Jiraud’s ankle monitor – which he has been wearing since being paroled in August – showed him moving at 16 mph near the scene, potentially while riding a bicycle that he dumped in the water, the sources said. The monitor then showed Jiraud go back to Agudelo, where he called 911, according to the sources. Jiraud, who had been living at a Randall’s Island homeless shelter, professed his innocence as cops hauled him from the 25th Precinct in East Harlem after his arrest. Jiraud was convicted of a February 2011 rape in which he dragged a victim from an elevator at a Bronx building and sexually assaulted her on the roof, according to sources. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2013, jail records show.
Prosecutors' presentence filing argued for Abdi to receive near the lower end of the federal guideline range of 37 to 46 months, while pointing out that his actions at Gordon Parks High School were but one violent act he committed on May 28, 2020. Abdi began "his evening of destruction at a BP gas station, where he kicked in the door allowing others access to the convenience store," the prosecution filing read. "Defendant crossed the street to a Target parking lot, where he threw rocks at law enforcement officers who were trying to disperse the rioting and looting crowds." From there, the filing continued, he encountered co-defendant Jose Felan Jr., who was removing the American flag from a pole outside the high school. "Felan threw the flag on the ground, and [Abdi] picked it up and lit it on fire," the filing alleged.
Surveillance footage from the high school showed Abdi and Felan breaking the glass on a cafeteria door that faced the sidewalk, according to the prosecutors. Abdi then poured an accelerant on the floor, lit a trash can on fire and knocked it over toward a trail of flammable liquid. From there, the allegations continued, Abdi broke a window on a Discount Tire store on University Avenue and attempted to set fires inside.
After stealing firearms and credit cards from a nearby home, 30-year-old Alexander Dickey broke into the Columbia rental home early Saturday morning, entered Logan Federico’s room and fatally shot her. Dickey fled the scene in a stolen vehicle and allegedly used stolen credit cards taken from the nearby home. olice pursued Dickey after he fled into the woods. He reportedly broke into another home and set it on fire before police took him into custody after a standoff in Gaston. Dickey was charged with murder, two counts of first-degree burglary, weapons possession and larceny. Alexander Dickey is a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal rap sheet.
Funderburke, who hails from Hempstead, then began shouting over the judge, rattling off random cherry-picked sections of code. “Will you shut up?!” the judge eventually snapped at Funderburke, briefly removing him from the court before bringing him back for final sentencing. His attorney asked the judge to take into consideration his client’s “clear and serious mental health issues” displayed throughout the trial — which only further enraged Funderburke, leading him to attempt to fire his legal counsel on the spot. “You don’t represent me! I’ll represent myself,” he shouted. Eventually, the judge proceeded to sentence Funderburke amid his defiant screams and objections – sentencing him to 25 years and kicking him out of the court.
According to evidence presented at trial, the unidentified director of an Amityville funeral home was entering his business on Aug. 23, 2023, when he was rushed by Funderburke and an accomplice.Funderburke and his accomplice then showed the owner a picture of his family and demanded that the funeral home owner empty his pockets while brandishing a knife. When he refused, Funderburke. The unidentified victim survived the stabbing. “We will not tolerate violent attacks in Suffolk County,” District Attorney Ray Tierney said. “This three-time convicted felon made the choice to rob and stab an owner of a funeral home, someone who serves our community during their most solemn moments.
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“They allegedly threatened the lives of schoolchildren, shoppers, along with anyone who walked down the street in daytime, violating the basic right to be safe,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said at a press conference announcing a slew of heinous charges against 20 accused members of the drug-peddling gang.
“These defendants allegedly shot at rival gangs without any regard for the innocent bystanders caught in between them in the line of fire,” said Clark, who was accompanied by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams. The gang was behind 14 separate shootings dating to 2023 that left one rival dead, two others wounded and dozens of innocent New Yorkers ducking for their lives, according to a 73-count indictment unsealed by cops and prosecutors and involving a 2-1/2-year investigation.
One of the suspects involved in the execution was 15 years old at the time, authorities said.
Half of the alleged gangbangers — who go by nicknames such as “Nesty,” “Chapo” and “Africa” — were mere teenagers when they pulled the trigger without regard for innocent bystanders, officials said.
In one caught-on-video shooting Aug. 28, 2023, two of the teens opened fire at 2:55 pm just steps away from a couple and their three young children, forcing the stricken youngsters to take cover behind their parents.
