A man was charged with stalking Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after going to her district office in Queens, New York, in three separate attempts to meet her in one month. He was also charged with criminal contempt for violating an order of protection. Authorities said Doula Hashi, 31, was arrested after being warned against trespassing in…

A high school teacher in Queens, New York was suspended and given a “final warning” after a female student was allegedly found sitting on his lap in a dark classroom in May 2017. Biology teacher Farzad Ghelichkhani, 36, had to leave John Adams High School due to the alleged incident and was prohibited from contacting…

Two men who were wrongly convicted of raping a woman 27 years ago were exonerated in Manhattan Supreme Court on May 7 after serving over two decades in prison. Gregory Counts, 46, and VanDyke Perry, 48, had been falsely charged with rape, sodomy and kidnapping in 1991. Perry was released in 2001 after spending 11…

A man who committed the crime of rape against one woman and attempted to sexually assault five others, has been identified and arrested, four years after committing the last crime. Michael Andrade, age 45, was arrested on Wednesday, August 2, and faces the charge of attacking a woman in March 2013. As with the other…