The New York Police Department is looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that NYPD officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged with heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.
Taking a powerful blow to his head, Ehud Halevy, by his own admission, was resisting arrest by police as seen in surveillance video. But the pummeling he received from the officer was not warranted, he said.
A former New York City police officer will spend at least 75 years in prison after being convicted of grabbing a schoolteacher off the street and sexually assaulting her at gunpoint.
A jury has deadlocked on rape charges a day after an off-duty New York City police officer was convicted of sexually assaulting a schoolteacher he grabbed off the street.
Jurors found Michael Pena guilty Tuesday of criminal sex act and some counts of predatory sexual assault. They are continuing deliberate on rape charges.
In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors cited evidence of semen on the victim's underwear to counter defense claims that the officer, Michael Pena, didn't have intercourse during the assault.
The accuser took the stand on Friday to describe in haunting detail how an off-duty police officer allegedly threatened her with his gun and sexually attacked her on the morning of August 19.
The accuser took the stand on Friday to describe in haunting detail how an off-duty police officer allegedly threatened her with his gun and sexually attacked her on the morning of August 19.
A criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Brooklyn alleges that Michael Daragjati stopped and frisked the man in April on Staten Island without proper cause.
A simple shopping trip to a neighborhood deli turned into a nightmare for a 19 year old who spent the night in jail for allegedly riding his bike on the sidewalk.