A few months earlier, on April 1, 2023, the gang unleashed a barrage of bullets at 6:30 p.m., firing across the school yard at Middle School 129 on Maples Avenue, sending frightened students scrambling.
On Feb. 23, 2023, two of the reputed gang members were seen firing six shots at a man walking to an MTA bus at 4:42 p.m., with bystanders seen ducking for cover under the bus on surveillance video footage.
In another brazen attack caught on surveillance footage, shortly before 2 p.m. March 1, 2024, the gangbangers stood on the sidewalk and fired a volley of shots at a target getting his hair styled in an East Tremont barbershop. They nearly struck innocent patrons inside. One person was seen crawling along the floor searching for cover as the bullets flew, authorities said.
“Nine illegal guns were recovered in this case, five of which were ballistically matched to shootings in the indictment, Tisch said of the .9mm weapons.
The top cop said eight of the 20 suspects named in the indictment fired a gun at least three times.
For neighborhood residents, the gunplay is part of the violence that has long plagued the area.
“My son has PTSD from all the things that happened in this neighborhood,” local construction worker Antonio Garcia told The Post on Thursday. “He got robbed in front of the house, assaulted at the school and robbed in front of the school. He’s 17.”
“It’s just getting to the point where people are going to take justice into their own hands.”
Angel Rivera, an EMT, lives near MS129, the scene of two of the gang shootings. Majority of the time you come out here and all the young kids [are] walking around here with knives and guns, not doing what they’re supposed to be doing,” Rivera said. “All you could do is lock your door and hope they [cops] come quick.
“We hear gun shots, fighting, disputes. Sometimes you wonder, ‘Am I gonna come out of the house and get shot?’ “It’s gotten to the point where we’re thinking of moving, selling the house and moving, because it’s bad.” The charges lodged against the gang in the indictment include murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, robbery, reckless endangerment and illegal weapons possession. The 800 Ygz, a k a “Young gunnaz,” deal drugs including crack cocaine and run their operation out of 800 E. 180th St., authorities have said.
At least 10 of the latest indicted suspects are currently behind bars, including six who were not named because they are minors. The status of the others was not immediately released.
“This is what recidivism looks like in real life, not just statistics on a page, but the same people committing the same violent acts again and again,” Tisch said.
“I want to stress that this is a very recent spike in violence,” she said. “In the first quarter, the Bronx was down 33% in shootings compared to 2024. But in April, 63% of our citywide shooting incidents have occurred in the borough of The Bronx.
“And nearly 20 percent of all shootings citywide have occurred this month in one precinct, the 4-6. This surge in violence is 100 percent driven by gangs,” the top cop said.
Adams called the recent spike “almost like ‘Groundhog Day,’ ” referring to the Bill Murray flick that keeps repeating events.
The mayor specifically ripped the City Council for moving to disband the NYPD’s tracking Gang Database. “We have to ask one question: What side are you on?” Adams said. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the 800 YGz crew has a total of 38 members, 15 of them in the“On 14 occasions, someone from this gang was arrested with a firearm,” Kenny said. “On eight occasions, arrested for attempted murder or reckless endangerment. “You have incidents where 11 of the 20 have allegedly fired a gun, and then more than half have been arrested for robbery, with over 34 separate robberies.”
The New York Times reported that last June, protestors allegedly broke into an administrative building, occupied it, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. “They face up to three years and eight months in prison, as well as the payment of restitution to reimburse the university for the damage.”
Rosen said his decision was guided by the significant damage caused by the protesters and what he described as extensive, organized planning leading up to the incident. He continued, “Whenever you have multiple people working together to commit a crime, it’s much more dangerous to the public. That the actions were intended to highlight the group’s opposition to the war in Gaza made no difference.”“Speech is protected by the First Amendment,” he noted. “Vandalism is prosecuted under the Penal Code.”
Here’s a partial account of the events of June 5 (as reported by the Times):
Police arrested 13 people in connection with breaking into the office of the Stanford president early that morning and barricading themselves inside. They made several demands, including that the university trustees vote on whether to divest from companies that support Israel’s military.
They were cleared out of the building and arrested within a few hours, but not before they had broken windows and furniture, disabled security cameras and splashed fake blood inside the building.
Mr. Rosen did not file charges against one of the 13 individuals, a student reporter for The Stanford Daily newspaper who was covering the protest, but not participating in it.
