NYC crime

Murder-for-hire allegations are central to a New York trial starting this week for a San Francisco man charged with running an online black market where drugs were sold as easily as books and electronics.

A 30-year-old man shot his hedge fund founder father to death inside his Manhattan apartment after the two argued over the son’s allowance, police said Monday.

Six-year-old Etan Patz was walking to his Manhattan school bus stop alone for the first time when he vanished on May 25, 1979; the anniversary is now National Missing Children’s Day. His body has never been found, but his family had him legally declared dead in 2001.

NEW YORK—“Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro admitted Monday to driving while impaired, saying he’d learned a valuable lesson from his arrest last month.

Following the fatal shooting of Brooklyn man Akai Gurley by a police officer at a public housing project in East New York, federal and city elected officials on Sunday called for improvements to public housing conditions and police department protocol.

NEW YORK—New York City’s reform-minded jails commissioner is facing opposition to his plan to put the 250 most dangerous inmates in a new, restrictive cell block on Rikers Island that would allow them to be locked away for up to 17 hours a day.

NEW YORK—Police on Monday hunted for a man who shoved a stranger off a subway platform to his death and released surveillance footage of the suspect walking calmly away from the station just minutes after the fatal push.

Twelve alleged members of the “Gates Avenue Mafia” and 20 others have been indicted with conspiring to sell firearms, heroin, and cocaine following a year-long investigation that involved officers working undercover, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced on Thursday.

David McCallum was 16 years old in 1985 when he was told by officials his friend Willie Stuckey had named him the murderer of a 20-year-old man kidnapped from Queens to Brooklyn.

NEW YORK—Federal prosecutors have formally charged five members of an identity theft ring who allegedly purchased $400,000 worth of designer shoes, handbags, and other accessories from a Saks Fifth Avenue store using stolen credit card information.

New York state universities are following California’s direction in changing the college hook-up requisites from a passive yes to a direct “yes.”

In late August, truck driver Jeen Blake loaded up his tractor-trailer in Riverside, Calif., for his trip to New York. Days later, he drove through Staten Island into the city, and pulled into a desolate parking lot on Long Island, where his employer Dorian Cabrera met him, carrying a duffle bag.

The District Attorney’s office indicted 29-year-old Clinton Lawson for two carjackings, shooting, and assault. If convicted, Lawson faces over 25 years in prison.

The recent death of a man who was high on the recreational drug PCP while in police custody was ruled a homicide by the chief medical examiner’s office on Friday.

Although NYPD statistics show the massive outbreak of gun violence since April is finally dwindling, one man was shot dead in the Bronx this weekend and two police officers were injured during violent encounters.

NEW YORK—When a face off between two men on a street in Ferguson, Missouri earlier this month ended with one dead, it was followed by a maelstrom of violence, looting, and outrage. Amid a lack of information about what really happened, protestors speculated widely.