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Repeat Offender Gets More Than Decade In Prison For Role In Hudson Valley Shooting Repeat Offender Gets More Than Decade In Prison For Role In Hudson Valley Shooting
Repeat Offender Gets More Than Decade In Prison For Role In Hudson Valley Shooting A Hudson Valley man with an extensive criminal history, including violent felony convictions, could possibly spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in a shooting.  Orange County resident Wayne Lewis, age 36, of Middletown, was sentenced on Monday, June 26 to 12 years to life in state prison after pleading guilty to a weapons charge in connection to a shooting in December 2022, Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler announced. According to Hoovler, on the day of the shooting, Dec. 21, 2022, Lewis and a co-defendant were captured on surveillance video in the a…
Man Admits To Hate Crime After Hitting Asian Woman 125 Times In Westchester Attack, DA Says Man Admits To Hate Crime After Hitting Asian Woman 125 Times In Westchester Attack, DA Says
Man Admits To Hate Crime After Hitting Asian Woman 125 Times In Westchester Attack, DA Says A Westchester man has pleaded guilty to committing a violent hate crime against a 67-year-old Asian woman who was entering her home. District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced that Yonkers resident Tammel Esco, age 42, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, to committing a violent hate crime on Friday, March 11 against the woman who was entering her apartment building.  According to court documents, Esco cursed at the victim, punched her around 125 times in and around her head, repeatedly stomped on her upper body, and spit on her. “Today’s agreement secures j…
Westchester Man Gets Prison Time For Attempting To Kill Ex With An Ice Pick Westchester Man Gets Prison Time For Attempting To Kill Ex With An Ice Pick
Westchester Man Gets Prison Time For Attempting To Kill Ex With An Ice Pick A Westchester man is going to spend a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to attempted murder after he stabbed his former girlfriend more than a dozen times with an ice pick in the stomach and chest in Hastings-on-Hudson. Yonkers resident David Rojas, 39, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree attempted murder, a violent felony, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr., announced on Monday. Scarpino said that on Nov. 13 last year, Rojas was a passenger in a car that belonged to his victim, a former girlfriend, when he stabbed her 14 times in the ab…