Ladwan Brown, 33, died from the bullet to the brain, but a 22-year-old female friend managed to chew through duct tape and escape from a closet, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
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Trevon Jones, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 12 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in connection with his planning of and participation in a series of violent armed robberies with other individuals.
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Leslie Otero, 39, of Whitestone, charged with bank robbery and criminal use of a firearm, was the getaway driver in the bungled holdup at an Apple Bank on 13th Ave. in Borough Park Monday.
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Michael Pinkerton, of Clinton County, Missouri, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for attempting to receive and possess child pornography after he subscribed to several child pornography websites.
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The cop struck in the vest during a wild Harlem gun battle was under watch by the NYPD for excessive force complaints, the Daily News has learned.
A federal grand jury in Baltimore has indicted Maryland State Senator Ulysses S. Currie and two Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp. executives–former president William J. White and former vice president for real estate development R. Kevin Small–in connection with a scheme in which the supermarket chain allegedly paid Senator Currrie in exchange for using his official position and influence in matters benefitting White, Small, and the supermarket chain.
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Jackie Moffitt, of Worley, Idaho, was sentenced to five years in prison for buying and selling methamphetamine on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation. Moffitt also admitted to transporting approximately two pounds of methamphetamine from the Tri-Cities area.
A 5-year-old Bronx boy mowed down by a hit-and-run driver is showing signs of recovery, but is still on a ventilator in a medically induced coma, his father said.
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Pharmaceutical manufacturer Allergan Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California, has agreed to plead guilty and pay $600 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of its biological product, Botox, for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The feds want to talk to the whistle-blowing Brooklyn cop who says NYPD brass tossed him into a psych ward after he accused supervisors of cooking the books on crime stats.
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