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Two men fighting over a parking spot in New York City are facing charges after their allegedly destructive battle over the space resulted in one of their vehicles crashing through the front of a bakery in the middle of its grand opening.

Around 4:00 pm on November 15, two men were reportedly angling for the same parking spot on the street in front of The Rainbow Bakery in Flushing, Queens.

When neither driver conceded, one of the men, identified as 24-year-old Jie Zou, allegedly decided to get out of his vehicle and confront the man in the other car. The passenger in Zou’s car, 35-year-old Jonathan Zhang, also reportedly got out of the vehicle to lend him support after reportedly retrieving a baseball bat.

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A man was arrested last week after he allegedly made it known that he intended to use a homemade pipe bomb to blow up the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park.

Central Park’s Alice in Wonderland statue, created by José de Creeft has been a beloved fixture in New York City since 1959.

On April 9, friends and family members of 30-year-old Kevin Fallon reportedly received a text message from the man stating his alleged intention to plant and activate a bomb at the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in the park.

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A teacher from New York City who has been accused of performing oral sex on one of her 14-year-old male students entered a plea of not guilty to the criminal charges at a hearing on Saturday.

29-year-old Dori Myers has been employed as a social studies teacher at the New School for Leadership and the Arts in the Bronx since 2014. She also started a track team for the students of the school. Myers is the wife of a deputy sheriff, and they share a home in Rockland County.

On November 1, Myers was accused of sexually abusing one of her male students at a location off campus in Manhattan. According to reports, the teenager told one of his classmates that he had a sexual encounter where Myers administered oral sex, and the classmate informed the school principal of what he had been told.

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A Queens man working for the Department of Homeless Services as a housing specialist was arrested on Monday for allegations that he sexually abused two women. The victims are homeless and have been lodging in the New York City shelter where he is employed.

54-year-old Clyde Johnson began working with DHS in 2015. His job as a housing specialist entails assisting homeless people who are staying in shelters in finding permanent dwellings. He has been accused of abusing two women who reside in the Auburn Family Shelter in Brooklyn on at least four different occasions.

The criminal complaint reported that the sexual acts between Johnson and the two victims, age 59 and 60, not only took place at the shelter, but also at another address nearby, and on a Brooklyn city bus in motion. The NYC Department of Investigation believes the abuse took place in April and July 2017.

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