Ex-con gets 12 years to life for siccing pit bull on cop chasing down Queens drug suspect
An ex-con with a decades-long rap sheet has been sentenced to 12 years to life in prison for siccing his pit bull on a cop chasing down a drug suspect in Queens two years ago. “Get him!,” Jeffrey Cofield ordered before releasing the mutt on Sgt. Craig Kearney as he chased a drug suspect into an Astoria apartment building in August 2010. Read More: Daily News
Mother who allegedly kidnapped infant daughter is in custody
After an eight hour search, police found and arrested the woman who allegedly kidnapped her baby from a Queens hospital. The baby was found safe. Police said Leila Rajnarie took her 8-month-old daughter, Nevita Jagdeo, from Queens General Hospital Pediatric Center at approximately noon on Wednesday, March 14 while the infant was there with her foster mother. Rajnarie had accompanied them on the visit. Read More: Queens Courier
After Mike D’Antoni’s resignation, NY Knicks owner James Dolan and brass try to save face and cover assets
There was James Dolan, the one thing that never changes with the Knicks, leading the 6 o’clock news for sports Wednesday night with more change for his loser basketball team. So you got another new beginning for the Knicks Wednesday night, with Mike D’Antoni out and Mike Woodson in. One of these days, one of these new beginnings may even involve Dolan’s Knicks actually winning something. Read More: Daily News
Tooth & hair DNA hunt at accused madam’s ‘love lair’
The same day they arrested accused Upper East Side madam Anna Gristina, Manhattan DA investigators raided her 78th Street “brothel” and stripped it of what they consider to be vital evidence — hairbrushes and toothbrushes, The Post has learned. “They could potentially be used for DNA testing, hair analysis to identify people who have been using that location,” Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Roper told a judge last month, according to court documents obtained by The Post. Read More: New York Post
Afghan Taliban suspends peace talks with US, Karzai pushes for early troop pullback
Afghanistan’s Taliban on Thursday suspended peace talks with the US, in the wake of the alleged massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier and burning of copies of the Koran. “It was due to their [the US] alternating and ever-changing position that the Islamic Emirate was compelled to suspend all dialogue with the Americans,” the group said in a statement posted on its website. The insurgent group said dialogue was suspended until the US “shows willingness to fulfill their promises,” the statement said. Read More: New York Post
