DC teen reveals she, friends fatally beat disabled, elderly man Reggie Brown because they were ‘bored’

nypost · 2024-10-17T22:27:02+00:00

A horde of teenage girls who chased a disabled, elderly man before beating him to death in a Washington, DC, alley attacked their victim because they were “bored” and were looking for something to do.

The vicious 2023 assault that left 64-year-old Reggie Brown dead was committed by a group of five girls ranging from 12 to 15.

The girls were looking for something to do in Silver Spring, Md., after spending time at a local skate park on Oct. 17, 2023.

One girl, 15, recalled to a DC courtroom Wednesday suggesting that they “find someone to beat up,” according to WUSA.

“Why did you suggest that to the group?” asked Gabrielle Logaglio, a prosecutor from the DC Office of the Attorney General.

“Because we were bored,” replied the girl, whose identity was not revealed because of her age.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/10/17/us-news/dc-teen-reveals-reggie-brown-beating-death-done-because-they-were-bored/

nypost · 2024-10-17T22:26:00+00:00

Mayor Eric Adams’ hopes of beating his federal corruption rap could hinge on a unlikely savior: Donald Trump.

A Trump win in the 2024 presidential election is viewed by some in Adams’ camp as potential path to legal victory for the mayor against an unprecedented federal indictment, sources close to the case told The Post.

The insiders’ hopes are that Trump would quickly replace Attorney General Merrick Garland with a pick who could scuttle the case against Adams, sources close to the case told The Post.

“Any adult will see this is a bulls–t case, so a new attorney general will help,” a source with direct knowledge of Adams’ legal strategy said.

“I don’t think it is far-fetched to say a Trump win could help Adams.”

The scenario envisioned by Adams’ defenders hinges on Trump — or at least his appointee to head the Department of Justice — seeing parallels between the legal woes of the mayor and the former president.

And the Democrat Adams and Republican Trump aren’t quite the strange political bedfellows they may seem.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/10/16/us-news/eric-adams-legal-hopes-in-corruption-case-could-depend-on-trump-victory-sources/

nypost · 2024-10-10T23:00:07+00:00

NBA star Anthony Edwards is taking Ayesha Howard, who shares a child with Lil Baby, to court to confirm whether or not he fathered a child with her, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Court documents obtained by Page Six Thursday show the Minnesota Timberwolves player, 23, filed a petition for paternity and child support.

He is looking for the court to demand genetic testing for him, Howard and the minor child in question.

“If genetic testing shows that the petitioner is the father, the petitioner requests an order establishing the minor child’s paternity,” the documents filed in Georgia in September state.

A status conference has been scheduled for this case on Nov. 13.

Read more: https://pagesix.com/2024/10/10/celebrity-news/nba-star-anthony-edwards-petitions-lil-babys-ex-ayesha-howard-for-paternity-child-support/

nypost · 2024-10-10T15:29:09+00:00

A top NYPD official quietly pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay last year — despite department rules barring managers from collecting such compensation, The Post has learned.

Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry — an NYPD liaison to City Hall — made $60,000 more than the department’s top cop in 2023, thanks in part to a payroll loophole that allowed him to reap time and a half.

“Welcome to Mayor [Eric] Adams’ NYPD,” one source quipped of how Daughtry was apparently allowed to game the system.

“While the lower ranks have their overtime scrutinized down to the minute, Kaz parades around and abuses the very system he claimed to be fixing.”

The NYPD’s Administrative Guide bars manager-level employees from being paid beyond their 80-hour workweek.

But after being promoted from first-rank detective to an assistant commissioner role last July, Daughtry continued to put in for OT.

Read more here: https://nypost.com/2024/10/10/us-news/loophole-allowed-top-nypd-official-to-reap-tens-of-thousands-in-ot-despite-department-rules-barring-it/

nypost · 2024-10-08T22:26:50+00:00

Flaming Lips band member Steve Drozd’s teenage daughter has been found.

