Colleen Long

May 24, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A law enforcement official said Thursday that a man has told police that he suffocated Etan Patz, the 6-year-old New York City boy whose disappearance on his way to school in 1979 helped give rise to the missing-children's movement that put youngsters' faces on milk cartons.

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays

4 minute read

August 16, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Police officers around the country have been able to protect themselves against citizen complaints by wearing tiny body cameras, but a federal judge's plan to force some New York City officers to start wearing the devices has angered the mayor and police unions.

By Colleen Long

5 minute read

January 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer.A jury acquitted Lillo Brancato Jr. of second-degree murder in the death of the police officer, but convicted him of attempted burglary.

By COLLEEN LONG

4 minute read

June 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A nightclub bouncer was convicted Wednesday in the brutal murder of a graduate student, a killing that stirred memories of New York City's notorious "preppie killer" case and spurred a crackdown on nightlife security.Wearing dark glasses, Darryl Littlejohn looked straight ahead as the first-degree murder verdict was read after about six hours of jury deliberations.

By COLLEEN LONG

4 minute read

November 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - On the afternoon of Oct. 15, a body piercer named Michael Mineo was approached by a group of police officers who thought he was smoking marijuana. Mineo fled into a subway station, argued with the officers, and was issued a ticket for disorderly conduct.But what really happened inside that subway station is highly contested, and has led to one of the most explosive allegations of police brutality by the NYPD in recent memory.

By COLLEEN LONG

5 minute read

July 13, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz

7 minute read

January 22, 2013 | Daily Report Online

An esteemed religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who came to him with questions about her faith.

By Colleen Long

5 minute read

March 03, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

The daughter of Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards has been arrested on minor drug charges after she was seen by patrol officers painting graffiti on the side of a Manhattan building.

By Colleen Long

2 minute read

October 08, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he drove his car while high on marijuana, and an officer testified that Simms told him at a checkpoint that he had been smoking.

By Colleen Long

3 minute read

August 24, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Colleen LongThe Associated Press

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