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A Westchester County man is facing life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a man in Doyle Park when an attempted armed robbery went awry last year. On Thursday, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced that 27-year-old Yonkers resident Robert Daniels has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for his role in a May 2016 shooting that left his victim dead.
A 17-year-old from Yonkers says he was given a second chance, thanks to a youth program in Westchester. Alex Ortiz, of Yonkers, said that when he was 16 years old, he was involved in robberies, home invasions and a stabbing that landed him locked up with violent offenders in Valhalla.
... and insurance-law changes that will make it easier for them to move in to cities like Rochester, Buffalo, Yonkers and beyond. Why? The ride-hailing measure tucked into a state budget bill will take effect 90 days after it's approved. The Assembly ...
... in Westchester, the Bronx, Manhattan and Connecticut. Seven of the suspects were brought into custody on Wednesday. Yonkers residents Jason Auza, Guillermo Fernandez and Kasean Galloway, all suspects, had previously been in state custody for other ...
A Yonkers firefighter was arraigned on a sexual assault charge Monday following a lengthy investigation after he allegedly made unwanted sexual contact with a 25-year-old woman at a Fourth of July party last year. At approximately 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5, police were dispatched to a local hospital, where a victim reported that she had been sexually offended, Yonkers Police Sgt.
... his men to "threaten and intimidate" a guy who ran an illegal gambling establishment on Saw Mill River Road in Yonkers, the feds have said. On one occasion, Parrello allegedly told his men to get a guy named Buddy to choke the victim. "I want Buddy ...
... members from the FBI, Westchester County District Attorney's Office, Westchester County police, Peekskill police, Yonkers police, the NYPD and the U.S. Probation Office. Mayor Richard Thomas said the town welcomes the help: "The involvement of the ...
A Westchester County neurologist was among six charged in a multi-million dollar health care fraud scheme that spanned more than a decade. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara announced that Emad Soliman, who lives in New Castle and has a practice in Yonkers, was among those charged in a reported 12-year scheme to "defraud Medicaid, Medicare and other private health insurance companies out of more than $50 million."
The Mount Vernon man accused of the fatal stabbing a 24-year-old Yonkers resident last year has been arraigned on manslaughter and weapons charges. According to Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Donte Pace, 22, has been arraigned in Westchester County Court on Wednesday, where he was formally charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon following the assault of his victim last October.
Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced Tuesday that Joann Perrino, a 60-year-old Yonkers resident, pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $1 million from her employer. The district attorney's office said Perrino initiated transfers and wrote checks from her employer's account to pay for personal expenses, including car and mortgage payments, travel expenses, spa treatments and, on one occasion, a $4,366 shopping spree on clothes.
... to Scarpino, between December 2012 and July 2013, Gunther, who worked as a personal banker at Chase Bank in Yonkers, stole $122,100 from a customer's account after he deposited money from a Certificate of Deposit that had recently matured. The ...
A Yonkers man has been found guilty of attempted murder for his role in a shooting that left a woman without complete function of her left hand after more than six months. On Tuesday, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino announced that Yonkers resident Frank Kwaw, 25, was found guilty of multiple violent felonies following last year's shooting of Jessica Scott.
... at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2015, Blount approached his 57-year-old female victim on Belmont Avenue in Yonkers, grabbed her by the neck and throat, obscuring her breathing and forced her into a nearby yard, where he threw her on the ...
The driver involved in the shooting death of 23-year-old Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics baseball prospect Michael Nolan was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony charge of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in relation to the shooting that left Nolan with a bullet in his head outside of a Burger King on Central Park Avenue.
The driver involved in the shooting death of 23-year-old Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics baseball prospect Michael Nolan was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Mount Vernon resident Garth O'Neil was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony charge of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in relation to the shooting that left Nolan with a bullet in his head outside of a Burger King on Central Park Avenue.
A law designed to curtail lewd behavior in private settings has led to the arrests of dozens of alleged flashers in the 11 months it's been on the books, according to its co-sponsors, Sen. George Latimer, D-Rye, and Assemblymember Shelley Mayer, D-Yonkers. The new law specifically addresses situations where a person has entered a residential dwelling without consent and intentionally exposes him- or herself, or commits other lewd acts, in the presence of another person The crackdown on perverts who commit lewd acts while trespassing stems from an incident where a Yonkers woman walked into her dining room only to find her 40-year-old neighbor masturbating there, according to media reports.
... Sept. 18 last year, Nolan was standing outside of his Mercedes outside at the Burger King on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers when six shots rang out of the Toyota Camry being driven by the four defendants, with one of the bullets hitting Nolan in the ...
Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty announced today that William Ahern of 28 High Street, Armonk, New York pled guilty as charged to all counts against him, namely: Over the period of nearly two years, between September 24, 2012 and April 11, 2014, Ahern, the owner of A Plus Transportation, located at 57 Alexander Street in Yonkers, while aiding and abetting and acting in concert, with co-defendant Anna Sollozzo, Transportation Supervisor for the City of Yonkers Board of Education, allegedly stole approximately $313,825 from the City of Yonkers for bus services that were never provided for the Nepperhan Community Center.
William Ahern, an Armonk resident and owner of A Plus Transportation, has pleaded guilty to scamming Yonkers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by billing the city for non-existent bus services. Yonkers resident Anna Sollozzo, a former transportation supervisor for the city's Board of Education, is in prison after pleading guilty to grand larceny and tax fraud in a bus services scam.
Two of the four men responsible for ending the promising life of 23-year-old former Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics pro baseball prospect Michael Nolan are heading to prison. On Wednesday, Tejmitra Singh, 23, and Darren Dawson, 19 were sentencing to time in state prison for their roles in aiding and abetting the shooting on Wednesday.
Three of the four men that pleaded guilty for their roles in the shooting death of 23-year-old Yonkers resident and Oakland Athletics baseball prospect Michael Nolan are scheduled to be sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Bronx natives Nashaun Hunter, 18, Tejmitra Singh, 23 and Darren Dawson, 19, are due back in court on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to violent felony charges in relation to the shooting that left Nolan with a bullet in his head outside of a Burger King on Central Park Avenue.
... of New York on charges that he conspired to distribute oxycodone. Prosecutors say Ramirez's prescriptions to a Yonkers man named James Cooney and others put more than 10,000 OxyContin pills into circulation between 2012 and September 2015. Ramirez's ...
A Yonkers man has been sentenced to three decades in prison after being found guilty by a non-trial jury of nearly stabbing a man to death during an armed robbery on city streets last year. On Friday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Michael Thomas - also known as Laquan Smith - had been sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of seven felony charges.
A Westchester man is facing life in prison after an attempted armed robbery went wrong and a man was shot dead at Doyle Park in Yonkers earlier this year. On Thursday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Yonkers resident Robert Daniels, 27, was arraigned on murder charges for his role in a May shooting that left Joseph Huguet shot and killed.
A Yonkers man is facing life in prison after an attempted armed robbery went wrong and a man was shot dead in Doyle Park earlier this year. On Thursday, acting Westchester County District Attorney James McCarty announced that Robert Daniels, 27, was arraigned on murder charges for his role in a May shooting that left Joseph Huguet shot and killed.