2026.9.15 21-year-old Pennsylvania man arrested in alleged ISIS-inspired firearm plot: DOJ
FBI Director Kash Patel said the suspect was plotting “a violent attack.”
A 21-year-old man is accused of receiving a firearm and ammunition in support of ISIS, according to the Justice Department.
Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, of Valencia, Pennsylvania, had allegedly been going by the name “Hamza Al Rashid” and allegedly claimed affiliation with ISIS, offered to share explosive manuals with others and expressed his intent to prepare for his “mission” and that he was just missing a “weapon,” according to the DOJ’s federal criminal complaint.
Kramer had allegedly been on the FBI’s radar since 2023, when he was charged and adjudicated delinquent by Pennsylvania state authorities for an alleged role in a plot to commit a mass casualty incident and for allegedly possessing child sexual abuse material, according to the Justice Department.
A tipster recently contacted the FBI to share concerns about Kramer, according to the Justice Department, which outlined the alleged conduct in court papers unsealed Tuesday.
2026.9.14 Charles Manson cult follower Bruce Davis, convicted in two 1969 killings, dies behind bars at 83
Davis was serving a life sentence for his role in the killings of Donald Shea and Gary Hinman
2026.9.14 New homeless encampment turns NYC’s East Side into trash heap: ‘Whole lot of headaches’
The homeless encampment Whac-a-Mole continues.
The city cleaned out a filthy East Side homeless encampment under the FDR Drive Monday, leaving behind a stomach-turning mess — while locals said the vagrants will likely come back anyway.
“[The encampment] could start again as soon as, like, the end of the day,” Dina Elkan, senior director of events at Solar One, told The Post. “It’s not just about over here. They have to check all the way down to make sure that people haven’t just relocated.”
2026.9.14 Chilling new details about Trump shooter Thomas Crooks revealed in bombshell FBI docs: emotionless since birth
President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was born without making a sound on Sept. 20, 2003, a trait that would follow him right up to the end of his short life when the 20-year-old died in a hail of Secret Service gunfire seconds after missing Trump’s head with a bullet by a hairsbreadth.
“When Thomas was born he did not scream and he was always quiet from that point on,” his father, Matthew, told feds in newly unearthed documents about the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, Pa.
2026.9.14 Tragic NYC duo killed in subway crash ID’d as longtime friends, recent Rutgers grads just starting out in their careers
The tragic pair fatally struck by a subway train in Manhattan over the weekend — and whose final moments were captured in a haunting video — were longtime friends and recent Rutgers University graduates just embarking on their careers, The Post has learned.
The mystery of how and why the two promising 24-year-olds from suburban New Jersey, Malaika Chitre and Navam Kaul, ended up sitting on the tracks inside the Spring Street subway station lingered days later — as friends said it was deeply out of character for the duo in the prime of their lives. “I was shocked. He was a financial analyst, doing everything right,” said Sagid Qureshi, Kaul’s next-door neighbor in Sayreville.
“From what I understand she was doing well, too – good people doing so well, with their whole lives ahead of them. It’s just so sad.”
2026.9.14 Newlywed Dominick Bianchi who went missing in Upstate NY found dead in wooded area
Dominick Bianchi, the troubled newlywed from upstate New York who went missing last week, has been found dead in a wooded area.
Bianchi, 35, was last been seen Tuesday morning at his home in East Greenbush, located just south of Albany, where he left behind his cellphone, wallet and car.
A cause of death was not immediately announced.
Five people were shot – including two teens – in a burst of gun violence that turned deadly in the Big Apple late Sunday, cops said.
The youngest victim was a 17-year-old boy who took a bullet to the chest around 9:15 p.m. behind a NYCHA building on Beach 40th Street near Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, police said.
He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
The gunfire stemmed from a dispute, but the teen appeared to not have known the shooter, according to law enforcement sources.
Around the same time in the Bronx, another teen was hit when someone opened fire with a rifle, cops said.
The 18-year-old victim was shot in his back at East 175th Street and Bathgate Avenue in Tremont, authorities said.
He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Two suspects fled the scene in a vehicle, and a rifle was recovered at the scene, police said.
One man was killed during the outbreak of overnight violence – 29-year-old Luis Cano, who took a bullet to the chest around 7:50 p.m. on Lafayette Avenue near Hunts Point Avenue, authorities said.
Cano, who lived about a mile away, was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
The motive for the deadly violence was still under investigation Monday, and the male suspect remained at large.
Two senior citizens were hurt in an earlier drive-by shooting as they played dominoes just blocks from Yankee Stadium, authorities and sources said.
One of the victims, a 65-year-old man, was blasted in the right leg, and the other man, 72, was struck in the right hand just after 6 p.m. at East 157th Street and Gerard Avenue in Concourse Village, police said.
The unidentified shooter opened fire in the victims’ direction while driving past them, according to law enforcement sources.
It was not clear whether either man was the target of the gunfire.
Both victims were taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition.
No arrests had been made.
In the 7-day period between Sept. 7 and Sunday, 22 shootings with 28 victims were reported citywide, according to NYPD stats.
Those numbers more than doubled from the comparable week in 2025, when 10 shootings were reported with 11 victims, the data shows.
The Bronx accounted for 14 of the week’s shooting incidents, or nearly 64 percent, according to the numbers.
Nineteen of the week’s shooting victims were also in the northernmost borough – 11 in Bronx South and eight in Bronx North, the figures show.
But year-to-date, shootings are down – with 471 incidents and 573 victims this year, versus 520 incidents with 652 victims in 2025, according to the statistics.x1200
2026.9.13 Maryland dad blamed ‘Satan’ after 2-month-old daughter died from horrific head trauma
Oscar Pineda and Katerin Monzon-Alvarado face child abuse, assault and reckless endangerment charges
2026.9.13 How fiend allegedly ‘brutally murdered’ NYC mom in front of daughter, 7, revealed — as victim’s dad demands he get ‘gas chamber’
The fiend who allegedly fatally beat a mom in front of her 7-year-old daughter and then left the frightened tot with the body whined in Manhattan court Sunday that he needed to be put in protective custody.
Tiliek Shamel Thompson, 41, beat to death 27-year-old Lovay Williams with her child in the home, then carted off evidence in blue shopping bags and cut his hair to try to dodge detection, prosecutors and the victim’s kin said.
