Crime

Westchester Square: Livery Driver Shot in Leg While in Car Collides with Second Vehicle

By DAVID GREENE
A livery taxi driver was wounded as he sat behind the wheel of his cab by an unknown assailant on Friday in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx. The driver reportedly hit the gas to escape the gunman, causing his vehicle to plow into a parked car. An unnamed detective at police headquarters told Norwood News late Friday night that the shooting was reported along Zerega Avenue, between Lyon and Westchester Avenues at 6:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 28. The detective said, “There was a shooting at the location. A male was shot in the leg while inside his


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Norwood: Man Shot, Police Search for Suspect

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD are continuing to search for a suspect following a shooting of a man inside a residential building in Norwood.   A department spokesperson told Norwood News by phone that police received a report of an adult male who was shot in the leg on the 4th floor of a building at 3211 Parkside Place on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 15.31.   The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and is expected to survive.   The perpetrator was last seen on foot in the vicinity of 207th Street and Parkside Place. No physical description was available for the


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Fordham Heights: Cab Driver Stiffed, Stabbed & Robbed

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance identifying the three individuals seen in the attached photos and video who are sought in connection to a robbery that occurred in Fordham Heights, in the 46th precinct.   It was reported to police that on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 9.28 p.m., in the vicinity of 3222 Bronx Boulevard in Olinville, a 34-year-old male livery driver picked up three passengers who asked to be transported to another location. A short time later, when the cab arrived at the vicinity of 184th Street and Creston Avenue in Fordham


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UPDATE Bronx DA: Tennessee College Student Charged with Selling 73 Guns to Undercover Officer

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced that a 23-year-old man has been charged with hundreds of counts of criminally selling a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm and related charges for trafficking 73 weapons and high capacity magazines to the Bronx and Manhattan, where they were sold to an undercover NYPD officer.   Clark said the defendant allegedly brought semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines up from the south of the country, sometimes transporting them in a duffle bag by bus. Dozens of the firearms were loaded, and four were considered assault


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Man Shot in Jacobi Hospital ER – Two Men Flee the Scene

By SÍLE MOLONEY & DAVID GREENE
Police confirm a man was shot inside Jacobi Medical Center, part of the NYC Health + Hospitals public hospital system, on Tuesday, Jan 25. The NYPD was alerted to the incident, which took place in the emergency room of the hospital, located at 1400 Pelham Parkway South in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, at around 12.34 p.m. Upon arrival, they found a 35-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the arm. The victim was treated immediately by medical staff at the location.   A preliminary investigation found that while in the ER, the man had gotten into a


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UPDATE Bronx Defenders Issue Cool Response to Mayor’s Blue Print to Curb Gun Violence

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The Bronx Defenders, The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and Queens Defenders released the a statement on Monday, Jan. 24, in response to Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement earlier on Monday of his “Blueprint to End Gun Violence” in New York City. The mayor’s announcement follows a roundtable discussion held at a public school in Bedford Park on Saturday, Jan. 22, with crisis management teams and violence interrupters, amid a spate of high-profile police and civilian shootings which have taken place since he took office, including, as reported, the shooting of a now 1-year-old


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UPDATE New Rochelle High School Teacher Arraigned for Distributing Indecent Material to 15-Year-Old

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced on Monday, Jan. 24, that former Salesian High School teacher, Mariela Barajas, was arraigned for allegedly disseminating indecent material to a 15-year-old.   Barajas, 22, of Mount Vernon, was charged on Jan. 24, in Mount Vernon City Court with disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree, a felony. The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office made the arrest following an investigation, with assistance from the Mount Vernon Police Department and New Rochelle Police Department.   While employed at the New Rochelle school, in December 2021 and January 2022, Barajas allegedly engaged


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Bedford Park: NYPD Release Photos/Video of Suspect/Getaway Car in Shooting of 11-Month-Old Baby Catherine

By SÍLE MOLONEY & JOSÉ A. GIRALT
  Pursuant to the ongoing investigation into the shooting of an 11-month-old baby girl on Wednesday, Jan. 19, in Bedford Park, the NYPD has released additional photos and video of the incident. The video shows the individual who fired the shots fleeing on East 198th Street towards Valentine Avenue. Meanwhile, the photos show a grey, Nissan, four-door sedan that the same individual fled in, as the driver. It is seen in the vicinity of the incident.   The photos and video are attached.   Crime stoppers have increased the initial reward for information on the shooting to $10,000.    


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Bronx DA: Rikers Inmate Charged with Attempted Rape of Nurse & Forcibly Touching DOC Officer

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Monday, Jan. 24, that a Rikers Island inmate has been charged with attempted rape in the first degree and with additional charges for sexually abusing a nurse, and for forcibly touching a female Department of Correction officer in the jail.   In announcing the charges, Clark said, “The defendant allegedly forcibly touched a female correction officer. Hours after that incident, the defendant allegedly attempted to rape a nurse assigned to the facility. He has been indicted for these appalling acts against women who work in the city’s jail.”   Clark went on


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