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16 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: The NYPD has arrested a man from Ohio who had a semi-automatic rifle in a subway station in New York's Times Square near the A/C/E line around 42nd street.

The rifle was unloaded and the man had ammunition and a gas mask in his backpack. Reported w/ @jonathan4ny
@jonathan4ny MORE: The man allegedly told police he possessed the weapon legally.

Police saw the weapon and immediately questioned the man and took him into custody.

They're trying to determine why he was there. Reported w/ @jonathan4ny
@jonathan4ny STORY (being updated as we get more info) here: nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ohi…
@jonathan4ny The person arrested in this incident has been identified as Saadiq Jovan Teague born in August of 2002, senior law enforcement officials say.

Police have not released any information about charges and the investigation remains ongoing.

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8 Apr
BREAKING / NBC News: Federal prosecutors and the attorney for Rep. Matt Gaetz associate, Joel Greenberg say in court that they expect a plea in his case, @CharlieGileNBC reports.

As we reported last week the investigation into Rep. Gaetz grew out of the Greenberg case last year
@CharlieGileNBC The two parties did not say if there would be a cooperation agreement or plea agreement by Greenberg.

Rep. Matt Gaetz’s name was not said at anytime in the hearing and the whole hearing lasted approximately 6 minutes.
@CharlieGileNBC Greenberg has previously pleaded not guilty to a slew of superseding indictments tied to stalking, illegally obtaining person information, identity theft, wire fraud, and sex trafficking of a minor.
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7 Apr
NEW: The FBI has arrested former track and field coach at Northeastern University, Steve Waithe, on wire fraud and cyberstalking charges tied to a scheme where he tried to trick female-athletes into sending him nude or semi-nude photos through fake social media accounts.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston Waithe has been a coach at Penn State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee and Concordia University Chicago.

Prosecutors are asking potential victims to go to this site: justice.gov/usao-ma/victim…
The FBI arrested Waithe this morning.
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31 Mar
NEW: NBC News has confirmed the NY Times reporting that Rep. Matt Gaetz is under federal investigation for possible sex trafficking involving a minor.

The case was developed out of a separate investigation into a local Florida elected official and his sex trafficking case.
That elected official, Joel Micah Greenberg, was just hit with a third superseding indictment which says he obtained and disclosed DMV information for the minor victim Greenberg is alleged to have been involved with sex trafficking.

He faces a slew of other unrelated charges.
There’s an entirely separate investigation into allegations made by Gaetz that he’s the victim of extortion.

The attorney Gaetz says is trying to extort him has told press outlets the allegations of extortion are false.
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29 Mar
NEW: Federal prosecutors in New York have hit Ghislaine Maxwell with a superseding indictment which includes two new charges all linked to a 4th victim they say they are now including in the case against her, court documents show.

The alleged conduct occurred from 2001 to 2004.
MORE: According to the superseding indictment the 4th victim was 14 years of age when she was allegedly "groomed" by Maxwell to engage in sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein.

The victim was allegedly paid "hundreds of dollars in cash" after each massage.
MORE: The charges also say that this victim 4 “brought multiple females, including girls under the age of 18, to provide sexualized massages for Epstein at his Palm Beach Residence” and that both victim 4 and the girls she brought were paid hundreds of dollars.
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17 Mar
NEW: The suspect in the Atlanta area massage parlor shootings, Robert Aaron Long, is speaking with police and he made an indication that he has sexual addiction issues and "may have frequented some of these places in the past", Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds says.
MORE: Sheriff Reynolds says the suspect did not indicate that this was a racially motivated shooting.
MORE: Police and deputies were able to track the suspect in the Atlanta area massage parlor shootings by his cell phone which ultimately led to his arrest according to Cherokee Sheriff Frank Reynolds.
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17 Mar
NBC News: Out of an abundance of caution the NYPD has deployed Critical Response Command (CRC) units to Asian communities citywide following a series of shooting incidents in Atlanta which could have been directed toward the Asian community.
Meant to add for attribution... According to a NYPD spokesperson.
Several years ago @LesterHoltNBC and I spent some time with CRC learning about their training and their capabilities.

Here's Lester's report: google.com/url?q=https://…
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