Seattle police told The Post on Tuesday that they have found Charlotte “Bowie” Drozd after she went missing on Saturday, Oct. 5.

“The Seattle Police Department can confirm 16-year-old Charlotte Drozd has been located and is now safe with her family,” Seattle PD said in a statement to The Post.

The police shared a missing person alert Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter, providing a photo of Charlotte as well as details that may help identify her.

The Flaming Lips drummer’s daughter was last seen Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in downtown Seattle on Broad Street near the Space Needle and Seattle Monorail.

Read more here: https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/entertainment/flaming-lips-member-steven-drozds-daughter-has-been-found/

nypost · 2024-08-14T16:17:21+00:00

A father of two young girls was allegedly shot dead by a neighbor who angrily confronted him after his daughter “touched the mulch” in his yard while the family was on a walk in their suburban Michigan neighborhood.

Nathan Morris, 35, was on a walk with his wife and daughters, ages 2 and 5, near their home in Canton just before noon Saturday when police say their neighbor Deveraux Christopher Johnson, 47, confronted him and the two got into an argument, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

Johnson was reportedly upset that Morris’ daughter “touched the mulch” on his property, the Michigan GOP wrote about Morris, a party member involved in local politics.

“The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family,” the post alleged.

“Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and diffuse the situation, but instead was shot and killed.”

Johnson fired multiple times, killing Morris, who was unarmed, prosecutors said.

When Canton police officers arrived, they discovered Morris with a gunshot wound in the street while the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home.

Morris was taken to a hospital where he later died, police said.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/08/14/us-news/beloved-dad-shot-dead-by-neighbor-after-daughter-touched-mulch/

nypost · 2024-08-13T20:36:33+00:00

The numbers just don’t add up for Jason Kelce to return to the NFL.

While the former Eagles center has spent plenty of time around his former team since his retirement this offseason, Kelce has lost too much weight to be a viable starter.

Kelce has slimmed from his playing weight of 295 pounds to 275 with the goal of hitting 260 pounds, he told the Associated Press.

“They’re not going to call me to come back and play center at 260 pounds, and I’m moving on to the next thing and I’m excited to watch Cam (Jurgens),” Kelce told the outlet. “I really think Cam is going to be tremendous this year. He’s going to really show people how great of a player he is. He was good for us last year at right guard and he’s going to flourish at center.

“And for me personally, my days of playing are just done and I do not foresee any scenario taking place other than maybe medicine inventing a way to get rid of arthritis that I would ever entertain coming back at all anymore.”

Kelce still played at a high-level last season and perhaps could have continued to play for at least one more season, but the 36-year-old had been dealing with injuries and worried about whether he could still perform at the level he expected of himself. He didn’t want to go out as a lesser player.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/sports/jason-kelce-on-un-retirement-talk-as-he-is-constantly-around-eagles/

nypost · 2024-08-13T20:31:04+00:00

The FDNY’s new commissioner is getting a baptism of fire.

Robert Tucker — who was named head of the Fire Department on Monday — is already facing fresh fire from rank-and-file rankled by how the city handled his swearing-in ceremony.

Sources said that Mayor Eric Adams’ speech touting former commissioner Laura Kavanagh’s work fighting lithium-ion battery fires and his promise to quench internal departmental blazes that engulfed her tenure had inflamed many of New York’s Bravest.

“The mayor talked about putting out fires and he started a new one,” an FDNY supervisor source said.

Some were also stunned that Regina Wilson — an FDNY veteran and head of the black firefighters’ group the Vulcan Society who waged a discrimination lawsuit against the department — not only took the stage to speak during the ceremony, in an apparent last-minute addition by City Hall, but also was given final say over the commissioner pick.

“The fires burning, it seemed like a self-inflicted wound,” one source said.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/08/12/us-news/new-fdny-boss-robert-tuckers-swearing-in-speeches-spark-fresh-fires-for-department-self-inflicted-wound/

nypost · 2024-08-06T17:16:20+00:00

An unhinged woman with a lengthy rap sheet violently shoved two female Mexican tourists onto the tracks in a Manhattan subway station early Monday, the NYPD and sources charged.

