BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 19- District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced that Miguel Torres was sentenced to a maximum term of 25 years to life imprisonment for shooting a Bronx businessman to death.
Torres, 50, was found guilty last month on one count of murder in the second degree. The jury deliberated for one day before finding that Torres had caused the death of 59-year-old Mohammad Zafar by shooting him once in the heart while he sat in his car.
State Supreme Court Justice Troy Webber imposed the maximum sentence allowed by law, 25 years to life imprisonment, after the victim’s wife told the court of the pain and suffering that the loss of her husband continues to cause in her life.
The murder occurred in the vicinity of Bainbridge and Rochambeau Avenues on January 24, 2003. After the victim was shot, he exited the vehicle and collapsed on the ground. Torres escaped from the crime scene in the vehicle and later abandoned it, leaving blood on the driver side seatbelt and steering wheel. The vehicle was located by the police two days later and a DNA profile was developed from the evidence recovered at the crime scene and uploaded to the New York State DNA Databank. In June of 2006, the New York State Executive Law was amended requiring defendants convicted of specific DNA qualifying misdemeanors to submit DNA samples to the Databank. On December 22, 2008, the defendant was convicted of Menacing in the Second Degree resulting in the submission of a DNA sample which was a forensic match to the evidence from the 2003 homicide.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Felicity Lung of the Trial Bureau.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Gas station gunman wanted
By Dan Gesslein
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 19- Cops are searching for the gunman who stuck up a gas station near the Bruckner Mall in broad daylight.
Police released surveillance video of the robbery. At around 4:27 p.m. On July 7, the gunman entered the Shell gas station at 1929 Bruckner Boulevard and demanded money. Waving a handgun at the store clerk, he made off with an undetermined amount of cash.
The gunman is described as a 28-year-old Hispanic male who is 5 foot 6 and weighing 150 pounds.
Anyone with information should call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS.
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto Crime Stoppers' website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577.
All calls are strictly confidential.
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 19- Cops are searching for the gunman who stuck up a gas station near the Bruckner Mall in broad daylight.
Police released surveillance video of the robbery. At around 4:27 p.m. On July 7, the gunman entered the Shell gas station at 1929 Bruckner Boulevard and demanded money. Waving a handgun at the store clerk, he made off with an undetermined amount of cash.
The gunman is described as a 28-year-old Hispanic male who is 5 foot 6 and weighing 150 pounds.
Anyone with information should call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS.
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto Crime Stoppers' website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577.
All calls are strictly confidential.
Cell phone thief takes victim for a ride
Mugs rider on bus
By Dan Gesslein
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 19- Police are asking for the public's help in trying to catch the latest group of cell phone thieves who struck on the street and on a city bus. Investigators released surveillance video and photos in an attempt to catch the thieves.
The first mugging took place at around 1 a.m. on June 30. A 31-year-old man was walking down Starling Avenue when he was attacked by two men. The muggers threatened the man with a knife and made off with his iPhone and cash.
Cops arrested one of the suspects but there is still one at large. They released video of the mugging in the hopes of caching the second suspect who is 5 foot 10 and was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and shorts.
Another brazen thief struck on a city bus in broad daylight. At around 4:30 p.m. on July 5, the victim was riding the northbound MTA BX19 bus along Southern Boulevard. As the suspect was walking toward the back of the bus he snatched the cell phone out of the victim's hand. The thief dashed out of the back exit at the East 156th Street stop.
Police released photos of the suspect while he was riding on the bus and when he was running down the street during his escape.
Anyone with information should call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS.
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto Crime Stoppers' website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577.
All calls are strictly confidential.
By Dan Gesslein
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 19- Police are asking for the public's help in trying to catch the latest group of cell phone thieves who struck on the street and on a city bus. Investigators released surveillance video and photos in an attempt to catch the thieves.
The first mugging took place at around 1 a.m. on June 30. A 31-year-old man was walking down Starling Avenue when he was attacked by two men. The muggers threatened the man with a knife and made off with his iPhone and cash.
Cops arrested one of the suspects but there is still one at large. They released video of the mugging in the hopes of caching the second suspect who is 5 foot 10 and was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and shorts.
Another brazen thief struck on a city bus in broad daylight. At around 4:30 p.m. on July 5, the victim was riding the northbound MTA BX19 bus along Southern Boulevard. As the suspect was walking toward the back of the bus he snatched the cell phone out of the victim's hand. The thief dashed out of the back exit at the East 156th Street stop.
Police released photos of the suspect while he was riding on the bus and when he was running down the street during his escape.
Anyone with information should call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS.
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto Crime Stoppers' website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577.
All calls are strictly confidential.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Library to pay $105G In questionable taxes
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Library to pay $105G In questionable taxes: By Michael Horowitz BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 18- The New York Public Library will pay $105,000 in disputed charges for real-estate-tax paymen...
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Contract voted down
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Contract voted down: Electric company here to continue Installations without board approval By Michael Horowitz BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 18- The Southside ...
Contract voted down
Electric company here to continue
Installations without board approval
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 18- The Southside Electric Company, which has been doing work here without having a contract approved by the Riverbay board, will continue to oversee the installation of smoke detectors and GFI receptacles even though the board, last week, rejected a contact for the company.
