#GetGotti
Covering the
#DapperDon
in the late 1980’s, as seen in the new
#Netflix
series,
#GetGotti
. The late Gambino godfather beat 3 criminal cases (with a little help from jury tampering in some) before he was finally convicted in 1992 at federal trial.
#BREAKING
: Source tells
@PIX11News
reputed
#Gambino
crime family boss Francesco
#FrankCali
was shot and gravely wounded on Staten Island after 9 pm tonight. Cali at SI University No. Hospital after shooting in Todt Hill. He has ties to Sicilian mob.
#BREAKING
On Day 6 of
@VENTURASHERIFF
search for former
#Glee
actress
#NayaRivera
in Lake Piru, California, divers say they’ve located a body. We will learn more at 2 pm Pacific time presser. Young mom’s 4 year old son found sleeping on boat last Wed.
#CloseCall
This is NYPD Officer Yayonfrantz Jean Pierre, stabbed in the neck last night on anti-looting post, surviving because the knife didn’t hit major artery.
@nikreport
secured the photo; watch
@PIX11News
5 pm: This became a terror probe.
#UPDATE
:
@NYPDDetectives
Chief Rodney Harrison says 14 yr old suspect in
#TessaMajors
murder picked up in Taft Houses lobby Friday; will be charged as adult, “as the statute requires” said DA Vance. 13 yr old in custody being charged as juvenile.
#DMX
attorney Murray Richman spoke to
@PIX11News
producer
@AvaPittmanTV
Saturday evening, stating the artist was off life support after suffering heart attack but breathing on his own. Richman has represented Yonkers-raised rapper for years.
Det. Joseph Seals, 39, took more guns off
#JerseyCity
streets than anyone else in Cease Fire Unit. The father of five was fatally shot during a standoff Tuesday, with 2 suspects killed in a kosher supermarket, along with 3 civilians.
@PIX11News
Officer Jason Rivera’s widow delivers eulogy full of heartache at rookie cop’s funeral. Seeing her new husband at the hospital “broke me,” she said. “I was lost.” She heard about his shooting on Citizen’s App. She also criticized new DA on approach to crime.
#BREAKING
: Update....A total of 5 suspects believed to be in custody now for mistaken identity, machete attack on 15 year old Bronx teen. One suspect fled to
#DominicanRepublic
. He was picked up last night; so was 1 more. 3 suspects now seized in Paterson, NJ.
#UPDATE
: Documents from Connecticut State Police in
#FotisDulos
Murder case say suspect was “lying in wait” for estranged wife, Jennifer, in New Canaan home she rented. She returned at 8:05 am after dropping 5 kids at school. Cops say Dulos killed her then.
#BREAKINGNEWS
: 2nd Update:
Paterson, NJ police took 4 suspects from hideout for mistaken ID machete attack outside Bronx bodega. 1 more caught in
#DR
. Victim ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz was in NYPD Explorer group.
@NYPDnews
@NYPDDetectives
#CourtOutburst
! Mother of “Junior” stabber starts screaming “My son didn’t kill anyone” after the convicted
#Trinitarios
gang member is sentenced to 25 years to life for taking part in the 2018 chase/fatal knife assault of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15 years old.
#Brazen
Footage from
#Chanel
store robbery Tuesday afternoon in
#SoHo
brought back memories of NYC looting last June, during days of social unrest. 4 gun-toting crooks burst into store, making a grab for designer bags & other luxury goods. This was Spring St.
Remembering Detectives
#RafaelRamos
and
#WenjianLiu
, 7 years after they were ambushed in their NYPD patrol car by a gunman who took a bus from Baltimore to Brooklyn. “They were quite simply assassinated,” said
@CommissBratton
. 5 days before Christmas.
#BREAKINGNEWS
: Paterson, NJ police take 3 suspects into custody in brutal, mistaken identity machete attack on 15 year old Bronx teen Lesandro Guzman-Feliz. The victim was enrolled in the
#NYPD
Explorers program, a group for kids interested in law enforcement.
