UPDATE Former Bronx City Councilman Andy King is back in NYC after Being Stuck in Mexico amid Cartel Unrest

Former New York City Councilman Andy King (C.D. 12) is reportedly back in The Bronx after he got stranded in Mexico with a party of 25 New Yorkers. He said the group sheltered in place at a hotel in Cancún following the recent snow blizzard that shut down New York airports and as simultaneously, violence erupted across Mexico following the killing of the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”  

Eastchester: Man Charged with Murder in Fatal Gas Explosion at NYCHA’s Boston Secor Houses

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Feb. 25, that a man has been charged with second-degree murder, burglary, assault and other related charges for allegedly instigating an early morning gas leak in a NYCHA apartment building in the Eastchester section of The Bronx which resulted in an explosion and fire that killed a tenant and caused dozens of other tenants to be evacuated at the height of the year’s first major snowstorm. Read our initial coverage of the fire, click here.