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A 33-year-old man, father of two, was killed with a bullet to the face in the East Village recently, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The victim was killed in broad daylight on Avenue D between E. 3rd and E. 4th St. around 12:30 p.m, by an unknown assailant or by multiple assailants. The exact details of the shooting are unknown for the time being. He died shortly after being admitted to Bellevue Hospital. “He was a caring father,” his sister told a New York Criminal Lawyer. “My brother’s dead. This has to stop.”

Witnesses told a New York Criminal Lawyer they saw four men fleeing the scene. It remains unclear why the victim was targeted. Police have revealed the victim had prior arrests for assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The search for the killer or killers is ongoing and there are no real known leads, as of yet. Investigators are looking into every aspect of the case and hope to have more information soon.

A former NYPD cop has pleaded guilty to armed robbery of a northern New Jersey perfume warehouse, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The officer is the third current or former member of the police force who admits to stealing from the Carlstadt warehouse, near Giants Stadium, in February. New York Criminal Lawyers have learned that the other two officers have also pleaded guilty, also accepting the charge of armed robbery.

As of now, there is no further information as to the fate of the former police officers. Sentencing has not come down. New York Criminal Lawyers re looking into the case to find more details as they are brought to light.

A woman was attacked by a pair of thugs in Carroll Gardens, polices sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The two assailants, aged 20 and 26 years, were at Smith and Ninth streets when the 20-year-old suspect tossed some sort of liquid on a woman walking to the elevated station, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The victim, a 43-year-old woman, confronted her 20-year-old assailant, who then punched the victim in the mouth as the 26-year-old choked her, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A straphanger was instrumental in catching a thief who was trying to get away with his cash and jewelry, authorities said to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The suspect was unable to flee the scene until the police arrived, thanks to the actions of his would-be victim.

Sources tell New York Criminal Lawyers that the victim was asleep aboard a southbound Number 1 train close to South Ferry at 4:15 a.m., early on a Sunday morning, when the suspect approached and cut open the victim’s left front pocket.

The suspect managed to steal a watch and some cash as the train pulled into the station, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer, but the activities of the thief woke the victim, who then grabbed the thief and held him for the cops.

A teenager armed with a gun showed some remorse when he turned himself in to police for shooting two boys in Brownsville, police informed a New York Criminal Lawyer. It is currently unknown why he was brandishing the gun or why shots were fired at all. Further details have yet to be revealed.

The 18-year-old gunman allegedly informed a New York Criminal Lawyer that he was not aiming at his victims when he shot two young boys, aged 12 and 10 years of age, on Legion Street near Sutter Avenue one Monday at 8:15 p.m.

Despite his protests that the shooting was accidental, the 18-year-old suspect was charged with attempted murder, assault, and weapons possession, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The state’s highest court has refused to hear the appeal of a man convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Selden teenager. The incident occurred outside the convicted man’s home at Miller Place.

The 56-year-old man seems to have no other recourse for appeals and will soon be back in court for sentencing, a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County district attorney’s office told a New York Criminal Lawyer. At that point, the judge could send the man to prison for 2 to 4 years for the death of a seventeen-year-old boy in 2006.

The now convicted man has been free on $200,000 bail during the appeals process. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, an associate judge of the state Court of Appeals denied the defendant’s request to have his case reviewed by the court. The judge wrote, “There is no question of law presented which ought to be reviewed by the Court of Appeals.” The defendant’s attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer he was “evaluating our additional options.”

A Manhattan party girl who first showed a love for red when patronizing a Financial District hair salon soon proved that color had a deeper significance than her hair color. New York Criminal Lawyers have determined she lead a double life.

“I want red!” was Anna Chapman’s demand to her hair stylist, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Hairdressers at the salon say that when Chapman first came to the salon, she was a brunette.

“The first time she came in, it was just for a blow-dry. She came in with brown hair and I said ‘I’ll fix your color,’” the stylist related to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “And she said ‘Yes, I want red!’”

A man from New Dorp and a friend of his robbed his own father’s safe. They were caught mere hours later by the police. The stolen cash was found in the New Dorp man’s shoe, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The two alleged thieves, 19 and 21 years of age, took the safe from the 19-year-old’s home on Hylan Boulevard near Bancroft Avenue at 2:30, one Monday afternoon, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The alleged robbers allegedly stole $6,300 in cash, along with some jewelry, passports, and credit cards. Police were able to catch the suspects six hours later at the home of the 21-year-old alleged thief and found the cash stuff into the shoe of the 19-year-old suspect, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The suspects were taken away by the police and charged with grand larceny a spokeswoman for a district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Further details on the crime, the victim, or the alleged thieves are not available at this time, and it is not certain if more will be made available in the future.

A silver-tongued grafter who claimed to be royalty had to suffer jail like any common citizen after being charged in a $7 million Ponzi scheme. The Manhattan financier had fled to North Carolina when he learned he was under investigation, prosecutors told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Dressed like a commoner in Nike running shorts and a T-shirt, he was brought back to Manhattan to face charges of grand larceny, forgery, and securities fraud. The financier pleaded “not guilty” and was held without bail.

“His scheme involved all manner of deceit. He lied about who he was, how he was managing his clients’ finances. And he even forged back documents to back up his bogus story,” a district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The financier told his victims his companies ran investments for the royal family of Belgium, which could trace its ancestry back to the 14th century.

“He has a drop of blue blood, a very, very distant drop. But he told some people his father, the prince, had abdicated the throne, and tha this firm managed the finances of the [royal family’s] holdings,” a source informed a New York Criminal Lawyer. “He even put the family crest on his business card.”

A Midtown panhandler was arrested for assaulting a pedestrian who refused to give her money when asked, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 40-year-old woman attacked the passer-by at Eighth Avenue and 30th Street at 7:30 a.m. on May 28, after her demand for cash from the pedestrian was turned down, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. It is currently unknown whether the suspect has been responsible for any prior criminal activity or the exactly motivation for such drastic action.

The man continued to pass, so the panhandler attempted to strike him with a piece of wood, according to sources. The panhandler was soon apprehended by police and was charged with assault and weapon possession, a spokesman for a district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer.