NYPD, feds bust drug rings
Year-long sting nets 25 for dealing The US attorney for New York City and the city’s top cop announced yesterday they have busted up a Mott Haven-based operation that sold crack in Mott Haven and...
View ArticlePolice Beat: Dec. 10- Dec. 16
Internet Nightmare Police are investigating a reported rape in an apartment near East 138th Street and Brook Ave. at 9 p.m. on Dec. 11. After meeting a man on Facebook, a twelve-year-old Manhattanite...
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Pedestrian death prompts rally to curb traffic
Joe HirschResidents say congestion from trucks at the corner of E. 138th St. and St. Ann’s Ave. is a hazard for pedestrians. Mott Haven intersection is a death trap, protesters say A traffic accident...
View ArticlePolice beat: Dec. 17-23
Shooting A nighttime shooting on Park Avenue was captured on the security cameras of a nearby strip club, police said. Just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 23, a 29-year-old man walking past Sin City was shot...
View ArticlePolice beat: Dec. 23-29
Assaults A dispute between a brother and sister ended with a chokehold, police said. The siblings, who live together on East 152nd Street, argued at about 8 p.m. on Dec. 24. The brother, 19, choked his...
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Youth groups wreak havoc in Mott Haven
Police say youth groups known as “crews” were responsible for many of the shootings in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris in recent years. The graph shows that the number of shootings spiked in 2011,...
View ArticlePolice beat: Dec. 30- Jan. 7
Assaults A 32-year-old woman was slashed at a Mott Haven strip club on Dec. 30. Police say the victim was dancing at Sin City around 4 in the morning when someone cut her face with a box cutter. She...
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Homicides, assaults drop in 2012, robberies up
Irina IvanovaHomicides and violent assaults were down in 2012 in Mott Haven and Melrose, but phone theft caused a spike in robberies and grand larcenies. Residents urge cops to rein in reckless drivers...
View ArticleMorrisania hit man gets life
A hit man hired by a Morrisania gang to rub out a rival gang member in 2002 has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars, agents for two federal agencies announced on Jan. 17. Antoine...
View ArticleFeds bust another Mott Haven gang
Investigation ongoing into murder of gang leader Several members and associates of a gang that the authorities say dealt heroin and crack in Morrisania were arrested on Jan. 17, in the latest in a...
View ArticleBorough President calls for gun crime registry
The Bronx Borough President wants the New York State Legislature to create a new online registry that would list gun owners who have been convicted of gun-related crimes. In his annual State of the...
View ArticlePolice handcuff activist filming them
Ed Garcia Conde found himself in handcuffs shortly after he left the Bronx Documentary Center’s latest show on March 14. His crime? “Creating a dangerous situation,” said police. Videotaping police...
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Undercover cop video’d chasing 10-year-old
Undercover cop chased 10-year-old in Mott Haven Houses from motthaven on Vimeo. Child was returning home from corner store Fourth-grader Dionte Johnson was walking back to his grandfather’s apartment...
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Demonstrators denounce guns at Million Mom March
Eva Elizabeth Suazo holds up a photo of her daughter, Santa Suazo, who was 15 when she was killed in 1996. Some five hundred demonstrators rallied to denounce gun violence at this year’s Million Mom...
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LGBT community rallies against hate
Maya RajamaniReverend James Dusenbury, who founded In the Life Ministries, at a press conference denouncing hate crimes against the LGBTQ community at the Bronx County Courthouse on June 7. But a major...
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Melrose workshop trains reporters for war
Angely MercadoReporters trained for overseas emergencies at the Bronx Documentary Center on June 21. Bronx Documentary Center fills void left by newspaper closures Sniper fire echoed in the tiny...
View ArticlePolice beat: the week of 9/15 in crime
Robberies: POLICE ARRESTED a 27-year-old man after he allegedly robbed another man in front of 2715 3rd Ave. at 8:50 p.m. on Sept. 17. Edwin Ortega flashed what the victim thought was a gun before...
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Top cop nearly slammed by rogue biker
Confrontation emphasizes danger of dirt bikes, say officials The driver of an illegal all-terrain vehicle picked the wrong man to intimidate in Mott Haven, according to police. The ATV barreled toward...
View ArticleFormer Nos Quedamos director arrested
Non-profit’s one-time head faces up to 15 years for embezzling Yolanda Gonzalez, whose mother founded Nos Quedamos, the organization responsible for rebuilding a devastated 35-square block portion of...
View ArticlePolice Beat: the week of 9/29 in crime
Assaults POLICE ARRESTED three people for assault in separate incidents in cases involving victims struck in the head with objects ranging from a cellphone to a glass bottle. A 38-year-old woman was...
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