Newly released body camera footage shows the arrest of New York hotel murder suspect Raad Almansoori in Arizona earlier this week. Almansoori, 26, was arrested on February 18 in Scottsdale after allegedly stabbing a McDonald’s employee in Surprise, and that followed his alleged carjacking-at-knifepoint of a woman outside a Starbucks in Phoenix. Days earlier, Almansoori …
The man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl last year from a New York state park pleaded guilty on Wednesday to kidnapping and predatory sexual assault against a child, agreeing to a prison term of 47 years to life. Craig N. Ross Jr. will be formally sentenced on April 17, the Albany Times-Union reported. The …
A man arrested in Arizona for attacking a woman at a fast food restaurant reportedly confessed to the murder of New York mom Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, who was found beaten and strangled to death in a Lower Manhattan hotel room earlier his month. Oleas-Arancibia, 38, was found dead by hotel staff on February 8. Her 18-year-old …
A New York woman has been arrested and charged with abandoning her newborn daughter in an apartment hallway on Tuesday. Jacqueline Marleni Perez, 21, was charged with abandonment of a child after detectives reviewed hours of surveillance video and interviewed multipls witnesses, WABC reported. The little girl was found wrapped in a blanket and crying …
A New York man who has been charged with stalking a woman with his airplane was arrested again last month for violating an order of protection and stalking. The new charges against 65-year-old Michael J. Arnold are misdemeanors, but he was ordered held without bond, WNYT reported. The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office did not say …
New York’s city council has voted to override two vetos to public safety bills by Mayor Eric Adams, including the “How Many Stops Act” that was in the news over the weekend after a city police officer pulled over a city councilman but never told him why. the 51-member council voted 42-9 to override both …
A New York City councilman is angry after he was stopped by a police officer Friday night in Harlem and not given a reason why. New York Police released the body camera footage after Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated members of the Central Park Five, went public with the traffic stops and cited it …
Federal prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the white man who gunned down 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022. Payton Gendron, 20, pleaded guilty last year in state court for the killings at a Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He was sentenced to …
A Bronxville, New York, police sergeant murdered his wife and two sons before taking his own life on late Friday night. Clarkstown Police said they found the bodies of Watson Morgan, 49; Ornela Morgan, 43; and 10- and 12-year-old boys shortly after midnight Saturday morning. The four had all been shot. “At this phase of …
New York police shot and killed a man who was allegedly holding his mother at knifepoint in their Bronx apartment Saturday morning. The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified, reportedly told his family he was going to kill them and then himself. A 19-year-old family member made the 911 call that brought …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
Investigators identified the couple who died in Wednesday’s crash at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani. The Villanis were from Grand Island, and both were 53, Niagara Falls Police said. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Villanis vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, hit a curb and went …
