Federal prosecutors in New York have accused R. Kelly of bribing a government employee in 1994 to get a fake ID for then-15-year-old singer Aaliyah Haughton so he could marry her. The New York Times reported that authorities have added the allegation against Kelly, 52, onto his previous racketeering indictment. The deceased singer is identified …
A Brooklyn father is under psychiatric evaluation after he stabbed his 2-year-old son in the temple with a metal tail comb during an argument with the child’s mother, NBC New York reported. The boy is said to be in serious but stable condition at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, according to PIX 11. The 26-year-old man also …
A New York woman was indicted on murder charges on Thursday, roughly a year after she allegedly beat her lover to death with a pot or pan before setting his home on fire to conceal the crime. Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said that Jennifer Gross, 54, fatally attacked James M. Coppola, 75, at …
A 15-year-old girl in New York is speaking out months after her Uber driver allegedly kidnapped her after picking her up from a birthday party. The teen, whose identity remains private, reportedly requested an Uber ride from an Atlantic Beach home at 11:15 p.m. on July 12. Instead of taking her to her home 15 …
Two brothers in New York are facing upgraded criminal charges months after they allegedly left their grandmother to die in a house fire but saved their meth equipment. Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker told WETM that Jarrett and Justin Gause removed their meth equipment from the Riverside home and went to get cigarettes, but …
Twelve women who were students at the New York School for the Deaf have filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging a dorm housemaster sexually abused them for years and nothing was done to stop it. The New York Times reported that all 12 plaintiffs attended the prominent school during the 1960s and ’70s. They claimed …
An alleged gang member in New York who is charged with robbery and assault is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl while out on bail. The New York Post reported that Supreme Court Justice Craig Walker set Tony Johnson’s bail at $6,000 in March, allowing his mother to get him out of jail. In …
Five gang members were sentenced to prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a 15-year-old New York boy whom they mistook for a rival gang member. Though all five men were convicted of first-degree murder, Joniki Matinez Estrella, 24, was the only person sentenced to life in prison without parole for the June 2018 slaying of …
A New York man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Thursday for suffocating his 7-year-old daughter with a pillow hours after his divorce was finalized. Neil White, 49, killed Gabrielle White in his New Rochelle townhome in June 2017. WCBS reported that officers who responded to the crime scene not only …
Police in New York are searching for a man who allegedly disguised himself as a FedEx employee before he tied up and robbed a family of $130,000 in cash and jewelry. WPIX reported that the suspect masqueraded as a FedEx worker and delivered a fake package to the Brooklyn home at around 3 p.m. on …
Police in New York are searching for a man who allegedly robbed an elderly woman of $5,000—money she said was going to pay for her late husband’s headstone. WCBS reported that Maximina Osorio, 89, had returned to her East Village apartment from shopping on Saturday morning when the suspect forced his way inside as she …
An affidavit alleging that a former Boy Scout leader in New York had sung and danced naked in a locker room full of boys will be included in a pending $320 million lawsuit against the organization. According to NBC News, parents of two boys in Troop 95 had filed the multimillion lawsuit in March 2017, …
