Cases of Interest for the Week of February 16, 2015
Cases of Interest
For the week of February 16, 2015
| Monday, February 16, 2015 | ||
| ADA Judge Part # Status |
Defendant Name | Case Details |
| President’s Day | Holiday | All court parts except arraignments are closed. |
| Tuesday, February 17, 2015 | ||
| ADA Judge Part # Status |
Defendant Name | Case Details |
| Boyle, T.
Justice Rodriguez III Part FA
Possible Grand Jury Action |
HIDALGO FERRERAS | Ferreras, an NYPD traffic agent, is charged with 3rdDegree Grand Larceny and 1st Degree Falsifying Business Records and additional crimes for allegedly taking thousands of dollars to have parking tickets dismissed by Bronx County’s Parking Violations Bureau. Ferreras is accused of creating phony documents detailing the vehicles’ location at nonexistent auto body shops and bogus movie sets. |
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Marzolf, B. Justice Clancy Part 79
Possible Grand Jury Action
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MARCELO SOLANO | Solano is charged with 4 counts of 2nd and 3rd Degree Rape, 4 counts of Sexual Misconduct, 1 count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, and 9 counts of 3rdDegree Sexual Abuse for his sexual relationship with a minor he met on Facebook. Solano, 47, is alleged to have engaged in sexual conduct with the victim at his Cauldwell Av. home on three separate occasions in October and December of 2014. |
| Mendys, L.
Justice Barrett Part 60
Motions |
MOISES SIMANCAS
TYRONE WINT APRIL JACKSON |
Rikers Island Captain Simancas and Correction Officers Wint and Jackson are charged with 1st Degree Attempted Assault, 2nd Degree Assault, 1st Degree Falsifying Business Records, 1st Degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing, and Official Misconduct for the post-Superstorm Sandy abuse of a confined inmate. The men allegedly handcuffed inmate Gabino Geneo in his cell, took him out into the vestibule of the facility and repeatedly struck him with their feet, fists and batons, rendering him unconscious. Geneo and other inmates had been in their cells for much longer than usual because of the storm, and the prison was short-staffed. |
| Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | ||
| ADA Judge Part # Status |
Defendant Name | Case Details |
| Mattaway, L.
Justice Fabrizio Part H98
Possible Plea |
DAMEL BURTON | Burton is charged with Attempted Murder, 1st Degree Assault and other related crimes in the stabbing of Angel Gonzalez, a fellow Rikers inmate. Burton is accused of stabbing Gonzalez multiple times with a sharpened wooden broomstick. He is currently serving 95 years-to-life in the 2011 shooting of two men aboard a Queens bus. |
| Morabito, J.
Justice Sharpe Part AP3
Motions |
MELANIE EVANS | Bus Matron Evans is facing charges of Criminal Obstruction of Breathing or Blood Circulation, Endangering the Welfare of a Child, 3rd Degree Assault and 2nd Degree Harassment for the January 15th, 2015 physical altercation involving a child aboard her school bus. |
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ADA TBD Justice Rodriguez III Part FA
Motions
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ARNELL JONES | Jones is facing charges of 2nd Degree Murder and 1stDegree Manslaughter for the January 28th, 2015 death of 68- year-old Eric Simmons. Jones allegedly robbed and murdered Simmons in the stairwell of a building in the Melrose Houses after a dispute and physical altercation. |
| Thursday, February 19, 2015 | ||
| ADA Judge Part # Status |
Defendant Name | Case Details |
| Friday, February 20, 2015 | ||
| ADA Judge Part # Status |
Defendant Name | Case Details |
| Scaccia, C.
Justice Benitez Part 15
Sentencing 2:15 PM |
EDGAR MORALES | Morales is to be sentenced for 2nd Degree Attempted Murder, 1st Degree Manslaughter, 1st Degree Gang Assault and other charges for an August 2002 shooting at a party which resulted in the death of 10-year-old Melaney Mendez and paralyzed bystander Javier Tochimani. Morales was originally convicted in 2007 in the first-ever use of the New York State Anti-Terrorism Statute against an organized gang (the St. James Boys), but that conviction was overturned by the New York State Court of Appeals in 2012. A 6 week retrial in 2014 led to Morales’ conviction.
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| Reynolds, O.
Justice Webber Part 92
Possible Disposition |
HAROLD GRANT | Grant is charged with 2nd Degree Attempted Murder, 1stand 2nd Degree Assault, and 2nd Degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon for an August 2012 shooting seriously injuring 9-yr-old Guillermo Delacruz Jr. The incident stemmed from an argument between Grant’s girlfriend and another woman, both of whom proceeded to retrieve their boyfriends to settle the score. Grant is accused of shooting wildly into a crowd on Walton Avenue, striking Delacruz Jr., an innocent bystander. Grant fled the jurisdiction but was later apprehended in Virginia in November of 2012. |
| Davis, L. and Bitetto, K.
Justice Barrett Part 60
Sentencing
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CRAIG WHITEFIELD AND ALONZO JOHNSON | Whitefield (aka ‘Jungle’) and Johnson (aka ‘Boogie’) are to be sentenced following convictions for Murder in the 2nd Degree, Manslaughter in the 1st Degree, Robbery in the 1st Degree, Robbery in the 2nd Degree, and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 2nd Degree in the April 2012 killing of Jose Andujar and robbery of Angel Mangual. Both incidents took place in the Edenwald Houses, the largest NYCHA development in the Bronx. |
| Valerio, R.
Justice Boyle Part 94
Ongoing Trial |
RICHARD BLOOMFIELD | Bloomfield is charged with 2nd Degree Murder and 1st Degree Manslaughter for the November 2012 death of Madonna Martin. Martin, a nursing student and an LPN at Columbia-Presbyterian had been displaced by Hurricane Sandy, and temporarily moved into co-worker Bloomfield’s Mott Haven apartment. The defendant is accused of strangling his roommate and leaving her body in a parked car. |
Please note: All court proceedings are scheduled for after 9:30 a.m. at 265 East 161st Street, the Hall of Justice, Bronx Supreme Court unless otherwise specified.
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