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NYC says sergeant accidentally shot by cop in '98
rocco.parascandola@newsday.comTen years after Sgt. Dexter Brown was mistakenly shot in the back during a buy-and-bust operation in Brooklyn, the city has finally acknowledged what he and others in the New York Police Department have long contended: that another cop pulled the trigger....Tags: Ethics, Clinton Hill, Court Administration, Law Enforcement, Firearms
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Priest charged with e-mailing porn to 'teen'
A priest who serves as a youth minister at a Roman Catholic university is charged with e-mailing pornographic videos to a Colorado detective posing as a 14-year-old. Authorities say the Rev. Charles Plock, a chaplain at St. John's University in Queens,... -
Feds say market sold 'hot kielbasa' _ aka cocaine
A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty "hot kielbasa" _ for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the kielbasa was really cocaine _ not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market. According to a criminal...Tags: Raymond W. Kelly, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Anniversaries
61st BETTY AND HUGH CASSIDY of Stony Brook celebrated Aug. 13 with a party at the Three Village Inn in Stony Brook. Hugh is a retired deputy inspector with the New York City Police Department. Betty is a homemaker. They have two children (two others...Tags: Melville, People, Stony Brook University, New York Mets, Huntington
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Robert J. Nicosia, ex-NYPD officer, Wantagh firefighter
keith.herbert@newsday.comRobert J. Nicosia, a former New York City police officer and volunteer firefighter in Wantagh who rose through the ranks to become department fire chief, died Friday at his home after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 47. Nicosia, known to his...Tags: Diseases, Cancer, Law Enforcement, North Babylon, Wantagh
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26 charged in drug bust at Brooklyn meat market
anthony.destefano@newsday.comThe "hot kielbasa" being sold in Brooklyn had nothing to do with the popular Polish sausage, federal investigators said Friday. Instead, drug dealers used the name of the Slavic sausage to identify a highly pure cocaine being sold throughout the...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Greenpoint, Prosecution, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Does a strange name hinder a showbiz career?
A talented actor with an unpronounceable Slavic name [Zeljko Ivanek] recently won an Emmy. Though he has appeared frequently on TV and in movies, he has never reached his potential. Do you think his decision to retain his birth name hindered his career?...Tags: John Adams, Damages, Television Industry, W., Dancing With the Stars
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NYCLU claims student arrests weren't legal
The New York Civil Liberties Union claims 309 New York City students were illegally arrested over three years. The group argues that under state law, children under 16 cannot be arrested for minor, noncriminal offenses. It says the arrests from 2005... -
Man found with explosives pleads guilty
A New York man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing explosives after he was linked to three vehicles in Connecticut and New York packed with weapons and explosives, authorities said. Yung Tang, 38, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in New...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Court Administration, Punishment, Firearms, Law Enforcement
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Jimmy Smits back as a TV crimebuster with a 'Dexter' twist: The prosecutor, killer are pals
AP Television WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jimmy Smits, a proven TV star in "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue," is looking like the go-to guy when a drama's juicy guest role demands leading-man heft. In the final season of "The West Wing," he was a Latino politician who becomes the...Tags: Barack Obama, Minority Groups, NBC, John McCain, Alan Alda
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Officer kills self over Taser death
Associated PressThe man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below. Lt. Michael Pigott responded by ordering an officer to fire a stun gun at the man, who froze and plunged...Tags: Long Island, Defense, Firearms, Law Enforcement, Michael Bloomberg
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NYPD: Mobsters hit hot dog vendor with hammer
Police have accused two reputed Gambino crime family associates of shaking down a Bronx hot dog vendor and beating him with a hammer when he balked at their demands. The two and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges including gang assault and...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment
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