Rob Strong
At first glance, the premise of Julia Jarcho's American Treasure seems clever; the production evokes film noir and Hollywood western styles to unfold a gossamer-thin "story" about a "Real History Detective," a "vagabond with a harrowing past," a malevolent human' [...]
It's true—Benjamin Bratt is reprising his role as Law & Order Detective Rey Curtis and here are photos (close-up after the jump) of him on location. Last month, it was reported that Bratt, who played Rey Curtis for four seasons between 1995 and 1999, [...]
Photograph by fleshtone
Some details on that Midtown car accident that involved an advance car from Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade around 5:40 p.m. last night. According to the Daily News, "The squad car with two detectives scouting the route for" [...]
Detectives from the Brooklyn Special Victims Unit have connected the man in the sketch, who they were already seeking for sexual assaults in May and October, with a third sexual assault in June. ...
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After a recent drunken driving fatality involving an off-duty NYPD detective, the city detectives union is considering changing the schedule that some say contributes to alcohol abuse. Some 2,000 of the city's 5,500 detectives routinely work two night shifts, then two day shifts, then get [...]
A Bronx cop shot a teenager in the face after the adolescent reached for a BB gun on Holland Avenue yesterday afternoon. A plainclothes narcotics detective fired on 15-year-old Marcus Bonner at around 5 pm, hitting the aspiring rapper in the cheek [...]
Drane Nikac It comes as no surprise that the off-duty NYPD detective who fatally struck an elderly pedestrian early Friday morning in the Bronx has an alcohol problem. Detective Kevin (Spike) Spellman had a blood alcohol level of 0.21 percent—more than twice [...]
In late September, two black detectives and one Pakistani detective were going door-to-door in Gravesend, Brooklyn, canvassing residents to investigate a possible hate crime. They were dressed in suits, not uniforms, and not one of them is white, so naturally someone assumed they must [...]
Victim Drana Nikac The off-duty NYPD detective who fatally struck an elderly pedestrian early Friday morning in the Bronx had a blood alcohol level of 0.21 percent almost six hours after the accident. Despite delaying the test for hours by refusing to [...]
Wow: looks like that cop who hit 67-year-old Drane Nikac with his car and killed her last week, Detective Kevin Spellman, wasn't just drunk at the time -- he was rip-stinkin' drunk: Despite the fa...
Continue reading "Cop Who Ran Down Woman Tested at Twice Legal" [...]Prosecutors released a timeline of events following the arrest of detective Kevin C. Spellman after he allegedly struck and killed Drana Nikac with his Chevrolet Malibu in Kingsbridge Heights on F...
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The off-duty police detective who fatally struck a pedestrian in the Bronx yesterday morning was charged with vehicular homicide, criminally negligent homicide, and DWI. Detective Kevin Spellman had been driving a Chevrolet into the Bronx intersection of W. 232 Street and Kingsbridge [...]
An off-duty detective, Kevin Spellman, has been arrested after hitting an old woman with his car and killing her at West 232nd Street and Kingsbridge Avenue in The Bronx early this morning. If thi...
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