“Give him the gas chamber!” the dead woman’s father, Nuquan Williams, screamed at Judge Linda Capitti during Thompson’s arraignment.
2026.9.13 Police say more arrests coming in death of Mississippi woman found hanging from tree
Mississippi police said Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing.
Loved ones also painted a picture of Fortune as a mother, athlete and woman of faith who they hoped would not solely be remembered for her horrific death.
2026.9.12 CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on bin Laden and al-Qaida before Sept. 11
Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, detail intelligence government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people and upended American national security.
The documents illustrate security analysts’ tracking of bin Laden’s movements and support system, as well as concerns about possible threats to U.S. targets. They also detail officials’ understanding of his network in the United States and other countries, including how his operations were financed.
Proclaiming it “an act of exceptional transparency,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the documents were the agency’s single largest release of declassified presidential daily briefs — the highly classified briefings prepared by the nation’s intelligence community for the government’s most senior leaders.
The documents range from a February 1998 file — prepared for then-President Bill Clinton — titled “Terrorists seeking WMD capability” and mentioning bin Laden and other Islamic extremists to a Sept. 12, 2001, report in which a source indicated the attacks had been planned for two years and had also targeted the U.S. Capitol.
2026.9.12 America marks 25 years since 9|11
Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, ABC’s David Muir looks back on the day that changed America, and the hope in a phone call decades later.
2026.9.12 Chinatown senior killed by truck on Canal St. leaves behind wife of more than 50 years
A 77-year-old man killed when he was struck by a flatbed truck on Canal St. in Chinatown leaves behind his wife of more than 50 years, heartbroken relatives said Saturday.
Three days after Thursday’s stunning crash, Ting Jun Ye’s children are trying to cope with his loss, care for their grieving mother, and keep a hospital vigil for Ye’s daughter Yong Wong, who was also struck by the flatbed truck and suffered a severe spinal injury.
The truck driver, Milton Williams, was coming off the Manhattan Bridge at Canal St. when his truck, which was overloaded with wooden pallets, jumped the curb and hit Ye and Wong at about 10 a.m.
The force of the impact sent father and daughter flying down the sidewalk, where they struck a 71-year-old woman as Williams veered back into the street and onto Bowery, where he struck a van and a box truck.
“It’s very difficult. There’s nothing we can do,” Ye’s daughter Yong Li Hu, 50, told the Daily News. “I can do nothing to change this. All we can do is take care of our mother.”
“It’s very hard for (her),” she said about her mom. “They were married for over 50 years.”
Ye, a retired cleaner at a bank, was on his way to a doctor’s appointment when the flatbed truck struck him. Wong was taking him to the doctor, Hu said.
The two were hit as they waited to cross Canal St., Wong’s husband told the Daily News Thursday.
“The truck came from the Manhattan Bridge very fast. My wife is very careful, but she didn’t see the truck coming,” Kin Fai Wong, 77, said.
Police said Williams’ truck accelerated as it exited the Manhattan Bridge into Chinatown, but it wasn’t immediately clear why.
2026.9.12 Ohio man convicted after trying to shoot ex-wife at point-blank range inside restaurant in chilling video
Matthew Exton pointed a handgun at Kada Malone’s head, but the safety was still on
2026.9.12 Las Vegas tourist gets hosed for $32K after wild hot tub night with two women
A tourist in Las Vegas told cops he woke up to find $1,200 in cash gone and more than $32,000 in unauthorized transactions after a wild night in a hot tub with two women at a luxury hotel.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said the main told officers he met a woman at the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan on Feb. 24, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
He said the two went back to his room at Aria on the Strip, where surveillance footage showed another woman joining them.
2026.9.12 Chilling bodycam footage shows knife-wielding madman charge at police in Santa Monica
Dramatic body-camera footage shows the terrifying moment Santa Monica police shot a man who charged at them wielding a knife as cops were investigating an unrelated incident.
In the video, two officers can be seen speaking with witnesses regarding a separate matter near the bustling Santa Monica Pier on Aug. 22 before they spot a man holding a serrated knife overhead and moving toward them.
Both officers begin shouting, “Put that down!” as the suspect continues to approach and the officers back away.
2026.9.12 California housewife accused of murdering husband with flagpole in Palm Desert
A 65-year-old California wife is accused of killing her husband with a flagpole at a Palm Desert home — as her disturbing history of alleged domestic violence comes to light.
Authoritie said Vicky Kim “inflicted great bodily harm” on her husband during the alleged attack last week at a condo complex in the wealthy enclave near Palm Springs, according to court documents obtained by SFGATE.
The incident unfolded on Sept. 4 at The Enclave, a condominium community that bills itself as a luxury residence and boasts fitness centers, putting greens and resort-style pools and spas.
2026.9.12 Shameless NYC artist goes fully naked for 3-day sidewalk stunt — left New Yorkers irate: ‘I wouldn’t be flaunting that’
This block is in vogue with bums!
Anna Wintour’s posh Greenwich Village block has become a haven for the homeless who turned it into their own outdoor flophouse, frustrated residents and workers told The Post.
At least five other vagrants have moved onto Sullivan Street between East Houston and Bleecker streets since The Post revealed its dodgiest denizen: a pot-puffing, booze-swigging, twerking vagrant named “Tiger,” for the striped orange tail secured to his rump.
2026.9.11 NJ hairdresser charged by feds for allegedly hiring Tinder hitman to kill cop ex-boyfriend, his teen daughter
A California football mom has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly stealing more than $400,000 from a high school team to pay off her mortgage and credit card bills.
Federal agents collared Julie Hanway Molina, 56, at her house in Aliso Viejo, with gun-toting officers using a bullhorn to demand she “come out with your hands up.”
Molina emerged from the front door a few minutes later. She looked shocked as she was cuffed and put in a black sedan. She is charged with four federal counts of wire fraud.
Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said her alleged actions represent a serious breach of trust and that prosecutors will seek a stiff prison sentence.
“This defendant was entrusted by the community with safeguarding money raised for young adults. She violated that trust and is now a charged felon,” Essayli told the California Post.
“Our prosecutors are committed to holding her fully accountable, including seeking a federal prison sentence.”
