Author: Joseph Deaux (Joseph Deaux)

Three drug dealers were busted by images that Google’s Street View Cameras took that showed three men dealing in front of the Neighborhood Grocery on Jackson Street and Kingsland Avenue in Williamburg, New York’s PIX11 reports. Shaundell Dade, Jamel Pringle and Jonathan Paulino were arrested after the police conducted an undercover sting operation, Prosecutor Bridget...

Milton Balkany, a Rabbi in Midwood, was convicted Wednesday for extortion, blackmail, wire fraud and making false statements at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports. Balkany is a day school director at Bais Yaakov. He was guilty of attempting to extort a $4 million donation from billionaire Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital...

Jayvaughn Pinkston, a former Brooklyn High School basketball standout is charged with two counts of simple assault and harassment after allegedly getting in a fight outside a fraternity house at Villanova University, New York Post reports. Pinkston became angered when he was locked inside a laundry room while having a romantic encounter with a girl, eyewitnesses say....

Update on earlier reports: Jury deliberations for the teen stabbing trial of Tiana Browne began in the late afternoon, The Brooklyn Ink‘s Evan MacDonald reports.

Actor Will Smith was offered a 2,300-square-foot penthouse at 75 Grand Ave. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn for free, New York Daily News reports. The building’s developer, Mendy Gorodetsky, made the offer. The unit sports 16-foot ceilings and mezzanines, custom French cabinetry and full-aperture windows. Gorodetsky included “ensuite meals” from Choice Market. For between-scene breaks on the set of Smith’s...

An update from our earlier report: Assistant District Attorney, Mark Hale, addressed the jury this afternoon, The Brooklyn Ink‘s Evan MacDonald reports. Hale described Tiana Browne as a troubled teenager and said her actions showed the organized thoughts of someone who was trying to escape blame. He also called into question the validity of her...

The prosecution and defense attorneys are giving closing summations at the Brooklyn Supreme Court today concerning the murder of a girl who was allegedly stabbed by her cousin 30 times, The Brooklin Ink‘s Evan MacDonald reports. Tiana Browne, 17, is charged with second degree murder and possession of a weapon after allegedly murdering her cousin,...

A crocodile was witnessed crawling through a backyard in Brooklyn, WABC New York reports. The reptile was found at a resident’s property on Jefferson Street in Bushwick. The one-year-old crocodile is 28 inches long. It was safely contained and is at an animal care and control shelter.

An emergency medical technician is charged with official misconduct 10 months after allegedly not doing anything while a pregnant woman died at an Au Bon Pain store in Brooklyn, New York Daily News reports. The accused, Melissa Jackson, 23, faces up to 2 years in prison if convicted. Jackson turned herself over to authorities and...