The ugly episode began after Benoit and some family members went to the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment she shared with Haynes before their breakup to collect her things, ASPCA Assistant Director Joseph Pentangelo said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

"If they don't want to pay, I just leave them alone," one driver on the B44 route in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, said Wednesday, declining to give his name.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

A source said the rent for the Bedford-Stuyvesant home, which hadn't been reported prior to 2007, was from his ex-wife Angela Jeter. The couple divorced in 1984. Thompson, a leading candidate for mayor in 2009, also showed credit card debt: $5,000 on his American Express Optima and $5,000 on an account with North Fork Bank.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

Above-ground fare-beating is most prevalent on 10 routes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to NYC Transit. The worst is the B46 in Brooklyn where drivers have reported "theft of service" at a rate of about 4,000 a week. The route runs the length of the borough, between Williamsburg and Marine Park, through Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush and Flatlands.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

One was taken just months before the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment became a house of horrors.

Published by New York Daily News on September 2, 2008.