Molina was arraigned Thursday in Santa Ana and pleaded not guilty to the charges,
She was ordered released on $10,000 bond, with her trial scheduled for November 2.
Molina was treasurer of an Orange County nonprofit described in the federal indictment as a volunteer organization established to promote and enhance a high school football program.
The indictment does not name the victim nonprofit. Based on public sources identified in court documents, the victim appears to be the Wolverines Football Club at Aliso Niguel High School.
Aliso Niguel High School is a public high school within the Capistrano Unified School District serving students in grades 9 through 12 from the communities of Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel.
Located on Wolverine Way, it has been recognized as a California Distinguished School. Its football team is especially popular.
In 1996, the school’s varsity team went undefeated and won the CIF-SS Division VIII championship. Its record in the current season is 0-3.
The federal indictment, returned by a grand jury on Sept. 2, alleges Molina stole $411,761.54 belonging to the organization intended to fund the team.
Prosecutors say the alleged scheme began in or around 2023 and continued through around November 2025. Molina’s position as treasurer gave her significant access to the nonprofit’s finances.
According to the indictment, Molina’s responsibilities included co-signing checks, making necessary disbursements approved by the board and membership, receiving dues and other money, maintaining records of receipts and expenditures, and providing financial statements to the board.
Prosecutors allege that Molina used that access to divert money without the nonprofit’s knowledge or authorization.
The indictment specifically alleges that some of the money went toward the mortgage on her personal residence and credit card expenses.
In June 2023, Molina allegedly wired approximately $131,523 from the nonprofit’s bank account in Laguna Hills through Federal Reserve facilities in New Jersey and Texas to an account in Santa Ana to pay the delinquent balance on the mortgage on her personal residence.
Federal prosecutors also allege Molina attempted to conceal the alleged diversion by emailing board members false treasurer reports that failed to disclose the alleged misappropriation.
Molina’s role with the football organization was publicly known before the federal case.
In 2024, she was identified as the football club’s treasurer in connection with Senior Night, an event held before the football game at Aliso Niguel High School on Friday, Sept. 20.
At the time, Molina spoke about the emotional significance of the event for families.
“This is a special occasion for us to celebrate,” said Molina. “It can be very emotional, especially for the mothers seeing their kids all grown up.”
The federal indictment alleges the money was diverted as part of a scheme involving interstate wire communications.
Molina is expected to make her initial appearance and be arraigned in United States District Court in Santa Ana.
If convicted, Molina would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each count. Prosecutors are also seeking forfeiture if Molina is convicted.
The indictment identifies a $1.4 million home in Aliso Viejo among the property the government could seek to forfeit, along with property or proceeds traceable to the alleged offenses.
If the property cannot be forfeited, prosecutors seek a money judgment equal to its value. The indictment also contains provisions for substitute property under specified circumstances.
Molina has been charged, but the allegations in the indictment remain unproven unless and until established in court.x1200
2026.9.10 Skeletal remains found in North Carolina nearly 50 years ago identified as 15-year-old runaway girl
Police asking for the public’s help to determine Cindy Marcell Blizzard’s cause of death.
2026.9.10 In Florida’s 15th execution this year, man put to death for killing linked to ‘Hog Trail Murders’
Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to die for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery in Florida.
2026.9.9 Accused in Central Synagogue antisemitic spree while claiming he was God hit with new charges
A Bronx man accused of attacking two people inside Central Synagogue in midtown Manhattan while claiming he was God and spewing antisemitic and racist slurs at horrified congregants was hit with additional hate crime charges Wednesday.
Appearing in Manhattan Supreme Court in handcuffs and tan-colored jail clothing, Larry Montes pleaded not guilty to criminal mischief, third-degree assault and attempted assault, all charged as hate crimes — in addition to several misdemeanor offenses, including criminally interfering with religious worship, disrupting a religious service, and aggravated harassment.
2026.9.9 Teen busted in NYC shooting after judge let him go on bail back in court — but this time he gets a different result
A gun-toting Brooklyn thug charged in a brazen Labor Day shooting was slapped with hefty bail that should keep him locked up – just weeks after a lefty judge cut him a break that put him back on the streets.
Nayshawn Wilkinson, 19, was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail or a $1 million bond Wednesday for allegedly shooting a 24-year-old man at the West Indian Day Parade Monday – just one month after making easy bail for allegedly shooting a 15-year-old boy at a playground.
In that case, Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Janice Robinson ignored prosecutors’ request to hold Wilkinson without bail in the July 22 shooting, with the judge instead going with $5,000 cash or a $10,000 bond, which he posted days later.
2026.9.9 2 women sentenced to life without parole for murder of transgender man Sam Nordquist
Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano were convicted of first-degree murder.
The two women at the center of the death of Sam Nordquist, the transgender man who was tortured and killed in Ontario County, New York, in 2025, were sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder on Tuesday.
Judge Kristina Karle sentenced Precious Arzuaga, identified by prosecutors as the ringleader in the case, to the maximum penalty on all 11 counts to which she pleaded guilty. Arzuaga, 40, pled guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, concealment of a human corpse, conspiracy, coercion and endangering the welfare of a child.
The judge gave Jennifer Quijano, 32, life in prison without parole for first degree murder, 25 years to life for kidnapping, an initiated sentence of eight and 1/3 to 25 years for conspiracy in the second degree, 25 years for aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, one to four years for concealment of a human corpse, and 364 days for endangering the welfare of a child. She had pleaded guilty to all counts.
“We all want to know why someone so good was taken so tragically,” Karle said before handing down her sentence to Arzuaga. “Was it because Sam was everything you were not, and will never be? Did you look at him and hate him because of that kindness, compassion, empathy, hope?”
The man accused of committing back-to-back stabbings on the Upper West Side — plunging a knife into an Asian man’s back and a screwdriver into a Jewish man’s chest — pleaded not guilty to felony hate crime charges Tuesday in court in Manhattan, where prosecutors alleged they had uncovered evidence of his antisemitic bias.
Wearing beige prison garb over a white T-shirt to his Manhattan Supreme Court arraignment, Raul Morales, 51, pleaded not guilty to four counts of attempted murder as a hate crime, two counts of assault as a hate crime, two counts of attempted assault as a hate crime, and related charges. The charges carry up to 40 years in prison.
