Criminal Procedure

Published on: June 12, 2011

Man Still in Jail Over Fatal Car Crash

by Stephen Bilkis

Charges were filed in the deadly crash that took the life of a middle-aged mother of nine from Pennsylvania. The two car crash that killed the young woman was operated by a Mississippi driver who fled the scene. Following arrest, authorities indicated to an NYC Criminal Lawyer, the man was being held without bail in a local county jail. The woman’s funeral was held while the Mississippi was awaiting trial.

The Mississippi driver is slated for a preliminary hearing in the next two weeks authorities explained to an NYC Criminal Lawyer. The driver is facing criminal charges to the tune of 18 counts. Some of those criminal charges include vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter. If this crime was committed in Nassau, Long Island, a local attorney would be on the case.

The Mississippi driver went afoul of the law when he sped away from a law enforcement official at a high speed, over 100 miles per hour. Authorities told an NY Criminal Lawyer that this was one of the charges against him. The chase came to an end when the Mississippi driver smashed into the Pennsylvania woman’s vehicle at an intersection. No details were available about the status of either vehicle following the accident. It was unclear whether the woman’s car was in motion or not at the time of impact. Authorities did not confirm the direction of the impact on the victim’s vehicle.

Published on: June 11, 2011

Five Teen Girls Face Assault Charges

by Stephen Bilkis

Five Brooklyn high school girls stand accused of assaulting a talented music student with a padlock in a sock, all to keep her out of a talent show, sources told New York Criminal Lawyers.

“Yo, b***h, I got a lock,” one of the suspects reportedly said before they began beating the young singer.

The girl with the lock, 16 years old, and four of her friends are accused of attacking a 17-year-old senior at Brooklyn Academy High School. The singer was outside the home of her voice coach when the attack occurred.

Published on: June 10, 2011

A Brooklyn Man Murders Girlfriend When Daughter Was In The House

by Stephen Bilkis

A Brooklyn man is accused of strangling his girlfriend – while their 7-year-old daughter was in the house.

The 29-year-old victim was engaged in an argument with her 28-year-old boyfriend, just before 6 a.m. in their apartment on 50th Street in Sunset Park when the alleged attack occurred. Their young daughter was in another room in the apartment at the time, but she did not witness the murder.

The boyfriend said that his girlfriend attacked him with a knife and he was defending himself. Police have charged him with murder in the matter, nonetheless, leaving his fate and the circumstances of the woman’s death for a jury to decide.

Published on: June 9, 2011

A Look at Crime in Manhattan and the Bronx

by Stephen Bilkis

A camera bandit, once on the loose in the Flatiron District, has been caught, police revealed.

The 19-year-old suspect walked into a camera shop on West 22nd Street at 3 in the afternoon and asked to see an expensive camera, then took off with it when the store keeper turned around to answer the phone.

“He knew what he was stealing,” a store manager told N York Criminal Lawyers.

Published on: June 8, 2011

Stories from Queens and Brooklyn

by Stephen Bilkis

A suspected burglar has been caught on video tape in Queens and the search is on for a man who took some alcoholic beverages from a restaurant in Forest Hills, sources have revealed.

According to sources, the alleged thief broke in through the front window of the restaurant at 3 in the morning on March 29 and fled with some bottles of liquor.

In Brooklyn, a stripper and three of her friends, pole dancers, allegedly beat up an enemy of theirs in Sunset Park, authorities told New York Criminal Lawyers.

Published on: June 6, 2011

8 year-old Molested by Tutor

by Stephen Bilkis

According to initial reports, an 8 year old girl was molested and sexually assaulted by the college student who was paid to be her tutor.

The girl said a tutor in her third-grade classroom at the Angelo Elementary School had put his hand down her pants many times, and molested her.

Then, the college student would very often touch her on the shoulder and tell her, “Good job,” the young girl told police. On Thursday, she said, that tutor –who was identified as a junior at a local college, indicated a New York City Criminal Lawyer—proceeded to rape her.

Published on: June 4, 2011

Stories from Around the City

by Stephen Bilkis

The first story comes out of Queens.

A grocery worker, apparently tired of providing polite service, allegedly hit a customer in the face with a bat, ending an argument that happened in a shop in Flushing.

The 24-year-old grocer had been having heated words with the victim in the grocery store at about 1:30 in the morning when the customer stormed out.

Published on: June 2, 2011

Former TV Reporter in Philadelphia Accused in Slapping Incident—Acquitted

by Stephen Bilkis

A former television news reporter became the news recently. The slapping incident allegedly occurred in a parking area at the United Nations (UN), when former WPIX reporter, Vince DeMentri was accused of slapping the chauffer of the Bahamian diplomat for blocking a press-only parking spot. He was charged soon after the alleged incident with misdemeanor assault and harassment charges. The charges have been vehemently denied by DeMentri from the beginning.

According to the New York Criminal Attorney’s sources, DeMentri’s best witness turned out to be the accuser himself. Court records indicate that the Bahamian diplomat’s chauffer made a statement under oath that apparently was not included in his original police report. In his testimony, he stated that DeMentri called him the n-word. Defense attorneys would then argue against the credibility of the accuser and that his motives were not for justice, rather that the charges were an attempt to collect the financial rewards of suing someone that he may have perceived to be rich and famous. The presiding judge later sided with DeMentri’s attorneys and dismissed the charges against him.

It should also be noted that an eyewitness on the scene stated that they did not see DeMentri slap the chauffer and that the vehicle’s window was barely open at that time.

Published on: May 29, 2011

Stories from All Over NYC

by Stephen Bilkis

New York Criminal Law Offices have seen or heard of a number of crimes in Brooklyn.

A Brooklyn man went into the basement of a building in Bedford-Stuyvesant and found the bodies of two men, one of them his son, law enforcement sources reported.

It is believed the pair had been killed in a drug-related execution.

Published on: May 28, 2011

Philadelphia Driver Sentenced to Prison for Death of Teenager

by Stephen Bilkis

A 20-year-old Philadelphia woman has been sentenced to one to five years of prison after striking and killing a high school student over a year ago.

The woman pleaded guilty in January to a felony charge of accidents involving death or personal injury in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Because it is a felony, the charge has a minimum mandatory sentence of a year in prison.

The convicted woman will serve her sentence in Montgomery County Prison and is eligible for the Work Release program. She has also pledged to pay $500 to the slain girl’s scholarship fund, though it is not legally binding.