NYPD seeking armed bandit in two Queens stickups
Police are hunting for a gun-toting bandit, who was caught on camera during a stickup at a convenience store in Queens. The bandit, dressed in a gray baseball cap and blue hooded sweatshirt was caught on camera as he calmly strolled up to the counter at the 7-Eleven store on Corona Avenue near 108th Street in Corona, shortly after 7 a.m. on Feb. 26. He can be seen pulling a silver pistol from his pocket and brandishing it. Read More: Daily News
Matchmaker and alleged ‘Madam’ partner could turn herself in by next week
The gorgeous alleged partner of accused millionaire madam Anna Gristina has lawyered up, and is negotiating possibly turning herself in as early as next week, The Post has learned. Jaynie Mae Baker, 30, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is accused of helping run Gristina’s alleged millionaires-only, $2,000-a-visit call-girl ring, which prosecutors say was operated out of Gristina’s 200-acre Monroe County pig farm and the cramped one-bedroom “brothel” she rented on East 78th Street. Read More: New York Post
Mob suicide snitch’s ‘aide’ charged in payback whack
In a stunning twist to the case of the guilt-ridden mob rat, officials yesterday busted a Mafia hanger-on nicknamed “Lucky” for helping the turncoat wiseguy kill an old enemy before he committed suicide last month. The FBI and local prosecutors believe José Luis “Lucky” Rivera served as “muscle” and a possible lookout when Nicholas “Nicky Skins” Stefanelli blew away Joker Poker machine peddler Joseph Rossi Sr. on Feb. 24, sources said. Read More: New York Post
Jets ‘kiss and make up’ with QB Sanchez after missing out on Peyton Manning
Sometime before or during his Peyton Across America March Madness Tour across America — starting in Denver, then on to Arizona and Miami, but not Florham Park, N.J. — Peyton Manning told the Jets thanks but no thanks, to the lure of New York, to sharing the greatest city in the world with his little brother, to embark on the gargantuan challenge of carrying a tortured franchise to its first championship in 43 years. Read More: New York Post
Cops hunting brute caught on video beating, abducting woman outside Ronkonkoma LIRR station
Cops are hunting this brute who beat down and abducted a woman outside the Long Island Rail Road Ronkonkoma station Sunday morning, in a sickening assault that was caught on video. The man slugged the woman just after she got off the train at 7:40 a.m., knocking her down. Later, the suspect confronts the woman in the station’s taxi office, drags her outside and strikes her again. Read More: New York Post
NYPD Commissioner Meets With Muslim Leaders Amid Growing Surveillance Controversy
Muslim leaders met with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at NYPD headquarters Friday afternoon, the same day that the Associated Press reported that police kept secret files on businesses owned by second- and third-generation Americans of Muslim faith as part of the department’s counter-terrorism program. “The Muslim community feels under siege,” Mohammed Nurhussein of the United African Congress told NY1. “And that issue has to be addressed.” Read More: NY1