Prosecutors at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said that, through search warrants, they had uncovered antisemitic sentiments in text messages on Morales’ cell phone.
When asked by reporters for details, DA Bragg, who attended the hearing, declined to comment on what the text messages said, saying only that his office would vigorously litigate the “heinous antisemitic incident” in court.
“Since the initial arrest, my office has continued to thoroughly investigate this matter and uncovered additional evidence alleging the defendant specifically harbors antisemitic views,” Bragg said later in a statement.
“This case is a prime example of how hate crimes make all of us less safe. I want to make clear to all Manhattanites that we will stand with and support you no matter your background, ethnicity or religion.”
Sheldon Fine, an Upper West Side chaplain, attended Tuesday’s proceedings in solidarity with the victims.
“It was extremely important because of how horrendous this attack was,” Fine said, adding that he visited the Asian victim after he was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where surgeons removed a knife from his back.
“I saw him in the hospital,” Fine said. “He had a terrible situation, stabbed in the back.”
Morales, who authorities previously said may be dealing with mental illness, has been held on Rikers Island without bail since his July 23 arrest following the attacks that occurred within a four-block radius on the Upper West Side. The Legal Aid Society, which is representing him, declined to comment.
Prosecutors allege Morales first targeted a 57-year-old Asian-American man wearing a baseball cap walking on W. 84th St. near Central Park West, stabbing him in the back and yelling, “Allahu Akbar!”
Less than 15 minutes later, according to charging documents, Morales thrust a screwdriver into the chest of Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, a 50-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah near W. 86th St. and Amsterdam Ave, as he was leaving Tisha B’Av services at The Jewish Center, a prominent Upper West Side synagogue.
A UPS delivery worker who followed Morales to his apartment building allegedly also heard him yell, “Allahu Akbar!” Morales was arrested at his apartment inside a NYCHA complex on Amsterdam Ave. near W. 89th St. after heavily armed NYPD Emergency Service Unit cops stood outside his door for around an hour.
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2026.9.7 Multiple people stabbed in Crown Heights as notoriously violent West Indian Day parade kicks off
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New York City’s notoriously bloody West Indian American Day parade will wrap up at an earlier-than-usual time on Monday in an effort to curb violence.
The 59th annual celebration along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn will begin at 11 a.m. and end promptly at 5:30 p.m. — a deliberate choice after six people were shot during last year’s festivities, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Friday.
“That end time is deliberate, given the history of violence we have seen on and around the parade route at that hour and later,” Tisch told reporters.
“Last year, we saw three separate shooting incidents on or near the parade route at approximately 5:35, 6:15, and 6:30 p.m., resulting in six people being shot. The NYPD was forced to shut down last year’s celebration as a result of this violence.”
Thousands of cops will be on the beat during the West Indian Day Parade and the early-bird J’Ouvert Festival, which begins at 6 a.m. and runs until the parade kicks off.
The number of officers on the force during the annual twin events celebrating Caribbean culture and heritage has increased from last year — though the department did not elaborate on how many more cops would be hitting the streets.
“The J’ouvert Festival and the West Indian American Day Parade will bring hundreds of thousands of people to Brooklyn this weekend, and the NYPD will be out in full force,” the top cop said.
“Thousands of NYPD cops will be on the parade routes and in the surrounding neighborhoods from Sunday night through Monday. This is one of our department’s largest deployments of the year at this time.”
Like last year, the J’Ouvert Festival will have 13 entry points along the parade route where spectators will be screened by cops using magnetometers beginning at around 2 a.m.
Revelers will be barred from bringing in drones, weapons, alcohol, coolers, backpacks, large bags, umbrellas, blankets, chairs, or any other items that can obstruct or interfere with another spectator’s view.
Eight teams of NYC Crisis Management System staff members and community volunteers will also be deployed at hotspot locations along the parade route and in nearby neighborhoods, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters.
“Throughout the day on Monday, these teams will be active on the ground, conducting outreach, mediating conflicts, responding to crises, and interrupting disputes before they escalate,” Mamdani said.
“They will also deploy mobile trauma units in zones where large crowds gather, move, and disperse to support New Yorkers and connect them to emergency services if needed. “
The carnival atmosphere on Labor Day has often been overshadowed by violence, such as when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide Carey Gabay was fatally shot in the head during 2015’s J’Ouvert after getting caught in gang crossfire.
Last year, six people were struck by bullets, including two with gang affiliations, in three separate shootings as the parade was winding down.
There are currently no specific or credible threats against the parade, Mamdani added.
“But for too long, a select few have been mistaking the West Indian Day Parade as an opportunity to commit acts of violence. Over the past few years, we have seen shootings on and around the parade route, endangering innocent people and overshadowing this incredible tradition,” Tisch said.
“I want to be very clear. This year, there will be zero tolerance for violence of any kind. We want everyone to come out and enjoy the celebration safely.”x1200
2026.9.4 Savage brawl between two Brooklynites that left one with eye gouged out was latest in long feud
A savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn in which one man was stabbed and another lost an eye was only the latest episode in a long-standing feud between the two neighbors, police and law enforcement sources said.
Jowan Latham, 46, and Eric Payne are both facing assault charges for Thursday’s bloody clash over a parking spot at Shepherd and New Lots Aves. in East New York, cops said. Payne, 38, was also hit with a weapons possession charge.
But the two had just clashed about a month earlier over the younger man’s motorcycle, officials said.
Cops arrested Latham back on Aug. 16 and charged him with criminal mischief after he wrecked Payne’s motorcycle a week earlier on Atkins Ave. near Pitkin Ave. in East New York about 3:00 p.m., according to the criminal complaint.
Payne stayed inside a nearby apartment as Latham yelled, “Come outside, I’m going to f— you up!” according to court documents. When Latham finally walked off, Payne stepped outside to find his motorcycle totaled.
A Brooklyn criminal court judge released Latham without bail at his Aug. 17 arraignment, court records show.
The pair’s feud escalated on Thursday morning in a nasty brawl over a parking spot that ended with Latham digging Payne’s eyeball out of its socket, cops said.
The two neighbors were arguing at Shepherd and New Lots Aves. at about 11:00 a.m., Payne stabbed Latham in the stomach. A woman accompanying Payne then doused the older man with pepper spray, cops said.
