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Man Behind Two-Borough Stabbing, Carjacking Spree Awaits Sentencing

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Man Behind Two-Borough Stabbing, Carjacking Spree Awaits Sentencing

A man who admitted to killing four people and wounding two others in a 28-hour rampage is scheduled to be sentenced today. Maksim Gelman faces up to 100 years in prison when he’s sentenced in Brooklyn. He pleaded guilty to murder, assault and attempted murder in the February 2011 crime spree which began in Brooklyn and ended on a Manhattan subway 28 hours later. Read More: NY1

 

Protest Over Anti-Piracy Legislation Spans Web

Some of the most popular sites on the web are taking part in a 24-hour blackout in protest of legislation currently making its way through Congress. Hundreds of technicians, Internet activists and website users are expected to show up in Midtown today to rally in front of the offices of Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. The politicians support the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, which advocates say will impede free speech. Both Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down their sites at midnight to protest the acts. Google put a black banner over its logo but is still functional. Read More: NY1

 

Ex-Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. slapped with new corruption charges

Former New York state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. has been hit with yet another round of charges in the growing corruption case against him. Brooklyn federal prosecutors today unveiled two new charges of making false statements against the former legislator – including one allegation that Espada intentionally under-reported his salary when submitting government forms related to his medical business, Soundview Health Center,. The feds say Espada knowingly lied to the US Health and Human Services Administration by filing forms that listed his annual salary as $185,063 – when it was really $246,750, according to an indictment handed up by a Brooklyn federal grand jury. Read More: New York Post

 

Graffiti cop sentenced to three years probation

A former NYPD patrolman convicted of plastering his nickname on a highway overpass was given a pep talk by a Queens judge today before he was sentenced to three years probation. “Its time for you to put your family in front of those friends you talk to,” said acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Salvatore Modica about the text messages introduced in Steven Weinberg’s bench trial that he sent to his graffiti buddies about his tagging activities. Weinberg, 44 of Flushing, was convicted of fourth-degree criminal mischief and making graffiti last month for plastering his former tag, “NEO,” on a Clearview Expressway overpass. Read More: New York Post

 

NYPD, Manhattan DA, take down East Harlem PCP drug sales network; angel dust back in vogue

COPS HAVE started rounding up more than two dozen pushers charged with selling the dangerous retro drug angel dust in East Harlem, law enforcement sources revealed Wednesday. The targets of an 18-month investigation around 117th St. and Madison Ave., are two brothers who headed up the “extremely active drug sale business,” the sources told The News. The men, whose names are expected to be released later Wednesday, will be charged under the 2009 “drug kingpin” statute for moving millions of dollars worth of PCP, along with cocaine and heroin, the sources said. Read More: New York Post

 

5th Columbia drug kid guilty

A student accused of selling LSD at Columbia University pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted drug possession, resolving the last case in a takedown of an on-campus drug ring. Adam Klein was the last of five students to plead guilty in the case, which authorities called the biggest in recent memory against drug dealing at a city college. The case spurred a discussion of student drug use and questions of privilege and punishment from the New York Post’s editorial page to Time magazine’s Web site. Klein, 21, is expected to get five years’ probation at sentencing, which is scheduled for Feb. 28. Read More: New York Post