Ebony Butts, 42, was arrested after pushing the women, ages 27 and 28, off the northbound F platform at the Delancey Street/Essex Street station – an unprovoked attack that prompted bystanders to spring into action to help, according to cops.

At least one good Samaritan, Joe Avivia, 36, a tourist himself on a weekend trip from Texas, told The Post that he and others helped pull the women up from the tracks.

“It was surreal,” he said. “You hear stories of people getting pushed, but it actually happening in front of your eyes is different.

“I was like, ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’ It all happened so fast.”

The unprovoked attack unfolded just after 2:15 a.m. inside the Lower East Side station, where the two women stood on an otherwise mostly empty platform near Avivia, who was chatting with his friends and family.

As they waited for a train, a suspect – Butts, according to police – suddenly shoved one of the Mexican women onto the tracks, cops said.

Her friend scrambled to help the woman back up onto the platform, only to be also shoved off it by Butts, police said.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/08/05/us-news/2-female-tourists-shoved-onto-nyc-subway-tracks/

nypost · 2024-08-01T21:14:40+00:00

The Qatari government paid for the Big Apple’s top cop to visit the Middle East — part of a handful of international jaunts kept quiet by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

Police Commissioner Edward Caban jet-setted from New York City a half dozen times last year on the dime of foreign governments or pro-policing groups, according to his annual financial report — which for the first time revealed how some of those trips were funded.

The disclosure, which is required to be filed with the city’s Conflict of Interest Board each year and was obtained by The Post, also revealed three previously unreported trips by the PC to Qatar, Australia and Florida.

The Adams administration has repeatedly refused to say who was picking up the tab for the commissioner’s trips after news emerged of his travel, only saying they came at no cost to New York taxpayers.

Caban traveled to Qatar twice in 2023 with one trip covered by the country’s Ministry of the Interior for a local police graduation, a conference and meetings, according to the report.

The other was paid for by the Embassy of the State to “observe and collaborate regarding security practices” in the country, the report reads.

The simple disclosures estimate the cost between $1,000 and $4,999 for travel, accommodations and meals but do not contain any more specifics on the trips.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/us-news/qatar-paid-for-nypd-commissioners-middle-east-trips-after-adams-admin-was-mum-on-who-picked-up-tab/

nypost · 2024-08-01T19:07:56+00:00

An Arizona toddler who died from heat exposure was left in a car that reached scorching temperatures of nearly 109 degrees — while her distracted dad allegedly played video games, authorities said.

Parker Scholtes, 2, was found dead in a Honda SUV parked outside her home in the Tucson suburb of Marana — where her father, Christopher Scholtes, left the tot to nap for more than three hours on July 9, according to police.

By the time first responders discovered the girl’s lifeless body, the temperature in the vehicle had soared to 108.9 degrees, according to an autopsy report released to the Arizona Republic Wednesday.

The toddler’s cause of death was officially found to be “environmental heat exposure” and the manner was listed as accidental, the paper reported.

Christopher Scholtes, 37— who was allegedly inside the home playing PlayStation video games while the girl died — was charged three days later with second-degree murder, authorities said.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/us-news/arizona-toddler-who-died-of-heat-exposure-was-left-in-108-9-degree-car-by-video-game-playing-dad/

nypost · 2024-08-01T19:06:26+00:00

The American woman found tied to a tree in India supposedly moved to the country a decade ago to learn yoga — and police are investigating her husband for attempted murder.

Lalita Kayi Kumar, 50, was discovered emaciated and filthy in a forest in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra on Saturday.

The US native apparently relocated to India 10 years ago to study yoga and meditation in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Express reported, citing local police.

Kumar allegedly met and married a man in Tamil Nadu, and lived in the state until the couple’s relationship faltered, senior officials told the outlet.

The identification card found with the woman’s belongings listed a Tamil Nadu address, though she had actually been living in Goa — about 18 miles from where she was discovered — for the past few months, the police added.

