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New York Crime

  • Film

    January 12, 2012

    White People Problems

    The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Cops Sexually Abusing Teens Learning to Be Cops

    ​What could go wrong with young kids learning to be cops by hanging with them as they do their jobs? Lots, according to this week's cover story. The Explorer program is administered by Learning for Life, a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America. Teenage girls and boys take part all over the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Clarence Leroy Teel: Cops Raid Hospital Room, Find Well-Stocked Illicit Pharmacy

    Some people get happy in different ways​According to court records, it all started on August 14 when a nurse at Methodist Willowbrook hospital noticed that the patient in room 6412 was leaving a few syringes around. That struck her as odd, as the patient in that room, 52-year-old Clarence Lero ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Luis Enrique Ramirez: Border Guard Admits Letting Coke and Aliens In

    Right this way, and don't forget to tip your agent​A Border Patrol agent has admitted he waved through a car full of cocaine and helped aliens cross into the U.S. which, to be honest, is pretty clearly against the law. Luis Enrique Ramirez, 38, of Brownsville, entered a guilty plea today, say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Cover Story: Connecting H Gallery to Three Prominent Recent Art Scams

    ​This week's feature is the account of an alleged art heist conducted by an art gallery in the Heights. Over a dozen local and Texas artists claim that Heidi Powell-Prera and her mother Sandy Bernstein, the owner/operators of H Gallery on West 19th Street, have been scamming artists for the la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    "I'm Sorry," But Koppo Is Not To Be Brown-Boxed

    "I apologize I'm here/ It's my fault for trying to live/ My word is all I have to give/ So I'm sorry/ Now I know I was born into a world that I ain't my home/ Maybe they'll love me when I'm gone/ Til then, I'm sorry" - Koppo ​Perhaps no rapper in Houston is better at lyrically capturing the ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    Cloaked Brutality

    The feds bury border patrol abuses of immigrants, but what’s been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Heidi Jones, Former KTRK Weather Star, Falsely Claims Rape, Cops Say

    Heidi Jones told cops she was raped in Central Park​Heidi Jones, for seven years a perky weathercaster on KTRK before she left in 2004, is in trouble with New York City cops for filing what they say was a false rape report. Jones, 37, who now works for WABC, has been charged with the Class A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2010

    Dog Day Afternoon

    Only the truth could be this strange

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Indie-Rock Band Kitchen Knife Houston Airport = Jail

    MySpace.com/yellerfever​In "Me & Paul," from 1971's Yesterday's Wine, Willie Nelson sings, "Almost busted in Laredo, for reasons that I'd rather not disclose/ But if you're staying in a motel there and leave, just don't leave nothin' in your clothes." If Austin-based YellowFever covered "Me & ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Houston Cancer Clinic Trying Hard To Keep Under Wraps A Memo Criticizing It

    ​Buried within a convoluted Harris County District Court lawsuit over legal fees is a potential matter of public health -- a matter the public may never get to see.At issue is an internal memo -- temporarily sealed by the court -- discussing alleged cover-ups of medical malfeasance, tax fraud, mon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Unidentified Man, Bayou Body Count No. 64

    ​All Norberto Antunes wanted was to steal a car. Then, when the cops showed up, all he desired was to get away. But Antunes didn't get anything on his wish list. Instead, police say, he is being charged with murder. Investigators say that Antunes, 23, was apparently trying to pilfer a car a lit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    June Trial Set For Brownsville Murder of Barry Horn, '70s Houston's Answer To Truman Capote

    Photo courtesy Nueces County SOErnesto Martinez​A June trial date has been set for the suspect in the Brownsville murder of Barry Horn, a former Channel 13 TV news personality who was at the time of his death the executive director of the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art.The 59-year-old Horn, once ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2010

    Teen Porn 101

    If they're taking their laptops and cell phones to bed with them, it's probably not to do homework.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2010

    Beef Vs. Chicken Battle Turns Violent In Valley Cafe

    ​When he sat down at his table at downtown Brownsville's El Rancho Alegre Café last Saturday night, all Esequiel Silva wanted was a plate of chicken milanesa enchiladas. Little did he know how just how much the Happy Ranch Cafe would fail to live up to its name.After taking a couple of bites, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Bayou Body Count: Cop Catches Attempted Murderer In Action

    ​It was just before midnight on Friday when Houston police officer M.J. Marin looked up toward a second-floor balcony at the Cobblestone Apartments at 8435 Winkler. And what he saw was savage: a man plunging a knife into a woman.Marin raced up to the apartment, police say, where he saw the knifema ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Spy Story

    Con man or super spook — either way, Roland Carnaby wasn't supposed to meet his death on a Houston highway in a high-speed chase with the cops.

  • Calendar

    October 23, 2008

    The Midnight Meat Train

    All aboard for the blood-and-guts buffet

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Faith's Fusillade

    The gunman moved methodically, killing cowering churchgoers, before one of them stood up for the final confrontation. Then came the last shot.

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