New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

On Cinco De Mayo, a small scuffle at a party turned into a huge fight. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the fight started between two women but quickly spread. The night had violence seemingly from start to finish, as a few smaller altercations had occurred earlier, but at about 12:30 a.m. a couple groups of partiers were leaving when the fight started.

To give a sense of scale, the fight eventually involved over 100 people, with many injured before all was said and done. The most serious injury appears to have been a local college student who was stabbed in his left side while arguing with a few people. A New York Criminal Lawyer said that the attacker came up behind the victim and stabbed him once.

The student is said to be expected to fully recover after a short stay in the hospital. The victim’s father told the New York Criminal Lawyer that his son had nothing to do with the fight. It was simply a huge melee that his son had the misfortune of being caught in the midst of it. The suspected attacker fled the scene, but was arrested shortly after by the police. No weapon has been recovered as of yet.

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A local student was arrested for flashing a BB gun at another student during an apparent argument at the student center of the Nassau Community College. The 20 year old Hyde Park resident was charged by police for menacing, say New York Criminal Lawyers.

The argument had looked to be escalating to a full fledged fight, and when the two students arguing went outside to settle their differences, the unarmed man brought his friends with him, which prompted the suspect to pull out a BB gun in a threatening fashion. Campus security was called to the East Garden City campus, and they detained the student until the police arrived to take him into custody.

The BB gun wielding student was suspended from school until a formal hearing can be held to determine whether or not he will be suspended. A school spokesman told a New York Criminal Lawyer that it was “inappropriate” for any student to bring a BB gun on campus, and he expressed relief that no one was hurt. The gun could have easily been mistaken for a more dangerous weapon and if police had seen him with it, the student could have been very gravely injured. The situation is believed by New York Criminal Lawyers to be most likely unrelated to recent racially motivated letters that were recently discovered at the school.

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Police are looking for a well-dressed robber who steals from jewelry stores in SoHo and the West Village, according to a NYC Criminal Lawyer. On June 9th at 11:50 a.m., the thief walked into a store on Thompson Street and asked to see the engagement rings.

After assessing the merchandise, he drew a gun on the storekeepers and collected about $4,000 in rings, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. The suspect is described as a man between 35 and 45 years old, with a medium skin complexion.

He struck again on June 23 at a jewelry store on MacDougal near Bleecker at 1 p.m., police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. On this occasion, the sharply-dressed suspect threatened the store employees with a knife and escaped with $7,400 worth of necklaces and silver bangles, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The news that the accused Times Square bomber was read his rights has restarted the controversy over whether terror suspects should be treated as enemy combatants or as criminals, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

“The Supreme Court has held there’s no constitutional obligation to give him Miranda rights,” Rep. Pete King (R-Long Island) told a NY Criminal Lawyer. He was referencing the right to remain silent and have legal representation. The alleged bomber, Faisal Shahzad, “should be interrogated as much as possible and we should get every last bit of information out of him,” Representative King continued.

According the White House, the Pakistan-born Shahzad was first interrogated by law enforcement and intelligence officials under what is known as a “ticking time bomb” exception to the Miranda laws. Only then was he offered Miranda rights. Sources in the administration tell New York Criminal Lawyers that Shahzad continued to cooperate, even after that.

The Albany bill that would have allowed alleged sex abuse victims to bring forth decades-old cases has been killed, but New York Criminal Lawyers have learned politicians and advocacy groups intend to bring it back again. The bill died recently when it was voted down by a State Senate committee.

Advocates for the bill felt they had the best chance since both houses and the Governor were Democrats, but the bill still did not pass the State Senate. It has passed the State Assembly three times.

“It is a sad commentary that opposing senators in the Codes Committee acted to derail that hope,” an Assemblywoman said to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “They acted instead to protect pedophiles who have raped and sodomized children by preventing the full Senate from debating this legislation.”

