
Anthony M. DeStefano
Legal Affairs and Criminal Justice Reporter at Newsday
Legal affairs/criminal justice reporter for @Newsday. True crime author.
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2 days ago |
newsday.com | Anthony M. DeStefano
The FBI has joined the probe into the disappearance of an Asian couple last seen on March 30 at their Old Brookville mansion, legal and law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said. Both Peishuan Fan, 48 and his wife JuanJuan Zwang, 44 were reported missing a day after their children, 12 and 20 years of age, last saw them at their nearly $4 million home on Maria Lane, the Nassau County Police Department said.
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4 days ago |
newsday.com | Anthony M. DeStefano
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch touted historic violence reduction trends Monday and derided the notion that the city was out of control with bloodshed, despite the fact that soaring gun seizures indicate that there is no shortage of illegal firearms. "The last five months, we have had the lowest number of shootings and homicides in recorded history," Adams said at City Hall news conference with Tisch by his side.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Nicole Fuller |Anthony M. DeStefano
Nearly two months have passedsince JuanJuan Zwang and her husbandPeishuan Fan were last seen at their Old Brookville mansion. They had a "normal dinner" with their sons, a 12-year-old and a 20-year-old university student, and some of the younger child’s friends on March 30, said John Carman, a Garden City-based attorney representing the older child, Yiwei Fan. The next morning, the two brothers and the older brother’s girlfriend drove to the Catskills for an overnight stay.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Nicole Fuller |Anthony M. DeStefano
Nearly two months have passedsince JuanJuan Zwang and her husbandPeishuan Fan were last seen at their Old Brookville mansion. They had a "normal dinner" with their sons, a 12-year-old and a 20-year-old university student, and some of the younger child’s friends on March 30, said John Carman, a Garden City-based attorney representing the older child, Yiwei Fan. The next morning, the two brothers and the older brother’s girlfriend drove to the Catskills for an overnight cabin stay.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Anthony M. DeStefano
A Queens criminal jury Monday convicted an Astoria man with a history of mental illness for the murder in 2022 of FDNY-EMS captain Alison Russo of Huntington, capping a trial in which the brutal stabbing of the victim was shown through video surveillance evidence. The jury of eight men and four women convicted Peter Zisopoulos, 37, of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, the knife used to kill the 61-year-old Russo on Sept.
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