BRONX D.A.: DRIVER ARRESTED AND ARRAIGNED IN HIT-RUN THAT KILLED COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FINANCE OFFICIAL

DRIVER ARRESTED AND ARRAIGNED IN FATAL HIT-RUN

February Crash Killed Columbia University Finance Director

(Bronx, NY – June 2, 2015) – Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson announces the Supreme Court arraignment of MICHAEL LONGO in the death of a 38–year–old Columbia University financial director, Daniel Cabrera, in a hit-and-run crash that occurred on February 23, 2015 in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan.^[1]

The 58-year-old LONGO pled not guilty today in Bronx Supreme Court to the charge of Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting, a Class D Felony.

LONGO is accused of mowing down and leaving the father of one for dead in the intersection of West 225^th Street and Broadway, shortly before 7pm, as Cabrera was heading home to Cortlandt Manor in Westchester County.  LONGO allegedly sped away southbound over the Broadway Bridge in a Dodge Magnum.  The vehicle, which was not registered to him, was later recovered in Upper Manhattan.

Assistant District Attorney Sharon Adler of the Bronx D.A. Trial Bureau 20/50 requested the defendant be remanded, but Supreme Court Justice George Villegas set bail at $25,000 bond or $15,000 cash and adjourned the case until August 25th Part 96 Supreme Court, Bronx Hall of Justice, 265 E. 161^st Street.

If convicted of the charges, LONGO faces a potential two-and-a-third to seven years behind bars.

The charges in this indictment are merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

^[1] Because the location of the incident is within 500 yards of the boundary of Bronx County, jurisdiction may fall within the Bronx.