Michael Gopaul, 40, was charged with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon, according to law enforcement.

Police executed the search warrant at Gopaul’s 83rd St. home near Fourth Ave. in Bay Ridge where he lives with his 8-year-old daughter around 6:30 a.m., police said.

The 3D-printed firearms — called ghost guns because they are unregistered and difficult to trace — were modeled after the Austrian-made Glock pistol, cops said

Of the six recovered ghost guns, Gopaul printed four of the weapons entirely himself, while he purchased roughly 80% of the parts for the other two firearms from a second party, said police.

The NYPD caught onto the postal worker’s cottage gun-manufacturing scheme about a year ago, after certain 3D-printing parts and supplies he bought online raised red flags at the department, according to law enforcement.

Police also recovered a standard Glock purchased legally out of state, five high-capacity magazines, 300 rounds of ammo and a 3D printer, cops said.

Following his arrest, Gopaul described himself to investigators as a gun buff, saying he enjoyed target shooting in Pennsylvania, according to police, who said he is not suspected of seeking to distribute the weapons.

Messages left seeking comment from USPS were not immediately returned.

A spokesperson for Mount Sinai said talks failed because of the nurses’ “extreme economic demands.” Other hospitals affected by the strike include New York-Presbyterian and Montefiore Medical Center.

The strike follows Gov. Hochul’s Friday executive order declaring a disaster emergency if a strike were to happen.

The New York State Nurses Association in December voted overwhelmingly to strike if their demands were not met.

“We became nurses because we care about our patients deeply and do not take striking lightly,” NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said on New Year’s Eve.

“It is always a last resort. But it’s shameful that instead of trying to protect care and settle a fair contract, hospitals are dragging their feet and making proposals that would seriously erode care in this city.”

As of Tuesday night, the NYPD had seen a 20% drop in homicides, from 381 last year to 303 this year, NYPD sources said.

The number of shooting victims, which includes homicide victims and survivors, across the five boroughs also decreased — by 22% — from 1,101 last year to 853 through Tuesday, the numbers show.

The NYPD has not yet released crime statistics for Wednesday, the last day of 2025, or their year-end numbers.

Gun violence was down across the U.S. in 2025, with a 14% drop in shootings by the end of September compared with the same period last year, according to The Trace, which monitors shooting trends nationwide. Compared with 2021, shootings were down 30% nationwide this year.

New York’s homicide and shooting decreases this year are larger than in many other big cities in the U.S., including Los Angeles, which saw a 12% drop in homicides as of Nov. 30, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Approximately 3.8 million people live in Los Angeles compared to New York’s 8.5 million population.

The Chicago Police Department, which protects 2.7 million citizens, saw a 35% decrease in shootings as of Christmas, but 1,464 shootings had been recorded in the Windy City, more than double the 685 shootings that occurred in New York.

The Chicago police also celebrated a 30% drop in murders compared with 2024, but detectives there investigated 412 homicides — 109 more than the NYPD did despite New York being more three times as populous.

The number of rape cases reported to the NYPD jumped by 15% this year, from 1,762 last year to 2,043 in 2025.

NYPD officials have repeatedly said that the number increased after legislative changes made in 2024 broadened the legal definition of rape in New York State to includes more forms of sexual assault. The department has yet to say how many of the new rape reports are attributed to that change.

An email to the NYPD requesting a breakdown of this year’s rape complaints to see how many were linked to the law change was not immediately returned.

The city has seen a 9% decrease in robberies this year compared with last, a 3% drop in burglaries and a 4% drop in car thefts, officials said. Crimes in the subways plummeted by 4% and residents in NYCHA housing saw a 3% fall in crime.

The number of violent assaults in the city, spurred on by an uptick in domestic assault and attacks on police officers increased this year compared with last, but by less than 1%. Cops recorded 29,485 assaults as of Sunday, 85 more than last year, cops said.

The drop in crime is a feather in the cap for NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who, in her 13 months as the NYPD’s top cop, has repeatedly trumpeted her precision-policing model to crimefighting in which the department sends teams of cops to high-crime areas to tamp down violence.

“For the first 11 months of the year, New York City had the lowest number of shooting incidents and victims in recorded history,” Tisch said last month. “These historic gains are the result of our precision policing strategy and officers executing that strategy with the discipline and dedication that defines this noble work.”

“Our plan is working,” she added. “The progress is real.”

Tisch is expected to continue the precision-policing model during the administration of Mayor Mamdani, who has gotten her to stay on as police commissioner as he begins his first term in City Hall.

In a troubling trend, those who are being shot have gotten younger, the NYPD said in October. Those victims include 15-year-old Eric Aitken, who was gunned down in a building in NYCHA’s Eastchester Gardens in the Bronx on Saturday.

