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Peekskill Cab Driver Sexually Abuses Child For Year: Here's His Sentence Peekskill Cab Driver Sexually Abuses Child For Year: Here's His Sentence
Peekskill Cab Driver Sexually Abuses Child For Year: Here's His Sentence A 46-year-old cab driver from Northern Westchester will spend more than a decade in prison for grooming and sexually abusing a young girl for nearly a year, officials announced.  Peekskill resident Luis Urgiles was sentenced to 16 years in state prison for engaging in sexual conduct with a young girl, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Tuesday, April 23.  According to the DA's Office, Urgiles, a cab driver in Peekskill, met the victim's family when they were passengers in his cab. He then befriended them and began grooming the then-10-year-old…
Child Rape: Hudson Valley 'Predator' Who Abused Minor For Years Gets Decades In Prison Child Rape: Hudson Valley 'Predator' Who Abused Minor For Years Gets Decades In Prison
Child Rape: Hudson Valley 'Predator' Who Abused Minor For Years Gets Decades In Prison A man from the region who subjected a young child to years of repeated sexual abuse will spend decades in prison. Orange County resident Cecilio Navarro, age 35, of Middletown, was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison in Orange County Court on Tuesday, July 18. It came after a jury convicted him of multiple sex crimes in March 2023. Earlier Report: Guilty: Hudson Valley Man Convicted Of Raping Child According to prosecutors, Navarro began sexually abusing the victim in December 2016, when the victim was under the age of 13. The abuse continued on and off through 2021. Navarro w…
Pastor From Area Admits To Killing Estranged Wife With Machete Pastor From Area Admits To Killing Estranged Wife With Machete
Pastor From Area Admits To Killing Estranged Wife With Machete A pastor from the Hudson Valley admitted to the violent machete assault of his estranged wife in front of their grandchildren and will now face more than two decades in prison. Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced that Yonkers resident Victor Mateo, age 65, a former pastor at the Christian Congregation The Redeemer Church in the Bronx, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter on Wednesday, Nov. 17. Clark said that on the morning of Oct. 3, 2019, Mateo parked his vehicle near the home of his estranged wife, Noelia Mateo, age 58, on Ellsworth Avenue in Throgs Neck. As she left h…
Connecticut Man Charged In Fatal Westchester Shooting Connecticut Man Charged In Fatal Westchester Shooting
Connecticut Man Charged In Fatal Westchester Shooting A multi-agency police investigation into a fatal Westchester shooting last weekend led to the arrest of a Connecticut man who allegedly shot and killed a 24-year-old in the hallway of an apartment building over an ongoing dispute. Hartford resident Claismar Abreu-Then, age 27, was arrested late on Thursday, Jan. 21 at his Franklin Avenue home following an extensive investigation into the shooting death of Joseph Pichardo in a hallway on Fairview Street in Yonkers on Sunday, Jan. 17. Yonkers Police Commissioner John Mueller said that Abreu-Then and Pichardo knew each other and the fatal shoo…
Thousands Want Justice After Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Hudson Valley Thousands Want Justice After Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Hudson Valley
Thousands Want Justice After Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Hudson Valley The cacophony of thousands of voices demanding justice for Danroy “DJ” Henry has grown to include some celebrities 10 years after he was killed at the hands of police in Westchester. Nearly 80,000 people have signed a change.org petition urging prosecutors to re-open Henry’s case after he was shot and killed by former Pleasantville police officer Aaron Hess in October 2010. Henry, a football player and junior at Pace University's Pleasantville campus, was at a sports bar with teammates when a fight broke out after their homecoming game in Pleasantville. Hess remained at the scene, and w…
Missing Mom Case: 'It Was A Mistake To Trust Him,' Says Girlfriend Of Late, Estranged Husband Missing Mom Case: 'It Was A Mistake To Trust Him,' Says Girlfriend Of Late, Estranged Husband
Missing Mom Case: 'It Was A Mistake To Trust Him,' Says Girlfriend Of Late, Estranged Husband A woman charged with conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with evidence in the case of a missing Fairfield County mother of five has spoken for the first time just days before the one-year anniversary of her disappearance. Michelle Troconis, the former girlfriend of Fotis Dulos, who killed himself earlier this year after being charged with the murder of his wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, of New Canaan, issued a statement in Spanish about the disappearance. Jennifer Farber DulosNew Canaan Police Department While first saying she doesn't know what happened to the missing mom, she also …
