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Bronx Former Finance Director of Hawthorne Healthcare Sentenced for Stealing $700K+ from Organization

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Westchester County District Attorney (DA) Miriam E. Rocah announced on Jan. 29 that a Bronx woman was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 25, to an indeterminate term of two to six years in state prison for stealing more than $700,000 from Hudson Valley Community Services (HVCS), a division of Cornerstone Family Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare provider in Hawthorne, NY where the woman was employed as the director of finance. 

Bronx Woman Gets Two Years for Assaulting Metro-North Train Conductor

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chief of Police John Mueller announced on Thursday, Jan. 11, that a Bronx woman was sentenced to two years in state prison for assaulting a Metro-North Railroad conductor.

Bronx Man Gets 12 Years for Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Girl in Building Alley

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Tuesday, May 4, that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in the Bronx in 2017.   Clark said, “The defendant followed a 12-year-old girl, who was on her way back home from a store, and sexually assaulted her in broad daylight. He also terrified the child by threatening to kill her and her family. We hope today’s sentence brings some solace to the victim and her family.”   Clark said the defendant, Malcolm Lugo, 24, last of 3988 Bronxwood Avenue in


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Twenty-Year Sentence for Killer in Decades Old Cold-Case

By DAVID GREENE
  A guilty plea and a 20-year sentence in a 21-year-old, cold case murder has brought closure to the close-knit family of Elsa Grullon who was killed in the Highbridge section of the Bronx on May, 27, 1999. On Aug. 11, 2020 at Bronx Criminal Court, during the age of social-distancing amid a global pandemic, family members of Grullon finally witnessed justice being served for a crime committed at the end of the last century.   Grullon, 56, was discovered over two decades ago by a family member inside her home at 825 Gerard Avenue in the South Bronx. An autopsy


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