Payne and the woman hopped into a black Nissan Altima and sped off, but Latham chased after the pair in a beige Lexus — bleeding on his seat — for about three blocks to Elton St, where the chase ended as Latham rammed Payne’s sedan.
“I heard the sound of the wheels and the bang, the crash. The car went up on the sidewalk and hit a tree,” a 22-year-old witness told the Daily News. “The two guys get out and start screaming at one another.”
A moment later, the witness saw the two men sprinting down the street.
“One of them was stabbed, and he was running down the street bleeding, holding his side,” the witness said. “He was chasing the other guy. He was giving the sprint his all, chasing the other guy.”
Nearby resident, George Ylitalo, 35, told The News he’d gone outside to smoke a cigarette when he heard screeching tires in the distance before the two men came running up the street— one of them gushing blood.
During the foot chase, Payne ducked behind a parked car, only for Latham to leap atop the vehicle, Ylitalo said.
“This guy was determined to get the guy who stabbed him. I have to give it to him. The amount of blood that it looked like he had lost, it was just insane,” Ylitalo continued.
Payne tried to ward off Latham with a traffic cone, but he managed to evade the blow before tackling Payne below.
“The guy dodged it and got on top of him. He really was wailing on him,” said Ylitalo.
It was amid the beating that followed that Ylitalo heard a blood-curdling scream, which he realized only later was the wailing of a man whose eye had just been ripped from its socket.
“It wasn’t like a regular type of, ‘Ow ow, my face.’ I don’t really know how to explain it. It’s very rare you hear a man scream like that,” the witness said.
After gouging Payne’s eye, Latham got up and took a few steps before collapsing in the street.
Ylitalo applied pressure to the stab victim’s wound as his friend called 911 and onlookers recorded the carnage on their phones.
It was only after medics arrived that a police officer pointed out Payne’s eyeball, Ylitalo said.
“It was literally just lying on the sidewalk,” Ylitalo said. “It got to the point where the cop had to cover it with a hat, because people were going crazy trying to get photos of it.”
Medics took both men to Brookdale University Hospital, where they were in stable condition. Payne remained in the hospital Friday afternoon, cops said.
Their arraignments in Brooklyn Criminal Court were pending Friday.
2026.9.4 Gloria Steinem, defining symbol of women’s movement and eloquent advocate for equality, dies at 92
Here are examples of Steinem, who died Wednesday at age 92, in her own words.
On being judged by her looks, even as a feminist
“Nobody ever called me beautiful until I was publicly a feminist, and that was in my mid-30s. It was clear that label was being assigned to me. The most hurtful part is that you work very hard, and people say it’s because of your looks.” (August 2011)
On concrete changes she saw in her fight for feminism
“We know sexism is not inevitable. It’s only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, it can be reversed.” (May 2016)
On America’s lack of a female president
“We live in a democracy that’s one of the few in the world that’s never had a female elected leader. That’s kind of ridiculous. I mean, we’re choosing from half the country’s talent” (March 2026)
On supporting abortion rights
“It’s obviously ridiculous to say somebody is ‘pro-abortion.’ Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I think I’ll have an abortion. It’s a pleasurable experience.’ The question is not pro-abortion or anti-abortion, the question is who makes the decision: a woman and her physician, or the government.” (May 2017)
On the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
“Obviously, without the right of women and men to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” (June 2022)
“Women have always taken power over our own bodies, and we will keep right on. An unjust court can’t stop abortion, but it guarantees civil disobedience and disrespect for the court.” (June 2022)
On being called the B-word
“It took me years to learn what to do when someone calls you a bitch. Just smile in a calm triumphant way, and say, ‘Thank you!’” (July 2020)
On deciding to marry at age 66
“I hadn’t changed — marriage had changed.” (August 2011)
On whether she regretted not having children
“No, not for a millisecond.” (August 2011)
On the early years of the women’s rights movement
“When people were saying, ‘You’re all bra-burners and all that,’ we had to work very hard to be taken seriously. We were still having to prove that women were being discriminated against.” (August 1987)
On the success of Ms. Magazine, which Steinem co-founded in 1972
“It’s the result of letting women tell the truth to each other and not pretending that we’re all white, skinny, beautiful, that we’re only interested in 101 different ways to cook hamburger, being superwoman or whatever.” (August 1987)
On taking advocacy on the road to campuses, marches and rallies
“You can’t do it on the phone or on the web. You have to be there with all five senses. It should be obvious that people can’t empathize with each other unless we’re in the same room.” (October 2015)
On going undercover as a Playboy bunny for a 1963 magazine exposé
“I could not have made a bigger mistake. It was personally and professionally a disaster. In the short term it was much harder to get serious assignments, and in the long term it’s been used to ridicule me.”
On inspiring others to embrace activism
“I want people to realize that if a very imperfect person did this, maybe they can, too!” (August 2011)
On wanting to debunk her rich girl image in 1970
“Say that I have always worked for a living, my own living, that I buy my dresses off the rack. I have never been to Acapulco and I don’t go away for ski weekends.” (April 1970)
On how her education didn’t include normal schooling until 6th grade
“In the wintertime, my father always put the whole family in a house trailer and we were working our way, buying and selling antiques and so on, to Florida or California. I think my family thought because I was always reading books in the back seat, that was enough.” (March 2026)
On her work as a writer
“I know I’m doing the right thing by writing, because it’s the only thing I do that doesn’t make me feel guilty.” (April 1970)
“If you’re a writer and you really care about writing, you put it off. You wax the floor.” (October 2015)
2026.9.3 Man has eye gouged out during wild clash over parking spot on Brooklyn street
2026.9.3 Incredible moment pregnant SoCal hardware store worker chases down air-conditioning thief and takes back unit
A pregnant California hardware store employee went full mama bear when she chased down a suspected thief and wrestled back a massive air-conditioning unit.
Surveillance footage from an Ace Hardware store in Palmdale on Friday, Aug. 28, shows the expectant worker pursuing the would-be thief after the person walked out of the store carrying a giant box over their shoulder.
The box reportedly contained an air-conditioning unit the person was allegedly trying to make off with without paying.
But the suspected theft was far from a done deal.
