Serious Crime with Little or No Consequences (2)

Nov. 15, 2024

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. 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrants-armed-loaded-ar-15-attack-police-deep-blue-city-released

Nov 6, 2024

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

Oct 27, 2024

JUST IN: 14-year-old boy found guilty of killing a 17-year-old cheerleader at a house party may only serve time until his 18th birthday because he was tried as a juvenile

Hailey Stephens, 17, was killed by a stray bullet at a party in an abandoned house last November

The boy, who was 13 at the time, was found guilty of second-degree murder but may only serve time until his 18th birthday because he was tried as a juvenile

The party turned deadly around 1;30 AM when a gunfight broke out, with at least 60 shots fired

Hailey and her friend Kiley Mendoza, 17, were innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire while trying to leave

Hailey was shot in the head and later died in a Phoenix hospital

Kiley was shot in the arm, survived, and now deals with the grief of losing her friend.

Oct 23, 2024

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.

Judge Xander Orenstein under fire for releasing Montour Trail stabbing suspect Anthony Quesen in prior assault case - CBS Pittsburgh

July 10, 2024

Candice Bates-Anderson, a judge who sentenced Kevin Nunez to just house arrest for 7 counts of aggravated assault weeks before he allegedly killed Kristi Thibodeaux. Interestingly enough, Bates-Anderson came under fire in Dec 2023 for giving a pass to a juvenile involved in 14 crimes. That individual ALSO violated his terms of release.

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.

June 11, 2024

Biden-nominated Judge Julia Lipez of Maine suspended the sentence of convicted pedophile Michael T. Smith, who was convicted of sexuaIIy abusing two girls aged 4 and 9. He served only 6 years of his 12-year sentence because the judge says Smith "has a lot of good in him."    

One was 4 years old, the other, 9 years old, when the abuse started.  One of the girls wrote about how the stress of the abuse had made her sick.   “The stress of my predator being free was eating me alive,” she wrote. “Everywhere I go, the feeling of a brick tied to my heart and dragging behind follows.”  She has engaged in years of therapy, she wrote, “trying to undo the damage and suffering that sexual abuse has caused me.”  The other victim wrote that she has lost close friendships and has become fearful of physical contact with others. 

Smith’s family members told the judge that he had always been kind, generous, hardworking, helpful and thoughtful.  His attorney, Walter McKee, said Smith performed small acts of kindness daily.  He has worked as a corrections officer at Oxford County Jail, animal control and private security.  Smith had no criminal history before his convictions at trial.  Before imposing sentence against Smith, Justice Lipez said she had to weigh his positive qualities against his criminal conduct.  “People are complicated,” she said. “I have frankly been offered very little insight as to how or why this happened. What I can say is that this is a very tragic situation of a person who has a lot of good in him having done a very reprehensible thing to two young children … causing extreme damage.”

Second case:  Ashley Malloy exposed her 14-month-old son to fentanyl which caused his death. Judge Lipez gave her ONLY 4 years plus a $565 fine.

June 7, 2024 Couple Attacked Causing Miscarriage

https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2024/06/chicago-teens-who-beat-a-couple-killed-their-baby-released-just-after-arrest/

A group of teen criminals in Chicago attacked a couple who were out on a date last weekend, leaving both victims injured from being beaten, and causing the pregnant wife to miscarry her child.  In an interview with a Fox32, the woman, identified only as “Nina,” said the gang of more than 10 teens walked up and began beating her husband in the head, shouting, “We own the street.”  “They didn’t steal anything,” Nina recalled. “They said like, ‘We own the street. We own the street. You can’t walk around.’ I was wearing like a nice dress and heels. Like I was out on the date with my husband, and they dragged my dress on the ground, and they said, like, ‘we own the street. You can’t just walk around prancing in your little dress.’ And they were saying things that just didn’t make any sense to me because they don’t know me personally.”

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.

June 4, 2024  Two Felons Kill Young Father  

https://abc7chicago.com/post/cpd-update-father-zet-rodriguez-killed-pittsburgh-avenue/14910195/

"We are here today to announce charges in the tragic murder of a 24-year-old man that occurred in the Dunning neighborhood on May 10th, 2024," said CPD Deputy Chief Kevin Bruno.  Police say 32-year-old Divonte Calhoun and 41-year-old Justin Redmond murdered Zet Rodriguez. Police say both Calhoun and Redmond are convicted felons who were on parole at the time of the killing.

"The victim was headed to work just after 7 a.m. when he was approached by Calhoun in the 3900-block of North Pittsburgh. Calhoun shot the victim and demanded money from him before fleeing on foot," Bruno said.  Bruno says a multitude of surveillance video, showing the shooting and Calhoun getting into a waiting vehicle driven by Redmond, was the start they needed to find their suspects.

The vehicle was registered to Calhoun's relative. Calhoun was arrested the day of the murder, but released until more forensic and cell phone evidence came back to strengthen the detectives' case.