Recent Posts in Violent Crimes Category
Posted on Feb 27, 2012 By Karen
Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in a near-fatal shooting last week, but police say that one other person of interest remains at large. The alleged accomplice is due in Greenburgh Town Court ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2011 By Karen
Police arrested a 24-year-old Yonkers man in connection with the shooting of a 16-year-old Maryland boy last week. The 24-year-old suspect was charged with first-degree assault and second-degree ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2011 By Karen
A jury convicted a Yonkers man of hitting his girlfriend with a tire iron and then threatening to jump off the roof of her building. The 25-year-old was found guilty of second-degree assault , ...
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Posted on Oct 27, 2011 By Karen
The 18-year-old New Square man charged with attempted murder via an arson attempt was arrested on charges that he violated a court order to stay away from the family. Police arrested him after he left ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2011 By Karen
Troopers have charged 22 motorists with DWI during traffic stops and investigations in Westchester , Rockland and Putnam counties, state police said. Some of those motorists included a Connecticut ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By Karen
Sarena Walsh ordered to serve two to six years in state prison for her behavior on the night of Sept. 28, 2009. Walsh was DWI on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers when she ran two red lights and plowed ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2010 By Karen
Two out of the four Peekskill men accused of beating a laborer pleaded guilty to gang assault on Friday and will serve 8-years in state prison. The two others, including the alleged ringleader, were ...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2010 By Karen
A Westchester County jury acquitted William Robinson, of Mount Vernon, of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter back in the Sept. 16, 2009 slaying of Shawn Andre McGee. The jury found ...
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Posted on Oct 1, 2010 By Karen
A 16-year-old who drove a stolen car head-on into an Irvington police cruiser driven by Luigi Osso, accepted a deal today that will send him to prison for seven years. He faced a maximum sentence of ...
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Posted on Sep 30, 2010 By Karen
Antonio Alicata, 47, who lives on the ground floor of a two-story apartment building at 146 Orawaupum Street in White Plainswas accused of setting the building on fire. He was charged with ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2010 By Karen
George Grier, 31, is accused of firing a rifle in the air during a confrontation with a large group of men on his lawn on Sunday. He was charged with felony assault on Monday. Grier, who is African ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2010 By Karen
The Putnam County film school student accused of stabbing a New York City taxi driver because he is a Muslim was transferred from jail to the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital, a city corrections ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2010 By Karen
Man Beaten, Robbed; 2 Charged Yonkers- Two men were charged in the beating robbery of a 30-year-old Yonkers man early this morning. Police found the victim on the ground bleeding from his face on ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2010 By Karen
Rajolyne Delacruz was standing in front of her East Fulton Street home when she fired a handgun and struck a 21-year-old victim in the hand on Wednesday, Long Beach police said. The victim was taken ...
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Posted on Aug 10, 2010 By Karen
Nassau County police said that two security guards have been accused of beating two men and shooting one man. Joffre Viteri, 44, was walking a patron out of Romelia Sabor (a Latino Seaford Restaurant ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2010 By Karen
Bedford - Police say that the two girls who were stabbed inside their Bedford home are in stable condition and improving. Lisa Turkki, 39, was arrested outside the home at 85 Girdle Ridge Road - ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2010 By Karen
Peekskill - Police said today that Michael Jackson, 22, of the Bronx is being held at the Peekskill police station because he faces a felony assault charge after he leaped from a second-story roof in ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2010 By Karen
Congers- Police said that a 30-year-old man and four teenagers jumped a 21-year-old man walking along Old Haverstraw Road, beat him and then stole his cash before driving off in a red Mustang ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2010 By Karen
Greenburgh police have arrested a Mount Vernon man accused of robbing a convenience store with a stun gun and knife. Police responded to a report of a robbery at 5:15 a.m. Saturday at the Greenburgh ...
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Posted on May 28, 2010 By Karen
YONKERS — On Thursday morning, a 17-year-old female student is accused of assaulting a 59- year-old female substitute teacher at Lincoln High School. Musharah Lewi of 150 Oak St. was in the hallway ...
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