#Breaking
Estranged wife of accused
#Gilgo
killer
#RexHeuermann
arrives at court hearing for first time since husband’s arrest in July. Reports say
#Asa
Ellerup made deal with a major streaming service to participate in documentary.
#Breaking
Major news about
#AmberCostello
#LISK
murders in latest DA Tierney court documents.
#Laptop
recovered from
#RexHeuermann
home allegedly accessed Costello’s Backpage ad day before she disappeared. DA says suspect tried to erase info, unsuccessfully.
President salutes 3 Long Island brothers, the Vigianos,for committing to military service after losing NYPD dad on 9/11. Joe, Jr was 8; James was 6, and John just 3 months old, when terror attacks took their father. Joe, Jr is NYPD cop. He & James also Marines
Crowd sings Happy Birthday to Junior’s mom, as
#Bronx
street is renamed in honor of her son. He was chased to this spot last June by gang of alleged
#Trinitarios
. Bodega where Lesandro Guzman Feliz sought refuge was closed during ceremony.
@PIX11News
#EXCLUSIVE
This video shows alleged looters on Fifth Avenue hitting
#NYPD
officer with their SUV, when police van tried to stop getaway at 3:30 am. This was near E. 8 St, after peaceful daytime protests ended and looters hit fancy stores. Out of town plates.
#New
Undercover cop followed
#RexHeuermann
DAUGHTER on LIRR train to Massapequa Park in May 2023, after her dad was ID’d as the prime
#LISK
suspect. He noticed she was drinking a gold can of
#MonsterJava
. He followed her off train, because he wanted the can.
#New
GilgoTaskForce found credit card records in
#RexHeuermann
storage unit indicating Atlantic City hotel charge, 3 days before
#MaureenBrainardBarnes
disappeared in 2007. DA Tierney: suspect’s wife says she and 2 children were in AC at time victim vanished.
Karen Vergata is 1st, known victim of
#LISK
, LI Serial Killer. Her legs washed up on Fire Island in 1996, her skull found in Tobay in 2011. The
#Suffolk
Police Commissioner will join attorney John Ray shortly to announce possible tie to
#RexHeuermann
.
Moving statement from family representing Ruthie Ann Miles, the pregnant
#parkslope
mom who was seriously injured Monday--with the tragic loss of her 4 year old daughter and her friend's 1 year old son--after an out of control vehicle plowed into them on Fifth Avenue and 9th St.
#RexHeuermann
now charged with killing ALL 4 of the
#Gilgo4
. A superseding indictment accuses the former midtown architect with murdering
#MaureenBrainardBarnes
, the first of the
#LISK
women to disappear. She vanished in July 2007. Her cell phone pinged 59 St.
NYPD Funeral for Officer Brian Mulkeen, fatally shot by
#friendlyfire
during
#gang
investigation in the
#Bronx
early Sunday. Mulkeen, 33, gave up Wall Street job to serve the city. Fordham U grad had 270 arrests in his 6 1/2 year career.
@PIX11News
Killer of
#IrmaLozada
, 1st female cop fatally shot in NYC, was paroled in early Dec. Darryl Jeter did 36 years in prison. Lozada, 25, was transit officer in plainclothes who chased him after chain snatching in 1984; later found in weeds w/2 gunshots to head.
#Breaking
Appearing in court w/fresh haircut, accused
#GilgoBeach
serial killer
#RexHeuermann
tells judge he’s reviewing evidence against him: “I’ve been averaging two to three hours a day.” DA Ray Tierney told court defendant’s cheek swab matched pizza DNA.
#GRATEFUL
that
@pix11news
Continuing Coverage of the Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz case was honored by
#NYEmmys2020
. Thank you to my sources. Thanks to
#EddieLebron
for terrific camera work & editing. Thank you to editor
#ChrisBehn
. Thanks to Junior’s mom.
Body of slain NYPD Officer, Adeed Fayaz, carried out of Brookdale Hospital Tuesday night. Just 26, father of 2 was off-duty when he went to check out a Honda advertised on Facebook Marketplace. The shooter apparently used the ad as a ruse to rob.
