NYPD: Elderly Woman Sexually Assaulted In Central Park Near Strawberry Fields
Police are looking for the man who raped an elderly woman who was birdwatching in Central Park Wednesday.
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Police are looking for the man who raped an elderly woman who was birdwatching in Central Park Wednesday.
A unique program in New Jersey is having great success getting people out of trouble and back on track.
Authorities also released surveillance video of the suspect in the hope that someone will be able to identify him.
A $1,000 reward is being offered after a pair of violent attacks on livery cab drivers last month.
The suspect entered a business at 85 Washington Place in Greenwich Village and repeatedly struck the 41-year-old victim in the body and face until she went unconscious, police said.
Investigators initially believed Alan Frederick Goodman had fallen down the stairs. Now they think he was bludgeoned to death with a coffee mug.
All three incidents happened on July 15 between 2 a.m. and 10:30 p.m., police said. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
While watching the place Thursday morning, sources say undercover officers became suspicious when they noticed driver Ruben Jordan loading a box onto a truck he wasn't assigned to.
The brawl broke out at around 4:30 a.m. Friday. According to reports, two men were attacked by five others, who smashed a bottle over one victim's head.
One year to two years in prison is the maximum sentence someone currently gets if they're caught with an illegal gun in New York.
Authorities said in each of the robberies, 28-year-old Darren Hicks approached victims and displayed a black semiautomatic handgun while demanding cash and property.
After months of criticism and complaining President Obama finally reacts to the horrific crime rate and record-breaking murder rate in Chicago.
Authorities said that at around 6:15 p.m. on Aug. 2, a 25-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were shot while standing on the corner of Madison Avenue and East 112th Street.
New York City has about 1 million feet of construction scaffolding at any given time, and some of it is turning into art.
The suspect is described as an Asian man, between 45 and 55 years old, 5-foot-4 and between 165 and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing tan shorts and a green shirt with blue stripes.
The child pulled away from the man who tried to grab her arm a second time and pull her toward him. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
The suspects held the victim down and tased him before taking an unknown amount of cash before fleeing the train at 231st Street & Broadway Station.
Many who supported Obama in 2008 did so because they believed that he would help black Americans. The criticism four years later is that having a black president in the White House hasn't helped African Americans at all.
The NYPD said that three suspects entered a location on University Avenue through a basement door and approached a female victim, holding her 10-month-old son.
The suspects diplay a black revolver and order their victims to the ground before robbing the establishments, police said. Authorities have released surveillance video from one of the incidents.
The charges were upgraded Friday against 19-year-old Frederico Bruno of Jersey City, following the baby's death Tuesday.
Flash mobs were once innocent social experiments, but now are all too often racial attacks. Unfortunately, the media continues to paint a rosy picture and fails to report the violence and crime they cause.
Now anyone convicted of a felony or penal misdemeanor will have a DNA sample collected, which will be a massive expansion of the current database.
Police say if they're going to crack this, they're going to need information, even if it's offered anonymously.
It's been a violent month, both here in New York and across the country, and that's how we begin our July Audiofile of the big stories these past 31 days.
