Feds arrest NY lawmaker on new bribery charges
Less than three weeks after being acquitted in a federal corruption case, a New York state lawmaker was arrested Tuesday on new charges that he sought and accepted bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers. William Boyland Jr., a Brooklyn assemblymember from a long line of politicians, was to appear later Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn on charges of soliciting more than $250,000 in bribes in exchange for performing official acts. There was no immediate response to a phone message left with his attorney. Read More: NBC News
Man Suspected Of Sexually Abusing Two Pre-Teen Girls In Elmhurst
Investigators are on the hunt for a man wanted for sexually abusing two 12-year-old girls in Queens. Police released a sketch of a man they say lured a girl into his car on 54th Avenue in Elmhurst on the morning of November 12. Investigators say he began sexually abusing the girl inside the car before she ran out. Police believe on November 25 he lured another girl into his car on 55th Avenue. He is described as about 6-feet tall and about 40 years old. Police say the suspect’s white sedan has a green, white and orange or red flag sticker on the driver’s door with an eagle in the middle. Read More: NY1
New schedules to clear ‘chaos’ at Queens Metropolitan High School
The class confusion should be over at Queens Metropolitan High School following new schedules distributed prior to the Thanksgiving break. The first two-and-a-half months of the school year saw some students’ schedules changed over 10 times. Parents and students complained of the chaotic hallways, constant changes and no gym classes. Queens Metropolitan shares the building with two other schools – Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School and Maspeth High School. Read More: Queens Courier
NYPD Stats: Officers Have Stopped, Frisked Four Million Residents Since 2004
The New York City Police Department is on pace to stopping-and-frisking a record number of New Yorkers this year. According to a New York Civil Liberties Union analysis of new police data, during the first nine months of 2011, the NYPD made more than 500,000 street stops. The group says officers are on track to conduct just more than 675,000 stops, which is a nearly 13 percent increase over last year. The NYCLU claims most of these interrogations involved blacks or Latinos, and nearly 90 percent of the stops did not result in an arrest or ticket. Read More: NY1
$680,000 drug bust in Queens
A drug thug was busted in the middle of a Sports Authority parking lot in Queens on one of the busiest shopping days of the year — with 20 kilos of coke in his trunk, cops said yesterday. Kwame Deschamps, a 27-year-old licensed barber from Lynn, Mass., was acting suspiciously Saturday in the store’s lot on Woodhaven Boulevard in Forest Hills, police said. Cops investigated and reported finding in his car’s trunk more than $600,000 in cocaine and about 4,000 OxyContin pills, which can go for up to $20 a pop, or a total of $80,000. Deschamps was arraigned and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. He had been arrested in Massachusetts in 2009 for marijuana possession, according to police. Read More: New York Post