#AdeedFayaz
#EXCLUSIVE
: 3rd Update on Bronx
#machete
murder busts: 4 suspects in Paterson were confronted at Trinitarios gang hideout in
#Paterson
, NJ; one fled on foot/caught in backyard. 15 year old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was victim of mistaken ID.
#justice4junior
.
Deer Park playground dedicated in memory of NYPD Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, dad of 2 daughters fatally shot in 1971 w/his partner Waverly Jones by radical members of BLA. Bench plaque says, “Because I love you,” inscription his bride Diane put on his watch.
#BreakingNews
on
@PIX11News
:
12 murder indictments will be unsealed Wednesday in the brutal machete killing of 15 year old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz on June 20th. All 4 vehicles used in the chase accounted for & all 4 drivers.
#JusticeForJunior
#Grab
and Go! New video released by
#NYPD
shows ring of thieves hauling off coats from high-end retailer
#Moncler
.
@NYPDDetectives
Chief Rodney Harrison says 23 luxury stores have been hit since last September in
#Soho
, Upper East Side and Brooklyn.
#More
Gilgo investigators say they found flip phone in
#RexHeuermann
’s office drawer in midtown that was used to engage sex workers, years after the
#LISK
victims were first discovered. Reference made to 2019 and 2020 ads, with services geared toward fetishes
Mass Show of Respect: The
#NYPD
released incredibly moving video of first responders lining highways and parkway overpasses, as the body of slain Police Officer
#JonathanDiller
was moved from Jamaica Hospital, where he died, to the medical examiner’s office.
Burner Phone Calls to Maureen:
Bet. 7/6/2007 and 7/9, 16 calls made from “burner” phone to cellphone of
#MaureenBrainardBarnes
. 3 days after she vanished, someone checked her VM from Long Island Expy in Suffolk Co. Gilgo Task Force thinks
#LISK
had her phone.
Here’s the glance.
#RexHeuermann
, accused
#GilgoBeach
serial killer, looks toward wife, Asa, who came to court for the first time since his July arrest for multiple murders. His lawyer wants notes relating to another suspect who was almost arrested.
This post tonight from
@NYCPBA
was sent to me, with NY’s police union saying uniformed cop who took out his gun was trying to protect his supervisor—wearing a white shirt and riot helmet—who got hit in the head with a brick.
#New
#GilgoBeach
Task Force investigators sought info on a missing Bronx teen who disappeared in 1993 from Manhattan, 17 years before the
#GilgoFour
were discovered. The move came 7 months after
#RexHeuermann
identified as suspect.
#Breaking
US Marshals take lawyers Colin Mattis & Urooj Rahman BACK into custody, after federal Court of Appeals ruled they should not have been released on bail, after allegedly throwing
#Molotov
cocktail into NYPD van last week. Follow
@PIX11News
.
$10,000 Reward in Cold Case. Murder victim, Megan McDonald, 20, was daughter of former
#NYPD
homicide detective. President of
@NYCPDDEA
,
#PaulDiGiacamo
, announced reward on 19th anniversary of brutal killing in Orange Co. FBI offering $10,000, too.
#NEW
Watch
#Bronx
deli man try to fend off 2 customers w/broomstick, during argument about “loose” cigarette, before male gunman shot Mohammed Qutaish, 20, dead behind counter. NYPD charged Adrien Topping w/murder & released his sister. Victim from
#Yemen
#More
Maureen Brainard Barnes was the first of the
#GilgoFour
victims to disappear. She went missing in 2007. Her remains were found with 3 other women in December 2010 in brush off Ocean Pkwy. One of the belts used to bind her had the initials WH on it.
#BREAKING
out of Brooklyn. High-Ranking law enforcement source tells
@PIX11News
“30 to 60” bodies of
#COVID19
dead stashed in two,
#UHaul
trucks outside Andrew Cleckly Funeral Home on Utica Avenue. Police alerted about foul odor. Home ran out of space.
NYPD cops survey smashed & defaced police vehicles by 88 Precinct in
#Brooklyn
; rioters stormed stationhouse & assaulted desk Lieutenant. National demos got violent after
#GeorgeFloyd
officer arrested. Mayor said: “Direct that anger to politicians, not cops.”
