Beloved Port Authority police dog dies after cancer battle
A PAPD canine has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Phoenix, who served the Port Authority Police Department since 2007, died Tuesday. The German Shepherd was partnered with...
View ArticleWoman gives birth in backseat of NYC cab
A woman gave birth to a baby boy in the backseat of a yellow cab in TriBeca Thursday night, PAPD sources said. Police Officer Pasquale Carpentiere was on routine traffic...
View ArticleFireworks bust so big they called in the bomb squad
This Staten Islander is hellbent on having a bootleg, backyard fireworks show. Robert Schmidt, 48, was busted in New Jersey for illegally possessing 39 boxes of illegal fireworks — his...
View ArticleWoman nabbed after ‘mistakenly’ swiping gadgets at airport
A sticky-fingered woman who swiped an iPad and iPhone before boarding a plane from Miami to New York City on Monday couldn’t escape the long arm of the law, sources...
View ArticleMan killed changing tire near JFK airport
A man was killed changing his tire on the shoulder of the Van Wyck Expressway in an accident that snarled traffic around JFK Airport for hours early Sunday, officials said....
View ArticleMan busted for DWI after passing out in airport parking lot
He picked a helluva place to sleep it off. A pie-eyed man driving around Kennedy Airport at twice the legal blood-alcohol limit was busted after picking the worst possible parking...
View ArticleTwo cops team-up in lawsuit vs. Port Authority Police Department
If only there were this much unity in the Middle East. Two Port Authority cops — one Jewish, the other an Iraqi — have filed a joint Manhattan federal court...
View ArticleMan charged in ‘91 Crown Heights riots hit with DWI near airport
Lemrick Nelson Jr., infamous for allegedly stabbing a Jewish man to death amid the 1991 Crown Heights riots, was busted for drunken driving after being found passed out with an...
View Article‘I want to kill cops’: Man who ‘tried to run over’ officers
A man yelling “I want to kill cops” tried to run down two Port Authority Police officers with his car near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel Wednesday night in...
View ArticleManiac who ‘wanted to kill cops’ was high on PCP: complaint
A doped-up career criminal who tried to run over two Port Authority Police officers with his silver Audi last week spat on the cops when they arrested him, according to...
View ArticleCops doing Papal security sweep bust mugging suspect
Port Authority and NYPD cops doing a security check on Friday for the upcoming papal visit to the World Trade Center busted a mugging suspect attempting to swipe a cellphone from a Wisconsin tourist....
View Article‘Kiss my ass’: Rogue cop who lurked by pope during visit
A police union boss wormed his way into standing next to Pope Francis — then refused orders to step away, disciplinary papers reveal. Pushy Port Authority PBA President Paul Nunziato slipped into a...
View ArticleMan jumps off NYC bridge
A man jumped off the George Washington Bridge on Thursday, Port Authority police said. Witnesses told police they saw a man stop his Toyota Prius in the New Jersey-bound lanes around 10:20 a.m. He then...
View ArticleMasked robbers steal $120K, tie up workers at Newark Airport
Two masked robbers, including one with a gun, tied up two workers in a luggage-cart-rental service’s offices at Newark Airport and stole about $120,000, sources said. The thieves walked into the...
View ArticlePort Authority cops bust fugitive during routine traffic stop
Port Authority cops busted a fugitive wanted for kidnapping in Alabama during a routine traffic stop Wednesday night near Newark Airport. Port Authority Officer Michael Becker spotted a 2011 Toyota...
View ArticleTeen crashes SUV she stole from her mom
Four teenage girls were taken into custody Monday afternoon for fleeing Manhattan in a stolen SUV through the Holland Tunnel before crashing in Jersey City, NJ, police sources said. A PAPD cop tried to...
View ArticleTeen jumps to his death off George Washington Bridge
A Brooklyn teen plunged to his death early Wednesday from the George Washington Bridge, despite a dramatic last-ditch effort by a Port Authority cop to save his life. Sources said that the suicidal...
View ArticleDad wanted for murder leaves daughter at bus terminal
A 5-year-old girl was abandoned at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday by her father — who is wanted for murder, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The little girl was sitting alone at Gate...
View ArticleAbandoned girl leads cops to dead mom in possible ‘love triangle gone bad’
A 5-year-old girl was abandoned by her dad at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday morning — and when cops went to talk to her mother at home, they found the woman dead, law enforcement sources...
View ArticleCops arrest ‘wife killer’ who left his daughter at bus terminal
Authorities have arrested the Connecticut father accused of murdering his wife, and then boarding a bus to Manhattan and abandoning his 5-year-old daughter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal,...
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