Friday, September 4, 2015
Sangre fría Slay Durante Stolen ATV
BRONX NEWS: Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV: Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Zarnoff Taylor cared about his tricked-out all-terrain vehicle more t...
Thursday, September 3, 2015
BRONX NEWS: Key protocols to combat Legionnaires’ Disease need...
BRONX NEWS: Key protocols to combat Legionnaires’ Disease need...: Key protocols to combat Legionnaires’ Disease needed-lawyer says By Michael Horowitz BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- A lawyer who speciali...
Key protocols to combat Legionnaires’ Disease needed-lawyer says
Key protocols to combat Legionnaires’ Disease needed-lawyer says
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- A lawyer who specializes in Legionnaires’ Disease cases across the country has stated, that New York City and other municipalities need to develop specific protocols to stop the spread of the disease.
Jules Zacher, a single practitioner whose office is in Philadelphia, stressed, “There need to be specific protocols for sampling the water at cooling towers in New York City and across the country. These protocols are not now in place.”
Zacher explained, “All water has the Legionnaires’ Disease bacteria in it, but the bacteria only become threatening when the systems that use the water are not properly maintained.”
The lawyer said that it is incumbent upon New York City and other municipalities to have their personnel check cooling towers by taking samples on a regular basis.
“I am in the process of writing a white paper on possible protocols that New York City could adopt in legislation,” Zacher said. “I plan to contact Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz and key members of the New York City Council about my suggestions.”
Zacher stressed, “Most people who contract Legionnaires’ Disease are elderly or have compromised immune systems. Smokers are also at greater risk.”
The attorney explained, “What happens when someone contracts Legionnaires’ Disease is that the lungs become infected. The infection, if it isn’t properly treated, can affect the kidneys. Those who die from Legionnaires’ Disease usually do so when their kidneys shut down.”
#Legionnaires’ Disease
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- A lawyer who specializes in Legionnaires’ Disease cases across the country has stated, that New York City and other municipalities need to develop specific protocols to stop the spread of the disease.
Jules Zacher, a single practitioner whose office is in Philadelphia, stressed, “There need to be specific protocols for sampling the water at cooling towers in New York City and across the country. These protocols are not now in place.”
Zacher explained, “All water has the Legionnaires’ Disease bacteria in it, but the bacteria only become threatening when the systems that use the water are not properly maintained.”
The lawyer said that it is incumbent upon New York City and other municipalities to have their personnel check cooling towers by taking samples on a regular basis.
“I am in the process of writing a white paper on possible protocols that New York City could adopt in legislation,” Zacher said. “I plan to contact Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz and key members of the New York City Council about my suggestions.”
Zacher stressed, “Most people who contract Legionnaires’ Disease are elderly or have compromised immune systems. Smokers are also at greater risk.”
The attorney explained, “What happens when someone contracts Legionnaires’ Disease is that the lungs become infected. The infection, if it isn’t properly treated, can affect the kidneys. Those who die from Legionnaires’ Disease usually do so when their kidneys shut down.”
#Legionnaires’ Disease
BRONX NEWS: 3 sickened by Legionnaires bring suits
BRONX NEWS: 3 sickened by Legionnaires bring suits: 3 sickened by Legionnaires bring suits By Michael Horowitz BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Two men and a woman, who say that they caught...
3 sickened by Legionnaires bring suits
3 sickened by Legionnaires bring suits
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Two men and a woman, who say that they caught Legionnaires’ Disease in Co-op City, are suing the housing company and the former managing agents in the northeast Bronx community.
The litigants are among eight individuals with Co-op City connections who contracted Legionnaires’ Disease late last year.
An additional two Co-op City shareholders living in the same building, one in 2012 and the other in 2013, caught Legionnaires’ Disease, the city’s Health Department reported in March of last year.
Those suing include Ronald Hines Jr., a 29-year-old man from Co-op City, and Ralph Motta, a 44-year-old man who worked at the Bay Plaza shopping center, both of whom have been seriously debilitated. Neither Motta nor Hines has been able to work since being sickened by Legionnaires’ Disease in December, Bronx News has been told.
Catherine Durso, a Bronxite who visited Co-op City in October of last year, is also suing the Riverbay Corporation, Co-op City’s housing company, and Marion Scott Real Estate, Inc., the former managing agents for the nation’s largest housing complex.
Durso, like Hines and Motta, has had her lifestyle seriously compromised as a result of the severe form of pneumonia that she contracted, her attorneys claimed in a lawsuit that they filed on behalf of her and her husband.
The cooling tower at Co-op City was, late last year and early this year, contaminated by the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ Disease, the city’s Health Department officials said in January.
Since that time, Co-op City’s cooling tower has been decontaminated to the satisfaction of Health Department officials. The cooling tower at the Bay Plaza shopping center was also contaminated with the Legionnaires’ Disease bacteria in late 2014, before being decontaminated.
