Tag Archives: FBI

Hip-Hop Artists Arrested in East Harlem

Welfare Poets

Just after 4pm on December 15th, two members of the activist hip-hop group the Welfare Poets, along with four additional males, were arrested at the Wagner-Johnson housing project in East Harlem and charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor. Continue reading

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Harlem NYPD Cooking Cop arrested Over Plot to kidnap women and cook them (update)

NYDailyNews reports that a Harlem cop was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday. Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, a six-year vet, was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, unauthorized use of computer access, and eating female body parts, according to a criminal complaint. Continue reading

Was a Cop Killer an FBI informant in Harlem?

Forty years ago this weekend, Police Office Phillip Cardillo was gunned down in Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam Mosque No. in Harlem. Continue reading

Page Harlem FBI Informat

Pin-up star Bettie Page was also an FBI informant, The Smoking Gun reports. After police raided a Harlem apartment in 1957, and found “a cache of obscene magazines and photos, paddles, a riding crop, a whip, and lengths of chain, rawhide, and rope,” … Continue reading

FBI Agents Raise Gang Awareness

FBI agents Chris LaCarter and John Canning have witnessed gang activity in very different areas. Continue reading