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter The Westchester father found guilty of murdering his 7-year-old daughter may spend the rest of his life in prison. Neil White, 50, was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life in prison following his sentencing in Westchester County Court on Thursday, Oct. 3. White, who was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2017 murder, reportedly sought to adjourn his trial, but was denied by the judge. Holding her daughter’s favorite rag doll, Michelle Hord, Gabrielle's mother, described the two years since her child’s murder as “a razor-blade cut of trauma, memory, pain, confusion, betrayal and …
Man Sentenced For Hit-Run That Killed Tow-Truck Driver In Westchester Man Sentenced For Hit-Run That Killed Tow-Truck Driver In Westchester
Man Sentenced For Hit-Run That Killed Tow-Truck Driver In Westchester The box truck driver responsible for the fatal hit-and-run crash on I-95 that took the life of tow-truck driver Salvatore Brescia has been sentenced in Westchester County Court. Ozone Park resident Anthony Mangano, 53, has been sentenced to the 12 months he has already spent in the Westchester County Jail after pleading guilty to a felony count of leaving the scene of a personal injury incident resulting in a death, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced on Wednesday. Brescia, a New Rochelle native, had lived in Yonkers before moving to Stamford, just befo…
Former Officer Convicted In Killing Outside Hudson Valley Deli Gets Parole Former Officer Convicted In Killing Outside Hudson Valley Deli Gets Parole
Former Officer Convicted In Killing Outside Hudson Valley Deli Gets Parole A 53-year-old former officer who was convicted of killing a man over a parking spot more than two decades ago in Westchester has been granted parole. Off-duty NYPD transit officer Richard DiGuglielmo was involved in an altercation with his victim, Charlie Campbell, in Dobbs Ferry in October 1996 when Campbell parked in the “patrons only” section of DiGuglielmo’s father’s deli before heading across the street to a different eatery. DiGuglielmo was convicted of gunning down Campbell, though he maintained his innocence, claiming that he fired his gun to protect his family. DiGuglielmo had his …
Purdys Man Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Multiple Sex Crimes Purdys Man Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Multiple Sex Crimes
Purdys Man Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Multiple Sex Crimes A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to decades behind bars for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman and a teenager in Northern Westchester. Ronal Danilo Sandoval-Campos of Purdys has been sentenced to 30 years in state prison after being found guilty on eight counts related to sex crimes dating back to 2016, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr., announced on Tuesday. He must also register as a sex offender upon his release. At approximately midnight on June 3, 2016, Sandoval-Campos broke into a Mount Kisco home and climbed on top of a 42-year-old sleeping woman, sexua…
Man Sentenced For Committing Sex Acts With Disabled Child In Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Committing Sex Acts With Disabled Child In Hudson Valley
Man Sentenced For Committing Sex Acts With Disabled Child In Hudson Valley A Westchester County man who had sexual contact with a minor in his care who has Cerebral Palsy has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced on Tuesday that White Plains resident Jard Hobbs has been sentenced to 32 years in state prison after being found guilty of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child and second-degree rape, both violent felonies. Hobbs, 32, was found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse and other sexual acts with the disabled child while he was entrusted as her caregiver in…
Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Hudson Valley Attendant Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Hudson Valley Attendant
Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Hudson Valley Attendant A man who ran over and killed a Hudson Valley gas station attendant was sentenced Thursday to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison, according to Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler. Milton Galdamez-Pena, 22, of Newburgh, who pleaded guilty in November to felony leaving the scene, in connection with the July 30, automobile crash that killed a gas station employee in the City of Newburgh. At the time that he pleaded guilty, Galdamez-Pena admitted that at about 4:30 p.m. on July 30, he drove a car over the employee, Jaspal Singh, 21, who had been checking gas levels at the Shell gas station lo…