No arrests have yet been made in that case but the shooter may be as young as 13, a law enforcement source said.

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Gregory Stewart was shot in the head about 9:05 p.m. Sunday inside a Sotomayor Houses building on Watson Ave. near Rosedale Ave. in Soundview, cops said. Medics rushed the victim to Jacobi Medical Center but he could not be saved.

Stewart’s murder ended a stretch of 12 days, beginning Nov. 25, that saw no new recorded homicides citywide. The only other time the city is known to have gone that long with no murders was in 2015, which also saw a 12-day stretch with no homicides, according to NYPD stats.

“Right strategy. Great execution. That’s how you set record after record,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement Monday. “Thank you to the members of the NYPD who have sacrificed so much this year to drive down violent crime to record lows.”

A man was taken into custody in Sunday’ slaying but has not yet been charged. The victim lived in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, according to cops.

The last known murder in the city before Sunday’s homicide was the stabbing death of 80-year-old Lev Vayner inside his apartment on Overlook Terrace near W. 184th St. in Washington Heights on Nov. 24.

The suspect, 45-year-old Alon Riabichev, whom Vayner was kindly letting crash with him, called 911 around 3:15 a.m. and confessed to having killed Vayner, according to prosecutors. Riabichev is charged with murder.

The 20-year-old suspect was not immediately charged but sources say he is expected to face charges of attempted murder after he is transported to Manhattan from Amherst, a Buffalo suburb where a U.S. Marshals task force nabbed him.

The suspect lives in the Bronx and has four prior arrests, including one last year for reckless endangerment and a 2018 robbery arrest as a juvenile delinquent that was sealed, law enforcement sources said.

The gunman early on Nov. 16 was part of a group of men who mocked the stylish clothes Boyd and his friends were wearing when they arrived at Sei Less, a W. 38th St. Asian fusion hot spot popular with the well-heeled.

Boyd and his friends, including fellow Jets players Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood, ignored the taunts, police said, but left the club after a short while and were mocked again by the same group, sparking an argument that got physical.

Boyd was shot in the chest, the bullet travelling into his lung, as the fight escalated.

The shooter and his accomplics ran off, police said, with the shooter later identified after cops released surveillance footage of him in the hopes someone would recognize him.

The suspect’s name has not been publicly released as detectives worked to establish probable cause to charge him.

Boyd was rushed to Bellevue Hospital and later released but was returned to the hospital over Thanksgiving after facing setback in his recovery, he posted on social media,

Jacqueline Pritchett through her lawyer invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself when Judge Dawn Orsatti asked for information that could help police find her son, Jacob Pritchett, who authorities said has been missing since at least April.

Orsatti had harsh words for the 50-year-old mother and for her lawyer, Daniela Mancini, after Mancini spoke on Pritchett’s behalf.

“Your client has a voice,” Orsatti told Mancini. “It’s improper for you to say she can’t speak on her behalf.”

Pritchett, who police sources said has mental health issues, has denied her son even exists, claiming she has no children. She has been held on Rikers Island since early October on a civil court contempt warrant.

The judge allowed reporters to attend Thursday’s hearing after lawyers for the Daily News and New York Times objected to press being barred at the mother’s prior hearing on Nov. 24.

Orsatti said that her prior ruling, made after Mancini asked that media be told to leave, was based on a “compelling reason” — that Pritchett might reveal what happened to Jacob if reporters were not present.

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Instead, Orsatti noted Thursday, Pritchett had seven times previously refused in court to reveal where Jacob is.

“If you don’t tell the court Jacob’s whereabouts you will remain in custody,” Orsatti told her Thursday.

That could change, however, if a Supreme Court judge rules that Pritchett’s constitutional rights have been violated because she has been jailed for invoking her 5th Amendment rights and that she should be released, as her other lawyer, Brian Holbrook, argues in a petition filed Tuesday.

Even if that happens, Orsattii told Pritchett, she must still continue to appear at Family Court hearings or risk being the subjeect of an arrest warrant.

The bizarre case first came to light in early October when it was learned that on Sept. 25 ACS workers had gone to the Pritchett home, a Brownsville apartment on Howard Ave., to check on Jacob because a tipster to a state hotline was worried about his well-being.

Pritchett wouldn’t let the Administration for Children’s Services caseworkers into the home, police sources said.

ACS then notified police and on Oct. 1, Pritchett allowed both police and ACS caseworkers to search her apartment.

There was no sign of Jacob, court papers said, but there were two mattresses inside as well as toys in the bathroom and in closets. ACS provided a birth certifical that proves Jacob is in fact his mother’s son, sources said.

Neighbors told the Daily News they remembered seeing Jacob, but not in weeks — one resident said it was more like a year. Neighbors said the boy, who doesn’t speak because of his austism, was small for his age and often pushed around in a stroller despite being too old for one.

