Archive for 'Crime'
Change comes to the 40th precinct
Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by By Chloé Rouveyrolles.
Update: Advocates react to change in command Just three weeks ago, Deputy Police Inspector Elias Nikas, commander of the 40th Precinct in Mott Haven, showed up at the precinct’s monthly Community Council meeting with his shoes polished and a big smile on his face. “I’ll meet with anybody anytime, let’s have a great year!” Nikas said.” [...]
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Commander leaves Mott Haven precinct
Posted on 29. Sep, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
Deputy Inspector Elias Nikas has been replaced as commanding officer of the 40th precinct in Mott Haven. The change comes a day after widespread reports that a Bronx grand jury had begun voting indictments in the ticket fixing scandal that has implicated officers and their union delegates, who allegedly made traffic tickets go away for [...]
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Feds collar seven in Melrose mega-bust
Posted on 28. Sep, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
Eight alleged members of a violent Melrose-based gang called the Courtlandt Avenue Crew have been indicted on murder and federal racketeering and drug trafficking charges, that could result in the death penalty for two of the defendants, if convicted. Five of the defendants were arrested in a massive raid involving nearly 100 officers from three [...]
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Cops, residents seek to thaw icy relations
Posted on 24. Aug, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Advocates and police partner at Night Out Against Crime By Kathy Conkwright conkwright@motthavenherald.com The first time Angel Irizarry and Danny Barber met one another six years ago, they butted heads. ”I didn’t really like Danny,” said Irizarry, the community affairs officer for PSA-7, the NYPD branch assigned to patrol public housing complexes in Melrose. “I’m [...]
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Tenants look to cameras for safety
Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Matthew J. Perlman.
Public housing tenants around the city are feeling nervous about their safety, surveys show, and two new initiatives being pioneered in the South Bronx are aimed at helping them feel safer. But while both initiatives call for security cameras inside NYCHA buildings to help protect residents, housing officials support one, while rejecting a method tenant [...]
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‘Put down your guns,’ youth group pleads
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Mott Haven organization works to curb growing violence Danny Barber has been warned that people are out to kill him because he’s trying to keep young people from a life of crime and violence. Gang members have targeted him because he helped bring a program called LIFE Camp to the Bronx, he says. They believe [...]
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Gun buyback scheduled
Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 by Joe Hirsch.
NYPD will give bank cards to people who bring their guns to three Bronx churches on Saturday, June 4. $200 bank cards will be given in exchange for working handguns, and $20 will be given to those who turn in an operable rifle or shotgun. NYPD officials say no questions will be asked of those [...]
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Tenants challenge police policy
Posted on 10. Mar, 2011 by Kathy Conkwright.
Public housing “residents feel like they’re being targeted and harassed in their own homes,” says a tenant leader.
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Bodega owners consider armed defense
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Paul Bufano.
Would guns promote safety or violence? By Paul Bufano Last August a drunken brawl broke out at Sam’s Mini Market Deli and Grocery on Willis Avenue. At one point someone pulled a gun. The bodega’s manager Amar Alseid decided he’d had enough. He wants a gun of his own. Alseid is one of a growing [...]
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No more on the down low, gay leaders vow
Posted on 31. Oct, 2010 by Carmel Delshad.
South Bronx lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community leaders are uniting to combat the rise in anti-gay crimes in their borough and beyond.
