Girl, 14, threatened with gun while she was robbed in the Bronx: NYPD
BEDFORD PARK, the Bronx (PIX11) – A 14-year-old girl was threatened with a gun while she was robbed in the Bronx on Wednesday, according to the NYPD. The victim was walking on East 198th Street in Bedford Park around 7 a.m. when she was approached from behind by a man, police said. The man is […]
Number of Young People Accused of Serious Crimes Surges in New York City
NEW YORK — The number of people under 18 accused of major crimes, including murders, robberies and assaults, has increased sharply in New York City in the past seven years, Police Department figures show — a steep trajectory that has alarmed law enforcement officials.
Soft-on-crime ‘Raise the Age’ law packed ‘ill-prepared’ NYC juvenile facilities with hardened criminals: report
New York’s soft-on-crime “Raise the Age” law has overwhelmed the Big Apple’s two understaffed juvenile facilities with older, hardened criminals — including accused killers, a scathing new report found. The number of murder suspects held in residential centers designed for misbehaving youngsters has more than quadrupled since the state law passed in 2017 — sparking nearly a dozen outbreaks of violence that have sent staffers and inmates alike to the hospital, according to the city Department of Investigation. The measure, and a bail reform package passed by the state legislature the following year, “have fundamentally altered the juvenile detention population,” and made...
Gas station worker stabbed amid wave of Bronx bodega crimes
NEW YORK -- A $2,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest after a Bronx gas station worker was stabbed in the head during a robbery. Surveillance video shows the suspect walking into the BP gas station on Westchester Square in the Pelham Bay section. According to police, the 25-year-old worker then jumped over the counter when the man in the video tried shoplifting a few items. As the two get to the front door, video shows, the suspect turns and attacks the employee with a knife. He then stabs the worker multiple times in the head, neck and arms...