Category: Crime

This undated photo provided by UnitedHealth Group shows UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson. AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group via AP The leader of UnitedHealth Group conceded that the patchwork U.S. health system “does not work as well as it should” but said Friday that the insurance executive gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk cared about customers and was…

Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Benjamin B. Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP ALTOONA, Pa. — The gun found on the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting, New York City’s police commissioner…

A New York police officer stands on 54th Street outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed Wednesday morning in what police said was a “brazen, targeted attack”…

Police blocked off the intersection at 320 Jay St. next to the Criminal and Family courts in Downtown Brooklyn just after noon on Wednesday, after a man fired a volley of gunshots. Photo: Brooklyn Eagle DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Police had a suspect in custody Wednesday after he fired a volley of shots in Downtown Brooklyn…

A NYPD car. Photo: Julio Cortez/AP File Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday when police officers shot a man threatening them with a knife, and inadvertently sprayed bullets that hit passengers, authorities said. The people struck by gunfire included two innocent bystanders, one of the officers and the man with the…

This combo of Feb. 7, 2023 images provided by the Fire Department of the City of New York, shows Brian Cordasco, left, and Anthony Saccavino, two former NYFD chiefs arrested Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, on charges that they solicited tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to provide preferential treatment in the department’s fire prevention…

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about having more uniformed NYPD officers patrol the subways during a joint press conference with Gov. Kathy Hochul at the Fulton Transit Center, Jan. 6, 2022. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY   Want more reporting from THE CITY? Sign up for Scoop, our free weekday newsletter, to have our latest news delivered…

PARK SLOPE — Police arrested a man on Thursday suspected of being the serial groper known as the “Park Slope Prowler.” The arrest follows a rash of incidents that terrorized women near Prospect Park all summer.  William Nuesi, 23, a resident of a Sterling Place condo several blocks from the park, was arrested at noon…

A third set of bone fragments, presumably human, were found among the rocks near Jane’s Carousel on Saturday, Aug. 31. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK — More bone fragments, presumably human, were found along the shore in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday, Aug. 31 — the third time in the past two…

Police released this surveillance photo of a man suspected in an Aug. 9 sexual groping incident near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Other reported molestations took place shortly afterwards on Aug. 10, 13 and 14. Photo: NYPD PARK SLOPE — Another report of a woman being sexually groped in Park Slope near Prospect Park came to…