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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

DNA Solves 20-Year-Old Murder Cold Case



BRONX, NEW YORK, December19- District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced that a murder charge has been filed against a 60-year-old defendant in connection with the brutal stabbing of a woman in Riverdale 19 years ago on October 20, 1993.

Lucius Crawford, of Beekman Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York, was indicted by the grand jury on one count of murder in the second degree. The indictment alleges that Crawford acted “with intent” in causing the death of 38-year-old Nella West by “blunt force trauma and sharp injuries to the head, face, and abdomen.” The deceased was stabbed multiple times and had sustained multiple fractures to her skull and numerous blunt force injuries and lacerations to her face.

Crawford, who was arrested last month in Mount Vernon, was arraigned before State Supreme Court Justice Richard Lee Price in Part T-16. The judge ordered that Crawford be held without bail.

The homicide remained unsolved until March of this year when the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner developed a full DNA profile of a suspect as a result of advances in DNA technology that was not available when the homicide occurred. Investigators were able to develop a profile from forensic evidence retrieved from vaginal swabs taken from the deceased.
(No sex crime could be charged in this case because the Statute of Limitations for sexual offenses has expired.) The profile was uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and was found to be a match to Crawford, who was paroled in 2008 after serving ten years on a conviction in Westchester County.

The investigation was re-opened by the NYPD 50th Precinct Detective Squad and the Bronx District Attorney’s Office as a result of a grant to test DNA forensic evidence in “cold cases”.  Court records indicate that upon his apprehension the defendant admitted to causing West’s death.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Rachel Singer, Director of DNA Prosecutions.






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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

HOMES GUTTED ON JACKSON AVENUE

 (Photos by David Greene)
 
A four-alarm fire in the Woodstock section has injured three firefighters and two police officers, but residents escaped without injury. The Red Cross is currently assisting six of the 11 families that were left homeless for the holiday's after the Sunday, December 16 blaze. 
 
Officials say the fire broke out on the top floor of 603 Jackson Avenue and quickly spread to two adjacent three-story buildings. Several ground-floor businesses were also destroyed. The fire department continues to investigate the cause of the blaze. The injured were taken to Lincoln Hospital and were all expected to recover.






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Monday, December 17, 2012

Holiday Train Show

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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Woman Found Dead in Baychester

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Woman Found Dead in Baychester: (Photo by David Greene) By David Greene BRONX, NEW YORK, December 17- Detectives continue to investigate the horrific and brutal murder of...
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Woman Found Dead in Baychester

(Photo by David Greene)

By David Greene

BRONX, NEW YORK, December 17- Detectives continue to investigate the horrific and brutal murder of a woman, stabbed to death along Baychester Avenue.

Calls to 911 were received after the woman was found face-first on the sidewalk outside of 4436 Baychester Avenue, at 9:30 a.m., on Sunday, December 16.

The unresponsive woman was rushed to Montefiore Hospital North, but succumbed to her injuries.

Police identified the victim as Maxine Martinez, 44, who lived around the corner on Nereid Avenue.

Neighborhood resident Andrew Fenton, 25, who discovered the gruesome scene, recalled, "I came out, I just saw this lady face-down with blood everywhere. She was cut up pretty bad."

Fenton, who watched as paramedics tried frantically to revive the woman, added, "Something like this, in this neighborhood, someone just lying in the street, it makes me feel mad. It's crazy."

Because police had no witnesses to the incident, detectives at first were unsure if it was the result of an assault or a car accident on the busy street.

However, police now say that Martinez was stabbed multiple times in her back and head and the incident has been deemed a homicide.

Anyone with any information are asked to call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS, all calls remain confidential.  






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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): White Plains Road BID

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): White Plains Road BID: (Photo by Robert Press) By Robert Press BRONX, NEW YORK, December 17- The White Plains Road Business Improvement District (BID) was estab...
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White Plains Road BID


(Photo by Robert Press)

By Robert Press

BRONX, NEW YORK, December 17- The White Plains Road Business Improvement District (BID) was established May,1994, as a not-for-profit community economic development organization with a mission to maintain and enhance business conditions in a four-block area in the Bronx. The area extends from Bolton Street east along Pelham Parkway South to White Plains Road and south for three blocks to Brady Avenue. There are currently 88 stores actively open for business with only three small storefronts that are empty to lease.

The main retail shopping area is characterized by the #2 elevated train which runs up the center of White Plains Road with a stop at Pelham Parkway. Bus connections Bx12, Bx39, and Bx22 are available at Pelham Parkway as well as links to the BxM11 and the Westchester #60 and #61 buses.

The White Plains Road BID is within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo, the Bronx Botanical Gardens, Beth Abraham Hospital and Health Services. Various elementary and intermediate schools as well as Christopher Columbus High School and Saint Catherine’s Academy serve the ethnicity diverse populated houses and apartment buildings that are also in the neighborhood.

The BID provides a uniformed street cleaner who sweeps the sidewalks and curbs twice per day and regularly empties the garbage pails. Holiday lights are up on White Plains Road and a Santa Claus walks up and down the street distributing candy and posing for pictures free-of-charge. The 49th Pct. patrols the White Plains Road BID area regularly with officers that are friendly and helpful to shoppers and the merchants. In cooperation with a group of local businesses (namely: Good N Natural, BX Sports, Creston Optical and Ultimate Studio Martial Arts), innovative commercials have been created which emphasize the advantages of the area, and placed on local cable channels.

For the first time a Chanukah Menorah was lit on White Plains Road on Pelham Parkway at the subway stop, which was provided by newly elected Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj. On hand were Congressman Eliot Engel, State Senator Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Gjonaj, Joe Thompson of the BID, and almost two hundred people including Rabbi Zuckerman who blessed and then lit the menorah.

Mr. Joe Thompson is the Executive Director of the White Plains Road BID. In an interview Mr. Thompson said that he walks to work, and loves helping to improve the area that he lives in. Joe is known by each and every merchant of the BID, and he told me a story about almost every store as we took a walk up and down the BID area. 

There are several banks, two major chain drug stores, other national chain stores, a dozen different clothing stores, several places to eat including McDonald’s and Burger King, a supermarket, a post office, many one of a kind stores, and even a municipal parking lot. Some of the stores have increased in size, while others have opened additional stores with the success of the White Plains Road store. 

When I asked Mr. Thompson the one store he would like to see in the BID his answer was “well we have almost everything”. 

You can go to my blog at www.100percentbronx.blogspot.com to see many photos of the White Plains Road Bid.






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