Author: NY Daily News
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E-bike rider killed after getting doored in NYC: NYPD
A man riding an e-bike through Queens was killed after he was doored by a Mercedes Benz, then run over by a Jeep, cops said Saturday. The 20-year-old victim was zipping south along 164th St. near Chapin Parkway in Jamaica Hills about 6 p.m. Friday when a motorist who just parked his Mercedes Benz opened…
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Bronx man stabbed while helping friend in wheelchair: police
A good Samaritan was knifed in the neck as he assisted a wheelchair-bound man into a Bronx building, police and witnesses said Saturday. The 24-year-old victim was helping his neighbor enter the W. 162nd St. building near Ogden Ave. — about three blocks from Yankee Stadium — about 6:50 p.m. Friday when two men wearing…
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NYC man, 28, gunned down near Bronx Hall of Justice
A man was gunned down in the Bronx Friday afternoon just a half-block away from the Bronx Hall of Justice. Denzel Plummer, 28, was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant as he stood outside a liquor store across the street from his home in Concourse Village, cops and family said. Around 3:50 p.m.,…
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NYC man feared for life in Manhattan road rage mowdown: NYPD source
New York City road rage suspect Andrew Mosby said he feared for his life when he mowed down a truck driver who’d just slashed his tires with a knife, according to a police source familiar with the interview. At arraignment Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court, Mosby, 26, was ordered held on $50,000 bail on a…
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Brooklyn Shomrim leader Jacob Daskal guilty in child sex case
The former head of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he forced a troubled 15-year-old girl to have sex. Brooklyn Shomrim leader Jacob Daskal, 64, avoided trial in Brooklyn Federal Court on allegations he groomed the underage girl and transported from Brooklyn across the state line to New…
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Woman accused of selling fentanyl-laced pills to Robert De Niro’s grandson warned undercover cop to ‘be careful’ with the drugs
A young woman accused of selling the fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills that killed Robert De Niro’s teenage grandson warned an undercover cop not to take “more than one at a time” before her arrest because, she said, her friend had “just died,” authorities revealed after she appeared in court Friday. Wearing a black t-shirt and…
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Reputed NYC mob boss pleads guilty in Queens union shakedown
An ailing crime family capo pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to a union shakedown in Queens and threats on a labor leader’s life. So entrenched was Vincent Ricciardo in the labor rackets that he earned the nickname “Vinny Unions” among his mob friends, according to federal prosecutors. Ricciardo, 77, a reputed captain in…
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Slain NYPD Officer Jason Rivera’s widow has baby
The hole left in Dominique Luzuriaga Rivera’s heart left by her husband Police Officer Jason Rivera’s murder has been filled with their newborn son — a birth some 18 months after the young cop was gunned down in Harlem, the Daily News has learned. Luzuriaga Rivera announced the birth of her and her fallen husband’s…
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Read the mountain of evidence Suffolk County prosectors have amassed against Rex Heuerman, the accused Gilgo Beach killer
The Suffolk County District Attorney amassed a mountain of evidence against Rex Heuermann, a Massapequa Park native, who was charged Friday with three of the murders tied to the Gilgo Beach serial killer. Investigators have linked Heuermann to the crimes through burner cell phones, DNA evidence and eye-witnesses who put his car near the scene…
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Man slain on Manhattan pier had been drinking with his killler: NYPD
The man stabbed dead at a West Side pier in a heavily-touristed part of Manhattan has been identified, police said Friday. Hugo Morales, 35, was killed in a confrontation just before 6 a.m. Thursday in the park at Pier 84 by 12th Ave. and W. 44th St. — between the Circle Line terminal and the…