back up his bogus story,” a district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The financier told his victims his companies ran investments for the royal family of Belgium, which could trace its ancestry back to the 14th century.

“He has a drop of blue blood, a very, very distant drop. But he told some people his father, the prince, had abdicated the throne, and tha this firm managed the finances of the [royal family’s] holdings,” a source informed a New York Criminal Lawyer. “He even put the family crest on his business card.”

A Midtown panhandler was arrested for assaulting a pedestrian who refused to give her money when asked, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 40-year-old woman attacked the passer-by at Eighth Avenue and 30th Street at 7:30 a.m. on May 28, after her demand for cash from the pedestrian was turned down, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. It is currently unknown whether the suspect has been responsible for any prior criminal activity or the exactly motivation for such drastic action.

The man continued to pass, so the panhandler attempted to strike him with a piece of wood, according to sources. The panhandler was soon apprehended by police and was charged with assault and weapon possession, a spokesman for a district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The shooting death of a Brooklyn father out walking his dog may have been a case of mistaken identity, police told a New York Criminal Lawyerhttps://criminaldefense.1800nynylaw.com/.

The 31-year-old man was only a block away from home in the Marcus Garvey Houses in Brownsville when he was shot in the head, just after midnight, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

“He was just out walking the dog like he does every night,” the victim’s mother related to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The slain man lived with his mother at the time of the shooting. “My son does not bother anyone. He was a very good son. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

The state has charged a Montauk marina and two other firms with dredging and other work in wetlands without a permit, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. An environmental group tipped the state off to the illegal activity.

Several notices of violation were delivered to the marina and the two businesses, from the State Department of Environmental Conservation based on information from the environmental group.

A DEC regional director informed a New York Criminal Lawyer that the charges involve a dredging project that began in May. The environmental group filed a complaint about a road that had been built at the marina to allow heavy equipment to enter the regulated tidal wetlands and begin dredging the marina. Photo evidence provided by the environmental group showed a lagoon was constructed for drainage purposes, complete with discharge pipes that channeled silt and sediment into Lake Montaulk.

A 19-year-old Brooklyn man was chased by police though city streets, apparently leaving his clothes behind. The police were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant, but the young man fled instead – completely nude. “He was completely naked!” a witness who saw the events transpire told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Police came to the young man’s Kingston Ave. home in Crown Heights at about 8:30 a.m. and woke him from his sleep. They supplied him with a blanket when they realized he was naked. Without warning, he ran from his apartment, leaving the blanket behind.

Many onlookers found the four-block chase amusing, while others were shocked and startled. One police officer was injured during the pursuit when he fell through a metal sidewalk grate. He dropped approximately 10 feet to land in a Dean St. basement.

Though nearly forgotten in the wake of the latest terror cases, such as the attempted Times Square car bombing and the subway bombing plot of 2009, two defendants charged with working on a plan to attack Kennedy Airport in 2007 is about to begin in Brooklyn. The role of a government informant may end up being vital to the case, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A former Kennedy baggage handler, age 66, and an engineer and former member of the Guyana parliament, age 58, are charged with conspiring to explode tanks full of jet fuel and the Buckeye Pipeline, which supplies jet fuel to airports in the area.

Prosecutors related to New York Criminal Lawyers that the conspirators sought assistance for their plot, code-named “Chicken Farm”, from a radical Islamic group in the Caribbean, in addition to looking for aid from an al-Qaida operative and terror groups with ties to Iran.

There are some heroin addicts who are lucky enough to have friends call 911 when they happen to overdose. There are many more whose friends are afraid to call the authorities for fear of arrest, experts told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A Long Island organization is attempting to change that by lobbying for a law which would give limited immunity from prosecution for possession of a small amount of drugs or alcohol for minors, to people seeking emergency medical attention for someone who is overdosing, a doctor announced to New York Criminal Lawyers.

“There’s a one- to three-hour window before an overdose becomes a fatality,” the doctor related to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “It’s enough time to save a life.” He concluded by saying most overdose victims survive if they receive medical attention in time.

Manhattan prosecutors are attempting to carve away the sale of illegal knives by removing them from city stores, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

Investigators bought unlawful knives, such as switchblades and gravity knives from 14 different locations, including several prominent chains in the New York area.

Some of the stores have already made an agreement to cease the sale of these knives, hand over their inventories to the authorities, and turn over any proceeds made from the sale of the knives – totaling about $1.9 million – to a public awareness campaign.