New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

Another two men have been charged in the Bronx gang attack police believe began when gang members suspected one of their recruits was gay, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The two new defendants did not enter pleas when they appeared in Bronx Criminal Court, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Police told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the members of the gang used some anti-gay slurs to ask two teen-aged boys and a 30-year-old man about their sexuality. Then, they beat and tortured them in a working-class Bronx neighborhood.

The first new defendant has been charged with robbery, gang assault, and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes, prosecutors told a Manhattan Criminal Lawyer. He is being held on $25,000 bond or cash bail. According to his attorney, he is innocent of the charges.

Yet another attack on gays has happened in New York, this time against a bartender in the city’s oldest gay bar, a New York Criminal Lawyer reported. A 45-year-old man is charged with beating up two other men on October 11, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The suspect made his first attack inside Ty’s Bar, taking his wallet and cutting his face when he punched him, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The 31-year-old victim needed medical attention, including stitches after the attack.

Around ten minutes later, the suspect arrived at Julius Bar, the city’s oldest gay bar, and argued with the bartender after being refused service. “What are you going to do, you f—– n—–,” he was said to yell at the 26-year-old bartender while hitting him in the face. “You are a f—– f—-.”

A Nevada woman, formerly of New Jersey, was arrested on suspicion of abducting her daughter during a custody dispute more than 25 years ago, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 57-year-old woman of Incline Village, Nevada, was arrested in October 2010, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. She is accused of leaving a courthouse in Somerville, New Jersey, with her 6-year-old daughter, during a custody hearing on August 23, 1984.

During the hearing, the girl’s father had full custody of the child, New Jersey prosecutors told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The mother failed to appear for an arraignment on charges of interference with custody and a warrant was issued for her arrest on June 28, 1985.

Nebraska prosecutors have revealed photos of a teenage mother and her boyfriend duct-taping her 2-year-old son to a wall. The pair has already been convicted for the incident, according to New York Criminal Lawyers. They claim to have done it all for fun.

The child was temporarily removed from his mother’s custody, but is now living with his mother again. The mother, 18, has admitted to using drugs.

The mother, 17 at the time of the abuse, was given 10 days in jail and two years of probation. Her 19-year-old boyfriend, an ex-convict, was given a stiffer sentence – three to five years for child abuse and another 12 to 24 months for felony possession of stolen firearms. While under the influence of drugs, the mother held the child down so her boyfriend could tape his body to the wall with bright green duct tape, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has dismissed two charges against the boyfriend of the late model and actress Anna Nicole Smith. He left the other charges, however, to be decided by a jury, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The judge dismissed two counts of obtaining an opiate by fraud against the boyfriend, a court spokesman told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Smith’s boyfriend was also her lawyer. While those charges were dismissed, he still faces nine counts related to allegedly supplying Smith with powerful drugs.

The judge issued these rulings in the criminal trial of the boyfriend and two doctors connected with Smith. They are accused of providing her with large quantities of drugs and drug possession. Prosecutors say she was addicted to pain medication. Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in February 2007, in Hollywood, Florida.

US prosecutors told a New York Criminal Lawyer that Facebook, Twitter, and other websites have been used to promote certain stocks in the fraud technique known as “pump and dump”. This fraud of about $7 million was discovered by authorities during a cocaine-trafficking probe.

The fraud was uncovered in a two-year probe to find suspected drug trafficking by longshoremen and others, sources told New York Criminal Lawyers. These drugs were coming in through the Port of New York and New Jersey.

New York Criminal Lawyers learned from the Manhattan US Attorney’s office that 11 out of 22 people charged used more than 15 websites, Twitter feeds, and Facebook pages to defraud those interested in investing into buying stocks that were then manipulated by others participating in the fraudulent activity.

A Las Vegas judge has set the court date for Vince Neil for the charges of misdemeanor drunken driving and speeding charges, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The Motley Crue singer’s attorneys appeared for him in court and now plea was entered, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The judge overseeing the case set the date of October 11 for a status check, a court clerk told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 49-year-old Neil allegedly had a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent, which is the Nevada legal limit for drivers. Evidence also alleges Neil was driving his Lamborghini sports car at 60 mph in a 45 mph zone, when he was pulled over on June 27 not far from the Vegas Strip.

Police are now investigating the allegations of a Manhattan bicyclist who claims an off-duty NYPD officer pointed a gun at him during a traffic altercation. The 36-year-old bicyclist and his attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the bicyclist was questioned about the incident.

“The matter is being investigated,” an NYPD deputy commissioner told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He did not provide any further details at that time. The bicyclist, a salesman from the Lower East Side claims he was riding through Greenwich Village late one Saturday night when the cop’s black Volkswagen GTI came close to side-swiping him.

The bicyclist says he tipped on the driver’s side window to alert the driver he was there, but the driver continued to squeeze him off in traffic. So, the bicyclist dismounted and approached the car. “As he rolled his window down, he points a gun at my face,” the bicyclist said. “No words were exchanged. I was just too stunned.”

Four men were caught in an FBI sting and convicted of planning to bomb a Bronx synagogue and shoot down military planes with heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The four men, all of Newburgh, New York, were arrested in May 2009 in Riverdale. They planted what they thought were real bombs – fakes provided by an undercover FBI informant. They face life in prison for a number of charges. The sentencing is not set to begin until March.

Their defense argued they were mere patsies who were entrapped by the FBI into a plot they would never have thought of on their own. They are planning to appeal. “We will fight again. We’re not done yet,” said one attorney to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A 7-year-old girl who has already lost her mother to Huntington’s Disease faces the disease herself. It will soon take her life, as well. Those facts are not enough to stop the girl’s 33-year-old neighbor from launching a cyberbullying assault on the little girl.

The woman admitted to posting a macabre picture of the girl on her Facebook page – a photograph of the little girl with her eyes closed and tongue hanging out, with a pair of crossed bones underneath. She also admitted to posting a Photoshopped image of the girl’s mother in the arms of the Grim Reaper. The neighbor’s reason? “Personal satisfaction,” she told a New York Criminal Lawyer. “Because it rubs their a-s raw.”

“Cyberbullying gives people the opportunity to be more aggressive than they would allow themselves to be in person,” a clinical psychologist told a New York Criminal Lawyer. “There is a weaker sense of personal responsibility. You don’t have to confront someone directly.” Police told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the two families had been feuding for years, though no one was clear on what the source of the feuding was.