2026.9.3 Addiction center intern allegedly had sex with patient during therapy sessions
An intern at a Florida mental health and addiction center allegedly had sex with a patient during therapy sessions – and cooked up excuses allowing him to leave the facility to romp at her mom’s home and even a local hospital, according to court documents.
Michelle Luchau-Rebora appeared in court Wednesday wearing a green anti-suicide smock to face a charge of sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist – a third-degree felony that could lead to five years in prison, according to WPLG.
She turned herself in after the patient – an otherwise unidentified 42-year-old man – reported her when she called off their alleged three-month romance, according to court documents obtained by the outlet.
Luchau-Robera, 32, allegedly struck up the romance last June while working as an intern at the New Hope C.O.R.P.S. addiction treatment center in Homestead, the report said.
It’s unclear how long she was into her internship when the alleged romance got underway.
The pair allegedly had sex during therapy sessions and Luchau-Robera also “facilitated alibis on his behalf, which allowed him authorization to leave the restricted facility and engage in sexual intercourse on multiple occasions,” the documents claimed.
2026.9.2 Justice Department sues Kansas school system over policies on transgender students
2026.9.2 What happens next if the jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial can’t reach a verdict?
2026.9.2 Lindsay Clancy verdict still within reach – retired Massachusetts judge pushes back on hung-jury predictions
Jurors deliberating first-degree murder charges in the deaths of three children were directed to resume discussions Wednesday
2026.9.2 Tucson, Arizona, police investigate gay bar shooting as a possible hate crime
Police in Arizona say a shooting at a Tucson gay bar that left three people dead, including the shooter, is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were shot in the parking lot of Venture-N shortly after midnight Monday, and both died at the scene, the Tucson Police Department said. The suspect, Ousman Ceesay, 44, also suffered a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to the department.
Ceesay was carrying a note that listed several LGBTQIA+-associated businesses, according to a police news release, and initial evidence suggests he confronted the two victims in the parking lot before shooting them.
The investigation is ongoing, but there is no known active threat to the community, police said. Still, the department has increased its police presence around other gay-friendly businesses in the region.
“Bias-based crimes are especially heinous and have no place in our community,” Chief of Police Monica Prieto said. “Our investigators are thoroughly examining the evidence and pursuing all available leads as they work to establish the full circumstances surrounding this tragic incident.”
The police department released few details about the shooting and did not say whether Ceesay knew the victims. The department also declined to immediately release details about Ceesay’s manner of death beyond saying he had a gunshot wound. The department’s public information officer, James Horton, said investigators were awaiting details from the medical examiner to confirm Ceesay’s injuries.
Flowers, candles and photos marked a growing memorial to Siqueiros and Capara outside the bar Tuesday, and several community groups, including Tucson Queerstory, Southern Arizona Senior Pride and the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, were planning a candlelight vigil for Wednesday night at a local park.
“Venture-N has been a safe haven, a sanctuary, and a place of comfort for Tucson’s queer community for decades,” PFLAG Phoenix wrote in a social media post. “This tragedy is a heavy and painful reminder of the homophobia and hate that still exists.”
The shooting left members of the LGBTQIA+ community shocked and heartbroken, said Mary O’Donoghue, the executive director of Southern Arizona Senior Pride. It also stirred up traumatic memories for many older adults, damaging the sense of safety they had in an otherwise often-welcoming city, said O’Donoghue, whose organization provides supportive services and healthy aging programming for LGBTQ seniors.
“We’re talking about folks that are in their 70s and 80s, having lived through Stonewall and other experiences where there has been discrimination, aggression and violence,” O’Donoghue said. “It really has a rippling effect — they’re reliving a lifetime of violence and discrimination on their community.”
O’Donoghue said one person she talked to had moved to Tucson from Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a shooting at a gay nightclub in 2022 left five people dead. Other group members retired to Tucson after living in Florida, where 49 people were killed and 53 others were wounded in the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero said the shooting at Venture-N was a “direct and devastating attack on our LGBTQ+ community, another senseless act of gun violence.”
The shooting “serves as another painful reminder that homophobia is still rampant in our country,” Romero said in a video posted to Facebook.
2026.9.2 Man put to death for girl’s killing as Florida carries out its 14th execution of the year
2026.9.2 Salvadoran illegal immigrant allegedly killed Virginia co-worker when she exposed affair to girlfriend: witness
2026.9.2 Bully throws baby crib filled with trash at woman, 90, on NYC sidewalk: video
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2026.9.2 Mom of crazed Times Square killer questions why cops couldn’t grab her as she lunged at them with knives
The mother of the crazed Queens woman who killed a new mom and seriously wounded an elderly dad in a terrifying Times Square stabbing spree is questioning why cops didn’t just “grab” her daughter rather than fatally shoot her when she charged at them with knives.
Pamela Cisneros, 49, stabbed Erin Piacenti, 32, and Tak Kam, 68, Monday afternoon before cell phone video showed her being surrounded by police and threatening to kill them with a large knife in each hand.
NYPD officers attempted to deploy tasers, but they were ineffective. She then rushed at them while waving the knives, prompting two officers to open fire, the dramatic footage shows.
“There were so many police… why didn’t they grab her by the arm?” Cisneros’ mother, who did not give her name, asked Fox 5 News in Spanish.
Cisneros, a mother of three, was later pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Cisneros suffers from what her brother described to The Post Tuesday as bipolar disorder, but said she’d been receiving treatment in recent years and “never showed any aggressiveness.”
“I don’t know what happened,” Patrick Peralta, 59, said, adding his sister had found some stability through medication in recent years and reported feeling “fine” as recently as Saturday.
Cisneros, of Queens, had a documented mental health history with police, including a suicide attempt.
Cisneros drew the attention from NYPD cops in December 2018 when she was belligerent, intoxicated and screaming along Lexington Avenue, sources said. She then tried to kill herself in March 2019 by jumping in front of an E train in Queens, sources said.
Court records show that Cisneros’ marriage fell apart around this time, with her husband filing for divorce in Hillsborough County, Florida, during 2020. The divorce was finalized last year.
The unprovoked stabbings and subsequent shooting all happened within a roughly 20-minute window beginning around 4:30 p.m. Monday and sent panicked tourists and commuters running for safety.