A 50-year-old Bohemia man has been arrested after allegedy stealing money from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. He used the routing and account numbers on a check that was written to fund a family trip to Hawaii for his sick son.

Suffolk police sources and the foundation itself told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the boy’s father used bank account information from Make-A-Wish to pay $1,500 in bills. He was arrested on suspicion of stealing the money.

New York Criminal Lawyers have learned the man was found driving with a stolen New York driver’s license, while under the influence of drugs when the police pulled him over. He also had in his possession a forged Suffolk County Parks permit and a handicapped parking permit that did not belong to him.

The former North Hempstead deputy commissioner of parks and recreation has pleaded guilty to petty larceny. He was charged with stealing $620 in quarters from parking meters stored at the Port Washington Parking District Office, according to a Nassau County Criminal Lawyer. After entering his plea, the then-deputy commissioner subsequently resigned from his post, effective several days later.

A spokeswoman for the Nassau district attorney’s office told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the 58-year-old ex-deputy commissioner, resident of Mineola, will have to pay back the $620 stolen from the parking meters as a part of his sentence. Further details regarding the sentencing are pending the release of further information from the district attorney’s office.

Though the quarters went miss from the district office in 2006, the deputy commisioner was not arrested for the theft of the quarters until 2009, three years later. The reason for the long period of time between the actual crime and his arrest for the theft of the money is unknown at this time.

A thief got away with the theft of five precious Torah scrolls from a Brooklyn synagogue, authorities recently informed a Manhattan Criminal Lawyer.

Police believe the pilferer snuck in through a rear window of the Khal Yirei Hashem Synagogue in Borough Park and took hand written Hebrew scriptures worth approximately $30, 000 to $50,000 each, Manhattan Criminal Lawyers were told by local community leaders. They were unable to offer any further details at this time, as the investigation into the theft was still ongoing. It is remains unknown why the scrolls were stolen, or if the scrolls were even the original target of the theft.

Police do not believe the theft was a hate crime, but they are still investigating the case. As of yet, no suspects have been determined, nor has there been any sign of the stolen scrolls. New York Criminal Lawyers have unable to find any further information at this point, but will continue to investigate until the full story is uncovered.

A woman of Sag Harbor was charged with driving while under the influence after crashing into a utility pole in Bridgehampton, police sources told a Long Island Criminal Lawyer. Both the driver and her two young children were injured in the crash.

The woman, 34, was charged with felony aggravated driving while intoxicated and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, following the accident on Millstone Road. She pleaded not guilty, according to New York Criminal Lawyers, in Southampton Town Justice Court and was released on $5,000 bail.

Police sources informed Long Island Criminal Lawyers that the woman was driving a 2007 Land Rover south on Millstone Road in Bridgehampton when she lost control of the vehicle near Loper’s Path. The car rolled over the northbound lane and ran into a pole. The pole and two other poles fell into the road, spreading live wires over the road and closing the street for several hours.

Two men attempted to rob a poker parlor in Manhattan. A New Jersey math teacher was one of the participants of the card game. The teacher’s wife said that her husband often played poker to relieve some of the stress he felt from raising a special needs son. The man’s son is 19 but requires a considerable amount of time reports a Brooklyn Criminal Lawyer.

The two men shot and killed the man during the foiled robbery attempt and much to the surprise of anyone; they are expected to be sentenced to 25 years to life. The sentencing is scheduled for June 22. The gambling den was in an underground facility report Brooklyn Criminal Lawyers. During the robbery the two men were able to take $20,000 in cash.

One of the men fired a sawed-ff shotgun in the room, which hit the 55-year schoolteacher. The man’s wife was extremely upset and indicated that she hated to wish anything on anybody but she felt that the men brought this on themselves. As the man’s wife spoke, she indicated that there is no winner in the case as her husband is gone regardless of what happens to the two men. New York Criminal Lawyers report that one of the men had already served eight years in prison for manslaughter.