Mr. Rosen said the 12 protesters attempted to hide their communication, including the deletion from their phones of the Signal messaging app, through which they had exchanged messages shortly before their arrests.
He said his investigators were able to “work around” the protesters’ attempts to conceal their planning and found they had surveilled the building; studied the patterns of local police officers and security guards; and assigned themselves specific tasks, such as who would break the window and who would use a crowbar to pry open the door.
The protesters carried backpacks that were recovered in the barricaded building and contained hammers, chisels, screwdrivers and goggles, according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office. On the same morning as the protest, red graffiti appeared on the sandstone walls of the university’s main quad that condemned the police, Stanford, Israel and the United States. Phrases included “Pigs Taste Best Dead” and “Death to Israehell.” Mr. Rosen said he declined to file hate crime charges because his office could not prove that the 12 protesters were responsible for those messages.
While I commend Rosen for filing felony charges against the students, he said he does not want to see them serve prison time. Rather, he hopes they will plead guilty and participate in the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s work program, which involves cleaning highways or government buildings.
“I don’t think this is a prison case,” he told reporters. “What I would like to see happen here is that I would like these individuals to plead guilty, accept responsibility for what they did, make restitution to Stanford for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage they caused.” “The way I see it, they damaged and destroyed all this property and caused all this vandalism and I think their punishment should be cleaning things up,” he said. “This is kind of biblical. You trashed a building, so your punishment should be cleaning things up.” “Pouring invective on social media is not against the law. Pouring fake blood all over someone else’s workplace is,” Rosen added.
Others believe that true accountability should extend beyond monetary penalties—they should serve at least some prison time to reflect the gravity of their actions. Doing so could also serve as a deterrent to others who might consider taking future protests too far.
Muslim Brunson, 46, is facing charges of second-degree attempted murder, second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree for Monday’s random horrific attack in the tony Manhattan neighborhood featuring designer shops such as Gucci and Prada, police said.
Brunson, who police say is homeless, was previously arrested several times, including in July 2022 for assaulting the female civilian Police Department worker, leaving her with the broken facial bones, law-enforcement sources said.
He ended up with a felony assault rap for the cop assault — a charge wrapped into the 2022 subway-shove case, sources said. “This is buy one, get one free justice,” the law enforcement source said. “The ADA gets an easy felony win. Defense attorney gets to be a hero, and the judge gets to move the case off the docket. “But none of these people consider the risk to public safety.” A few years earlier, on Sept. 17, 2019, Brunson also swiped an iPhone from a 13-year-old straphanger on a Queens-bound C train between Liberty and Van Siclen avenues in Brooklyn, and when his victim fought back, he shoved the boy off the train, sources said. Brunson landed $2,500 bail a month later for the Brooklyn theft and assault and was then released on his own recognizance a few months later. It’s unclear why he was freed, sources said.
The suspect has been the subject of at least four interactions with authorities over the years regarding an “emotionally disturbed person,” sources said.
In August 2019, a month before his subway attack on the young teen, a 911 call was made involving Brunson, with him hearing voices and wanting to harm others, according to sources.
Brunson was taken to Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan but released again, sources said.
He then committed the subway robbery — yet was still allowed to spend the next several years roaming the streets thanks to an alternative-to-jail-time program. He ended up going in and out of mental-health court for compliance and other hearings as part of the program — making around 36 appearances, sources said.
The hearings are designed to ensure participants “adhere to treatment mandates, which may include mental health treatment, substance use treatment, intensive community-based case management, educational/vocational services, and supportive housing,” according to the 2024 Brooklyn Mental Health Court fact sheet.
In the first three months alone under the program, participants must appear in court once a week.
The hearings are open to the public, where defendants speak about their progression in the program. They generally carry a mandatory prison sentence if the defendant fails to complete them.
While Brunson was in the program, at least three more 911 calls came in about him.
They included one Dec. 9, 2020, when he was reportedly hearing voices in his head telling him to harm others, sources said.
He was transported to Beth Israel and released, only to be picked up again a week later while hearing voices telling him to hurt other people and to not take his medication, sources said. Brunson was taken to Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx and eventually released. Then June 18, 2022, another EDP report involving Brunson was made, saying he needed medication. He was taken to Beth Israel and released. Less than a month later, on July 4, 2022, he violently shoved the off-duty NYPD employee, sources said. Brunson was then sentenced to a total of one to three years in prison for his crimes because of non-compliance in the mental-health program in the Brooklyn case. He spent less than a year locked up, mainly at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in upstate Ossining, before being released in August 2023.
