Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Crime is down, but decline lags in NY neighborhood

Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:26 PM PST

Crime is down, but decline lags in NY neighborhood 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:26 PM PST
FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2013 file photo, a flyer bearing an image of Antiq Hennis, the 1-year-old boy who was shot in his stroller during a walk with his parents a day earlier, is posted on a wall outside an apartment complex, in the Brownsville neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Strategies that have dropped crime to record lows across the city haven't taken hold in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, where the cycle of violence, silence and retribution seems entrenched. And community activists say a big police presence can't make up for better schools, more jobs and better housing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America can ring hollow in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood where there is a cycle of violence, silence and retribution and where crime reduction has lagged behind record lows across the city.
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Merrill taps rich investors for ex-convict social-impact bond 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:42 PM PST
Logo of Merrill Lynch is pictured at a branch in ZurichMerrill Lynch and U.S. Trust reached out to some high-powered clients this quarter to invest in a social-impact bond whose proceeds finance a program to lower recidivism rates among ex-convicts in New York. The project raised $13.5 million over 60 days from clients of the Bank of America Corp-owned brokerage and wealth management firms. Investors included former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Sommers, Utah philanthropist James Sorenson, hedge fund founder Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Foundation and billionaire investor and oil trader John Arnold, according to the bank. "They are looking for new and creative ways ... to have a more direct connection between the dollars they are investing and the impact it is having on a social problem that they care about," Andy Sieg, head of global wealth and retirement solutions at Merrill Lynch said during a telephone news conference on Monday.
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6 arrested in Calif. police impersonation prank 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:20 PM PST
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they arrested six teens accused of posing as Southern California police officers and ordering people out of their cars by using megaphones and high-powered flashlights to obscure their real identity.
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Cleveland man confesses to murders, rapes, sentenced to 445 years 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:25 PM PST
Elias Acevedo is seen in this booking photo courtesy of Cuyahoga County Sheriff's OfficeBy Kim Palmer CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former neighbor of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro pleaded guilty on Monday to murders and rapes committed nearly two decades ago and was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison with no chance of parole, prosecutors said. Elias Acevedo, Sr., 49, became a suspect in two murders committed in the 1990s after the FBI re-examined the disappearance of other missing women from the Seymour Avenue neighborhood in the aftermath of Castro's arrest in May. Castro was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and torturing three women for about a decade, after they and the child he fathered with one of them were rescued from his home nearby. Acevedo pleaded guilty on Monday to all 297 counts against him, including the murder, kidnapping and rape of Pamela Pemberton, his 30-year-old neighbor, found strangled in 1994 and to the murder of Christina Adkins, a pregnant 18-year-old who disappeared in 1995.
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Crime is down, but NY neighborhood doesn't feel it 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:46 PM PST
FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2013 file photo, a flyer bearing an image of Antiq Hennis, the 1-year-old boy who was shot in his stroller during a walk with his parents a day earlier, is posted on a wall outside an apartment complex, in the Brownsville neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Strategies that have dropped crime to record lows across the city haven't taken hold in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, where the cycle of violence, silence and retribution seems entrenched. And community activists say a big police presence can't make up for better schools, more jobs and better housing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America can ring hollow in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood where the cycle of violence, silence and retribution feels entrenched and where crime reduction has lagged behind record lows across the city.
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Dozens of Fans Have Already Been Arrested at Phish's New Year's Eve Shows 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 12:38 PM PST
Dozens of Fans Have Already Been Arrested at Phish's New Year's Eve ShowsSpeaking of regrettable ways to spend New Year's Eve, perennial jamband hooligans Phish is returning to its usual Madison Square Garden stint for a four-night marathon. CBS New York, though, points out that recent arrests at an Atlantic City show included prostitution charges:  The publication said the nature of the charges against those arrested was not clear, but recent Phish concerts in Atlantic City resulted in 42 arrests ranging from drug distribution and possession, imitation drug deals and prostitution. Is Mayor Bloomberg celebrating his last week in office by cracking down on the city's real crime underbelly—jamband culture?
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Report: Iranian tycoon arrested 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 11:22 AM PST
Iran's official news agency says tycoon Babak Zanjani has been arrested over corruption charges. IRNA quoted state prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi. Ejehi didn't elaborate but the Central Bank of ...
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Al Jazeera Journalists Arrested in Egypt for Talking to the Muslim Brotherhood 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 06:29 AM PST
Al Jazeera Journalists Arrested in Egypt for Talking to the Muslim BrotherhoodA team of journalists working for Al Jazeera English were detained by security forces in Egypt on Sunday evening for allegedly meeting with Muslim Brotherhood members and broadcasting false news. The Muslim Brotherhood, the political party that ran the country before being overthrown by the military earlier this year, was declared a terrorist organization last week.  On Sunday night, Al Jazeera announced that correspondent Peter Greste, producers Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed and cameraman Mohamed Fawzy had been arrested by the Egyptian government.
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Secret Service: Robbery suspect arrested in 2010 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 05:08 AM PST
Secret Service: Robbery suspect arrested in 2010The Secret Service says the man authorities have linked to a three-state bank robbery spree, the killing of one Mississippi police officer and the wounding of another was arrested in 2010 after being accused ...
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