EVERETT — An Everett man who police believe was planning to kill Snohomish County sheriff's deputies had guns, ammunition and bulletproof vests to carry out an assault. It was to be a killing similar to the Thanksgiving weekend assassination of four Lakewood police officers, police said. Deputies arrested transient Michael McConnachie, 19*, on Sunday at a south Everett motel, according to ...

NEW YORK - New York City has bought 50 Chevrolet Volts that will go to the NYPD, as well as to the fire and sanitation departments. The 50 Volts were among 70 EVs in NYC's latest round of buying under green Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a big fan of electrics. Also bought were 10 electric Ford Transit Connect vans and 10 electric ...

BRONX, NY - A double parker in the Bronx who found a traffic cop writing him ticket went berserk and put the cop in the hospital with a fractured skull. The irate motorist fled on foot after the 8:30 a.m. assault and was being hunted. Edgar Saeteros, a 35-year-old traffic control specialist, was in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center, cops ...

NEW YORK - Nearly 700 city cops will be assigned to a new command dedicated to policing the Freedom Tower and surrounding area, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday. The World Trade Center Command will not be fully staffed until Ground Zero is completely rebuilt. But the 673 officers that will eventually work out of the new command will give it ...

NEW YORK - An NYPD cop who helped a Yankees executive get a traffic ticket dismissed could be hit with a perjury charge, police sources said Thursday. Douglas Behar, Yankee Stadium director of operations, got a speeding ticket in the Bronx in August. He sought help from a fellow employee who called a delegate for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. The delegate ...

BROOKLYN - An NYPD cop was shot twice in the leg Sunday night while pursuing a teenager who whirled and fired after running into a dead-end stairwell in Brooklyn, cops said. Police Officer Richard Ramirez, 29, may also have been struck in his bullet-resistant vest after he cornered Elijah Foster-Bay, 17, inside an East New York building about 8 p.m., cops ...

An NYPD cop on his way home from work was killed Monday when his car was rammed by a boozed-up Brooklyn man driving the wrong way, authorities said. Officer Andre Menzies - a father of five - was driving east on the Northern State Parkway in Dix Hills, L.I., about 12:05 a.m. when he was hit head-on by Michael Bowen's Ford ...

NEW YORK - Two cops plunged into the frigid Hudson River Thursday to rescue a man who dropped his coat in the water and fell in trying to fish it out. Sapped of his strength by the numbing water, Eddie Morales, 29, was bobbing in the waves, perilously close to the jagged remnants of an old pier off W. 16th St. ...

NEW YORK CITY - A decorated EMT was charged Wednesday with a series of sick sex crimes - including an attack on an 11-year-old in an elevator he commandeered with his Fire Department key. Angus Pascall, 33, was nabbed after one victim jotted down the plate number of his getaway car and was linked to five rapes and assaults through DNA ...

NEW YORK CITY - A quick-thinking street vendor and three heroic cops stopped a madman from detonating a car bomb in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, law enforcement officials told the Daily News. The T-shirt vendor - a Vietnam vet - told Officer Wayne Rhatigan there was smoke coming from a Nissan SUV on the southwest corner of 45th ...

NEW YORK - A high-ranking NYPD cop faces early retirement after getting busted for harassing his boss' wife at a downtown precinct, the Daily News has learned. Lt. David Chee, 44, pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment in January for calling and texting the wife of Deputy Inspector Gin Yee, commanding officer of the 5th Precinct, law enforcement sources said. "Your husband ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Authorities say four police officers have been hurt after a brawl inside a Saratoga Springs nightclub spilled into the street, where dozens of people began fighting. Police in the upstate city tell local media that all 15 Saratoga officers on duty plus more than a dozen from other law enforcement agencies helped quell the melee outside Club ...

MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't ready to abandon illusions of running for governor just yet. Arpaio said he was exploring the possibility of determining how much it would cost to hire someone to collect signatures for a petition to get him on the gubernatorial ballot, in case he decides to run. Arpaio, 77, said the only ...

NEW YORK - A convicted killer has stepped forward to say he was behind the 1994 robbery and shooting of Tupac Shakur that fueled the bloody rivalry many blame for the rapper's murder two years later. Dexter Isaac, now serving a life sentence, told AllHipHop.com that he robbed Shakur outside the Quad Studio in Manhattan in November 1994 on the orders ...

NEW YORK CITY - The NYPD can no longer maintain its controversial stop-and-frisk database of innocent New Yorkers, a blow to city leaders who say it was vital to combatting crime. Gov. Paterson signed legislation yesterday eliminating the database of information about people stopped then released by cops, saying it was "not a policy for a democracy." Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly ...

The NYPD is sitting on $103,000 slated for new vans for southern Brooklyn auxiliary cops, a state lawmaker has charged. The state funds for the four vans have gathered dust for four years because Police Department officials have not filled out paperwork, while Coney Island and East Flatbush precincts expecting the vehicles for volunteer cops have seen crime increase this year. ...

QUEENS, NY - The beating death of a teen at a Queens party by a pack of brutes screaming anti-gay slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, police said Tuesday. "It appears to have all the elements of a hate crime," said NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly. "The hate crime task force is involved." Kelly also revealed that cops were hunting ...

NEW YORK — The city is postponing this month's Police Academy class until July to save money. The 540-cadet class - already postponed in January - will be pushed back to the summer and combined with the 900-member July class, officials said. By moving the class to July, the city will push the costs to next year's budget and save money ...

NEW YORK - The NYPD is creating a new unit tasked with preventing police from fixing tickets in court, the city's top cop said Wednesday. "In response to disturbing indications that some police officers failed to appear or otherwise willfully undermined a case in court, we are creating a new Court Monitoring Unit within the Internal Affairs Bureau," Police Commissioner Raymond ...

BRONX, NY - A Bronx bicyclist is suing the NYPD claiming a reckless cop hit him with a car near the Macombs Dam Bridge. Michael Molina was cycling last April 25 when officer Patrick McKenna hit him with a patrol car, according to the suit filed Monday in Bronx Supreme Court. Molina suffered from a number of scratches and bruises in ...