The Horace Man School has been a fixture in the Riverdale section of the Bronx celebrating its one-hundred-twenty-fifth anniversary in 2012. In addition to Mann there are several schools in that area and thousands of children of school-age in attendance. Fieldston Terrace is a peaceful street just a little north…
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Hollywood Cop Faces DUI Charges after Arrest by Fellow Officer
“As a talented eighth-grader moving from Optimist League football to high school, DiIvory Edgecomb thought he could adjust quickly.” reported the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel in a December 2003 article that was publicized in their sports section. And based on the Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) official Website, he did just…
Cab Driver Faces Vehicular Homicide for Hit and Run Death of Homeless Man
Two good Samaritans stopped their vehicles and attempted to help a man that was terribly injured but apparently still alive, lying on a Dania Beach thoroughfare just before 4:30 in the morning. Bernard Williams, 62, of Dania Beach turned out to be a homeless man, according to a report issued…
Human Trafficking Victims Held for Years Mirror Amanda Berry Case
Amanda Berry escaped to a neighbor’s house and made that call earlier this month. The two other women that were held at the property were Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight who were grabbed after the seizure of Miss Berry. As this tale of misery continues to unfold and dominate the…
“Fundamental Error” in Jury Instructions Awards Marissa Alexander New Trial
The phone call was everything she had hoped for. After completing more than a year of a twenty-year sentence, Marissa Alexander’s attorney made the phone call that let his client know that an appellate court judge had ordered a new trial for the the Florida woman who fired what she…
Staten Island Man Accepts Guilty Plea for Manslaughter
In Staten Island, the Arlington Terrace apartment complex in the Mariners Harbor section of the borough has a long history of violent events associated with its past. On July 1, 2012, Genard Droughn, a resident of North Carolina kept the housing development’s reputation intact. Droughn was originally from the neighborhood…
Marissa Alexander Serving 20-Year Sentence in Failed Stand Your Ground Defense
A case that gained National attention due to two controversial issues; the first, Florida’s stand your ground law which has been under recent scrutiny and the other, Florida’s 10-20-Life gun law statute remains in the headlines. In the recent George Zimmerman acquittal the stand your ground defense wasn’t raised in…
Elderly North Carolina Man Apprehended after Robbing Bank in Great Neck, NY
Dressed in a green shirt, blue pants, and white sneakers Raymond Young walked into a Great Neck, NY Chase bank branch on Middle Neck Road at 9:30 in the morning brandishing a handgun and “verbally demanded money from a teller,” police said. His trendy ensemble was topped off with a…
Brooklyn, NY Man Arrested on Bank Robbery Charges in New Jersey
A resident of Brooklyn, New York who was at one time listed on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitive list was arrested in April in association with another bank robbery. He had just completed a 25-year sentence in Federal prison roughly two weeks prior to this occurrence for his conviction…
Florida Women Cited as Victims; in Guilty Pleas for Sex Trafficking of a Minor
They preyed on women from Florida as well as those from other states throughout the U.S. who were homeless, in financial straits, or vulnerable in similar ways. Last week, thirty-year old Jamar Marvin Simmons a/k/a “Mar”, a former fireman, pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking of a minor in…