Jan. 18, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday that his office is moving to vacate the wrongful manslaughter conviction of a man found guilty in 1996 in a case of mistaken identity.
Dec. 12, 2023 By Adam Daly
An East New York man will spend at least 55 years behind bars for the killing a mother of four in Crown Heights in 2021, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
Nov. 17, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
The Brooklyn District Attorney has dropped criminal gun charges against southern Brooklyn Council Member Inna Vernikov after finding a key component of the gun she carried at a pro-Palestinian rally held at Brooklyn College was missing — rendering the weapon inoperable.
Nov. 2, 2023 By Adam Daly
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has dismissed assault charges leveled against a Bensonhurst father who stepped in to defend his teenage son against an adult attacker in September.
Oct. 20, 2023 By Adam Daly
An 18-year-old man was indicted Friday in the “brutal murder” of social justice advocate Ryan Carson in Bedford-Stuyvesant earlier this month.
Oct. 5, 2023 By Christian Murray
Six Brooklyn men were indicted Wednesday in connection to a drug trafficking ring where they were allegedly peddling crack cocaine and heroin on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said.
Sep. 6, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
A Brooklyn man has been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime and other related charges for allegedly attacking a transgender woman on a subway without provocation in August.
Aug. 25, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
Brooklyn man, Roland Henegan, 35, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for attacking a man at the Jay Street-MetroTech subway Station in Downtown Brooklyn last summer, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Wednesday.
Aug. 15, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
A Clinton Hill man who stole the deeds to two Brooklyn homes and nearly $775,000 in mortgage funds using fake documents and shell companies will face up to nine years in prison after pleading guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Aug 9.
Aug. 2, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
Two men have been charged after allegedly sex trafficking a 13-year-old girl, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday.