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Dealer keeps striking out

Tony Hickman apparently wasn't happy when a jury convicted him on drug charges in 2004 -- so he didn't bother to show up for sentencing. That only made it easier for Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Joel Goldberg to throw the book at Hickman -- giving ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  23 Nov 2009

Robber becomes a rapist

John Pipkin has one major black mark on his record, but it's a big one -- rape. In 1992, he and some other men set upon a woman walking across a deserted schoolyard after midnight, court papers say. "They threw her to the ground, yanked her clothes off, ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  23 Nov 2009

Friar tuck sentenced

A Staten Island priest who admitted swiping $84,000 from his church to fund plastic surgeries and Botox treatments was sentenced yesterday to five years' probation -- and the threat of jail if he doesn't pay it back. William Blasingame, 66, a former ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Episcopal Church

Lost-corpse kin sue city

The family of a 16-year-old rape victim who lay dead in a Brooklyn city morgue for a month while they frantically searched for her is suing the medical examiner and NYPD. The suit, made public yesterday, charges cops refused repeated requests by the ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009

Guilty Barron slams Hynes

A Brooklyn Criminal Court judge yesterday convicted City Councilman Charles Barron of disorderly conduct for sitting in the middle of Tillary Street to protest the Sean Bell verdict. Brooklyn DA "Charles Hynes should be ashamed of himself," said Barron, ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Charles Barron,  Sean Bell

City workers let junkies ransack house

Bumbling city Buildings Department workers marked the wrong Brooklyn house for demolition, ordering the lock snapped and allowing thieves free rein, a lawsuit alleges. "They left the premises unsecured, for all the druggies and homeless to just walk in ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Buildings Department,  National Grid

Cop's torment

The tormented NYPD lieutenant who killed himself last year after ordering the Tasering of a deranged man left an anguish-filled suicide note for his wife and kids -- saying he couldn't face the prospect of going to jail and losing them. "I love you ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ray Kelly

'DWI' cop's two stories

Alleged DWI cop Andrew Kelly flip-flopped when grilled by police after he'd fatally run down a Brooklyn woman, according to prosecutors. "After being asked . . . if he had been drinking, the defendant first replied 'No,' then stated 'Not really,' " ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrew Kelly, NYPD,  Arthur Aidala

Sing Sing corrections officer runs over, kills Brooklyn woman

A state corrections officer on his way to work at Sing Sing prison this morning ran down and killed a Brooklyn woman, police sources said. Damon Padmore, 38, was driving his Ford Expedition northbound on Flatbush Avenue near St. Marks Avenue in Park ...

From JAMIE SCHRAM AND ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Macy's

Coach kid-sex charge

An elite Brooklyn private school long dogged by accusations that its football coach molested his players was slapped yesterday with a federal lawsuit by seven alumni alleging it covered up the sexual abuse for decades. The suit, filed in Brooklyn ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bruce Cutler,  Colgate University

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