‘How can people play around with the Fire Dept. and the police like this?’
Mamadou Sy and his wife, Assetou, have papers documenting more than 150 prank calls.
In the midst of celebrating a recent Islamic holiday, an upper Manhattan couple heard a familiar knock at the door.
It was the police — again.
For nearly two years, Mamadou and Assetou Sy have been the targets of an orchestrated campaign of more than 150 false emergency calls to their door at the Dyckman Houses in Inwood.
All of the calls — some came in the middle of the night — were bogus. Fake
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Simi Valley police arrested a man at his home Friday night for having sex with a minor.
The man, Leonard Domka, 42, of Simi Valley was arrested for sodomy and oral copulation with a minor after allegedly meeting a male juvenile on the Internet and knowing the victim was a minor, according to the Simi Valley Police Department.
Police investigated the case after a male juvenile reported to the department Jan. 18 that he engaged in sodomy and oral copulation with a man he met on a website, said Lt. Joesph May.
Detectives and Special Enforcement officers learned through their investigation that Domka knew the victim was a minor, police said. Officers arrested Domka around 10 p.m.
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Fish poaching is serious — and illegal — business. Police in Maryland are now armed with new poaching laws and high-tech equipment to battle the problem.
This is good news for fisherman. Last year the state had to shut down the fishing season early. Poachers had taken 13 tons of striped bass.
Fishermen who were legitimately trying to make a living were out of luck. Biologists were called in to analyze the potential damage to the area.
The daily quota for legal fishing is 1,200 pounds of the fish. Poachers often go above this amount.
Police now have access to better technology and equipment to fight poaching. They now have a side-scan sonar to find underwater nets.
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For more than 30 years, Modesto toiled in the central San Joaquin Valley fields, saving every spare penny to bring his family north from Mexico. Last year, he wrote a $30,000 check to an immigration consultant in Fresno County.
The day had finally arrived when Modesto — a legal U.S. resident since 1980 — could afford to bring his wife and five children to live with him in the U.S.
Or so he thought.
The immigration consultant filed sloppy and incomplete paperwork, took the money and ran. Modesto’s family didn’t get the visas, and he lost his life’s savings.
It’s stories like Modesto’s that inspired professors and students at the San Joaquin College of Law to open a free law clinic at the Consulate of Mexico to help legal immigrants in the Valley.
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FLORENCE, SC — Mitt Romney said yesterday he will release his tax returns, while acknowledging he pays a rate of 15 percent of his income to Uncle Sam, lower than many Americans with only a fraction of his wealth.
Romney, who is worth about $250 million, leads in the polls, but is facing mounting pressure by Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry to cough up his returns.
“What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,” Romney told reporters.
“My income comes overwhelmingly from some investments made in the past, whether ordinary income or earned annually,” Romney continued. He said he also
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