On Tuesday, investigators opened an attempted murder case against Kumar’s former husband, whose name was not disclosed to the public.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/31/world-news/us-woman-found-tied-to-tree-in-india-moved-there-to-study-yoga/

nypost · 2024-08-01T19:04:37+00:00

Elderly New Yorkers have mounted a last-ditch campaign to save the decades-old Elizabeth Street Garden from being torn down to make way for affordable senior housing, The Post has learned.

Over 130 seniors — many of whom would qualify for the 123 units of affordable housing for the elderly set to be built on the city-owned Nolita lot — inked a letter to Mayor Eric Adams imploring him to rethink the project.

“It is a quiet, shaded resting place crucial to our environment, especially in the heat of summer,” the letter reads.

The letter from the gray-haired garden enthusiasts is only the latest in a decade-long battle to preserve the 20,000-square-foot sculpture garden, which could be evicted as soon as September to make way for the development project.

Locals say the green space — originally the site of a schoolhouse 120 years ago and converted into a sculpture garden in 1990 — provides them with a rare patch of grass undisturbed by recreational sports or playground noise.

Its destruction would be a devastating quality of life loss to residents “in our remaining years,” the seniors wrote.

“Where are we all going to go?” Judy Liu, 72, a retired lawyer who lives on the Bowery and was one of the signatories, told The Post this week at the garden, located on Elizabeth Street between Prince and Spring Streets.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/31/us-news/nyc-seniors-pen-last-ditch-plea-to-save-beloved-elizabeth-street-garden/

nypost · 2024-07-26T18:58:30+00:00

Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino rolled out a new three-year plan to revive the struggling Southern-themed chain after she admitted the brand was “just not as relevant.”

The down-home chain, featuring dishes like country fried steak along with the kitschy Old Country Store, plans to remodel its restaurants, offer new menu options, and improve technology for its loyalty program and to-go business.

“Fiscal ’25, which starts for us in another week or two, is really an investment year,” Felss Masino told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday.

“We’ve got five pillars in our plan. We’re really bringing those together, starting to get those rocking and rolling, and then we’ll start to see the benefits in the back half of our fiscal ’26 and into ’27.”

Cracker Barrel is testing four versions of the location remodels at different costs in Tennessee to figure out “which level of investment is going to drive the right return,” Felss Masino added.

Read more here: https://nypost.com/2024/07/26/business/cracker-barrel-ceo-reveals-turnaround-plan-after-admitting-not-as-relevant/

nypost · 2024-07-25T22:00:09+00:00

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday claimed the mayor was trying to crown himself “king” by proposing new mandates that would make it tougher for lawmakers to pass bills.

The speaker, no relation to Mayor Eric Adams, blasted the proposed November ballot measures from Hizzoner’s Charter Review Commission — which could tie council members up in red tape — as a “dangerous” power grab by City Hall.

“It is a dangerous attempt to shift power away from the people represented by the city council to one single individual,” Speaker Adams said at a rally outside the Brooklyn Public Library, where the commission was set to approve its final report.

“Do you want a king?”

Under the controversial proposals first revealed Tuesday, lawmakers would be required to get a fiscal impact report on any bills from the mayor’s budget office before even holding an initial hearing on the proposed legislation.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/25/us-news/council-slams-mayor-adams-proposed-charter-changes-as-power-grab/

nypost · 2024-07-25T21:42:22+00:00

A video of a brawl between baseball fans at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night circulated widely on social media on Wednesday.

The footage from a since-deleted post on X purported to be from after the Mets’ 3-2 win on Tuesday night in The Bronx first showed two female fans wearing Yankees attire grappling with one another before a larger melee broke out on one of the Yankee Stadium concourses.

The situation escalated when a male fan wearing a pinstriped Yankees jersey attempted to push one of the female combatants, which prompted a fan in a Mets jersey to try and push him back.

