Chelsea homicide A resident of the Elliot Chelsea Houses was shot to death around 2:07 a.m. Mon., July 9, outside of 415 W. 25th St. near Ninth Ave., police said. The victim, Dante Sanders, 19, found with four bullets in his chest, was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. His [...]

Stuy High cheating A cheating scandal broke at the elite Stuyvesant High School on June 18 when the principal, Stanley Teitel, found a student apparently getting answers on his cell phone while taking a test, according to the Daily News and the Post. A Department of Education spokesperson said the matter is under investigation. Another [...]

Delancey armed robbers Police are seeking information on two suspects who held up the Duane Reade at 100 Delancey St. at Ludlow St. at gunpoint around 11 p.m. Fri., June 15. When the woman cashier refused their demand for money, one of the robbers said, “Shoot her,” whereupon his accomplice fired and missed. The two [...]

East Village stabbing Corey Capers, 31, of 605 F.D.R. Drive in the Baruch Houses was stabbed to death at 3 a.m. Sat., June 9, in front of 737 E. Fifth St. in the Lillian Wald Houses while trying to stop a fight between his aunt and her boyfriend. Capers was taken to Beth Israel Hospital [...]

Truck kills young actress Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver of a truck that struck and killed a woman, 21, around 1:26 a.m., Thurs., May 24, while she was walking east across 14th St. at Broadway across from Union Square Park. The truck was traveling east on 14th St. and making a right turn [...]

‘Drive faster!’ A cab driver told police that two women who had hailed him around 3:30 p.m. Sun., May 20, at Varick and Vandam Sts. began yelling that he wasn’t going fast enough. One woman grabbed the rate card and tore it up and the other grabbed his iPhone when he was about to call [...]

Perry St. rape Ivan Ramos, 22, pleaded not guilty at his Wed., May 16, arraignment on charges of raping a woman in a basement stairwell at 129 Perry St. a month ago. He is being held lieu of $500,000 bail pending a July 11 court appearance. Ramos, who has several prior arrests, is charged with [...]

‘Evil spirit’ scammers Fifth Precinct detectives are looking for two or three women who have been victimizing elderly Asian women in Chinatown by offering to remove evil spirits and bad luck from their jewelry and money and stealing it from them. Two scammers, described only as Asian women, approached their latest victim, 62, at Doyers [...]

Gloved and dangerous Police and the F.B.I. arrested a suspect they identified as the “White Glove Bandit” bank robber in Tompkins Square Park on Wed., April 18. Michael McManus, 41, was arrested without incident and charged with robbing several banks at gunpoint, the most recent on the day before his arrest. McManus earned his moniker [...]