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A resident of the apartment where Comunale was last seen was taken into police custody Monday on an unrelated charge, but the New York Police Department would not identify the person or discuss his charge on Thursday morning.

Citing accounts from neighbors and anonymous police sources, the New York Times reported that the person in custody was James Rackover, the son of prominent jeweler Jeffrey Rackover.

NYPD officers were called to thebuilding after someone reported a suspicious-looking man dragging a large bag out of the building and placing it in a car, CBS News reported, citing unnamed

STAMFORD — A second city man has been charged for reporting a bogus robbery in 2014, police said.

Karlac told police the men stole his Fossil watch along with his wallet containing $270 in cash and a credit card.

Hodza has already pleaded guilty to making a false report and was given a suspended jail sentence in June 2015 with two years probation.

Police said Elmer Gomez Ruano, 32, is a person of interest in the mysterious death of his wife, a Guatemalan native whose identity has not been released. The young mother was killed inside a third-floor unit at the Courtland Glen Cooperative Apartments, police said. Conklin said the motive for the homicide appears to be domestic, and called the couple’s relationship “very, very combustible.”

By the end of January, Bartlett confessed to using a realistic looking BB gun to hold up a subway sandwich shop, a couple of convenience stores as well as a Chinese food delivery driver.

When Bartlett struck a convenience store on Hope Street just north of Camp Avenue and demanded Newports, police knew they had their guy and threw out the net.

Right after the convenience store robbery on upper Hope Street in late January, police kept an eye on Bartlett’s neighborhood.

STAMFORD-Two men extradited from Pennsylvania in connection with the theft of a elderly Stamford man’s life savings, made not guilty pleas to larceny charges Monday.

With a demonstration that miraculously turned two white slips of paper into genuine $100 bills with the help of some sort of chemical, the trio convinced the man to give them short term loans to purchase the chemical, making them all rich.

The three told him they had “tons” of the bills and needed money to buy the dye that would remove the coating in the scheme, which for over a decade law enforcement has dubbed the “bl

STAMFORD-A friend of a man struck by a hit-and-run driver early Saturday morning helped police stop the car by jumping onto the hood of the fleeing vehicle.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said at 1:52 a.m. police were called to Spring and Bedford streets for a man who had just been struck by a motorist who refused to pull over.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said that police were called to Victory Street at 10:36 p.m., near the corner of Piave Street, when a man exiting his car was surrounded by four males.

The robbery victim suffered an abrasion to his left elbow and was experiencing pain to the left side of his jaw and temple.

STAMFORD — An 83-year-old retired developer has lost his entire life savings — more than $400,000 that he kept in his home — in one of the largest scams of a resident in the city’s history, police said. The trio first began talking to the Stamford man about buying African diamonds because they needed money to get their families out of Sierra Leone, Stempien said. The men convinced the victim the U.S. government coats bills it sends to many third-world countries to make them appear worthless, Stempien said. The men told him the U.S.

STAMFORD-For no apparent reason, police had to draw down on a Stamford man Thursday night who ran from a traffic stop and would not get back into his car after ending up on a dead-end street.

Beginning to think he was about to rob them, the Mi Terruno restaurant employees decided to call police.

When a police officer arrived, he spotted a silver Hyundai that police were told the man was driving in, pull out of the lot and head east on East Main Street.

Stephen Jiminez, of Depinedo Avenue, was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault and breach of peace.

The incident occurred on a CT Transit bus as it was pulling up to a stop on West Avenue at Nobile Street, according to a police report of the arrest.