Cisneros had whipped out two knives from a red Target bag and stabbed the first victim, Tak Kam, a 68-year-old dad from Rhode Island, in the abdomen as he exited the subway on West 41st Street and was waiting to cross the street, police said.
She then continued up to 42nd Street and seconds later fatally stabbed Piacenti — a vice president at Bank of America who had just returned from maternity leave.
The slain new mom from Chester, NJ, had posted a touching photo just four days before her murder of herself smiling broadly while holding her infant and standing with her husband. She wrote in the caption how happy she was.
The baby had recently been baptized and Piacenti and her husband, whom she just celebrated her second wedding anniversary with, had been taking her time off to travel.
2026.9.2 Knife-wielding woman kills 1, wounds another in Times Square before being shot dead by police, mayor says
New York — A woman carrying two knives stabbed two people “in the heart” of busy Times Square in about 20 seconds on Monday afternoon, killing one, before police shot and killed her after a tense four-minute standoff, officials said.
The first victim, a 32-year-old woman, identified as Bank of America Vice President Erin Piacenti from Chester, New Jersey, was stabbed in the abdomen and pronounced dead at a hospital, a law enforcement official told CNN. Piacenti was on her way home when she was attacked, the official said.
The second victim, a 68-year-old man was also stabbed in the abdomen in what appeared to be a “random and unprovoked attack,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said, though he is currently in stable condition.
The victims and perpetrator were taken to Bellevue Hospital, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
The stabbing took place on Seventh Avenue in one of the busiest pedestrian areas in the world, where Tisch said thousands of commuters, families and tourists were nearby.
The maniac who stabbed two people, killing one, in Times Square was likely able to battle through police tasers because of her body fat, erratic movements — and her purse, an expert told The Post.
Artur Sadowski, a retired NYPD detective and Taser expert, said Pamela Cisneros, 49, was able to fight off multiple Taser deployments because the officers were unable to make solid contact with the waddling killer.
“The thicker the padding in front of the muscles, the more difficult it is for the taser to get to the muscles and be effective,” Sadowski said Tuesday of the body-fat factor.
Sadowski, who wrote the Taser playbook that the NYPD used for training, noted that the devices can only work when both of its probes make solid contact — and that there was enough distance between the officers and jostling stabber to make that all but impossible.
One of the cops’ probes also struck the deranged woman’s purse, which was wrapped around her body — preventing the circuit in that case from connecting and causing neuromuscular incapacitation, a temporary stop of muscle control.
The shocking caught-on-camera mayhem shows the NYPD cops confronting Cisneros, who has long struggled with mental health, holding two knives up in the air just after she attacked two people near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue on Monday.
The woman, who ignored cops’ pleas to drop the knives, was tased as she started to wildly swing the knives in the air before eventually being fatally shot when she charged at them, the footage shows.
When the cops tried tasing her to bring her down, they appeared to hit her at least once in the middle of her stomach, Sadowski said.
But “even when probes hit, a narrow spread, thick clothing, or body fat can limit the electrical effect,” the former Axon master instructor said, adding that areas like the back and back of the legs have less fat and make tasers more effective.
“She may have felt pain or muscle cramping in her abdomen but not enough to stop her from advancing.”
Sadowski said at least three tasers were fired off in about a second — with a possible fourth discharged right as Cisneros was gunned down by cops.
She died from her gunshot wounds at Bellevue Hospital, officials said.
Her victims include Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old University of Pennsylvania and Fordham Law graduate, who died due to her injuries, sources told The Post.
Piacenti, who was an executive at Bank of America, had just celebrated her second wedding anniversary in August, social media posts show.
The other victim, a 68-year-old man, was stabbed in the abdomen.x1200
The stunned family of Times Square stabber Pamela Cisneros says she had a decades-long history of mental illness including postpartum depression, multiple hospitalizations — and a suicide attempt in which she threw herself on the subway tracks.
Cisneros, 49, randomly stabbed two strangers, killing one of them, before NYPD officers shot her dead — but her brother Patrick Peralta told the Daily News he never knew her to harm anyone other than herself before Monday’s rampage.
“I don’t know what was in her head,“ Peralta, 59, said Tuesday. “I can’t tell you what she was thinking or if she just completely went blank. I don’t know where that rage came from.”
Cisneros had written about randomly stabbing people in a long-winded screed about “the end times” she posted to Facebook last year.
“There is news of war, pestilence, earthquakes, the disminished [sic] love of people to the point of stabbing others for no reason, sex slavery in this country and around the globe, widespread drug use, persecution of the Christian believer on a global scale, worldwide hunger, homelessness, etc.,” Cisneros wrote as evidence of the end times “being present” on Nov. 30, 2025.
Peralta, a certified surgical technician, has a different father than Cisneros, but the two grew up together with their mother in an apartment in Jackson Heights.
“She was a happy-go-lucky kid,” Peralta recalled. “In summertime, she was my tail because she would follow me around. She was like 5. I went out and played with my friends and she was always with me all the time.”
Her mental health problems developed about two decades ago, after she gave birth to the second of her three daughters.
“She went off track after that,” Peralta said.
Postpartum depression has come into the national spotlight with the Massachusetts trial of Lindsey Clancy, who’s accused of murdering her three children in January 2023. Clancy’s defense lawyer has argued she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
On Tuesday, the jury announced it had deadlocked on a verdict, though the judge overseeing the case sent them back for more deliberations.
Cisneros’ middle child is autistic and nonverbal and lives in a group home in Brooklyn, Peralta said. Cisneros would often visit her.
Her other two daughters live in Florida with their father, Pamela’s ex-husband. Peralta had to break the news to those two daughters over the phone Tuesday night.
Cisneros, who has no arrest history in New York, has been hospitalized several times and seven years ago threw herself on the subway tracks in Queens only to be rescued by an onlooker, Peralta said.
“Then she was in Jamaica Hospital,” he said. “Then she went to Bellevue (Hospital) a couple of times. She was seeing doctors.”
Police sources confirm Cisneros jumped onto the tracks on the E train line at the Union Turnpike station on March 6, 2019.
That was one of two mental health crises involving the NYPD, the sources said. In the other incident, cops were called because she was drunk, screaming and acting belligerent at a hotel on Lexington Ave. near E. 49th St. in Midtown East on Dec. 20, 2018.
