Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the conviction of Jonathan Gonzales-Alvarez, 23, for fatally stabbing a security guard at a restaurant and bar in Washington Heights after the bar’s employees asked him to quiet down. A jury in New York State Supreme Court found Gonzales-Alvarez guilty of all of the charges in the indictment: Murder in the Second Degree and Gang Assault in the First Degree. The defendant will be sentenced on February 15, 2012.
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Two Apartment Building Workers Indicted For Stealing From Participants in Low-Income Housing Program
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the arraignments of ROBERT CABALLERO, 53, and GORDON JENKINS, 73, for stealing from two separate low-income Housing Development Fund Corporation (“HDFC”) co-operatives. CABALLERO was arraigned today in New York State Supreme Court on charges of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, Forgery in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, and Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree for forging checks and stealing more than $260,000 from a HDFC co-operative on the Lower East Side. JENKINS was arraigned in New York County Criminal Court on one count of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree for stealing more than $50,000 from a HDFC co-operative in Central Harlem.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the indictment of Kevin Clor, 40, for stealing more than $211,000 from the New York State Thruway Employees Local 72 and for submitting forged receipts for reimbursement. CLOR was indicted on two counts of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, 16 counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, and 16 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree.
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District Attorney Vance announced the indictment of John Price on a charge of Murder in the Second Degree. Thirteen years after the crime occurred, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Forensic Sciences/Cold Case Unit launched a full re-examination of this homicide, including a re-investigation of evidence and new interviews, before presenting the case to a Grand Jury in New York State Supreme Court, which indicted the defendant.
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