Crime

Fifty years later, a former FBI agent looks back on the bizarre bank robbery that inspired an iconic New York film.

The memory that sticks out to Jim Murphy from the screwiest bank robbery in New York City’s history is not the slow drive down a dark road at JFK Airport, with a shotgun leveled inches from his head, or the scrum of onlookers hooting and hollering every time hostage-taker John Wojtowicz stood toe-to-toe with negotiators. It’s not the salacious details of Wojtowicz’s backstory—man robs bank to pay for his “wife’s” sex-change operation in attempt to woo him/her back—or the pop of Murphy’s revolver as he shot Sal Naturale during a struggle for control of Naturale’s shotgun. It isn’t the kiss on the cheek from the hostage he had just saved, or the night, a few years later, that he saw Lance Henriksen play a grim-faced caricature of him in Dog Day Afternoon, the Sidney Lumet film based on the 1972 robbery, while seated in a theater packed with an audibly pro–Al Pacino (playing “Sonny Wortzik,” the fictionalized version of Wojtowicz) and anti-Henriksen audience.

As the city government abandons public safety, Baltimore residents pool resources to stop package thieves.

Baltimore’s hip Federal Hill neighborhood boasts historic red-brick rowhouses, a magnificent view of the Inner Harbor, and a charming variety of independent shops and restaurants. But these things all bring crime with them. While many neighborhoods in the city—whose experiment in depolicing has sparked a resurgence of violence—have met the challenge with private security, hiring a patrol is not the only option. Federal Hill residents have instead made use of their home-security cameras.

The NYPD released horrifying video of the brutal beatdown that killed a New York City taxi driver over the weekend as they made two arrests in the senseless crime.

Fernando Mateo, a spokesperson for the New York City Federation of Taxi Drivers, told The Post early Thursday that two male suspects surrendered to the police at the 101st Precinct in Queens late on Wednesday night.

Toronto man wanted for repeatedly punching woman in random attack near TTC station

The suspect is described as being 25-30 years old, between 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-9, with a medium build.

h/t MP

It’s been three years since The Post broke the news that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

The well-connected creep’s sudden demise sparked an avalanche of conspiracy theories and many questions remain about how he died and how he got away with his crimes for so long.

The trial of Ibrahim Ali, charged in September 2018 with the July 2017 first-degree murder of Marrisa Shen, was to commence Sept. 19 in Vancouver but has been put over until Jan. 16 next year.

What is the first city that comes to mind when you think of the city with the highest murder rate? For me, it’s Chicago. The cities that frequently make the news due to high murder rates and other violent crimes usually include Chicago, New York City, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. However, a compilation of police data for the month of June from cities with populations of more than 200,000 was put together and the top 31 American cities with the highest murder rates might surprise you.

The ex-bureaucrats charged in the alleged theft of $11 million in Ontario COVID-19 relief funds have spent more than $1.1 million on their legal defence — and now seek an additional $1.4 million.
That’s according to documents filed Tuesday with the Ontario Superior Court by Crown prosecutors who want to limit Sanjay and Shalini Madan from gaining further access to their assets.

The Madans, a married Toronto couple, were fired from their computer specialist jobs at Queen’s Park in 2020 after an alleged fraud of pandemic aid.

The removal of swift consequences for criminal behavior has led to an explosion of violence for even trivial slights.

On Monday, a 23-year-old in Brooklyn was shot, perhaps fatally, over cold French fries.

It began when Lisa Fulmore called her 20-year-old son, Michael Morgan—who has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a deadly weapon—to fume that McDonald’s workers were being disrespectful toward her over her complaints about cold fries. “I was on the phone with my son. I was like, ‘They in this McDonald’s playing with me,’” she said. Morgan then arrived and, after an argument with a McDonald’s employee, allegedly shot him in the neck and ran off. (Morgan’s girlfriend has also been charged for some as-yet-unrevealed involvement.) Did his mother disapprove of his actions? “My son is just saying that he gotta do what he gotta do and the [victim] came after him and whatever happened, happened.”