Because she had trouble taking daily psychiatric medication Cisneros was prescribed monthly injections instead, her brother said.
“For the last six years now, she was getting injections and nothing was wrong,” he said. “As long as she got the medication, she was fine … She never showed any violence towards anybody.”
“She used to go in person (to get the injections) and then I just found out that now she was doing it herself,” he added.
“So I don’t know if she stopped doing it, because my parents are old and are they trying to check to make sure that she was getting injections. That’s the only thing I can suggest, that maybe she didn’t get the last couple of months of injections. Her brain was going all over.”
On Monday, Cisneros pulled two kitchen knives out of a Target bag and stabbed a 68-year-old Rhode Island man in the abdomen near W. 41st St. and Seventh Ave. at 4:24 p.m., cops said. He survived.
Within 20 seconds, she made her way to W. 42nd St. and fatally stabbed 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, a vice president at Bank of America. Police surrounded her near an NYPD substation by W. 43rd St., and Tased then fatally shot her as she advanced on them, swinging a knife in each hand.
“She used to come and eat dinner with my parents mostly every night,” Peralta said. “But last week she didn’t show, so we started calling her to see what was going on.”
Peralta recognized his sister from the viral cell phone videos that made the news showing her final moments.
“I was shocked,” he said. “I’m still numb. I saw it on the news last night. Something told me that she looks like my sister. So I called Midtown South. I give them my info and then by 7:30 (p.m.), they called me back.”
He last saw her for her father’s birthday on Aug, 8. “She was fine. Normal,” he said.
Her mother last talked to her on the phone Saturday.
“(Cisneros) said she was fine,” Peralta recounted. “My mother is devastated.”
Cisneros was living alone in Woodside and had been out of work for a while. But three months ago she landed a job as an administrative assistant for a lawyer, her brother said.
“My entire family feels so sorry for the two people, the one that passed away and the one who was hurt,” Peralta said. “We are so sorry. We never thought this would happen.”
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2026.9.2 Judge rules alleged Charlie Kirk killer can stand trial for capital murder
Judge Tony Graf’s decision follows final oral arguments from both sides Tuesday.
2026.9.2 Pennsylvania police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in killing of college student
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer was charged Tuesday with voluntary manslaughter for last week’s fatal shooting of a college student who was looking for his friends late at night and went to the wrong house.
Police body camera video reviewed by investigators shows the officer yelled “Drop to the ground,” then “Stop or I’ll… .” Before he finished the sentence, he fired two shots at the man who was unarmed and had his hands in the air. He hit 22-year-old Glenwood Earl Pysher IV twice in the chest, killing him.
The officer, Upper Pottsgrove Police Cpl. Sean Farrell, had less-than-lethal options and did not need to resort to shooting Pysher, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said at a news conference.
“The investigation found that Cpl. Farrell had less-than-lethal options on his utility belt that he did not employ, including a taser. At the time of the shooting, the officer was a safe distance from Pysher behind a car, and the victim had his hands in the air and did not possess any type of weapon. Mr. Pysher was not a threat. This is not a legal use of deadly force, leading to the charge of Voluntary Manslaughter,” Steele said in a news release.
2026.9.1 Beverly Hills teen accused of killing homeless man in alley — as chilling videos emerge
ICE nabbed nearly 2,200 illegal migrants, including convicted murderers, rapists and drug traffickers, in New York in the past month alone — and more agents and sweeps are on the way, the feds said Tuesday.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency caught up to 2,197 criminals in the Empire State between July 27 and Aug. 29 as part of “Operation Rotten Apple” — which Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin noted was conducted “with no help” from either New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“These arrests included gang members, rapists, murderers and child predators — which I believe there is a special place in hell for those individuals,” Mullin told reporters at a press conference.
“Operation Rotten Apple did what sanctuary politicians in New York City and the state of New York refuse to do: made the Empire State safer,” he added in a statement.
Asked by a reporter if he was prepared to send more federal agents to New York for round-ups, Mullin replied, “Absolutely.
“Because they refused to work with us … we will send as many people as we have possible to make sure we are restoring law and order,” he said.
While celebrating the operation, Mullin told reporters that the need for the mass round-up stemmed from the fact that the mayor and governor passed legislation this year severely limiting local government cooperation with ICE.
Mamdani “is extremely out of touch with what the American people want and what public safety actually looks like,” Mullin railed.
“These are individuals that we took off the streets of New York to protect the people here because you have a mayor here that refuses to work.”
Those arrested included Bogdan Detrovich Gren, a Ukrainian national in the US illegally with convictions for murder, kidnapping, abduction resulting in death, and criminal possession of a weapon, according to DHS.
Andreas Bernal Chiquito, an illegal migrant from Colombia who was also caught, has past arrests for sexual conduct against a child and injuring a child under age 17.
Also taken into custody were Palvinder Singh, an illegal migrant from India who was convicted of rape in Germany, and Carlos Mendez-Acosta, a Venezuelan migrant convicted of rape, according to the feds.
Mamdani signed an executive order shortly after he assumed office in January, reinforcing sanctuary protections against what he called “abusive immigration enforcement” by the Trump administration.
The move severely limits local agencies and law enforcement from working with ICE to put and keep many illegal migrants in custody.
Hizzoner has since passed additional legislation making it harder for local law enforcement to cooperate with President Trump’s illegal-immigration crackdown.
Hochul also successfully pushed through legislation preventing state cops from partnering with federal immigration authorities to catch people and barring ICE agents from most public places such as hospitals and parks.
According to DHS, such “radical sanctuary policies” have resulted in more than 13,000 criminal aliens back onto New York streets.
“Democratic politicians in New York and elsewhere say that they care about public safety, but won’t let immigration law enforcement officers into their jails to take criminals into custody; instead they release them to their streets,” said Trump administration border czar Tom Homan in a statement.
Mullin said the federal government should not send a single cent to New York until it complies with immigration authorities. President Trump is looking into options, he said.
“I don’t think we should be sending one federal penny to sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. And I know President Trump is looking at options there. In my opinion, I don’t think taxpayer dollars from the great people of Oklahoma or any other red state should be funding a state that embraces these criminals like New York,” Mullin said.x1200
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