Mar. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A Brooklyn motorist will spend 14 years in prison for intentionally running over a cyclist who allegedly robbed his car in 2019.
Brooklyn driver sentenced to prison for running down cyclist in 2019 killing
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Brooklyn woman charged for intentionally running over, killing 24-year-old victim
Feb. 22, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
An East New York woman was indicted Wednesday for allegedly intentionally running over another woman in her car and killing her.
Park Slope piano teacher jailed for sexually abusing nine-year-old girl
Feb. 2, 2024 By Adam Daly
A Park Slope man who sexually abused a nine-year-old girl repeatedly for almost two years after befriending her family was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday.
‘I lost 14 years of my life’: Brooklyn DA moves to vacate 1996 manslaughter conviction based on mistaken identity
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.
Man sentenced to 55 years in prison after killing Crown Heights mother of four: DA
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.
District Attorney drops gun possession charges against Vernikov, says firearm was ‘inoperable’
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.
DA drops assault charges against Bensonhurst dad who was defending teen son
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.
Bed-Stuy man charged with murder for killing of activist Ryan Carson: DA
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.
Six Brooklyn men indicted in bust of Bedford-Stuyvesant drug trafficking ring: DA
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.
Man indicted for hate crime after allegedly attacking transgender woman on Bed-Stuy subway
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.