A New York City woman has been charged with multiple criminal violations after it was discovered that she had been married to multiple different men at the same time. The 39-year-old Manhattan resident was scheduled to be arraigned in the Bronx Supreme Court. It is alleged that over the period from 1999 to 2010 the woman obtained a legal marriage with no less than ten men.
A New York man was taken into custody on March 9 after his 4-year-old daughter allegedly took cocaine to her school. Authorities stated that, when the man’s Geneva home was searched, firearms, drugs and cash were discovered.
On March 6, a 72-year-old New York man who was accused of owning a large cockfighting ring was sentenced to just under one year in prison. According to the attorney general, the man’s farm spanned 92 acres and supplied roosters that had been trained to fight.
A man in New York has been arrested for purchasing over $200,000 worth of jewelry using cloned credit cards. The 33-year-old Troy man was detained after buying a pair of diamond earrings and a Rolex watch from a store on Feb. 11. According to Ontario County Sheriff’s deputies, the man attempted to flee the scene when the credit card he was using was found to be an unauthorized copy of a stolen credit card account.
In yet another example of how mandatory minimum sentences continue to limit the discretion of federal judges and unfairly punish certain defendants, a man has recently been sentenced to a 15-year jail sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act for being a felon in possession of weapons ammunition. At first glance, it doesn’t sound so bad, right? I don’t think anyone would consider it unreasonable to prohibit individuals convicted of certain violent crimes from owning weapons or possession ammunition for guns.
On Dec. 4, a New York associate of an international arms dealer who was convicted on conspiracy and wire fraud charges was sentenced to prison. While the sentencing guidelines initially called for a prison sentence of seven to nine years, the U.S. district judge sentenced the man to five years as a result of medical problems.
Recently, a 67-year-old Moroccan was driving across Staten Island just after midnight when he was pulled over by the police. Law enforcement did not stop him for drunk driving, speeding or any other traffic law infraction. They did not suspect him of transporting cocaine or meth. They simply pulled him over because he had cigarettes in his van.
Imagine being 16 years old and sitting in a police interrogation room without your parents or a lawyer present. As police investigators begin asking you confusing questions, you’re terrified and don’t understand what’s happening. After what seems like hours, you’re exhausted and your head is spinning with all of the details and information you’ve been told by investigators. Desperate to go home, you begin to agree with what investigators are telling you.
Everyone living in the U.S. has certain inalienable rights and protections including the right to privacy. Police officers around the country routinely engage in questionable practices under the guise that their actions are promoting public safety. In some cases, however, the actions taken by police officers and investigators teeter on or even cross lines related to the individual rights of citizens.
A Queens man, Gustavo Adolfo Solis, AKA “Chili”, was arranged in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday on charges of drug conspiracy and criminal sale of a controlled substance after investigators say they observed him leaving a known stash house with a heroin filled tub of Huggies baby wipes that were inside a plastic Babies R Us bag.