Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about District Attorneys

Richard Brown: Misdemeanor Plea for Accused Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2015 | 9 Comments

In a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown, a driver charged with felony hit-and-run and driving without a license after fatally striking a Queens pedestrian has pled guilty to violating the city’s Right of Way Law. Last February Valentine Gonzalez hit an unidentified woman with a box truck while turning left at Woodside Avenue and […]

Repeat Drunk Driver Pleads to Low-Level Felony for Killing Queens Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2015 | 5 Comments

A recidivist drunk driver who was charged with 10 felonies for killing a Queens pedestrian pled guilty to two low-level felony counts in a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown. At around 4:30 a.m. on July 5, 2014, Romulo Mejia drove a Ford compact into a man who was walking at Roosevelt Avenue and 92nd Street in Jackson Heights, according to the […]

DOT: Drivers Injured 1,323 Pedestrians and Cyclists in August, and Killed 14

By Brad Aaron | Sep 24, 2015 | 4 Comments

Twenty-one people died in New York City traffic in August, and 4,891 were injured, according to DOT’s Vision Zero View crash data map. As of the end of August, DOT reported 88 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists this year, and 9,150 injured, compared to 96 deaths and 9,628 injuries for the same period […]

Bronx DA Johnson Files Manslaughter Charge for Cyclist’s Hit-and-Run Death

By Brad Aaron | Sep 23, 2015 | 2 Comments

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson filed homicide charges against the man who allegedly killed cyclist Gabriela Aguilar-Vallinos in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month. Aguilar-Vallinos, 27, was on her way home from work at around 11:45 on the night of September 11 when a driver hit her with a Hyundai sedan on the City Island […]

NYPD and Electeds Idle as NYC’s Hit-and-Run Epidemic Claims Another Life

By Brad Aaron | Sep 10, 2015 | 12 Comments

It was a particularly barbaric crime: A driver fatally struck a person who was crossing the street with a walker, then left the scene. That it was the second such death in a matter of weeks is another reminder that New York City, thanks in part to indifference in Albany, is failing to meaningfully address its ongoing epidemic of deadly hit-and-run […]

DA Ken Thompson: Charges for Punching Driver, No Charges for Killing Child

By Brad Aaron | Sep 2, 2015 | 21 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is prosecuting the man accused of punching the driver who killed 8-year-old Jadann Williams in Flatbush, but Thompson filed no charges against the driver. Jadann was playing with a group of kids on E. 22nd Street on the afternoon of August 26 when a man identified by the Daily News as Reginald […]

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