Bronx Man Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Shooting

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Oct. 29, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and will be sentenced to 15 years in prison. The sentence will run concurrently with a five-year sentence for gun possession in a separate case. According to the investigation, on Oct. 23, 2016, at about 2 a.m., the defendant, who uses a wheelchair, fired multiple shots at Kevin Thomas, 28, during a dispute in the Mott Haven Houses, striking the victim 13 times. He fled the scene and was arrested on Jan. 20, 2017, in a location in the

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020 at 2.31 a.m., an off-duty New York City employee was arrested and charged in the 49th precinct in the Bronx. Hector Martinez, 39, an NYPD police officer, was charged with driving while intoxicated and driving with impaired ability from alcohol intake.

South Bronx: Police Seek Public’s Help to Locate Missing 65-Year-Old Man

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Michael Thomas, 65, of 345 East 146th Street, who was reported missing on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020 in the 40th precinct. Thomas was last seen at his home in the South Bronx on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020 at 7.40 p.m. He is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighs 200 pounds, and was last seen wearing dark clothing. Anyone with information with regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Gabriella Gabrielsen, 41, of 345 East 146th Street in the South Bronx, in the 40th precinct. It was reported to police that Gabrielsen was last seen on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020 at approximately 2 p.m., inside her home in the South Bronx. Gabrielsen is described as female, White, 5 feet, 6 inches, weighs 100 pounds, and was last seen wearing all dark clothing. Anyone with information with regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

By DAVID GREENE

The NYPD is looking for the person, or persons, responsible for an attempted burglary of a Bank of America Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) on Jerome Avenue in Norwood. According to police spokesman, Sergeant Edward Riley, officers from the 52nd precinct were called to the Bank of America bank branch, located at 3424 Jerome Avenue, just before noon on Friday, Nov. 6. The bank’s two ATM machines were closed to customers the entire day, as police and a security remained at the scene until after 11 p.m., when an armored car arrived and members of the NYPD’s Crime Scene

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Monday, Nov. 2, 2020 at around 6.45 p.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding an assault which occurred inside 1460 Macombs Road in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx, in the 44th precinct. Upon arrival, officers observed a 20-year-old woman with a stab wound to her chest. EMS transported the victim to Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, where she was pronounced deceased. She was identified as Nyla Bond, 20, of East 168th Street in The Bronx. Two individuals were subsequently arrested and charged in relation to her death. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 at noon, a

By DAVID GREENE

The family of a young woman killed by a speeding police car is asking the public’s help in raising $15,000 to send her body back to her native Guatemala for burial. Sofia Gomez Aguilon, 20, of Wallace Avenue, in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, was crossing Pelham Parkway South at Wallace Avenue when an NYPD Highway One patrol unit struck her at 3:26 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5. Police reported that, at the time of the accident, the police unit was responding, with lights and sirens, to a call for assistance, transmitted by a separate Highway

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Police were called at around 6.25 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, to the scene of a collision involving a motorcycle on Jerome Avenue and Mosholu Parkway South. They said a motorcycle operator, a 47-year-old man, was struck by a vehicle at the location. He was removed to St. Barnabas Hospital by EMS, suffering severe trauma to his head and body. The other vehicle and driver remained at the site where an investigation was carried out by police. The police representative could not confirm to Norwood News, based on the initial report, if it was just the driver who

Diaz Sr. Favors Keeping Rikers Island Open, Will Vote Against Neighborhood Jail Plan

By SÍLE MOLONEY

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and Oversight and Investigations Committee Chair Ritchie Torres released a Council Oversight and Investigations report on Nov. 6, containing substantial evidence pointing to the identity of an anonymous online persona responsible for “numerous and repeated unacceptable and disgusting online posts.” In the report, they said the evidence reveals that the anonymous poster, who went by the name “Clouseau” on what was described as a vitriolic public online message board known as “Law Enforcement Rant,” appears to be Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel. They also said Kobel was the commanding officer of the NYPD’s