GT 2022 was a tumultuous year for three stars who were coaches on The Voice, particularly when it came to legal issues. Shakira, who was a coach in seasons four and six, faces up to eight years in prison. Kelly Clarkson, who coached seasons 14-21, has been on and off court since she filed for divorce from her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock in 2020. Ricky Martin, who was a coach on The Voice Australia and La Voz (The Voice, Mexico), was facing up to 50 years in prison. Shakira: tax fraud…
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NYPD arrests suspect in multiple burglaries
Authorities said the police cut short a circle of Bronx thieves who tended to stop fast food restaurants. Police said Saturday that the suspect, Sensiri Green, 19, of the Tremont Department, is charged with five counts of theft following his arrest. A department spokeswoman said the rock-eyed officers from the NYPD Command Squad – who identified the suspect from a “wanted handout,” arrested the teen on Thursday. Between February 17 and February 20, between approximately 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., Green allegedly held Bronx Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Subway, Dunkin’ Donuts…
Read MoreSmall dogs provide great protection on the dangerous streets of New York City
Animal trainers told The Post that crime-weary New Yorkers are tutoring their petite-sized dogs to provide protection the size of large dogs. Debra Bash, a Bronx-based author, Hollywood consultant and celebrity pet trainer, said the dog “represents an amazing psychological deterrent to criminals — no matter their size.” He noted that about a third of his clients these days are seeking help in transforming a miniature city into criminal fighters, a “remarkable increase” over recent years. One Turtle Bay dog mum said she “feels completely safe” on the dangerous streets…
Read MoreA New York City woman allegedly beat up an elderly roommate and slapped the cop
A woman beat her 81-year-old roommate in their Greenwich Village apartment, then slapped a policeman while he was in custody, according to police and law enforcement sources. Alyssa Begay, 23, was returning to her building on East Ninth Street near the university at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday when a woman identified by police sources as a roommate was trying to leave, police said. The sources said that the two got into an argument. The cops said that during the fight, Bigai the Elder punched him in the right side of…
Read MoreCorporal Christopher Cassidy arrested for child pornography and animal sexual abuse
A Louisiana sheriff was arrested Thursday on child pornography and animal sexual abuse charges. Christopher Cassidy, who was a corporal in the Criminal Patrol Division of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, has been booked and charged with 28 counts of possession of child pornography under the age of 13. He also faces 110 counts of animal sexual abuse, the nature of which was not immediately announced by those responsible. “I hold all of our employees to the highest standard,” Sheriff Randy Smith said. “When a government employee betrays the…
Read MoreMan attacked with a metal tube on a New York City train
Police said one of the attackers hit a Manhattan policeman with a metal pipe because he told him not to shoot on a rush-hour train. Police said the 31-year-old victim was on the northbound J train around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday when he saw a man pull out a syringe. Authorities said that when the victim asked the man not to do so on the plane, the suspect hit him on the head with a metal pipe. Police said the suspect got off the train at the Delancey/Essex Street station in…
Read MoreLetters to the Editor – February 24, 2022
The problem: Mayor Adams’ plan to make the Underground trains safer by increasing social service and a police presence. There is no doubt that the issue of homelessness is an issue that needs to be resolved (“Subway Homeless Assistance Teams to a Slow Start,” February 23). Simply ignoring the problem, as Mayor Adams’ predecessor did, is not a solution. Locking up people doesn’t solve the problem either. These people were once productive members of society and, for whatever reason, descended into a life of drug addiction and mental illness. Adams’s…
Read MoreNew Jersey man sexually touched shopper in supermarket
Creeper alert, third lane! Police said Wednesday that a New Jersey man was arrested for rubbing the back of a woman in a supermarket. Nassif, 59, is charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual intercourse after a fellow shopper said he followed her around a Lidl supermarket on US Route 9 south in Howell on February 12. An investigation revealed that Nassif – who was wearing a black mask, gloves and a blue baseball cap at the time – pretended to look at the products on the shelf near the woman as…
Read MoreCan the James Tubbs case finally end the farce of ‘progressive’ justice?
A child molestation scandal that was handed a soft prison sentence by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon may be the beginning of the end for America’s disastrous experiment with “progressive” justice. At the age of 17, James Tubbs went to a public women’s bathroom, was pushed into a booth and forced one hand to lower the pants of a 10-year-old girl in a violent sexual assault that was stopped by another person who only entered the bathroom. When Tubbs was identified as the attacker a few years later, after…
Read MoreTexas mom accused of hitting reference, kids at a basketball game
A Texas middle school basketball game turned into a brawl after the mother of a seventh grader punched and continued to attack other kids and referee, police said. Referee Greg Ivanovsky threw a player after she punched another girl during the match on Saturday, He told KDFW. After the match ended, the player returned to the court to continue the fight, according to police in Murphy. Things escalated when the slandered girl’s mother, identified as Dominic Graham, 37, punched the girl her daughter was fighting with in the face. I…
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