Category: Crime

The columns, sidewalk and vestibule of this Orange Street co-op were defaced by pro-Palestinian vandals Thursday. Photo by Mary Frost BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Another pro-Palestinian act of criminal vandalism has taken place in Brooklyn Heights, just blocks from an earlier attack in June. Residents of a brick co-op on quiet Orange Street woke up Thursday…

A NYPD car. Photo: Julio Cortez/AP File CROWN HEIGHTS – Sheik Koureichi, 20, arrested on Monday and charged with second-degree murder in the February shooting of 13-year-old Troy Gill, is believed to be a drill-style rapper known as GBG Sheik, associated with the up-and-coming rap group 41 – whose members, as well as the artist…

A NYPD van. Scott Roth/Invision/AP CLINTON HILL — Two men are dead and one is in critical condition after two shootings — separated by just seven minutes — took place just a block away from each other in Clinton Hill Sunday night, police said.  At 10:44 p.m., police responded to a 911 call for a…

Sergio Solano, an immigrant from Mexico, gets ready for his next delivery, June 21, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez Brad Song thought he was about to get his e-bike stolen a second time in a less than a month after delivering an order for Chinese food app Fantuan Delivery. Seven strangers surrounded…

Police released additional surveillance images of a group suspected of vandalizing a Brooklyn Heights co-op building on June 12. This still frame was grabbed from a video. Photo: NYPD BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The New York Police Department has released new surveillance images showing members of a group suspected of vandalizing the Brooklyn Heights home of…

A NYPD car. Photo: Julio Cortez/AP File A former New York City police officer who shot her girlfriend and another woman in October 2021, killing the second woman, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and attempted murder, New York state Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday. Yvonne Wu was off duty when she shot Jamie Liang and Jenny…

Police from the 84th Precinct blocked off the front of the Mansion House co-op building on Hicks Street with crime scene tape and stood guard at the entrance. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The New York Police Department has released surveillance video and photos of a group of individuals suspected of vandalizing…

A co-op building in Brooklyn Heights was vandalized with red spray paint and a sign reading, “ANNE PASTERNAK BROOKLYN MUSEUM WHITE-SUPREMACIST ZIONIST.” Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN HEIGHTS —Residents of Brooklyn Heights woke up Wednesday morning to discover that a co-op building in their neighborhood had been vandalized overnight with antisemitic remarks targeted at…

The perpetrator, accompanied by several male and female companions, fled north on Front Street on his scooter. A passerby called 911 and the victim was taken by ambulance to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope. The victim, who spent most of the night in the ER, told the Brooklyn Eagle on Thursday that a…

The shop, with its long history of violations and criminal involvement, appears to be a poster child for the type of illegal activity the new cannabis rules announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday are meant to address.  A worker installs the new bulletproof plexiglass partitions inside the Exotic Smoke shop after robbers smashed glass…