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Bronx Man Attempted Theft Of Camera

Police are looking for a man they say tried to steal a camera from a cable TV news station in the Bronx.

Driver Fled Bronx River Pkwy Accident

Police are searching for a driver who crashed a vehicle on the Bronx River Parkway this morning and fled the scene....
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Bronx Drug Gang Supplied By Doctor

Federal agents arrested a Washington Heights doctor Wednesday for selling thousands of prescription Oxycodone pills to a Bronx drug gang during a two-year period, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Attorney's Office....
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26 Tax Preparers Charged With Fraud

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Patricia Carter, a former Bronx-based tax preparer, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to three years in prison for preparing false tax returns as part of Operation Brass Tax....
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Construction Worker Stabbed To Death In Mott Haven

Joel Rojas must have fought hard for his life....
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Bronx Man Arrested In Utica For Drugs

A Bronx man was arrested Saturday on drug charges after a vehicle stop in Utica....
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Bronx Man Killed In Connecticut Shooting

Bridgeport police say a New York man has died after being shot in the head and crashing his car....
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Two Dead In Bronx Murder-Suicide

Police found a man and woman dead in a Bronx apartment in an apparent murder-suicide....
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Bronx Boy Dies After Swallowing Pills

A 13-month-old Bronx boy died after possibly swallowing pills from a pill bottle that he thought was a toy....
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Bronx Duo Busted For Peddling Heroin

Two Bronx men were busted for peddling heroin out of a Long Island beverage distributorship near two schools, authorities said yesterday....
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Bloody Sunday In Mott Haven

Sunday was an unusually bloody day on the streets of Mott Haven, raising fears among residents that violence is becoming out of control....
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Amanda Knox Freed After 4 Years

The four year ordeal of jailed American exchange student ended with tears of joy on October 3, 2011, when an Italian appeals court threw out her murder conviction - and ordered her freed....
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Jason Gonzalez Charged With Attempted Murder

Bronx resident Jason Gonzalez was charged earlier today with attempted murder and nine other offenses related to the shooting of Arizona forward Kevin Parrom....
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Jacob Cintron, 29, Kills Two

An allegedly drunken driver who hit and killed two New York men changing a tire on a New Jersey highway early yesterday has been charged with vehicular homicide....
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Cameron Roebuck Arrested For Attack

Police have arrested a suspect in the vicious attack against an 81-year-old man in Bronx. ...
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Bronx Livery Cab Robbers Sought

The New York Police Department has released a series of surveillance video stills, asking for the public's help in identifying two men wanted in connection with a series of livery cab robberies in Bronx....
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Elderly Bronx Man Speaks On Attack

Police are looking for a suspect who is wanted for a vicious attack against an 81-year-old man in the Bronx. ...
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Cherika Alvarez Starved Dog To Death

Animal abuse happens in neighborhoods throughout the country. The people we pass in our apartment building could be guilty of such a horrendous crime, and we would never know. This was the case with 30 year-old Cherika Alvarez of Bronx, who kept her pit bull Alize, in her apartment and effectively starved him to death, in 2009....
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Bronx Man Charged After DNA Match

Detectives fetched a Bronx man in the borough on Wednesday after police connected him to the 2008 burglary of a Stewart's on Washington Avenue....
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Police Looking For Missing Bronx Teen

Police need help trying to find a missing teenage boy from Bronx....
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Bronx Man Sentenced On Firearm Charges

A New York man has been sentenced in Vermont to more than eight years in prison for a firearms charge connected to a drug-related armed robbery in Rutland.

Espada Guilty Of Four Theft Counts

A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted former State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. on Monday of stealing from the publicly funded health care clinic he operated in the Bronx, but the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining counts against the former lawmaker and all counts against Espada's son.

Two Bronx Men Shot, One Dies

Two men were shot early Sunday morning, one fatally, in the University Heights section of Bronx, according to police report.

Cops Seek 3 Women In Bronx Subway Robbery

Police are searching for three women whom they say committed a robbery at a Bronx subway station.
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Hunting Man For Attempted Kidnapping

Police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap a 6-year-old boy in front of a school in the Schuylerville section of Bronx.

Bronx Man Sentenced To 18 Months

One of three men from Bronx, NY, who admitted their roles in defrauding the U.S. Department of the Treasury of more than $300,000 in income tax return checks was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.

Bronx Man Charged Stealing From Bank

A Bronx man was indicted by a Freehold, NJ grand jury last week on charges he used fake identification documents to steal $500 from a Bradley Beach, NJ bank.

Off-Duty NYPD Officer Sentenced To 75 Years-To-Life

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the sentencing of Michael Pena, 28, to the maximum penalty of 75 years-to-life in state prison following his convictions at trial of three counts of Predatory Sexual Assault, class A felonies, and three related charges, for attacking a young schoolteacher at gunpoint in Inwood last summer.
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Man Robbed & Slashed On Train Platform

Police are looking for a suspect who slashed a subway rider across the face and neck during a robbery.

Off-Duty Officer Shoots Man Who Fired At Police In Bronx

New York City police say an off-duty officer shot a 19-year-old who fired a gun into a park and then fired at officers when they chased him.

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Jasmeet Sidhu

is a New York-based writer and producer. She was previously a reporter for the Toronto Star in Canada, and a blogger for the Huffington Post. Jasmeet is currently a fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.