NYC NOW - Morning Headlines: Mangione's Finger Prints, Ghost Cars, Wednesday Night's Subway Disruption

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirms 26-year-old Luigi Mangione’s prints were on items found near the Midtown crime scene, and the gun matched items found at the scene, including a water bottle and a KIND bar. Secondly, the NYPD and the city sanitation department are cracking down on cars with fake or obscured license plates parked on the street. Finally, multiple subway lines were suspended yesterday evening [WED] as heavy rain walloped the region. ABC New York reports a fire affecting a transformer was behind the outage.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Thursday, December 12. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. The NYPD is making the case to have 26-year-old murder suspect. Luigi Mangione brought to Manhattan sooner rather than later. Police say a gun and fingerprints recovered from the suspect in Pennsylvania. Match evidence from the killing of United Healthcare CEO,

Ryan Thompson. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says Mangione's prints were on items found near the Midtown crime scene and the gun matched items found at the scene including a water bottle and a kind bar. We got the gun in question back from Pennsylvania. It's now at the NYPD crime lab. We were able to match that gun to the three shell casings that we found in Midtown at the scene of the homicide. Police arrested Mangione Monday in Pennsylvania where he remains in jail refusing extradition to New York. The NYPD in the city sanitation department are cracking down on cars with fake or obscured license plates parked on the street. Double Vinescee, Charles Lane explains.

Up until September, police had only been targeting cars with so-called ghost plates when they were driving on the streets and highways. When they caught them, they confiscated them, and that netted them about 2,500 vehicles. far this year. Now city officials are searching for illegal plates on parked cars, and the number that they've confiscated has doubled. They've seized about 5,000 ghost cars just in the last six weeks, according to NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. This is not just about defrauding the DMV or avoiding tolls or avoiding red light and speed cameras. More and more, these vehicles are being used in the commission of violent crimes. Tish says in addition to seizing the cars, police can fine and arrest the drivers.

Several MTA lines are still disrupted after a power outage, left some commuter stranded for hours last night. Multiple subway lines were suspended yesterday evening as heavy rain walloped this area. ABC, New York reports of fire affecting a transformer was behind the outage. It mostly affected trains between J Street Metro Tech Station and Hoyt Schemmerhorn in Brooklyn. 37 with clouds now sunny and cold, high near 39 a day and gusty. This is WNIC in New York. Thanks for listening. This is NYC now from WNYC.

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