A lawyer for a man accused of fatally stabbing an ex-con during a fight on a Bronx subway train said the victim was the one who started the altercation.
A landlord’s death and a recent water leak have left in the cold a low-income Bronx woman and her two young autistic sons. ; After Eileen Hernandez, 31, was robbed at a homeless shelter five years ago, the city helped move her and her kids to an apartment inside a two-story home east of Van Cortlandt Park, she said. ; But since the building’s owner was slain in March 2021, no one has been maintaining the home on E. 214th St., she said. ; A large pipe leak prompted firefighters to turn off the water and gas early Monday, saying heat would create a fire hazard, Hernandez told the Daily News.
A convicted cop killer serving 25 years to life for his role in the 1994 Bronx murder of a police officer trying to stop a robbery is to be released on parole next month — and the officer’s stunned family is asking why. Javier Miranda didn’t admit to firing the shots that killed Officer Sean McDonald on March 15, 1994 — but prosecutors believe he helped his accomplice, Rodolpho Rodriguez, gain the upper hand in a desperate struggle over the murder weapon. Miranda, 55, was granted release by the state parole board after an Aug. 31 hearin ...
As life after incarceration goes, ex-con Sheldon Johnson Jr. seemed to be on the right path. Armed with a degree he earned during his 25 years in prison, Johnson, 48, became the poster child for prison reform, working with the city’s Homeless Services Department, counseling at-risk youth at the Queens public defenders’ office and talking about his remarkable turnaround on a popular podcast. The only question about Johnson Jr.’s new direction seemed to be about who would play him in the movie. ...
After shooting NYPD Officer Dennis Vargas in the Bronx Tuesday night, Rameek Smith was shot dead by police. Thankfully, Vargas is already home from the hospital. While Smith’s family may mourn him, we won’t. But we will spare a moment to say our last goodbyes to a few myths propagated by progressives in the ongoing rhetorical gunfight over how to keep the city safe. Myth one: Fare evasion enforcement is an utter waste. In March 2020, cops caught Smith trying to get on the subway at Coney Island without paying — and found a loaded .32-cali ...
A Bronx teen allegedly murdered an "innocent kid" in a botched gang hit -- after he was cut loose by a judge in an earlier armed robbery case instead of being thrown behind bars.
A Bronx judge, in a Thursday ruling, rejected a call by defense attorneys for a special prosecutor in the trial of a bullied gay high school student accused of stabbing a classmate to death during history class. Criminal Court Judge Steven Hornstein ruled against the motion made by lawyers for Abel Cedeno after the lawyers argued that Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark’ office could not provide their 19-year-old client with a fair trial. “That request has been reviewed, and that request has been denied,” ruled Hornstein. ...
A detainee who tried to escape by jumping from a jail barge in the Bronx into the East River died, city Correction Department officials said Wednesday. Gregory Acevedo, 48, climbed a fence and crawled through razor wire before he jumped roughly 50 feet from the rooftop recreation yard at the barge — formally called the Vernon C. Bain Center — in Hunt’s Point about 11:44 a.m. Tuesday. “He was gone when he hit the water,” said a Correction Department source. Acevedo was unresponsive and in cardiac arrest when NYPD harbor unit officers t ...
2016 Bronx County District Attorney In office January 1, 1989... The Bronx , New York City , U.S. Political party Democratic... the Bronx. He was previously a New York City Criminal Court...
“Is he a great cop? No,” Matthew Kluger said of his client, who’s standing trial on robbery and drug running charges. “He did things he shouldn’t have done, and said things he shouldn’t have said,” Kluger acknowledged, but “he did no ...