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Feds say market sold 'hot kielbasa' _ aka cocaine
A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty "hot kielbasa" _ for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the kielbasa was really cocaine _ not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market. According to a criminal...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Raymond W. Kelly, Police Arrests, Police
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NY priest charged with e-mailing porn to teenager
A priest who serves as a youth minister at a Roman Catholic university is charged with e-mailing pornographic videos to a Colorado detective posing as a 14-year-old. Authorities say the Rev. Charles Plock, a chaplain at St. John's University in Queens,...Tags: Colorado, New York, Justice System, Court Administration
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26 charged in drug bust at Brooklyn meat market
anthony.destefano@newsday.comThe "hot kielbasa" being sold in Brooklyn had nothing to do with the popular Polish sausage, federal investigators said Friday. Instead, drug dealers used the name of the Slavic sausage to identify a highly pure cocaine being sold throughout the...Tags: Prosecution, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Greenpoint, Crimes, Manhattan (New York City)
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Man found with explosives pleads guilty
A New York man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing explosives after he was linked to three vehicles in Connecticut and New York packed with weapons and explosives, authorities said. Yung Tang, 38, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in New...Tags: Prosecution, Bombings, Firearms, Guerrilla Activity, Trials
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NYPD hate crimes task force probes Yom Kippur letters
New York City police are investigating a rabbi's complaint that threatening e-mails were sent to try to stop a ritual involving the slaughter of chickens before a Jewish holy day. Rabbi Shea Hecht of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish...Tags: Religious Festivals, Crimes, Assault, Judaism, Laws
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NYPD: Mobsters hit hot dog vendor with hammer
Police have accused two reputed Gambino crime family associates of shaking down a Bronx hot dog vendor and beating him with a hammer when he balked at their demands. The two and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges including gang assault and...Tags: Prosecution, Punishment
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NYCLU claims student arrests weren't legal
The New York Civil Liberties Union claims 309 New York City students were illegally arrested over three years. The group argues that under state law, children under 16 cannot be arrested for minor, noncriminal offenses. It says the arrests from 2005...Tags: Police Arrests, Police, New York
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NY rabbi says e-mail threats sent to stop ritual
campaign who added own comments to a PETA online form letter; CLARIFIES overlines. minor editing. APNewsNow. NEW YORK (AP) _ New York City police are investigating a rabbi's complaint that threatening e-mails were sent to try to stop a ritual...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Judaism, Police Investigations, Police
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Jimmy Smits back as a TV crimebuster with a 'Dexter' twist: The prosecutor, killer are pals
AP Television WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jimmy Smits, a proven TV star in "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue," is looking like the go-to guy when a drama's juicy guest role demands leading-man heft. In the final season of "The West Wing," he was a Latino politician who becomes the...Tags: Dexter, Prosecution, Satellite and Cable Service, Barack Obama, Jimmy Smits
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Officers pay tribute to Pigott in Islip
bart.jones@newsday.comThe rows of police officers stretched 300 yards along Main Street in Islip yesterday, and five officers deep. As they saluted the coffin of Lt. Michael Pigott, a New York City Police Department helicopter flew low overhead in a final tribute to the...Tags: Sayville, Death and Dying, Police, Raymond W. Kelly, Islip
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Therapy now the norm for cops
michael.amon@newsday.comrocco.parascandola@newsday.comAfter a drunken driver plowed into a limousine on the Meadowbrook Parkway in 2005, killing the limo driver and decapitating a 7-year-old girl, emergency workers at the scene were gathered together. The purpose: to talk about what they had just seen. Once...Tags: Health Treatments, Suicide, Emergency Planning, Law Enforcement, Police Investigations
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ABC's 'Life on Mars': A detective from 2008 does time for a mystery that lands him in 1973
AP Television WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ All comfortably familiar by cop-show standards, "Life on Mars" begins with NYPD Detective Sam Tyler nabbing a murder suspect, who then gets a grilling from him at the precinct house. He takes a phone call in the age-old squad room, which...Tags: Richard Nixon, Murder, Grey's Anatomy, Crimes, Police
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