Riverbay president William Gordon said, this week, that the installation work, which was started without a board-approved contract for the Southside company, will, nevertheless, continue under the electric company’s supervision.
The matter of a board-approved contract for the Southside company was submitted for the consideration of board members after some of them voiced concern that they had been kept out of the process.
Gordon said, this week, “We will continue to use Southside’s license so that the installation work can continue. We’re going to have some of the work done by Southside’s workers and some done by Riverbay workers to see which option works out better.”
Commenting this week, Riverbay board member Daryl Johnson said that it’s outrageous that members of the board, until last Wednesday night, had never discussed a possible contract with the Southside Electric Company.
“We should have been involved in the process in the first place,” Johnson stressed this week. “It’s outrageous that Southside got a contract to do work here without the board’s approval. Having them work here and then having the board consider a contract is as lame as lame can be. It’s putting the cart before the horse. It’s no way to do business, but it is the way the Riverbay Corporation does business.”
The installation of smoke detectors and GFI receptacles in every apartment here is a requirement of Co-op City’s $621.5-million, HUD-insured mortgage.
Installations without board approval
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 18- The Southside Electric Company, which has been doing work here without having a contract approved by the Riverbay board, will continue to oversee the installation of smoke detectors and GFI receptacles even though the board, last week, rejected a contact for the company.
Riverbay president William Gordon said, this week, that the installation work, which was started without a board-approved contract for the Southside company, will, nevertheless, continue under the electric company’s supervision.
The matter of a board-approved contract for the Southside company was submitted for the consideration of board members after some of them voiced concern that they had been kept out of the process.
Gordon said, this week, “We will continue to use Southside’s license so that the installation work can continue. We’re going to have some of the work done by Southside’s workers and some done by Riverbay workers to see which option works out better.”
Commenting this week, Riverbay board member Daryl Johnson said that it’s outrageous that members of the board, until last Wednesday night, had never discussed a possible contract with the Southside Electric Company.
“We should have been involved in the process in the first place,” Johnson stressed this week. “It’s outrageous that Southside got a contract to do work here without the board’s approval. Having them work here and then having the board consider a contract is as lame as lame can be. It’s putting the cart before the horse. It’s no way to do business, but it is the way the Riverbay Corporation does business.”
The installation of smoke detectors and GFI receptacles in every apartment here is a requirement of Co-op City’s $621.5-million, HUD-insured mortgage.
Library to pay $105G In questionable taxes
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 18- The New York Public Library will pay $105,000 in disputed charges for real-estate-tax payments as a condition for a new lease for its space adjacent to the Bartow Avenue Shopping Center.
Library official had previously balked at making these payments, saying that bills for them were not submitted in a timely manner and that the bills weren’t properly documented.
The Baychester Library, which reopened this week, had been closed for a week because its air-conditioning unit wasn’t working.
A spokeswoman for the New York Public Library said, this week, that the library system looked forward to a cooperative relationship with the Riverbay Corporation and the Co-op City community in the years to come.
With the public library paying its real-estate-tax debts, the controversy over commercial real estate taxes for Co-op City and its merchants has yet to be resolved even though the matter was on the front burner of community concerns several months ago.
Management officials have taken pains to avoid the issue in recent months, and so have merchants, some of whom have refused to pay the taxes.
Other merchants have agreed to pay modest increases in taxes, seeming to be relieved that threats of tax increases of up to 1,200 percent, which has been threatened several months ago, were on the back burner for now.
The Baychester Branch of the New York Public Library has been a mainstay in Co-op City since the community’s earliest days.
In the 1970s, the local library, which remains one of the city’s most heavily utilized branch libraries, had been threatened with closing during a budget crunch that brought the city to the edge of bankruptcy.
A major community effort, at that time, played a key role in the decision to keep the local library open.
BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 18- The New York Public Library will pay $105,000 in disputed charges for real-estate-tax payments as a condition for a new lease for its space adjacent to the Bartow Avenue Shopping Center.
Library official had previously balked at making these payments, saying that bills for them were not submitted in a timely manner and that the bills weren’t properly documented.
The Baychester Library, which reopened this week, had been closed for a week because its air-conditioning unit wasn’t working.
A spokeswoman for the New York Public Library said, this week, that the library system looked forward to a cooperative relationship with the Riverbay Corporation and the Co-op City community in the years to come.
With the public library paying its real-estate-tax debts, the controversy over commercial real estate taxes for Co-op City and its merchants has yet to be resolved even though the matter was on the front burner of community concerns several months ago.
Management officials have taken pains to avoid the issue in recent months, and so have merchants, some of whom have refused to pay the taxes.
Other merchants have agreed to pay modest increases in taxes, seeming to be relieved that threats of tax increases of up to 1,200 percent, which has been threatened several months ago, were on the back burner for now.
The Baychester Branch of the New York Public Library has been a mainstay in Co-op City since the community’s earliest days.
In the 1970s, the local library, which remains one of the city’s most heavily utilized branch libraries, had been threatened with closing during a budget crunch that brought the city to the edge of bankruptcy.
A major community effort, at that time, played a key role in the decision to keep the local library open.
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