Bronx deli worker and father of two Jose Delacruz is not the deported drug dealer “El Toro” even though they share the same birthday and name, now if he could just get the cops to believe him. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story. @WiL
Psychiatric Facility Supervisor Charged With Strangling Autistic Patient To Death
A supervisor at a Staten Island psychiatric facility was indicted Wednesday for strangling an autistic patient during a botched effort to subdue him. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story. @WiL
White Firefighters Criminal Background Ignored In Hiring Process
A former FDNY official shed light on a troubling back-room practice that helped white firefighter candidates get hired despite having criminal records. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story. @WiL
Tech Talk News: Fugitive Taunts Cops On Facebook “Catch Me If You Can” Before They Find Him in An Apartment
A fugitive who taunted cops on his Facebook page, “Catch me if you can, I’m in Brooklyn” has been captured by U.S.marshals. Victor Burgos was sitting at a computer with his Facebook page open when a task force of marshals and NYPD detectives tracked him down in an apartment on Jefferson St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story. @WiL x Tat WZA
Waka Flocka Spends The Night In Jail!
Rapper Waka Flocka was arrested yesterday in New York and had to spend the night in jail. According to MTO, a witness on the scene said that Waka was in the the parking lot of a Queens, NY mall when a “gang of officers ran up on Waka and his people and immediately started locking dudes up… no questions asked.” Later, the NYPD confirmed with MTV that Flocka was arrested for possession of marijuana but released with no criminal charges. Earlier this evening, Waka mentioned the incident on Twitter. See a pic of his arrest and find out what he said after the jump!! @ItsLukieBaby
Cop Banished After Busting Prosecutor For DWI Gets New Precinct Closer To Home!!
Elliot Zinstein, was shipped out of the 44th Precinct in the Bronx after arresting Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Troiano, was transferred Monday to the 33rd Precinct in Washington Heights. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story. @WiL
