The U.N. ambassador from the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines was briefly arrested and handcuffed by a New York police officer Wednesday for alleged disorderly conduct after he walked through a barricade to get into his office building. Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves told The Associated Press that he was returning to his office after lunch and stepped out of his official car, through a barricade in front of the building — as... 

Cops nabbed nine hustlers caught hawking items they touted as in-the-box third generation iPads outside two Manhattan Apple stores last Friday — the day the coveted tablets went on sale in North America. As legitimate buyers waited on line to purchase iPads from the Apple store in SoHo, eight people were nabbed hawking tablets outside on Prince St., police said. Ying Wang, 26, of the Lower East Side, and Cheng Wang, 25, of Queens, were busted... 

Five people were shot — two fatally — in an hour of bloody mayhem across Brooklyn and the Bronx Tuesday night, police said. At 7:12 p.m., an 18-year-old woman was shot in the leg on Stone Ave. at the Howard Houses in Brownsville by a black man wearing all-gray clothing, a police source said. He was seen fleeing in a black Cadillac. About 7:50 p.m., two teens were shot at St. John’s Park in Crown Heights. Daquan Weston, 18, was shot four times... 

The feds put the NYPD on high alert Thursday for revenge attacks spurred by a deranged American soldier’s massacre of 16 innocent Afghans in the heartland of the Taliban. the NYPD on high alert Thursday for revenge attacks spurred by a deranged American soldier’s massacre of 16 innocent Afghans in the heartland of the Taliban. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent out a bulletin warning cops in New York and elsewhere that the slaughter... 

The mother of a two-year-old girl have been charged after the toddler was found wandering in the street at 2am wearing only a diaper. The child was spotted by a closed storefront with her bottle by a group of men who were passing by, police said. The little girl was not injured but was taken from where she was found in Brooklyn to Brookdale University Hospital to be checked out. Detectives conducted a search of the Cypress Hills area and finally... 

An NYPD sergeant surrendered five years of police paperwork to Internal Affairs investigators probing his possible links to the Upper East Side madam. Richard Wall, a 14-year police veteran, was summoned Wednesday after he was spotted numerous times hanging out near Anna Gristina’s purported brothel on E. 78th St. Wall, 35, turned over his NYPD memo books for the last five years — the length of time that the now-jailed Gristina was under investigation... 

A brutal murder on the streets of Jamaica, Queens was not only captured on surveillance video,, but was being watched on a live stream video feed by officers. The fatal shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. at the Jamaica Houses in Queens, according to police. Officers assigned to the NYPD Video Interactive Patrol Enhancement Response (VIPER) unit noticed a man collapsing through a camera feed at the housing project, and called in officers on the... 

Jim Jones claims he DOESN’T have a suspended driver’s license in New York … insisting cops made a big boo boo by arresting him earlier today. A rep for the rapper tells TMZ … Jim is adamant there must have been a mistake in the computer system … simply stating, “Jim does not have a suspended license.” The rep says Jim’s lawyers have already been dispatched to remedy the situation. The worst part... 

Police raided a Chelsea apartment yesterday and discovered an enormous cache of counterfeit Apple products and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones worth almost $1 million retail, cops said. Officers began staking out the building on West 28th Street near Seventh Avenue after an arrest last month when they saw a man leave the building with a fake iPhone that he later tried to sell on a Hell’s Kitchen street corner, cops said. The alleged swindler, Iaron... 

An NYPD cop is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the base of the skull last night while chasing a murder suspect through a Brooklyn housing project, authorities said. “This was a miracle,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at Bellevue Hospital, where Officer Kevin Brennan had been rushed. “He’s one lucky young man.” Mayor Bloomberg said he spoke to Brennan about the cop’s 6-week-old daughter, Maeve. “He understood he was hit and...