#EndangeredChild
Virginia State Police issued alert on behalf of
#NYPD
for assistance finding Kadence France, 3 years old, who was last seen with woman, 26, in NYC. They’re possibly in blue Honda Accord heading to VA. I will post woman’s photo next.
@Catch_LISK
@PIX11News
We have heard your concerns. The newer photo Jessica’s family provided to Suffolk Police Department is now the featured photo on our story link. We are sorry for any distress that was caused. The new link is posted at and
#MaryMurphyMystery
on Facebook.
#Breaking
Kidnapped girl returned safely to Staten Island, after 2 day odyssey allegedly orchestrated by non-custodial mom. Police source tells us 3 year old Kadence was brought to a New Jersey relative. Mom’s blue Honda found abandoned in Virginia Beach.
#Now
. Hearing started for accused
#GilgoBeach
serial killer
#RexHeuermann
. He entered court wearing navy suit jacket, khakis. No video in court. DA handing over discovery material to defense, including surveillance of Heuermann at home, storage unit & office.
#TakingAKnee
This was a powerful moment in Foley Square, Manhattan on Sunday, when uniformed, NYPD officers took a knee—as protesters remembered
#GeorgeFloyd
. The fired Minneapolis cop who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes is now charged w/murder.
#Twin
, 12 year old sisters from
#StatenIsland
reported missing with their mother. Anisha & Aniyah Thompson-Holland last seen in their pajamas Thursday 10 am on
#4
train by Bowling Green in lower Manhattan. Older sibling told brother, who notified NYPD.
#New
Dead shark washes up in
#Hamptons
(Quogue) amid rash of shark sightings in recent weeks on Long Island and Queens south shore. All 7 miles of
#Rockaway
beaches were closed Tuesday due to shark activity, along w/
#JonesBeach
, just as heat wave moves in
#TheMissing
Mom seeks son, 26, who left cell phone on ‘airplane mode’ in car, after stopping at
#Harlem
bar.
#ColinMarma
, who has mental disorder, left home in
#Garrison
NY w/2 bags of clothes on Feb. 2. He’s slim, 5’9”. Stopped at Bless Bar on 143 St/Broadway
#New
Accused
#GilgoBeach
serial killer
#RexHeuermann
lost fight to stop prosecutors from getting his
#DNA
swab. Judge ruled “contrary to defendant’s contentions, there’s probable cause to believe (he) committed the crimes charged…basis to compel” buccal swab.
#NEW
Accused
#GilgoBeach
serial killer
#RexHeuermann
in court Tuesday. His defense lawyer just told us his client still maintains innocence in murders of 3 women, attorney Michael Brown remarking “Have any of you considered they may have the wrong guy?”
He wore 4-stars as
@NYPD
Chief of Department for 13 years, making quick decisions during 9/11 attacks. Brooklyn-born Joseph Esposito has died from cancer, serving NYC until the end, recently as Deputy Commissioner of Buildings. He was fondly called
#ChiefEspo
.
#BREAKING
on
@PIX11News
exclusively: a 12th and final suspect in the chase and machete murder of 15 year old “Junior” Guzman-Feliz has been picked up on a Connecticut highway. He was driving the gray Honda police were seeking from a 4-vehicle convoy.
#Located
9 year old girl,
#HeavenBanton
, who left after-school program in
#Brooklyn
Thursday, was found and she’s safe. Thank you for sharing her picture.
#Breaking
2 upstate NY sisters & others to be prosecuted in Brooklyn FEDERAL court for attempted murder of police officers, accused of throwing Molotov cocktail into occupied NYPD van. US Attorney in Eastern District to handle case. Follow
@PIX11News
@NYCPBA
President Pat Lynch after 2 cops shot in Harlem: “The public has to send a message” by attending funeral for 22 year old officer fatally shot responding to mother/son domestic dispute. “We will carry our brother out...We need you, too.”
