A parolee with nearly two dozen previous arrests was busted Thursday for attempting to rape and rob a woman in Downtown Brooklyn after posing as an immigration agent, cops and sources said. Leon Howell, 43, allegedly took the 51-year-old woman’s iPhone during the brutal Tuesday attack inside the basement of a building at Montague and Henry Streets – but that ended up working to cops’ advantage when they used the victim’s Find my iPhone app to track him down, the law enforcement sources said. Howell – who was just paroled last month in connection to the 2017 strangulation of a stranger in Brooklyn – was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, third-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, police said.
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.
Markeese Brazelis who was cut loose after allegedly groping a woman on a Big Apple subway train this month is now charged with throwing a female straphanger into an incoming Manhattan train, police said. Brazelis, 26, who already has sex abuse and trespassing cases hanging over his head, is accused of pushing a 23-year-old woman into a moving A train in a random Monday morning attack. The victim struck the train and fell back onto the platform, causing bruises to her face, hands, knees and shoulder. She is expected to survive, law enforcement sources said. The shocking attack played out at the 175th Street station shortly after 9 a.m. when Brazelis allegedly pushed the unsuspecting victim into the train as it pulled in.
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.
A subway maniac with 87 prior arrests was just busted for two transit stabbings — carrying the “large knife’’ he allegedly used in the violence, police and sources said Sunday. Jamar Banks — a 52-year-old with a long rap sheet and history of mental illness — was nabbed by the NYPD Warrant Squad around midnight at the 219th Street station in The Bronx and brought to the NYPD’s Transit Bureau District 2 in Manhattan, police sources said. He was carrying what had been described by police as a “large knife,” which he allegedly used in last week’s attacks, sources said.
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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