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A Bronx mother of two was shot dead through her apartment door peephole by a gangbanger who may have been targeting her son, who is on trial for murder, police sources said Sunday. ; Wendy Martinez, 45, looked through the peephole of her Concourse Village apartment when the doorbell rang and was blasted in the face about 9:40 p.m. on Saturday, police said. ; She died at the scene. Police led a sobbing young man from the Grand Concourse building near E. 156th St. moments after the shooting.
An embattled Bronx detective who says police brass are hanging him out to dry has filed a federal discrimination complaint. David Terrell, 44, the target of more than a dozen lawsuits, says a city agency has cleared him of repeatedly arresting one teen and making moves on his mom — all of which re-emphasizes the heap of brutality and arrest suits against him are baseless. Yet, Terrell says, he’s still behind a desk while other officers who were roped in with him on accusations of dirty police work are on full duty and assigned to ranks with ...
He was set to testify in the trial to help keep Jacobs behind bars, but just as the proceeding was set to begin in May, the Bronx district attorney’s office said it could no longer move forward, according to Jacobs’ lawyer and court papers. Jacobs, held nine months without bail since the arrest, was freed and filed a wrongful arrest lawsuit. Last month, Corniel, 31, an eight-year veteran from the 48th Pre ...
To the Editor: Re “Prosecutor Deals Blow to Stop-and-Frisk Tactic” (front page, Sept. 26): Robert T. Johnson, the Bronx district attorney, deserves credit for taking steps to exonerate people who have been falsely arrested for trespass. The New York Police Department should never arrest people without probable cause. If the N.Y.P.D. were arresting real trespassers, perhaps prosecutors would not need to conduct face-to-face interviews with the arresting officers. It is troubling that the police leadership continues to deny that there is a ne ...
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A Bronx fraudster who has made a career out of posing as an immigration lawyer has been tossed in jail until he pays the restitution owed to his victims, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Monday. Edwin Rivera, 68, has been preying on undocumented clients for years out of his office on Zerega Ave. called “Immigracion Hoy News Today.” · Bronx Supreme Court Justice Betty Owen Stinson said Rivera had been violating court orders to knock off the false advertising and “immigration services” and found him in contempt. ...
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Get her to the court on time! · That was the message a Bronx judge had Monday for accused serial bride Liana Barrientos before he sprung her from jail for missing an earlier court date. “You missed… the very first court date that I set,” Judge Steven Barrett said to Barrientos, whom he’d had locked up May 19. “From my perspective, you had an inadequate appreciation of the seriousness of these proceedings and the obligations of this court.” · But Barrientos, 39, has learned her lesson and would never miss another court date, said h ...