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A sketch of the suspected child lurer.

The first incident happened in the morning, around 7 a.m. Police say a 13-year-old Hispanic girl was walking on Northern Boulevard near 102 Street when a black Cadillac Escalade pulled up beside her. An Hispanic male in his early 30s, between 5'7 and 5'9, and around 170 pounds, tried to spark up a conversation with the girl. Realizing she didn't know the man, she walked away from the vehicle. That's when the suspect exited the car, chased the girl down, and grabbed her by the arm. The victim, however, was able to pull free and escape.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says the suspect was caught on a Texas-bound Greyhound bus and arrested. Police tracked his cell phone to a bus station, then stopped both buses that had departed the station overnight. Commisso was found on one of them, asleep.

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While Chris Brown spent his weekend punching R&B sweetheart Frank Ocean over a parking spot, this guy has allegedly been roaming around East Harlem, hitting Asian people in elevators and taking their money. Rude.

His name is Jason Commisso and the NYPD suspects he's behind all eight of January's elevator robberies. He's 6'1" tall, 200 pounds, and apparently really into breaking people's noses.

"The case of William Lopez began twenty-three years ago. It was rotten from day one."

So begins U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis' epic 95-page dissection of the justice system's failures in wrongly arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning Lopez for the 1989 murder of a drug dealer in a crack house in Brooklyn. In his order, made public yesterday, Garaufis granted Lopez's writ of habeas corpus and ordered him released within 60 days. He has served 22 years in prison, and is now 50 years old.

As recounted by the judge, the case against Lopez, which took place early in the tenure of long serving Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, was weak in the first place, relying on the word of one witness, a drug addicted prostitute who claimed after trial that she was coerced by police and prosecutors to testify against Lopez. "The prosecution's evidence was flimsy to begin with and has since been reduced to rubble by facts arising after trial," Garaufis wrote.

Hynes' office, however, is going to appeal the ruling, and request that Lopez remain in prison.

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In a security camera photo still also released this morning, the killer is seen standing behind the left ear of the victim, and appears to be drawing a gun from a pocket in his sweatshirt.

Stan Xuhui Li, 58, of Hamilton, N.J., was one of the doctors mentioned in the recent Voice article about medical professionals who illegally sell oxycodone pills and other painkillers to patients. He was also charged with reckless endangerment, medicaid fraud and falsifying records to hide his illegal conduct.

Prosecutors allege that Li, who operated the pain management clinic on weekends, kept prescribing pills to known addicts even after their relatives begged him to stop via letters and in person. He pocketed some $450,000 in cash from the clinic over two years. One of his patients was David Laffer, the Long Island pill addict who murdered four people during the robbery of a pharmacy last year.