Three suspects have been arraigned in connection to the shooting of Zurana Horton, a Brownsville mother of 13, murdered on Friday.
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October 25, 2011October 27, 2011Brooklyn Life, Crime
A Detective on Trial – and a Department Too?
Tracy Jarrett reports on the trial of NYPD detective Jason Arbeeny, a scandal that has rocked the NYPD.
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October 19, 2011October 20, 2011Brooklyn Life, Crime
Bed-Stuy Shooting Leaves Grandmother to Grieve
Prestine Lee cannot remember who it was that told her that her grandson had been shot and killed Monday night. “Someone came upstairs last night to my apartment when I was cooking and told me that Shamel got shot,” she said. She looks downcast at her wide open jeans, her salt-and-pepper head lowered, hands tucked...
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October 18, 2011October 18, 2011Brooklyn Life, Crime
Park Slope Reacts to Sexual Assaults
Park Slope residents react to string of sexual attacks.
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Protesters Disrupt Brooklyn Supreme Court, Nine Arrested
Nine people were arrested Thursday after marching into the Brooklyn Supreme Court on Adams Street to protest the borough’s housing crisis, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Fifteen people, affiliated with the protesters on Wall Street, disrupted three mortgage sales in another sign of Occupy Wall Street’s growing influence. The nine arrested protesters were later arrested. This...
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October 3, 2011October 5, 2011Brooklyn Life, Crime
Witness for the Prosecution: Shop Owner Re-lives Killing in Court
Judge Joel M. Goldberg looked impatiently across his courtroom. The trial of The People vs. Donald Michel should have started at 10:15 a.m. It was now 11. The gallery and jury box remained empty. Defense attorney Adrian Ellis ran a yellow highlighter through case documents. Michel sat next to his attorney, staring straight ahead. A...
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October 3, 2011October 4, 2011Brooklyn Life, Crime
A Red-Light District Fades Away
Once a neighborhood overrun with strip clubs and adult video stores, Sunset Park is leaving its seedier days behind.
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September 8, 2011October 5, 2011Brooklyn Life, Crime
Gangs Adopt Social Media for Recruiting, Boasting, and Inciting
A Brooklyn murder becomes the subject of online exchanges, raising concerns among law-enforcement officials
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November 18, 2010December 1, 2010Crime
Are Homeless Murders Hate Crimes?
Kenneth Garrett, a homeless new yorker, sips a coffee in Central Park (Alex Alper/The Brookyn Ink) By Alex Alper. Last month, a 58-year-old black man named Ben Lully was shot and killed on Lincoln Terrace in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His address, according to the NYPD, was 197 Bowery Street, a Manhattan homeless shelter. Violence against...
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November 10, 2010November 10, 2010Crime
“No one wins” in murder conviction
By Alex Gecan Bedlam erupted in a Kings County courtroom this afternoon, drowning out the last of three guilty verdicts against Jarelle Washington. Washington’s relatives and friends, some of them too hysterical to be understood, were escorted out of Judge Alan Marrus’ courtroom at 320 Jay St. Others followed soon after to console or commiserate....