Despite assurances from Health Department officials, a number of Co-op City’s civic activists remain concerned about Legionnaires’ Disease, insisting that there could be additional problems with the community’s domestic water system, which carries water to Co-op City’s apartment through a series of pumps and connections that go from one floor to another in individual buildings.
Health Department officials have stated that they are confident that the Co-op City cooling tower was the source of the Legionnaires’ Disease, which eight individuals associated with the community contracted in late-2014.
Legionnaires’ Disease is not communicable, meaning it is not spread from one individual to another. Rather, the disease is spread through mists, such as those that can come from contaminated showerhead or water faucets.
By Michael Horowitz
BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Two men and a woman, who say that they caught Legionnaires’ Disease in Co-op City, are suing the housing company and the former managing agents in the northeast Bronx community.
The litigants are among eight individuals with Co-op City connections who contracted Legionnaires’ Disease late last year.
An additional two Co-op City shareholders living in the same building, one in 2012 and the other in 2013, caught Legionnaires’ Disease, the city’s Health Department reported in March of last year.
Those suing include Ronald Hines Jr., a 29-year-old man from Co-op City, and Ralph Motta, a 44-year-old man who worked at the Bay Plaza shopping center, both of whom have been seriously debilitated. Neither Motta nor Hines has been able to work since being sickened by Legionnaires’ Disease in December, Bronx News has been told.
Catherine Durso, a Bronxite who visited Co-op City in October of last year, is also suing the Riverbay Corporation, Co-op City’s housing company, and Marion Scott Real Estate, Inc., the former managing agents for the nation’s largest housing complex.
Durso, like Hines and Motta, has had her lifestyle seriously compromised as a result of the severe form of pneumonia that she contracted, her attorneys claimed in a lawsuit that they filed on behalf of her and her husband.
The cooling tower at Co-op City was, late last year and early this year, contaminated by the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ Disease, the city’s Health Department officials said in January.
Since that time, Co-op City’s cooling tower has been decontaminated to the satisfaction of Health Department officials. The cooling tower at the Bay Plaza shopping center was also contaminated with the Legionnaires’ Disease bacteria in late 2014, before being decontaminated.
Despite assurances from Health Department officials, a number of Co-op City’s civic activists remain concerned about Legionnaires’ Disease, insisting that there could be additional problems with the community’s domestic water system, which carries water to Co-op City’s apartment through a series of pumps and connections that go from one floor to another in individual buildings.
Health Department officials have stated that they are confident that the Co-op City cooling tower was the source of the Legionnaires’ Disease, which eight individuals associated with the community contracted in late-2014.
Legionnaires’ Disease is not communicable, meaning it is not spread from one individual to another. Rather, the disease is spread through mists, such as those that can come from contaminated showerhead or water faucets.
BRONX NEWS: Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV
BRONX NEWS: Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV: Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Zarnoff Taylor cared about his tricked-out all-terrain vehicle more t...
Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV
Cold-Blooded Slay Over Stolen ATV
BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Zarnoff Taylor cared about his tricked-out all-terrain vehicle more than life itself. And as it turned out, more than the lives of the two men whom he suspected had stolen it.
Now, announced Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson, the 30-year-old Taylor will be spending the rest of his life with no possibility of parole for the murder of one of those men, and the attempted murder of the other.
After a two-week-long trial and just one day’s deliberation, on April 21st a jury found Taylor guilty of murder in the first degree (Class A-1 Felony) and attempted murder in the second degree (Class B Violent Felony).
On August 31st, 2015, he was sentenced by Supreme Court Justice John Carter to life without parole for the murder, consecutive to another 25 years in prison for the attempted murder.
Taylor's ATV was his pride and joy, the Yamaha Banshee’s tricked-out engine the envy of anyone who saw it. But when it went missing from the lot where he’d parked it, he and his buddies went looking. On April 16, 2010, Taylor brought 10 men in two vans to Soon Cycle on Ogden Avenue in the Mt. Eden section of the Bronx and found their suspects –
John Santiago (aka Juan Quinones)
and Jonathan Torres. Taylor kidnapped the two men at gunpoint, and drove them around for two hours, robbed them, beat them up and interrogated them, because he wanted to know if they stole his ATV.
Taylor found proof in their cell phones when he saw a picture of one of the two riding his bike.
He shot Santiago at point-blank range, but he wasn’t done with him. As Santiago was bleeding out, Taylor drove around, and tried to find out where his ATV was. They drove clear across the Bronx, ending up in an industrial area near Co-op City, where Taylor forced Torres to carry the gravely wounded Santiago from the van.
Then Taylor shot Torres a half dozen times, and pumped yet another six bullets into Santiago. Somehow, Santiago survived, with surgery replacing nearly all his blood volume. Torres did not survive.
Ironically, Taylor never recovered his stolen ATV.
One of the other men involved in
Taylor’s crime, Wader Mejia-Acosta, pled guilty in April to attempted robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to five years behind bars. The other, Adonis Jimenez, pled guilty to attempted robbery in the second degree and was sentenced to four years.
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