District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Thursday that his office has successfully disrupted a cryptocurrency scam operation that targeted the Russian-speaking community through deceptive investment schemes. The DA’s Virtual Currency Unit seized 70 domains used to lure victims, resulting in more than $1 million in losses for more than 20 Brooklyn residents and $4 million […]
A 46-year-old from Pennsylvania will spend the rest of his life in prison after he burned down three houses in Midwood in an attempt to kill a rabbi. Matthew Karelefsky, 46, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison by the Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday for his involvement in a […]
A funeral will be held Tuesday in Philadelphia for O’Shae Sibley, who was fatally stabbed after he confronted teenagers who taunted his group of gay, Black friends as they danced at a Midwood gas station. Friends of the slain 28-year-old were expected to celebrate his life at a historic opera house in the city where Sibley […]