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CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 62nd Precinct reports every Friday. The 62nd Precinct is the police command responsible for Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
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A homeless man was shot to death in a Coney Island housing project yesterday, according to a report by DNA Info.
The man, 27, was identified as Julian Salley. He was shot in the torso on the first floor hallway of the Surfside Gardens housing projects located at 2839 West 33rd Street. Police pronounced Salley dead at the scene.
No arrests were made and an investigation is ongoing.
Scammers are finding their targets in Chinese bakeries.
Scammers who claim to have magical powers are terrorizing elderly Asian ladies in Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay and Sunset Park with threats of evil curses if they don’t fork over their money, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Sam Tsang, an NYPD Asian liaison officer for the 61st Precinct in Sheepshead Bay has been tracking the scammers and told the Daily News how they operate.
“These people go into coffee shops and listen to people’s business and see what problems you have. Then they ask for cash to help the family members. They say they have special powers” and if victims brush them off “they say you or your family member will get ill.”
The would be warlocks represent a growing worldwide trend among con artists who prey on Asian communities but this is the first known time that the ‘Chinese Blessing’ scam has come to New York. The elderly victims, who don’t speak English, usually don’t report the crooks to the cops.
Complaints have already been registered across a dozen stores lining Avenue U in Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay.
“Customers are complaining. They come up to them and ask for donations. We tell the older people to be careful. It’s scary,” Health Star Pharmacy worker Johnny Wang told the Daily News. “They are like the Boogey Man.”
To fight this menace, business owners have kept an eye out for overly chatty customers. The scammers are also known to dress in brown or orange robes to make it seem like they are monks.
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CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 62nd Precinct reports every Friday. The 62nd Precinct is the police command responsible for Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
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A woman’s body has washed up onto the Staten Island shore, and police are investigating if it belongs to a woman believed to have jumped from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday.
The body surfaced Tuesday morning in the water off Midland Avenue and Father Capadano Boulevard in Midland Beach, and is believed to be in her 50s, the same age as the woman believed to have taken a fatal plunge from the bridge on Sunday. She has not been officially identified.
SI Live reports:
Shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, police said a motorist abandoned a car mid-span on the Staten Island-bound side of the bridge’s upper level, and a witness saw a female climb over the bridge railing.
That car was registered to Susan Toth, 52, of the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, the NYPD spokesman said. At this point, police have not confirmed the identity of the jumper as Ms. Toth.
A woman answering the phone at Ms. Toth’s address declined comment Tuesday morning.
Sunday marks the seventh apparent suicide from the Verrazano since December 2011.
Source: Franconia Township Police Dept.
The bizarre odyssey of Salvatore Perrone, the man implicated in the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, keeps getting stranger. When Perrone was arrested last November, he had wearily confessed to two of the slayings before falling asleep in police custody. Now, standing before Judge Alan Marrus at an appearance in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Perrone is claiming that Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has been suppressing evidence that would clear him of all the slayings, according to a report by the Home Reporter News.
In court, Perrone made a statement against the advice of his attorney. He suggested that it was impossible for him to be the killer because during the time of one of the murders he had been riding the subway to another part of Brooklyn. Perrone believes there is video evidence that backs up his story.
“The office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes either has directly or indirectly suppressed my alibi,” Perrone said. “The video is most crucial. [It shows me] enter the Parkside Avenue train station at the Q line at 6 p.m. and not exit. This makes it physically impossible to be at the scene of the crime on Flatbush Avenue at 7:17 p.m. [on November 16].”
Perrone then requested a subpoena to the judge. “I need one video to show where I was. I was not at the scene of the crime,” Perrone contended. “I was in Flatbush for a couple of hours that afternoon.”
Perrone also contended that he had alibis for the other murders as well, seemingly reversing the confessions he gave to the NYPD while claiming that his representation was less than satisfactory.
“I can’t be in two places at once. I am making a plea to the legal community for competent counsel. I have an alibi for each and every crime that took place,” he said.
Perrone was also nearly held in contempt of court when he refused to give a sample of his DNA after agreeing to supply it readily. Perrone told the judge that he’d be willing to trade his DNA sample once evidence of his alibi had been produced. The judge refused to bend to Perrone’s demand and the alleged killer eventually complied to the order.
Results from the DNA testing will take approximately six months, while Perrone’s next appearance is set for June 28.
Perrone is accused of killing Mohamed Gebeli in Gebeli’s store, Valentino’s Fashion, in Bay Ridge on July 6; Isaac Kadare in his Bensonhurst shop, Amazing 99 Cent Deals and Up, on August 2; and Rahmatollah Vahidipour in his business, She She Boutique in Flatbush, on November 16.
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A woman reportedly committed suicide by leaping off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, according to a report by SI Live.
According to a witness, a blond woman wearing dark clothes abandoned her vehicle and was seen attempting to climb over the bridge’s railing at around 8 p.m.
Police have yet to recover a body.
Two weeks ago, we reported on the alleged suicide of Angelo Biondo, a 58-year-old man with a Park Slope dog training business.
Prior to the two recent alleged attempts, the Verrazano has been the site of five suicides and five suicide attempts since 2011.
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CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 62nd Precinct reports every Friday. The 62nd Precinct is the police command responsible for Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
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CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 62nd Precinct reports every Friday. The 62nd Precinct is the police command responsible for Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
Police are hunting for a subway mugger who brutally assaulted a woman at the 18th Avenue F train station at 2:40 a.m. on March 9. According to a report in the New York Times, the mugger is still at large.
In the disturbing surveillance footage, which is graphic and not for the feint of heart, the attacker is seen wearing a dark colored hoodie with the Greek letters “Alpha Phi Delta” on the front and the number 27 and “Stugots” on the back. The woman in the video, 56, suffered minor injuries.
If you have any information on the crime you should contact Crimestoppers right away.
