March 20, 2015 Dusting Off a Police Trove of Photographs to Rival Weegee’s By MICHAEL WILSON Thousands of crime scene photographs taken by New York City detectives from 1914 to 1975 will soon be viewed online for the first time ever.
March 13, 2015 Playing Police Officers, With a Car as Part of the Costume By MICHAEL WILSON A widening investigation into two members of New York’s auxiliary police force suggests they may have aspirations other than fighting crime.
March 6, 2015 A Thick Trail of Breadcrumbs Leads to Aspiring New York Police Officers By MICHAEL WILSON The suspects in a strong-arm robbery in Spanish Harlem, members of a pool of young officers, were seemingly bereft of the rudimentary criminal logic that one might glean from a sassy second-grader.
February 27, 2015 A Family Suggests the First Responders to a Fire Were Thieves By MICHAEL WILSON A family who fled its Brooklyn home because of smoke, returned to find $7,160 in property missing, including a bracelet and a silver Kiddush cup.
February 20, 2015 Spider-Man, in Sketch Form, Visits an 8-Year-Old Fan in Harlem By MICHAEL WILSON After a reporter chronicled Jamel Hunter’s birthday party, he received a gift from Stan Lee, one of the famous crime fighter’s creators.
February 6, 2015 2 Troubled Brothers Are Reunited, Then Torn Apart by an Errant Bullet By MICHAEL WILSON Shane Van Williams is accused of fatally shooting Rendell Cassimy and his brother Sean with the same bullet, nine days after Shane was released from prison.
January 30, 2015 For Tourists Seeking Drugs, an Experience That’s Less Than Authentic By MICHAEL WILSON Preying on out-of-towners with money to burn, street hustlers on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan are selling cold medicine in place of cocaine.
January 23, 2015 Amid Times Square’s Bright Lights, Murders in the Shadows By MICHAEL WILSON Authorities are investigating two murders that happened in the shadows beyond the bright lights surrounding Times Square in New York City.
January 16, 2015 A Sofa Was Pushed From a Sixth-Floor Window. Or Maybe Not. By MICHAEL WILSON A black sofa crashed to the sidewalk from an apartment window in Greenwich Village, people in the neighborhood say. But no one actually saw it happen, the police said.
January 14, 2015 Fistfuls of Cash Spilled on Expressway Swirl in Young Imaginations Only By MICHAEL WILSON Five teenage boys patrolled the Long Island Expressway on Wednesday, looking for $178,000 in cash that supposedly fell out of the back of an armored truck the day before.
January 4, 2015 Amid Sea of New York Blue, Other Hues Reveal Bonds Behind the Badge By MICHAEL WILSON As row upon row of New York Police Department officers assembled on Sunday to honor a slain colleague, they were again joined by thousands of counterparts from across the country, and beyond.
January 2, 2015 A Doctor Who Denies He’s a Kingpin By MICHAEL WILSON Dr. Moshe B. Mirilashvili, 66, was charged in federal court with writing over 10,000 medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone from his Manhattan office.
December 26, 2014 Men in Blue, Bearing a Brother They Didn’t Know By MICHAEL WILSON Sixteen officers who have volunteered to serve as pallbearers at police funerals will be among those on hand when their slain colleague Rafael Ramos is laid to rest on Saturday.
December 19, 2014 For Family Sued by Nanny, a Vacation Becomes Legal Limbo By MICHAEL WILSON A three-week trip to Italy has turned to an indefinite stay for Malu Custer Edwards and her family, whose re-entry to New York was denied following allegations the family abused their nanny.
December 5, 2014 Pizza Orders Reveal Credit Card Scheme, and a Secondhand Market By MICHAEL WILSON Facebook, smartphones and a Domino’s app were the tools of a Brooklyn credit card fraud that went far beyond extra toppings.
November 7, 2014 Erased iPhone Gets a Mother in Trouble By MICHAEL WILSON Eileen Lagala’s son said the last he saw of his phone, the police were putting it in a plastic bag. “I asked him for the password,” she said. “That was a mistake.”
October 31, 2014 3 People in the Bronx, Drugs and Recollections of a Day’s Bloody Turn By MICHAEL WILSON Three strangers, more or less, recall a drug-filled episode that left at least one person stabbed and changed the lives of all.
October 17, 2014 In New York, a Nose for Hidden Compartments and Cigarettes By MICHAEL WILSON Cigarettes are often bought out of state to be sold illegally in New York. Bodegas try to hide them in secret compartments. But detectives find them.
October 3, 2014 Where Was He During the Shooting? Cameras Prove Fickle in This Tale By MICHAEL WILSON A Brooklyn man, pulled out of bed and arrested in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy, insisted he was not involved.
September 26, 2014 To Hear Him Tell It on the Stage, Process-Serving Is a Lark By MICHAEL WILSON A man who works as a process server in the Bronx finds some humor in his work and adds it to his stand-up-comedy routine.
