Brooklyn District Attorney

Bay Ridge Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty To Criminal Tax Fraud

Photo by Bill Oxford [https://unsplash.com/@bill_oxford?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gavel?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BAY RIDGE – A local tax preparer and his company the Five Pillars Financial Services, LTD,

Announcements

1987 Murder Conviction Overturned After Investigation

Photo by Bill Oxford [https://unsplash.com/@bill_oxford?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/courtroom?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS – The murder conviction of a man who was arrested 29 years ago

Bed Stuy

Bed Stuy Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Jail For Girlfriend’s Slaying In 2005

Photo by Bill Oxford [https://unsplash.com/@bill_oxford?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gavel?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] BEDFORD STUYVESANT – A man was just sentenced to 15 years in jail, nearly 16 years

Announcements

Teen Charged As An Adult, Held Without Bail For Attempted Murder In J’ouvert Shooting

Photo by Bill Oxford [https://unsplash.com/@bill_oxford?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/gavel?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] CROWN HEIGHTS – A 16-year-old boy was indicted and charged as an adult for attempted murder

Announcements

How 25 People Served 426 Years In Prison For Crimes They Did Not Commit

Photo by Bill Oxford on UnsplashBROOKLYN – “Brian and I were born just one year apart and raised in Brooklyn by mothers who came here from somewhere else to make a life for themselves and their families. But our lives were set on very different courses—irreversibly so—in March of

Central Brooklyn

Adams Sides With NYPD And Mayor on Diversion Program

Eric Adams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Monday aligned himself with the mayor and NYPD—and opposite the borough’s district attorney—on the use of a controversial alternative-to-prison program. Asked about District Attorney Eric Gonazalez’s defense [/da-eric-gonzalez-defends-diversion-program-nypd-says-is-used-too-often-when-guns-are-involved/] of his office’s directing first-time

Announcements

From Seaport Buffet – “We are at the scene of a hate crime massacre”

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerSHEEPSHEAD BAY – “We are at the scene of a hate crime massacre,” Council Member Mark Treyger said. “Make no mistake, a hate crime massacre.” Elected officials and community members gathered outside Seaport Buffet, where a hammer attack ten days ago resulted in deaths of three people. Though

Central Brooklyn

Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Turns Self In To Own Office For Wiretapping NYPD

Photo dug up on Facebook by the New York Daily NewsBrooklyn Assistant District Attorney Tara Lenich, 41, turned herself in to her own district attorney’s office on Monday, admitting that she had forged documents to wiretap conversations between an NYPD cop she had a crush on and another woman,

Bensonhurst

Brooklyn’s First African American District Attorney Dies Of Cancer

Photo Credit: Flickr/Medical JaneBrooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson died yesterday after what his family described as a “hard fought battle with cancer.” Thompson’s family made the announcement last night. The District Attorney was 50 years old. Thompson is survived by his wife of 17 years, Lu-Shawn Thompson, and

News

Brooklyn’s First African American District Attorney Dies Of Cancer

Photo Credit: Flickr/Medical JaneBrooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson died yesterday after what his family described as a “hard fought battle with cancer.” Thompson’s family made the announcement last night. The District Attorney was 50 years old. Thompson is survived by his wife of 17 years, Lu-Shawn Thompson, and

Police & Fire

Creative Con Targeted At Elderly Asian Women In Sheepshead Bay, Says DA

Photo via DCPI.A 62 year-old Chinese immigrant woman was scammed out of $65,000 in cash and $20,000 in jewelry in what is called the “blessing scam,” said the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. On July 29, Yan Chen, 46, and Yuqub Liang, 57, engaged the elderly victim

Police & Fire

25 To Life For ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gangsters Who Ambushed & Killed Rival In Coney Island

Photos via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gangsters who lured a rival out of a Coney Island store [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/06/two-gang-members-convicted-luring-shooting-rival-coney-island/#.V5ejZ5MrI9c] and then shot him from behind multiple times, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison today following their murder conviction, Brooklyn District

Bensonhurst

25 To Life For ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gangsters Who Ambushed & Killed Rival In Coney Island

Photos via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gangsters who lured a rival out of a Coney Island store [/two-gang-members-convicted-luring-shooting-rival-coney-island/#.V5ejZ5MrI9c] and then shot him from behind multiple times, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison today following their murder conviction, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced today.Brooklyn

Police & Fire

Members Of ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang Convicted Of Killing Rival On Coney Island Street

Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gang members have been convicted in connection with the death of a rival whom they lured out of a store and then ran up from behind him and shot him multiple times to death, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced today. Gregory “Douggie”

Bensonhurst

Members Of ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang Convicted Of Killing Rival On Coney Island Street

Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gang members have been convicted in connection with the death of a rival whom they lured out of a store and then ran up from behind him and shot him multiple times to death, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced today. Gregory “Douggie”

Business

Flophouse Operator, Already Accused Of Medicaid Fraud, Charged With Illegally Evicting Tenants

A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)Prosecutors filed additional charges Wednesday against the Manhattan Beach resident — already accused of running a Medicaid fraud scheme [/manhattan-beach-couple-indicted-preying-homeless-drug-addicted/] out of his Brooklyn flophouses — for illegally evicting and defrauding tenants. Yury Baumblit, who’s homes

Police & Fire

‘Bored Teen’ Who Set Deadly Mattress Fire Gets 19 Years To Life

Photo via Google MapsThe “bored teen” [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/04/bored-teen-accused-of-setting-coney-island-fire-now-faces-armed-robbery-charges/#.V2BlyOYrLe0] who set a deadly mattress fire in Coney Island in 2014 has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for his felony murder and arson conviction, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson today. Marcell

Business

Illegal Gambling Arrest At Newkirk Avenue Salon Linked To Business Closure

A beauty salon near Newkirk Plaza has been shuttered following an illegal gambling operation. Two court orders appeared on the shuttered metal gates on Beauty Fair Unisex Salon, at 1622 Newkirk Avenue this week — one ordering the business to close, and another, a restraining order for the premises. The store

Business

After Worker Falls To Death, Manslaughter Indictment For Construction Boss

360 Neptune Avenue, the site where a construction worker fell to his death in 2015. (Photo: Google Maps)The owner of a Bensonhurst construction company and his businesses have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges stemming from an incident at a Coney Island construction site in April 2015 that

Bensonhurst

After Worker Falls To Death, Manslaughter Indictment For B’hurst Construction Boss

360 Neptune Avenue, the site where a construction worker fell to his death in 2015. (Photo: Google Maps)The owner of a Bensonhurst construction company and his businesses have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges stemming from an incident at a Coney Island construction site in April 2015 that

Bensonhurst

Bensonhurst Man Indicted For Role In Mafia-Linked Sports Gambling Biz

A screenshot of the illegal sports gambling site www.stakestake.com [http://www.stakestake.com/stakestake_login_english.asp?m=]Six men from Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island — including one from Bensonhurst — have been charged in a 37-count indictment for running an illegal Internet gambling operation, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken

Bensonhurst

Accused Cop Impersonator Terrorized Neighborhood For More Than A Decade

Harbor Motor Inn (1730 Shore Parkway), where Buzzetta allegedly beat up a relative through marriage. (Photo: Google Maps)An ex-con who cops believe robbed a neighbor by pretending to be a police officer has apparently been wreaking havoc on Bensonhurst — and his family — since 2005. Two suspects approached a 63-year-old

Bensonhurst

Man Gets 22 Years To Life For Shooting Teen, Dog In Coney Island

Jerome Leslie. (Photo provided by the Brooklyn DA)The Coney Island man convicted for the 2013 Christmas Eve shooting [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/04/coney-island-man-convicted-shooting-teen-dog-christmas-eve/] that killed a teen and wounded his dog has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced. The

Police & Fire

Man Gets 22 Years To Life For Shooting Teen, Dog In Coney Island

Jerome Leslie. (Photo provided by the Brooklyn DA)The Coney Island man convicted for the 2013 Christmas Eve shooting [/coney-island-man-convicted-shooting-teen-dog-christmas-eve/] that killed a teen and wounded his dog has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced. The murder allegedly stemmed from a weeks-long

Bensonhurst

62nd Precinct Cops Honored For Making 33 Gun, Drug & Burglary Arrests In One Month

Photo by Ben Cohn/ Bensonhurst BeanOfficers of the Anti-Crime Unit were honored at May’s 62nd Precinct Community Council meeting Tuesday.In recent weeks, there have been several large-scale busts including the seizure of 200 pounds of marijuana [/cops-recover-206-pounds-pot-bensonhurst-apartment-raid/] and two separate gun arrests. [/storekeeper-arrested-waving-gun-teens/]The five honored cops are