At Least 3 Dead, 144 Injured In Explosions At Finish Line Of Boston Marathon
CBS News' John Miller reported later that an individual, a Saudi national, was in custody and was reportedly being cooperative and denying involvement.
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CBS News' John Miller reported later that an individual, a Saudi national, was in custody and was reportedly being cooperative and denying involvement.
NYPD Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the city is stepping up security at hotels and other prominent locations through deployment of the NYPD's critical response vehicles.
The charges against Robert Christopher Asch and Richard Meltz are contained in court papers. The men are expected to make appearances Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The bodies were found after the woman's 19-year-old son heard an argument between the officer and her boyfriend, escaped out a window and called 911, police said.
There have been at least three attacks this month, police said. In each attack, the suspect strikes up a conversation with his victim, lures her to an isolated area and then rapes her, police said.
Corey King, 23, of Queens was arrested on Friday and charged with four counts of first degree robbery, according to police.
John Myrick, 63, was off-duty when he was stopped by police in Park Slope on Saturday evening.
The NYPD said that in each incident, the suspect engaged his victims in a conversation and lured them to an isolated location, where he raped them.
The incident took place on Wednesday around 8 p.m. on board an uptown 6 train, which the victim boarded at the East 59th Street-Lexington Avenue station.
"This is a vicious attack - whether they knew each other or didn't know each other," Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. said. "There is no excuse for this. This guy is an animal. And luckily we have this videotape."
A poll finds New York City voters overwhelmingly support a plan to put the New York Police Department under the scrutiny of an outside watchdog.
Police continued to question a suspect Wednesday evening in connection with a string of recent mezuzah burnings in Brooklyn.
Today, Joseph Esposito, who just retired as Chief of Department after over 44 years on the force, testified about allegations made by St. Sen. Eric Adams during the trial.
Around 2 a.m. Saturday, a man approached a woman who was out walking her dog on East 27 Street, pulled out a gun and demanded she hand over money and her cell phone, police said.
Anyone with information in regards to these incidents is asked to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
Former Chief of Department Joseph Esposito was questioned by about whether the police department has any program for tracking officers who may have a suspicious pattern of racial profiling in using stop-and-frisk tactics.
The incident happened around 6 p.m. Sunday on Anthony Avenue. Police said the suspect approached a 22-year-old woman from behind and grabbed the device from her hand.
Lalit Clarkson testified that he had just stepped out for his lunch break from the Grand Concourse Academy and was walking back to school with a clear bag containing the sandwich he'd bought when he was accosted by a pair of plain clothes cops.
In each case, police said the suspects walk into a hotel, pull out a gun and demand money.
The incident happened around 1 p.m. at East 149th Street and Bergen Avenue in the South Bronx, according to police.
Members of an activist group circulated a petition at posts around the city Sunday -- with the goal of ending what the group called "abusive practices" in the New York City Police Department.
According to police, the suspect broke into the basement of a dollar store at 1926 Crotona Parkway in the East Tremont section and stole an undetermined about of cash.
When police and EMS arrived, they found Michael Wright, 30, with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to police, three men approached their victim at 510 East 187 Street around 2 a.m. on Saturday, March 9 and demanded property. The three suspects punched the 26-year-old victim, robbed him and then took off, according to police.
One of the suspects was was brandishing a firearm and demanded the woman's iPad, according to authorities.