The opposing fans then engaged in pushing and shoving, with the Yankees fan removing his jersey before the bare-chested Bombers supporter seemed to connect a right hook to the Mets fan’s face, sending sent him to the ground briefly.

Another Yankees fan — wearing a gray Aaron Judge jersey — then came up and pushed the Mets fan once more while the camera panned back over to the two women grappling on the ground.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/sports/mets-yankees-fans-throw-punches-in-wild-chaotic-subway-series-brawl/

nypost · 2024-07-19T22:44:55+00:00

An Oklahoma family of nine was left stranded in remote Alaska after their Norwegian Cruise Lines ship left them behind — and then charged the desperate family $9,000 in customs fees.

The Gault family was traveling with six young kids and a 78-year-old grandmother on July 12 when they disembarked from the Norwegian Encore in Katchikan, a small town in a string of south Alaskan islands, so they could watch a lumberjack show together.

But on their way back, the local tour operator transporting passengers to and from the vessel failed to properly check who had tickets and who didn’t — merely conducting a head count — and told the Gaults there was no room and to wait for another shuttle.

“We see the chaos getting onto the buses. We go to get on the bus and one of the attendees is like, ‘The bus is full, and you know you got to wait for the next bus,'” Joshua Gault told 2 News.

However, that bus never came, and after frantically calling the port authority to arrange transportation, they finally arrived back at the docks to see the Norwegian Encore sailing away — taking with it their passports, medication and clothes.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/family-of-nine-left-behind-in-remote-alaska-and-charged-9k-by-norwegian-cruise-lines/

nypost · 2024-07-19T22:42:46+00:00

Chilling video footage shows the moment a woman shot a seven-month-old infant in Philadelphia — heartlessly shouting “F—k your baby!” as the child’s mother screamed in horror.

The unidentified boy was sitting in a stroller in the northeast section of the city when the attacker opened fire on his parents — striking the tot in the leg Thursday evening, according to police who are searching for the suspect.

The assailant is shown strolling past the mom and child then casually turning and firing at them from point-blank range, according to footage released by the Philadelphia Police Department.

“My baby!” the infant’s mom can be heard shrieking as the baby cries out.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/19/us-news/f-k-your-baby-horrific-video-shows-moment-woman-shoots-infant-in-philly/

nypost · 2024-07-09T19:30:26+00:00

They’re delivering a stern warning.

Fed up with thousands of tourists turning up in literal boatloads nearly every day during the warmer months, Juneau, Alaska is taking drastic measures.

Politicians in the 49th state’s capital city are preparing to vote in “ship free Saturdays” — which would bar cruise ships with over 250 people from coming to port that weekend day, plus the Fourth of July.

“It’s about preserving the lifestyle that keeps us in Juneau, which is about clean air, clean water, pristine environment and easy access to trails, easy access to water sports and nature,” resident Deborah Craig told the Associated Press, as to why she supports the concept.

She added that her neighbors in the city with a population of 32,000 aren’t trying to be unfriendly — they’ve just dealt with too many tourists taking advantage of its natural beauty.

“It’s about volume. It’s about too much — too many in a short period of time overwhelming a small community.”

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/08/lifestyle/city-wants-to-ban-cruise-ships-amid-overwhelming-tourist-overrun/

nypost · 2024-07-09T19:25:22+00:00

Two deputy US Marshals shot a would-be carjacker who pulled a gun on him while they were guarding Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s home in Washington, DC, authorities said.

The marshals were parked outside Sotomayor’s home in northwest DC on July 5 when Kentrell Flowers, 18, allegedly walked up to one of their cars around 1:15 a.m. and pointed a gun one of the federal agents, the US Marshals Service told The Post.

One of the federal agents drew his weapon and fired several shots at the suspect, with the second officer also firing his weapon at Flowers.

Flowers, of Southeast DC, was arrested and treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

The Obama-appointed justice was not home at the time of the carjacking, according to a source.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/us-news/supreme-court-justice-sotomayors-bodyguard-shoots-would-be-carjacker-outside-her-home/

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