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Upon arrival to the area of the intersection, police found a black BMW with California registration stopped on Delaware Avenue, west of Cannon Avenue, police said. The driver identified as Morgan, was slumped over in the driver’s seat, police said. Officers made contact with Morgan by knocking on the window. Morgan opened the door, and police saw the car was in reverse with Morgan’s foot on the brake, police said. Morgan was told several times to place the car in park, but he was unable to do so, according to the complaint. Officers then put the car in park. Police detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from within the car, police said. Two Four Loko cans were in plain view in the center console, with one open and partially consumed, according to the affidavit. Morgan failed field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest for suspicion of DUI, police said.
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He was also arrested in 2017 for allegedly strangling a female stranger from behind in a random attack inside a Brooklyn public bathroom, cops said. He was sentenced to seven years in state prison in connection to that incident, and served time from July 2019 until he was released this past Jan. 14, state Corrections records show. His parole is set to expire in 2029.
Meanwhile, Brazelis was nabbed by cops at the 181st Street station after alert bystanders took photos of the perp and showed them to cops who arrived. He was charged with assault and first-degree reckless endangerment in the unprovoked attack, the NYPD said. Brazelis also has at least two prior arrests — including a Jan. 19 bust for entering the prohibited area of a Bergen Street subway station, according to sources. He was charged with trespassing in Kings County Criminal Court and released without bail on Jan. 22, court records show.
On Dec. 21, he was also charged with third-degree sexual abuse in Manhattan for allegedly groping a woman on a C train at West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue, records show. He was released without bail that time too.
Jan 25, 2025 Released for Robbery & Beating. Then Gropes Five Women
The alleged groper, Jason Ayala, was busted for robbery after allegedly beating a 61-year-old man and his 51-year-old pal and stealing one of their cell phones around 1 a.m. Jan 12 at a bodega on Avenue D, cops said. Ayala, 37, was caught and charged with two counts of second-degree robbery, which is a bail eligible offense. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked for $5,000 cash bail or $15,000 bond. But Judge Robert Rosenthal — a 2019 appointee of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio — set him free on supervised release, despite six prior criminal charges going back to 2004.
The next day, Ayala went on his depraved rampage in two public housing buildings — shocking even the top boss of the NYPD. “The next day, the day after he was arraigned on the earlier robbery arrest, he victimized five additional females in Manhattan,” a disgusted NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told The Post. “All of the arrests were for forcibly touching intimate parts and endangerment. He shouldn’t have been out on our streets the next day doing that.” She pointed out that Ayala could face up to 15 years for the robbery.
But instead of sitting in a jail cell, Ayala went to the Lillian Wald Houses, a NYCHA project, on Avenue D, and allegedly grabbed a 14-year-old girl’s buttocks as she walked through the lobby toward the elevator just before 3 p.m., cops said. “I think it’s horrible they let him go,” said the 14-year-old’s mom. “Of course he should have been behind bars.” The girl was coming home from school when Ayala went into the building right behind her, the mom said. “He put his hand on her butt and then tried to touch her face but she got away and ran out of the building,” she said. Ayala then walked two blocks to 110 Columbia St. in the Baruch Houses, got on that building’s elevator and grabbed a 35-year-old woman’s butt, cops said.
At about 3:15 p.m., he was back to the Lillian Wald Houses and slapped a 49-year-old woman on the backside, cops said. That caught the attention of the mom of the first teen-aged victim. “What made me look up was my neighbor starting to scream,” she said. "Who do you think you are to touch me the way you touched me!” the 49-year-old victim shouted. Five minutes later, Ayala got on the elevator and touched a 12-year-old girl’s crotch over her clothes — and did the same to her 32-year-old mother, police said.
The mom of the 14-year-old called 911. A short time later, her daughter pointed out Ayala, who was strolling out of the building. Ayala was arrested and charged with one count of sexual abuse, five counts of forcible touching, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, court records show. “When they called us to tell us he had been arrested, you should have seen the very deep breath of relief she had,” the mom said of her 14-year-old daughter. This time, Bragg requested $200,000 cash bail or $600,000 bond.