The NYPD on Oct. 4 asked the public for help, identifying Jacob as missing and releasing a sketch of the boy and a photo of his mother.

Several days later the NYPD, along with State Police, searched the High Acres Landfill in upstate Perinton, about 14 miles east of Rochester.

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Police, fearing Jacob’s body had been thrown into a dumpster outside his building, had tracked the garbage to the landfill. But after more than two days of searching police found no sign of Jacob.

Since then, the NYPD has released a computer-generated image of Jacob but appear no closer to figuring out where he is and if he is alive.

Amanda Cathers, an ACS deputy borough chief, said in court Thursday that the NYPD had reviewed several months of surveillance footage at the Pritchett’s building but did not see Jacob.

The NYPD said the search went back three months, with no footage available before then.

Anyone with information about Jacob is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

Dean Conover Whetzel was on Hudson St. just around the corner from his W. 10th St. apartment in Greenwich Village when 79-year-old Dana Escoffier knocked him to the pavement around 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 11, cops said.

Medics rushed the elderly victim in critical condition to Bellevue Hospital, where he lingered for 25 days before dying on Nov. 5, police said.

Escoffier, who plead not guilty to assault following his arrest in October, reacted with astonishment when informed on Monday of the victim’s death.

“He’s dead?“ Escoffier said. “I don’t believe it. I had no idea. I’m just hearing this now. I don’t think my attorney even knows.“

Escoffier declined to comment on the attack, except to say, “He didn’t die because of me.”

Though Escoffier lived in the same building as the victim, he said the two never met prior to the fatal encounter.

The city’s Medical Examiner has reclassified Whetzel’s case as a homicide.

A waiter at a nearby restaurant said he witnessed the attack.

“The man who was pushed fell down to the ground, and the other guy started walking away,“ Ethan Dank, 25, who waits tables at Cowgirl NYC, told The News. “People surrounded the guy on the ground, trying to help.”

“It was very jarring,“ said Dank. “He was lying on the ground. He was squinting, but he was still conscious.”

A friend of Whetzel’s said he was walking his dog, a black terrier named Buddy, who was with him when he died.

“Dean was a wonderful person. It’s terribly sad. He was friends with everyone,” said Bifa Secchini. “Poor Buddy, his dog was with him when it happened.”

Secchini said Whetzel’s remains would be sent back to his home state of Indiana. His dog is being cared for by a friend.

The black Honda Civic’s 42-year-old owner told cops he had left the car running near Flatbush Ave. and Regent Place in Flatbush when the crook jumped into the driver’s seat at about 2 a.m. and drove off.

The robber — who sources say is believed to be in his 20s — sped a dozen blocks down Flatbush Ave. before vaulting the curb and crashing into a salon with an apartment above it at Avenue J, cops said. He also struck a tree and was ejected from the car, which was torn in two in the blistering crash.

Medics rushed the man to Kings County Hospital, where he died about 20 minutes later. Cops are working to determine his identity.

It was not immediately clear if the car’s owner was working for Uber at the time it was stolen. The man who reported the car stolen is not listed as a Taxi and Limousine Commission licensed driver — and the car is registered with the TLC under somebody else’s name.

The black Honda Civic’s 42-year-old owner told cops he had left the car running near Flatbush Ave. and Regent Place in Flatbush when the crook jumped into the driver’s seat at about 2 a.m. and drove off.

The robber — who sources say is believed to be in his 20s — sped a dozen blocks down Flatbush Ave. before vaulting the curb and crashing into a salon with an apartment above it at Avenue J, cops said. He also struck a tree and was ejected from the car, which was torn in two in the blistering crash.

Medics rushed the man to Kings County Hospital, where he died about 20 minutes later. Cops are working to determine his identity.

It was not immediately clear if the car’s owner was working for Uber at the time it was stolen. The man who reported the car stolen is not listed as a Taxi and Limousine Commission licensed driver — and the car is registered with the TLC under somebody else’s name.

The victim was identified as Edwin Echevarria, a 65-year-old man from the Lower East Side — and his alleged killer is his 23-year-old roommate, police said.

Christian Millet was charged Wednesday with murder, cops said. Millet was busted when police showed up with a warrant at his Baruch Houses building on Columbia St. near Delancey St.

Echevarria and Millet lived in the same apartment, according to sources. It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the fatal confrontation or when and where the victim was killed.

Sources said Echevarria was beaten and stabbed about a dozen times before the body was dismembered.

The body, inside a sleeping bag that was stuffed in the suitcase, was found a week ago when a NY Waterways Ferry captain aboard the Susan B. Anthony Ferry spotted the baggage floating near Governor’s Island.

Ferry personnel, unable to lift the suitcase onto the ferry, called police and the NYPD Harbor Unit took custody of the suitcase and opened it.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.