All posts tagged "Policeservices"

NEW YORK — The brazen attack on New York City Police Department officers by a group of migrants outside a Times Square shelter prompted an immediate — and strong — backlash. The attack became a lightning rod for criticism over the already-polarizing migrant crisis in New York City, with calls for the migrants involved to be deported. But the midtown brawl was the latest in a series of violent episodes linked to migrants, many unfolding against a backdrop of increasing frustration and despair. There have been knife fights, stabbings, tussles after NYPD moped confiscations, struggles over coats ......

Authorities in Texas are investigating after they say more than 50 people have come forward in what they are calling a funeral scam. “This is a case that absolutely turns my stomach. It turns my stomach because you’re dealing with people at the most vulnerable times of their lives,” Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen said at a Jan. 26 news conference streamed by KPRC. Javian Major and Sandy Broussard have been charged with forgery, according a Facebook post from the constable’s office. “Allegedly, the duo conspired to forge beneficiaries’ signatures, illicitly obtaining life insuran......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Six people were wounded inside Kansas City’s Crown Center in a shooting that drew a major police response and shut down the shopping mall on Wednesday evening. Kansas City police and emergency medical personnel were dispatched around 5:45 p.m. to multiple 911 calls reporting the sound of gunfire and people shot inside the mall in the 2400 block of Grand Boulevard, said Sgt. Jake Becchina, a KCPD spokesman. Two of the victims were discovered in the food court area on the lower level, where the shooting took place, Becchina said. Police later learned four more had arrived at a......

William Chrestman, the Olathe Proud Boy who threatened a federal officer and carried an ax handle into the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison and 36 months of supervised release. In addition to the 55-month sentence, Chrestman, 50, also must pay $2,000 restitution for damage to the Capitol, which the government says totaled more than $2.9 million. “I’m pretty ashamed of myself,” Chrestman said as he stood before Judge Timothy J. Kelly in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He read a statement apologizing to the court and to his ......

NEW YORK — A dozen students at Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters were arrested as they tried to stop efforts to block a secret illegal tunnel they had dug in a bizarre attempt to expand the house of worship, officials said Tuesday. Police were called to the famed Orthodox headquarters on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights around 6 p.m. Monday when several Orthodox students began breaking through a cement sanctuary wall with hammers. Earlier in the day, Chabad administrators ordered the tunnel the students were trying to link to a basement study hall be sealed. S......

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn housing cop was cleared of NYPD disciplinary charges that he used a racial slur when he stated at a vigil for a man fatally shot by police that he “would have shot” the man himself. A Police Department trial judge found Officer Jamarr Burnett not guilty of making the comment overheard by Motique Graves, whose brother Malik Tyquarn Graves, 33, died in a fusillade of police bullets when he allegedly pointed a gun at a group of officers on June 2, 2020. The judge in the case said that while there was evidence the comment was made, there was no clear evidence Burnett made it.......