They arrived at Rye Playland in the darkness, in a boat they had taken without the owner’s permission, then hopped a fence into the park, where the spree began, officials said. Source: New York Times
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Burglars in Disguise. Millions in Jewels Taken. But This Was in Queens.
By Gotham Rex on October 29, 2025
Thieves dressed as construction workers stole $3.2 million in jewels and cash from a jewelry store owner’s family home, the police said. Source: New York Times
Georgia Man Charged With Raping Women in Queens in the 1990s
By Gotham Rex on October 17, 2025
New DNA testing linked Michael Benjamin, 57, to the assaults of five women between 1995 and 1997 in southeast Queens, according to the authorities. Source: New York Times
Police Arrest Suspect in Death of Queens Couple in Burning House
By Gotham Rex on September 10, 2025
The arrested man is Jamel McGriff, 42. Investigators believe he killed a couple in their 70s, one of whom was found tied to a pole. Source: New York Times
Man Charged in Connection With Fatal Shooting of Woman, 69, in Harlem
By Gotham Rex on September 5, 2025
Faisil McCants, 18, was charged with armed robbery and the use of a machine gun in last week’s incident, which left Robin Wright, a bystander, dead. Source: New York Times
2 Men Arrested in Livestreamed Robbery of Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead
By Gotham Rex on September 28, 2022
Lamor Whitehead of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries lost chains, rings, watches and jewelry when gunmen invaded a service. Source: New York Times
Off-Duty Police Officer Hospitalized After Skull Is Fractured in Robbery
By Gotham Rex on August 24, 2022
Three men wanted in a score of crimes attacked the 48-year-old officer, N.Y.P.D. officials said. He was in critical condition. Source: New York Times
The ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Bank Robbery, 50 Years Ago Today
By Gotham Rex on August 22, 2022
A bank official remembers calling the Brooklyn branch in Gravesend and sensing that something was wrong. Source: New York Times
ID Theft, Fraud, Prison: The Wild Life of a Bishop Robbed at the Pulpit
By Gotham Rex on August 4, 2022
The police said Bishop Lamor Whitehead was robbed of a fortune in jewelry, the crime caught on camera. But the focus soon turned to him and his past run-ins with the law. Source: New York Times
Federal Prosecutors Charge 16 in Gang Racketeering Operation in Manhattan
By Gotham Rex on August 2, 2022
Members of Own Every Dollar are responsible for killings, robberies and assaults in Washington Heights, officials say. Source: New York Times
Brooklyn Clergyman Is Robbed While Delivering Sunday Sermon
By Gotham Rex on July 25, 2022
A trio of armed individuals robbed Lamor M. Whitehead and his wife of jewelry worth more than $1 million, police said. Source: New York Times
Rare-Book Dealer Charged After Pilfered Eagles Lyrics Come to Light
By Gotham Rex on July 12, 2022
Glenn Horowitz and two other men are accused of conspiring to sell Don Henley’s notes, including the words to “Hotel California.” Source: New York Times
How Paintings Lost in a Small-Town Art Heist Were Recovered 50 Years Later
By Gotham Rex on June 20, 2022
Two sleuths — a curator and a librarian — in New Paltz, N.Y., helped the F.B.I. track down 200-year-old paintings that were stolen from a historical society in 1972. Source: New York Times
Theft of Brooklyn Church’s Gold Tabernacle Stabs at Hearts of Faithful
By Gotham Rex on June 1, 2022
A Brooklyn congregation condemned the desecration of their sacred sanctuary in a burglary that the pastor called “one more blow” to a struggling church. Source: New York Times
A $2-Million Tabernacle Was Stolen From a Brooklyn Cathedral
By Gotham Rex on May 30, 2022
Someone apparently armed with a power saw broke into the church and walked off with the solid-gold, bejeweled tabernacle, the police said. Source: New York Times