Bronx Woman Found Guilty of Laundering Over $2 Million from Victims in Romance Fraud Scheme

A Bronx woman, Nadine Jazimne Wade, 30, was found guilty by a jury on four charges relating to money laundering and bank fraud linked to a romance fraud scheme federal prosecutors said on Thursday, Dec. 14. Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said Wade was found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla.

NJ Man Who Posed as Nurse Charged with Kidnapping & Abusing Two Bronx Women, Among Others

A New Jersey man has been charged with kidnapping, interstate travel to commit domestic violence, interstate communication of a threat, cyberstalking, and interstate stalking of multiple women, including two women from The Bronx, federal prosecutors said on Monday, Dec. 11.

Off-Duty DOC Employee Arrested & Charged with Assault in The Bronx

Police said an off-duty New York City employee was arrested on Saturday, Dec. 9, in the 43rd Precinct which encompasses some or all of the neighborhoods of Westchester Avenue, Castle Hill Avenue, White Plains Road, and Parkchester.   They said Richard Irving, 37, an employee with NYC Department of Corrections was charged with assault.   […]

UPDATE-Annual Veterans Day Commemoration Held at Bronx Victory Memorial

Bronx Community Board 7 (CB7) members were joined by veterans, residents of the district, Bedford Mosholu Community Association (BMCA) members, members of the 52nd Precinct Community Council and others for their 2nd Annual Veterans Day Commemoration held at the Bronx Victory Memorial on Mosholu Parkway in Bedford Park to mark Veterans Day.

Norwood Community Library Unveils Second Free Community Library Box at North Central Bronx

To further its efforts to help patients live their best and healthiest lives, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and North Central Bronx (NCB) announced on Oct. 11 that it would be opening a library mailbox on its NCB campus, in conjunction with local mutual aid group, the Norwood Community Library.

UPDATE Bronx Community Board 7’s Jean Hill Recognized as “Pillar of the Community”

Longtime Bronx Community Board 7 (CB7) member and current chair of the CB7 Budget, Personnel & Ethics Committee, Jean Hill, was recently honored by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, receiving a certificate of recognition in acknowledgement of her “proud status as a pillar of the community.”