#Breaking
NYS Senate Republican leader Rob Ortt asks DOJ & NY AG
@TishJames
to probe Gov. Cuomo and his staff for withholding nursing home death numbers, “to investigate what appears to be a deliberate coverup.” It’s “more than just a scandal.”
#Breaking
! This is Frank James, person of interest in Brooklyn N train incident that left 10 commuters shot. James rented UHaul van in Philadelphia; found abandoned in Gravesend area. Shooter fired 33x, says
@NYPDDetectives
Chief Essig. Left behind 9mm
He’s only 12: Jayqyan Montague was last seen Feb. 28th leaving home on Washington Avenue in the
#Bronx
at 11 pm. He’s 5’2” & weighs 120 lbs. He’s way too young to be fending for himself.
@BAM_FI
A missing minor is an endangered minor.
#TheMissing
#MORE
:
#RexHeuermann
hearing: Defense attorney Michael Brown says 4 “pole cameras” trained on serial killer suspect’s house for 1 1/2 years before his arrest. Brown also wants to see records of “numerous other suspects” looked at before Heuermann.
#Gilgo
#Update
: Noah Mehegan, 15, is back home in Queens. The teen had gone
#missing
Sunday, after attending church in Manhattan. Thank you to all of you who posted his photo.
9 Year Old
#Missing
after leaving School Thursday: This is surveillance footage of
#HeavenBanton
leaving the area of P.S. 323 on Chester Street in
#Brooklyn
on Thursday 1/11/2023. She lives on Bristol Street. Please call 911 if you see Heaven.
#TheMissing
#Breaking
: Arrest made in fatal bus stop stabbing of Ryan Carson, 32, a social justice advocate who’d returned to
#Brooklyn
from wedding. Man in hoodie ID’d as accused killer Brian Dowling,18. Police said he was knocking over scooters when he confronted Carson
Former Suffolk Police Chief
#JamesBurke
leaves precinct after he’s accused of soliciting male, undercover park ranger for sex. It allegedly happened near Vietnam Veterans Memorial. We’re told Burke talked of the public humiliation this arrest would bring him.
I Pulled the Mask Off of Him!
#OliverNeligan
, 84, didn’t let a mugger get the best of him, even in a pandemic. The native of
#CountyCork
, Ireland took
@PIX11News
to the crime scene, where he used coffee, moxie, and
#wrestling
to send the guy running.
John Gotti’s daughter sticks it to the pundits who speculated that her Uncle Gene, recently released from prison, wanted
#FrankCali
out of the way. Reports say suspect in custody for Cali murder may have had a screw loose.
NYPD Lt. Richard Mack battled coronavirus for a month—and then returned to duty during a time of violent unrest, looting and demands for police reform.
Tonight at 10PM on
@PIX11News
,
@MurphyPIX
sits down with
@NYPDnews
Lt. Richard Mack to discuss the attack that temporarily blinded him in one eye, as well his thoughts on the current state of policing — including the many cops he knew personally who made the ultimate sacrifice.
All He Did Was Answer the Door: This is
#DanielAnderl
in his high school graduation photo. The only child of NJ federal judge
#EstherSalas
died at age 20, when he opened the door to a phony
#FedEx
worker, who started shooting at Daniel and his father.
#New
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison tells
@PIX11News
two, full-time cops added to
#Gilgo
Task Force to investigate missing sex workers in Suffolk County for potential ties to
#RexHeuermann
.
#New
Surveillance shows NYC
#taxi
driver Kutin Gyimah being set upon by 5, young passengers who beat the fare. Cabbie was father of 4 from
#Ghana
; received final punch before he fell and hit his head.
At least 1 suspect charged w/manslaughter in
#FarRockaway
#Mystery
Partial human body with legs attached to torso is found on the sand in
#BreezyPoint
on the
#RockawayPeninsula
. Every time we hear of a horrific discovery like this, close to water, we think of Gilgo. I will be making calls on the case. ME to determine cause of death.
#NEW
Junior’s father, Lisandro Guzman, leaves court after seeing the ripped, blood-soaked clothing his son was wearing when he was pronounced dead. “I never want to see it again,” he told us. Follow
@PIX11News
for all trial updates.