East Hartford Man Sexually Abused Girl For Years Starting When She Was Just 4, Jury Finds
A Connecticut man has been convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child for seven years, beginning when they were just 4, prosecutors announced.
Raymond Reyes, 46, of East Hartford, was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday, March 3, of first-degree sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, officials said.
East Hartford Police began investigating the case in August 2022 after the child told a friend about what was happening. That friend informed a camp counselor, who contacted investigators.
The child was taken to Connecticut Children's Medical Center f…
19-Year-Old Convicted For Temple Student's 2021 Murder: Prosecutors
Latif Williams shot and killed Samuel Collington while he unloaded his car in 2021, a Philadelphia court has found.
Williams, 19, was convicted of third-degree murder and related counts following a one-day, said the District Attorney's Office in a release.
Investigators have said Collington, a 21-year-old political science student at Temple University, was the victim of an attempted robbery near campus on Nov. 28, 2021. He was shot twice in the chest during the struggle and later died at an area hospital, according to police.
Collington, a Prospect Park native, was set to…
Federal Jury Convicts NYC Man In $200,000 Shakedown Of Jersey Shore Dad
Federal jurors in Trenton convicted a Brooklyn man for his role in a plot to strong-arm a Jersey Shore resident into giving him and his accomplices $200,000, authorities said.
Endrit Kllogjeri, 27, and his cohorts were tripped up by an undercover detective posing as the Monmouth County victim, federal authorities said.
Francis Garzon, 31, took a deal from the government rather than risk the consequences of guaranteed prison time if he was convicted at a trial, pleading guilty last month to his role in the plot.
Kllogjeri rolled the dice and lost, however.
He, Garzon and an unidentified co…
Deli Shooting: ‘Ruthless’ Killer Who Gunned Down Owner, Customers At LI Business Sentenced
A gunman who opened fire on several people inside a Long Island deli, killing its owner and another customer, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Dionicio Calderon, age 65, of Copiague, was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison in Suffolk County Court on Thursday, March 16. It followed his jury conviction for murder and other charges stemming from a shooting inside the La Vaquita deli in Copiague, on Great Neck Road, in December 2020.
Prosecutors said Calderon walked into the deli shortly after 6 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2020. After drinking for a while, and without warning, he pulled out…
MS-13 Members Convicted Of Murder Of Innocent West New York Man, 19, Other Gang-Related Crimes
Three ranking MS-13 members from El Salvador were convicted by federal jurors in Newark of the murder of an innocent 19-year-old dishwasher from West New York, among other charges stemming from their participation in the international gang.
It was one of many offenses that jurors agreed were committed by Juan Pablo “Humilde” Escalante-Melgar, 31, Elmer “Locote” Cruz-Diaz, 33, and Oscar “Snappy” Sanchez-Aguilar, 25 – among them, extortion, witness tampering, and drug trafficking.
Federal prosecutors told the jurors that Escalante-Melgar and Sanchez-Aguilar instructed an MS-13 member and an …
