Archive | September, 2016

Bronx school teacher busted for beating student who kept his drug money

Kevin Pope, a science teacher at the John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy in Hunts Point, was arrested on Friday for beating a 16-year-old student who walked away with Pope’s money in a drug buy. Read the full story on NY Daily News.

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Man Found Dead in Crate May Have Been There for 10 Years, Brother Says

James Michael Brannon, a California man, who went missing in 2004 and was discovered murdered in a Throgs Neck marina Monday may have been in a wooden crate under a dry-docked boat for up to a decade, his brother said. Read the full story on DNAinfo.

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Back to School with Councilman King

Around 1,500 middle school children receive books and a boost from the chancellor and City Councilmember Andrew King

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Jerome Avenue Autoworkers Featured in Photoville Exhibit

The Jerome Avenue Workers Project, a photography exhibit by the Bronx Photo League, is showing at the annual Photoville festival in Brooklyn this week.

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Thief headlocks, swipes wallet from a 71-year-old Bronx man in the latest elderly victim attack

Antonio Garcia was standing on E. 138th St. near the Madison Ave. Bridge in Grand Concourse about 8 p.m. Wednesday when an attacker grabbed him from behind. The thief put Garcia in a headlock and swiped the senior’s wallet, which contained $33, before running off. Garcia was not injured. Cops were still looking for the mugger on […]

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Prosecution Bureau Opened on Rikers Island

On Thursday, the Bronx District Attorney opened a 14-staff prosecution bureau on Rikers Island. “Being on site, the Bronx District Attorney’s office will bring another set of eyes and ears to Rikers Island,” DA Darcel Clark said. You can read more, here.

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Bronx student asked school safety agent to watch his bag full of books — and a loaded gun

20-year-old Earl Williams told a safety agent in Providing Urban Learners Success in Education High School in Tremont to watch a bag for him on Wednesday. Upon opening the black plastic bag, the agent discovered a .38-caliber pistol with four live rounds, according to New York Daily News. Read the full story Here.

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The Bronx Supreme Court sentences 6 Rikers officers to prison time for beating inmate

Six of the correction officers convicted of the brutal beating of a Rikers Island inmate in 2012 were sentenced to prison time on Friday and will head back to Rikers Island for processing before getting sent upstate, according to DNAinfo.  

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