Perry rapist gets 20 years The man who raped a 29-year-old woman last April, after tricking her into thinking he was a West Village “Neighborhood Watch” member, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced Tuesday. In January, Ivan Ramos, 22, plead guilty to one charge of first-degree rape, [...]
Continue reading …Meatpacking smash There’s a right and a wrong place for everything. For example, it’s not a great idea to start a bar fight while police are there for an inspection. Two officers from the Sixth Precinct said they were conducting a routine inspection inside Anja Bar, at 25 Little W. 12th St., around 2 a.m. on [...]
Continue reading …Fake cash failed A wily teen thought she could trick a Union Square clothing store cashier into taking two fake $100 bills, but she had another thing coming. A manager at the Burlington Coat Factory, at 40 E. 14th St., told police that around 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 22, Shaquanna Rhem, 18, walked up to the [...]
Continue reading …Letting it all hang out He couldn’t hold it in, so they hauled him in. Cops said they saw Walter Bryant, 23, urinating inside the 14th St. F train subway station around 1 p.m. on Feb. 13, in full view of passersby. After apprehending him, the officers also said they found an illegal gravity knife tucked [...]
Continue reading …D.W.I. drivers busted Cops busted a drunk driver near Washington Square Park early on Sun., Feb. 10, after the man hit another car while his blood alcohol content was allegedly more than twice the legal limit. Officers responded to an accident at the corner of Washington Square South and MacDougal St. around 2:30 a.m., where [...]
Continue reading …Sidewalk beating Police arrested two men for their reportedly vicious attack on another man outside a West Village restaurant early on Sun., Jan. 27. Security guards for Sushi Samba, at 87 Seventh Ave. South, told officers that they saw Robert DeMatteo and Michael Volkert, both 22, engage in a dispute with a 29-year-old man on [...]
Continue reading …Beating suspects in court Sharif Rizk, 22, top, and Hatem Farsakh, 24, above, appeared in Man-hattan Criminal Court on Fri., Jan. 18, after being arrested in the brutal beating of Kevin McCarron, 24, as he was leaving Artichoke pizzeria on MacDougal St. early Sunday morning Jan. 13. McCarron, from Andover, Mass., was visiting the city [...]
Continue reading …Carrying a big stick Teddy Roosevelt always said that one should speak softly and carry a big stick — but one man was arrested in the West Village last week after following only the second half of that famous mantra. Chauncey Wallace, 40, was apprehended near the corner of Christopher St. and Seventh Ave. South [...]
Continue reading …Senior MacDougal mugging Police arrested a thug who scared a senior citizen into coughing up more than $200 in cash late on Fri., Jan. 4. The victim, a 65-year-old man, told cops that he was walking along MacDougal St., between W. Third St. and Minetta Lane, around 11 p.m., when someone approached him from behind. [...]
Continue reading …Jane New Year’s assault Police arrested the man who they believe bashed his girlfriend around inside their room at the Jane Hotel early on Jan. 1. The victim, 22, told cops that her boyfriend, Steven Fortier, 28, had already attacked her on New Year’s Eve by throwing her against a wall, and said that he [...]
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