Trash talk on Facebook, gives NYPD gang leads
Photo credit: AP | NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said the evidence "may very well" have been marred when floodwaters inundated some police precincts and offices in low-lying areas of Brooklyn and Queens. (Jan. 27, 2012)
Police investigating two gangs called the Very Crispy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook.
"Rockstarz up 3-0," one suspect boasted -- a reference to the body count from a bloody turf war between the Brooklyn gangs that ultimately resulted in 49 arrests...
