B’KLYN DA HAS GUN COP IN HIS SIGHTS

B’KLYN DA HAS GUN COP IN HIS SIGHTS
ByLARRY CELONA and STEFANIE COHEN

May 6, 2008 — A Brooklyn cop’s “guesswork” in making gun busts could shoot down as many as 20 pending weapons cases, The Post has learned.

Federal prosecutors recently dropped one gun case because of what a judge described as Officer Kaz Daughtry’s flawed methodology, and now prosecutors from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office are reviewing 20 pending cases on which the cop was the arresting officer, law-enforcement sources said.

Daughtry had busted Anthony McRae in Brownsville last September after he saw him adjusting something on his waistband.

His search found McRae was carrying a loaded .45-caliber Ruger and heroin – but it was the only gun he came up with in a three-day sweep.

Brooklyn federal Judge John Gleeson found Daughtry shouldn’t have searched McRae because the convicted felon “did not move in a sufficiently suspicious manner.”

B’KLYN DA HAS GUN COP IN HIS SIGHTS – New York Post.

Bill Would Tie Down Runaway Photographers – May 6, 2008 – The New York Sun

Bill Would Tie Down Runaway Photographers

By Special to the Sun
May 6, 2008

Runaway bridal photographers would be forced to pay fines and damages to their clients if legislation being debated in the City Council tomorrow becomes law.

“The wedding services industry is not well-regulated, and this legislation was created to protect those residents who have spent a lot of time and money to celebrate one of the most momentous occasions in their lives from being victims of fraud,” the bill’s sponsor, Council Member Michael McMahon, said yesterday in a statement. Mr. McMahon said the bill was written in response to an incident in Staten Island in which a photographer took a young couple’s engagement pictures and pocketed the fee without sending the photos. The incident was reported in the Staten Island Advance.

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