$43K Elder Fraud Scam Busted: Suspects Caught Retrieving Cash Packages In Tappan, Cops Say $43K Elder Fraud Scam Busted: Suspects Caught Retrieving Cash Packages In Tappan, Cops Say
$43K Elder Fraud Scam Busted: Suspects Caught Retrieving Cash Packages In Tappan, Cops Say Two men have been arrested after police say they attempted to collect tens of thousands of dollars tied to multiple scams targeting an elderly victim in Rockland County.  The investigation began on Wednesday, April 29, when authorities received a call from a man in Utah reporting that his wife may have been exploited out of $6,700 through a bank account scam, the Orangetown Police Department said on Thursday, April 30. Detectives determined that a package containing the cash was scheduled to be delivered by UPS to a vacant home in Tappan. While conducting surveillance at the scene, off…
Landover Man On Home Detention For Assault Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend In Apartment Landover Man On Home Detention For Assault Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend In Apartment
Landover Man On Home Detention For Assault Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend In Apartment A man who isolated himself with his girlfriend before gunning her down in their Maryland apartment was on home detention for a previous assault, prosecutors say. Harry Dominique Lindsey, 33, of Landover was convicted in connection with the July 2025 murder of 29-year-old Sharita Cristwell at a home in Prince George's County. Police say officers were called shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 5, 2025, to an apartment in the 700 block of Stretford Way in Landover to investigate reports of shots fired. Upon arrival, they found Cristwell suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was pr…
Teacher At School In White Plains Accused Of Grooming, Touching Student, Providing Alcohol: DA Teacher At School In White Plains Accused Of Grooming, Touching Student, Providing Alcohol: DA
Teacher At School In White Plains Accused Of Grooming, Touching Student, Providing Alcohol: DA A teacher at a private school in Westchester County is facing charges after allegedly engaging in inappropriate behavior with a teenage student over an extended period, prosecutors said.  Nils Koehler, 27, of White Plains, was arrested on Tuesday, April 28, and arraigned in White Plains City Court on one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday, April 29.  Koehler, who works at the German International School New York in White Plains, pleaded not guilty. A judge issued a full stay-away orde…
Charges Against Disgraced Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke To Be Dropped In Ironic Twist Charges Against Disgraced Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke To Be Dropped In Ironic Twist
Charges Against Disgraced Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke To Be Dropped In Ironic Twist Charges against disgraced former Suffolk County police chief James Burke will be dismissed later this year because the officers who arrested him bungled the case, authorities said Wednesday, April 29. Burke, who led the county police force from 2012 to 2015, was facing misdemeanor public lewdness and indecent exposure counts for an August 2023 incident in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Farmingville. But three Suffolk County park rangers involved in the arrest have since resigned amid disciplinary allegations, including the officer who claimed to witness Burke’s illegal acts, Newsday repo…
Yaphank Gas Station Stickup, 100 MPH Chase And Daycare Crash Ends In Conviction: Authorities Yaphank Gas Station Stickup, 100 MPH Chase And Daycare Crash Ends In Conviction: Authorities
Yaphank Gas Station Stickup, 100 MPH Chase And Daycare Crash Ends In Conviction: Authorities A Long Island man has been convicted of robbing a gas station at gunpoint and speeding away from cops at 100 mph afterward, authorities announced Wednesday, April 29. Marion Maupin, a 33-year-old Ridge man, was part of a two-man team that held up a Shell station in Yaphank, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said. Maupin and Raiquan Davis, 28, arrived at the Shell around 7:45 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2025, prosecutors said. Maupin pulled a gun and pointed it at the clerk’s head, while Davis watched the door as the lookout, according to investigators. After taking cash from the register,…
Judge Drops Hammer After LI NYPD Cop’s Killer Cleared On Murder Charge Judge Drops Hammer After LI NYPD Cop’s Killer Cleared On Murder Charge
Judge Drops Hammer After LI Nypd Cop’s Killer Cleared On Murder Charge The man who fatally shot an NYPD officer from Long Island was sentenced Monday, April 27 after a jury shockingly found him not guilty of first-degree murder, authorities said. However, 36-year-old Guy Rivera was still hammered with a sentence of 115 years to life in prison, the Queens District Attorney’s office said. Rivera was convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of NYPD Det. Jonathan Diller, a 31-year-old Massapequa Park resident. He was also found guilty of attempted first-degree murder for pointing the gun at another cop, Sgt. Sasha Rosen, and two weapons charges. The verd…