March 20, 2015 Dusting Off a Police Trove of Photographs to Rival Weegee’s By MICHAEL WILSON Thousands of crime scene photographs taken by New York City detectives from 1914 to 1975 will soon be viewed online for the first time ever.
March 13, 2015 Playing Police Officers, With a Car as Part of the Costume By MICHAEL WILSON A widening investigation into two members of New York’s auxiliary police force suggests they may have aspirations other than fighting crime.
March 6, 2015 A Thick Trail of Breadcrumbs Leads to Aspiring New York Police Officers By MICHAEL WILSON The suspects in a strong-arm robbery in Spanish Harlem, members of a pool of young officers, were seemingly bereft of the rudimentary criminal logic that one might glean from a sassy second-grader.
February 27, 2015 A Family Suggests the First Responders to a Fire Were Thieves By MICHAEL WILSON A family who fled its Brooklyn home because of smoke, returned to find $7,160 in property missing, including a bracelet and a silver Kiddush cup.
February 20, 2015 Spider-Man, in Sketch Form, Visits an 8-Year-Old Fan in Harlem By MICHAEL WILSON After a reporter chronicled Jamel Hunter’s birthday party, he received a gift from Stan Lee, one of the famous crime fighter’s creators.
February 6, 2015 2 Troubled Brothers Are Reunited, Then Torn Apart by an Errant Bullet By MICHAEL WILSON Shane Van Williams is accused of fatally shooting Rendell Cassimy and his brother Sean with the same bullet, nine days after Shane was released from prison.
January 30, 2015 For Tourists Seeking Drugs, an Experience That’s Less Than Authentic By MICHAEL WILSON Preying on out-of-towners with money to burn, street hustlers on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan are selling cold medicine in place of cocaine.
January 23, 2015 Amid Times Square’s Bright Lights, Murders in the Shadows By MICHAEL WILSON Authorities are investigating two murders that happened in the shadows beyond the bright lights surrounding Times Square in New York City.
January 16, 2015 A Sofa Was Pushed From a Sixth-Floor Window. Or Maybe Not. By MICHAEL WILSON A black sofa crashed to the sidewalk from an apartment window in Greenwich Village, people in the neighborhood say. But no one actually saw it happen, the police said.
January 14, 2015 Fistfuls of Cash Spilled on Expressway Swirl in Young Imaginations Only By MICHAEL WILSON Five teenage boys patrolled the Long Island Expressway on Wednesday, looking for $178,000 in cash that supposedly fell out of the back of an armored truck the day before.
January 4, 2015 Amid Sea of New York Blue, Other Hues Reveal Bonds Behind the Badge By MICHAEL WILSON As row upon row of New York Police Department officers assembled on Sunday to honor a slain colleague, they were again joined by thousands of counterparts from across the country, and beyond.
January 2, 2015 A Doctor Who Denies He’s a Kingpin By MICHAEL WILSON Dr. Moshe B. Mirilashvili, 66, was charged in federal court with writing over 10,000 medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone from his Manhattan office.
December 26, 2014 Men in Blue, Bearing a Brother They Didn’t Know By MICHAEL WILSON Sixteen officers who have volunteered to serve as pallbearers at police funerals will be among those on hand when their slain colleague Rafael Ramos is laid to rest on Saturday.
December 19, 2014 For Family Sued by Nanny, a Vacation Becomes Legal Limbo By MICHAEL WILSON A three-week trip to Italy has turned to an indefinite stay for Malu Custer Edwards and her family, whose re-entry to New York was denied following allegations the family abused their nanny.
December 5, 2014 Pizza Orders Reveal Credit Card Scheme, and a Secondhand Market By MICHAEL WILSON Facebook, smartphones and a Domino’s app were the tools of a Brooklyn credit card fraud that went far beyond extra toppings.
November 7, 2014 Erased iPhone Gets a Mother in Trouble By MICHAEL WILSON Eileen Lagala’s son said the last he saw of his phone, the police were putting it in a plastic bag. “I asked him for the password,” she said. “That was a mistake.”
October 31, 2014 3 People in the Bronx, Drugs and Recollections of a Day’s Bloody Turn By MICHAEL WILSON Three strangers, more or less, recall a drug-filled episode that left at least one person stabbed and changed the lives of all.
October 17, 2014 In New York, a Nose for Hidden Compartments and Cigarettes By MICHAEL WILSON Cigarettes are often bought out of state to be sold illegally in New York. Bodegas try to hide them in secret compartments. But detectives find them.
October 3, 2014 Where Was He During the Shooting? Cameras Prove Fickle in This Tale By MICHAEL WILSON A Brooklyn man, pulled out of bed and arrested in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy, insisted he was not involved.
September 26, 2014 To Hear Him Tell It on the Stage, Process-Serving Is a Lark By MICHAEL WILSON A man who works as a process server in the Bronx finds some humor in his work and adds it to his stand-up-comedy routine.