Two brothers in New York are facing upgraded criminal charges months after they allegedly left their grandmother to die in a house fire but saved their meth equipment. Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker told WETM that Jarrett and Justin Gause removed their meth equipment from the Riverside home and went to get cigarettes, but …
Twelve women who were students at the New York School for the Deaf have filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging a dorm housemaster sexually abused them for years and nothing was done to stop it. The New York Times reported that all 12 plaintiffs attended the prominent school during the 1960s and ’70s. They claimed …
An alleged gang member in New York who is charged with robbery and assault is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl while out on bail. The New York Post reported that Supreme Court Justice Craig Walker set Tony Johnson’s bail at $6,000 in March, allowing his mother to get him out of jail. In …
Five gang members were sentenced to prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a 15-year-old New York boy whom they mistook for a rival gang member. Though all five men were convicted of first-degree murder, Joniki Matinez Estrella, 24, was the only person sentenced to life in prison without parole for the June 2018 slaying of …
A New York man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Thursday for suffocating his 7-year-old daughter with a pillow hours after his divorce was finalized. Neil White, 49, killed Gabrielle White in his New Rochelle townhome in June 2017. WCBS reported that officers who responded to the crime scene not only …
Police in New York are searching for a man who allegedly disguised himself as a FedEx employee before he tied up and robbed a family of $130,000 in cash and jewelry. WPIX reported that the suspect masqueraded as a FedEx worker and delivered a fake package to the Brooklyn home at around 3 p.m. on …
Police in New York are searching for a man who allegedly robbed an elderly woman of $5,000—money she said was going to pay for her late husband’s headstone. WCBS reported that Maximina Osorio, 89, had returned to her East Village apartment from shopping on Saturday morning when the suspect forced his way inside as she …
An affidavit alleging that a former Boy Scout leader in New York had sung and danced naked in a locker room full of boys will be included in a pending $320 million lawsuit against the organization. According to NBC News, parents of two boys in Troop 95 had filed the multimillion lawsuit in March 2017, …
A New York teen who claimed he was being bullied for his sexual orientation by a classmate that he stabbed to death was sentenced on Tuesday to 14 years in prison for the 2017 slaying. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Michael Gross denied youthful offender status for Abel Cedeno, 20, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter …
A New York woman was reportedly mauled to death by one or two of her pet dogs on Saturday. According to the New York Post, Arlene Renna, 67, was discovered unconscious in her living room by her husband upon his return to their Pleasant Valley home. Renna was pronounced dead at the scene and state …
Singer R. Kelly has been moved from solitary confinement to general population in an Illinois federal jail as he awaits trial for multiple crimes, including sex trafficking and sexual assault. Prosecutors, who announced Kelly’s move on Tuesday, denied the defense’s claims that the singer was in solitary confinement against his will—offering a recorded phone call …
Authorities in New York are investigating after a woman reportedly found a dead man in her pickup truck while loading groceries. The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that they were called to the Tops supermarket on Friday following the discovery of a dead body. The woman who found him claimed she had …