Lampeter Mistress Murderer Denied Release To Wife's Care Appeal Rejected: Prosecutor Lampeter Mistress Murderer Denied Release To Wife's Care Appeal Rejected: Prosecutor
Lampeter Mistress Murderer Denied Release To Wife's Care Appeal Rejected: Prosecutor A convicted murderer who claimed he was dying has lost his bid to leave prison for his wife’s care, with a Pennsylvania appeals court backing a judge who said the argument “defies logic,” officials announced on Thursday, April 23. Randall Scott Shreiner, 68, of West Lampeter Township, had sought compassionate release from his life sentence, claiming state prison could not provide treatment for his stage-five chronic kidney disease and that he had less than six months to live. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld Lancaster County Judge Jeffery D. Wright’s decision to deny that request w…
Child Rapes Land Philadelphia Man In Custody Of US Marshals After Years-Long Abuse: Bucks DA Child Rapes Land Philadelphia Man In Custody Of US Marshals After Years-Long Abuse: Bucks DA
Child Rapes Land Philadelphia Man In Custody Of US Marshals After Years-Long Abuse: Bucks DA A man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child over several years has been taken into custody, Bucks County authorities announced on Wednesday, April 22. Bryan Christopher Williams, 31, of Philadelphia, was apprehended around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 21 at a residence in Philadelphia by the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office. He was transported to Bucks County and turned over to county detectives for processing, officials said. Williams is charged with rape of a child, involunta…
Albany Rapist Who Assaulted 14-Year-Old Girl Learns His Fate: Authorities Albany Rapist Who Assaulted 14-Year-Old Girl Learns His Fate: Authorities
Albany Rapist Who Assaulted 14-Year-Old Girl Learns His Fate: Authorities A New York man who raped a 14-year-old girl in the backseat of his car has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison, authorities said Friday, April 24. Mohammed Gubari, 28, must serve 12 and a half years behind bars, the Albany County District Attorney’s office said. After his release, he’ll be on probation for 20 years and must register as a sex offender, prosecutors said. “I hope you will come to your senses and finally realize what you did is wrong … and that no child should go through what I went through,” the teenage victim told Gubari at his sentencing hearing. Gubari, of Alban…
Hamden Man Convicted In Deadly New Haven Shooting Of 27-Year-Old Learns His Fate Hamden Man Convicted In Deadly New Haven Shooting Of 27-Year-Old Learns His Fate
Hamden Man Convicted In Deadly New Haven Shooting Of 27-Year-Old Learns His Fate A Connecticut man will spend decades behind bars for a deadly shooting that left one person dead and another seriously hurt in a New Haven neighborhood. Treyvon Battle, 35, of Hamden, was sentenced to serve 80 years in prison on Wednesday, April 22, the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice said.  A jury found Battle guilty of murder, first-degree assault, criminal possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a permit in January.  The charges stem from a shooting that happened on May 27, 2017, on Dickerman Street in New Haven.  Prosecutors said Battle opened fi…
Newark Man Who Sexually Assaulted 11-Year-Old Learns Fate: Prosecutor Newark Man Who Sexually Assaulted 11-Year-Old Learns Fate: Prosecutor
Newark Man Who Sexually Assaulted 11-Year-Old Learns Fate: Prosecutor A 42-year-old Newark man was sentenced to 40 years in prison after previously being convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, authorities announced Tuesday, April 21. Javier Freire-Ramos was convicted last November of two counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of sexual assault by contact, and endangering the welfare of a child, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II said. Freire-Ramos abused the child multiple times between May 2021 and February 2022, Stephens said. The victim was 11 years old when the abuse began, Stephens said. He must serve 26 years of the 40-year…
Videos Of Child Sex Assaults On Social Media Traced To Warminster Sex Offender: Police Videos Of Child Sex Assaults On Social Media Traced To Warminster Sex Offender: Police
Videos Of Child Sex Assaults On Social Media Traced To Warminster Sex Offender: Police A registered sex offender is accused of distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material online, Bucks County officials announced. Edward Joseph Hockenbury, 42, of Warminster, was charged after an investigation by county detectives, according to District Attorney Joe Khan’s office. He faces felony counts of sexual abuse of children - dissemination of photo/film, sexual abuse of children - possession of child pornography, dissemination of explicit sexual material to a minor, unlawful contact with a minor, and criminal use of a communication facility. The investigation began after the…