On May 22, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced that Craig Hecht, 51, of Long Island, had been charged in connection with a scheme to steal a vacant brownstone building from an elderly homeowner.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, the owner and her family moved out in 2010 after a fire made the building uninhabitable. Hecht and a codefendant allegedly used a forged deed to transfer the property to an entity they controlled and sold it for $850,000 in 2015.
A Bronx man who stockpiled bomb-making materials in his bedroom was sentenced to 3 years in prison on Wednesday.
Tyler Toro, 28, lived with his twin brother Christian Toro in their mother’s apartment in the Bronx.
A former Harlem charter school teacher who was arrested after authorities found a cache of bomb-making materials in his Bronx apartment was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Wednesday.
Christian Toro, 28, came under suspicion after a bomb threat was called in to the Harlem high school where he worked as a teacher on December 4, 2017.
Law enforcement arrested a 16-year-old student for making the bomb threat and discovered that she was having a sexual relationship with Toro, and that he had told her to call the school and say there’s a bomb in the building.
Update: February 16, 2021: The lawsuit has been re-filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
A former Dalton School student who alleged that former headmaster Gardner P. Dunnan sexually assaulted her in 1986 when she was 14 years old has voluntarily ended her lawsuit against Dunnan and the school, according to a March 7 court filing.
It’s a voluntary dismissal without prejudice which means that the plaintiff could re-file at some point.
Court records did not indicate that the case was settled.
Updated July 12, 2019
On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced that three men accused of stealing $510,000 from an armored car on Long Island on November 2, 2018 have pleaded guilty.
The heist was an inside job perpetrated by armored car driver Alexis Laguerra, 30, Raymond Soto Jr., aka “Rambo”, 28, and his father Raymond Soto Sr., aka “Razor”, 48.
Laguerra was an employee of GardaWorld, a Montreal-based armored car company with a local branch in West Hempstead.