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Fake QR codes on Manhattan parking meters lead to identity theft charges (opens the original)
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A 39-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to using QR code stickers to get credit card information from people trying to park in Manhattan, according to prosecutors and court records. Mihai Theodor Enescu was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on five counts of second-degree identity theft and six counts of second-degree criminal impersonation, court records show. Prosecutors allege he was behind the phony city payment website linked from the QR code stickers, which asked users for credit
Central Park birders, others remember 63-year-old woman killed in park (opens the original)
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People who said they knew a 63-year-old woman found dead in Central Park on Sunday remembered her as a familiar presence among the park’s birders and others who spent time there. Several said they knew her simply as Lee. Police found the woman unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to her head after responding to a 911 call around 9:43 a.m. near East Drive and East 74th Street, according to the NYPD. Emergency medical workers pronounced her dead at the scene. Police officials said she appeared
Man who died in city custody at Queens courthouse died by suicide, medical examiner says (opens the original)
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A man who died in a Queens courthouse last week died by suicide, the city's medical examiner said Thursday. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner ruled that Luis Alberto Lopez Castillo, 20, died by hanging. The Department of Correction declined to comment on the ruling citing a pending investigation. At the time of his death, the department said officers saw Lopez Castillo in medical distress at the Queens Criminal Court around 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16. Staff gave him CPR until first responders arri
Students sue Columbia over protest, saying guards locked them in library for hours (opens the original)
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Three Columbia University students filed a federal class-action lawsuit Friday over the school's response to a 2025 pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library, accusing campus security officers of locking roughly 80 students in a reading room for hours, beating some of them and then punishing them as a "direct product of a coordinated campaign of coercion by the Trump administration." The suit in Manhattan federal court names Columbia, former interim President Claire Shipman, the security firms A
Woman's death ruled a homicide after she's found in Manhattan's Highbridge Park (opens the original)
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The city’s medical examiner has ruled a homeless woman’s death a homicide after she was found dead on a hiking trail inside a Washington Heights park with a small puncture wound in her back, police said Friday. Police identified her as Doris Perez, 41. Officers responded to a 911 call about a person in need of medical attention near West 174th Street and Amsterdam Avenue around 9:20 a.m. Wednesday and found her unconscious and unresponsive inside Highbridge Park, according to the department. EMS
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