Rosenthal set bail at $50,000 and $150,000 bond and Ayala is now cooling his heels at Rikers Island awaiting a Feb. 5 court date.
Banks was last busted in November — twice for petty theft — and released with summonses to later appear in court, sources said. He is being held on charges of first-degree assault and third-degree weapons possession in last week’s straphanger stabbings, cops said. The suspect looked disheveled when he was walked out of the transit district in cuffs Sunday afternoon, with his torn white jeans collapsing down his skinny legs to show his red underwear. He refused to say a word when asked about the stabbings by The Post, and he seemed dazed and overwhelmed as reporters hurled questions at him. He was eventually taken to the hospital, court officials said, without providing further details.
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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told the media that Litton was a convicted felon and therefore could not legally possess a firearm. He was mentally ill and believed by targeting children he was carrying out "counter-measures" in response to America's involvement in Middle East violence. "This individual did have some significant mental health issues," said the sheriff. Law enforcement officials have documented Litton's history of mental illness back to when he was a teenager, though Honea said investigators have not found a concrete diagnosis.
Butte County officials revealed that the suspect had been in and out of prison since he was a juvenile. He had been involved in incidents of theft, identity theft, and also faced some drug charges. Back in 2002, Litton was caught with disguises, a bullet-proof vest, shackles, and walkie-talkies. He had also made internet searches indicating his plans to carry out some sort of mass-violence attack using guns and explosives. He was sentenced to eight years for 12 counts of forgery, ID theft, and theft over that incident the following year. However, he was released three years later in 2006.
As recently as on November 12, Litton was arrested near San Francisco for stealing a moving truck. He was subsequently booked into the San Mateo County jail, and let loose on his own recognizance from the San Bernardino jail after pleading not guilty to separate burglary charges on November 21.
The suspects in two armed carjackings in Bensalem this week
lived at St. Francis & St. Vincent Homes for Children, police say. Daniel Rosa, 15, and Tharyn Battis Jr.,
18, have been arrested and charged with robbery, theft, receiving stolen
property and other charges in connection with two carjackings, Bensalem
Township police said in a statement. Rosa is being tried as an adult.
The first incident happened around 4:15 a.m. Monday when a
resident of Oak Court in Bensalem said she was in her car at home when a man
tapped on the window with a gun and told her to give him her phone and walk
away, according to police. The man got in the car, a white Honda Pilot, and
sped away with another passenger, police said. Police later found the car unoccupied in Oak
Court.
Police then responded to a report of a car theft in progress
at Magnolia Court around 5 a.m. on Tuesday. By the time officers arrived, a
Toyota Rav 4 had already been stolen. Police checked cameras and license plate
readers to find the car and then attempted to stop it at Street and
Mechanicsville roads. The car's driver rammed the side of a police van and
fled, police said.
Police pursued the car and the passenger — later identified
as Battis — got out and ran into a wooded area. That's when police took him
into custody at gunpoint and found he had a stolen gun. Police recovered the unoccupied Toyota later
in the 300 block of Penguin Drive. Police later arrested Rosa, who they
say was driving the Toyota, at his home. Police said Battis and Rosa committed
the Monday carjacking as well. Rosa was remanded to the Bucks County Youth
Center, and Battis was remanded to Bucks County Correctional Facility.
Bensalem police said this was just the latest in a series of
incidents linked to residents of St. Francis & St. Vincent residents, which
they describe as a home for youth who commit crimes in Philadelphia and are
court-ordered to live there. Multiple residents "went AWOL
simultaneously" early Monday morning in the hours before the first
carjacking, according to police.
Bensalem police said they are focusing on residents of the
facility in their investigations into a recent uptick in crimes in the
Brookwood and Eddington sections of the township, specifically car break-ins
and thefts.
Nov. 20, 2024 Crime Does Not Have the Same Consequences for All
Abraham Sosa, 20, who lives above a day care center in the Bronx, was spotted trespassing and urinating inside an unauthorized tunnel area of a Bronx subway station on Nov. 5 at around 4:30 p.m. when police approached him and repeatedly asked for his identification, which he refused to provide, the NYPD tells Fox News Digital.
The officers then attempted to place Sosa under arrest on the northbound platform of the Kingsbridge subway station, but he resisted by "stiffening his arms and refusing to be handcuffed," police say. A brief struggle then ensued with 20-year-old Christopher Mayren jumping in to interfere with the arrest.
During the altercation, a loaded and defaced Palmetto State Armory PA-15 firearm fell out of Sosa's backpack, according to police. Mayren also kicked one of the officer’s body cameras onto the subway track. They were both taken into custody, and Mayren was later found in possession of one of the officer’s cell phones.
Two officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to area hospitals. They were both knocked to the ground during the struggle, according to a criminal complaint. Sosa was hit with a slew of charges, including criminal possession of a machine gun, criminal possession of a loaded firearm and defaced weapon, resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration. He was also slapped with trespassing, assaulting a police officer and assault, as well as 25 counts of criminal possession of a weapon with a bullet, police say.
Mayren was charged with obstructing governmental administration, criminal mischief, criminal possession of stolen property, petit larceny, aggravated harassment and harassment. Mayren was released without bail, and Sosa was sent to Rikers Island on a $25,000 bond, which he posted on Nov. 12, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office tells Fox News Digital.
The NYPD tells Fox News Digital that neither Sosa nor Mayren have had any prior arrests.
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Twenty-three arrests: Deranged street-sleeper Niser Cekic racked up that many before he stabbed a Queens fruit vendor multiple times. The vendor asked him to move, and Cekic flew into a violent rage on being awakened from his asphalt nap. By some miracle, the victim of this heinous assault is still alive. But let’s be clear: That’s only by pure chance. This story could have ended with yet another grisly murder.
Why on earth was Cekic, who seems almost certainly to suffer from severe mental illness, allowed to rack up close to two dozen arrests?
Queens crook's 23 arrests prior to stab attack on vendor show NYC's insane crime fail
Pennsylvania magistrate judge Xander Orenstein is under fire for releasing Anthony Quesen, the suspect in Monday's deadly Montour Trail stabbing in a prior assault case. Quesen has been charged with homicide, accused of stabbing Benjamin Brallier, an off-duty Liquor Control Enforcement agent with the Pennsylvania State Police. Brallier was out for a run along the trail Monday when he was stabbed to death.
Last summer, Quesen was accused of robbing someone at Point State Park. Court documents revealed that Orenstein set a non-monetary bail, which was revoked when Quesen failed to show up for hearings.
Orenstein was removed from hearing arraignments earlier this year by Allegheny County President Judge Susan Evashavik DiLucente because of scrutiny over no-cash bail decisions. The judge's actions came after a fugitive warrant was issued for Hermas Craddock, who failed to appear at a bond modification hearing earlier this week. Despite a lengthy criminal record, Orenstein had released Craddock on a non-monetary bond after he was accused of leading Pennsylvania State Police troopers state on a high speed chase down Route 28, nearly ramming two cruisers and tossing a weapon from his car. Craddock was ultimately taken into custody after escaping to Florida.
Craddock was the second high-profile defendant who would be a no-show for one of Orenstein's cases. Orenstein also released New York City native Yan Carlos Cepeda on no-cash bail after his arrest for allegedly trafficking more than a kilogram of cocaine. The Allegheny County Sheriff's Office said they spent $30,000 sending detectives to New York three times to look for Cepeda after he failed to show at his preliminary hearing. Cepeda was arrested once again in New York City and was ruled to be held without bail by a different judge after being taken into custody.
A 15-year-old accused of murdering New Orleans tour guide Kristie Thibodeaux was wearing a deactivated court-ordered ankle monitor at the time of her killing, sources told Fox 8. Kevin Nunez is accused of firing the fatal shot on June 30 as Thibodeaux sat in her car on St. Peter Street. According to court documents, Nunez was released from custody and sentenced to home incarceration by Chief Juvenile Court Judge Candice Bates-Anderson after being found guilty in juvenile court of seven counts of aggravated assault, illegal possession of a handgun and domestic battery abuse. On May 21, an arrest warrant was issued after Nunez allegedly failed to adhere to the conditions of his release.
Seconds after the mob set upon the husband, a teenage girl began dragging the wife by her hair and pepper sprayed her in the face while another began beating her and kicking her in the stomach. The attack was so brutal, it left the woman with bald spots from where chunks of her hair were torn from her scalp.
Only after police showed up did the mob take off running. Only two teens- – a 17-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy – were arrested.
Several hours after the attack, the woman found out she’d lost her baby.
Despite having just brutally beaten two innocent people and killed a baby for no reason whatsoever, the two teens arrested were almost immediately released. They’ve been charged only with misdemeanor battery.
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