Westchester County District Attorney

A 20-year-old Bronx man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in a high-speed crash that killed three young people on the Cross County Parkway last fall, the Westchester County district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Yordany Bautista Hernandez was driving 119 miles an hour in a 50 mile-an-hour zone on the eastbound Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon Sept. 25 when…

A 54-year-old Mount Vernon woman who is already accused of trying to murder an ex-intimate partner now faces assault, menacing and other charges stemming from a second incident earlier this year involving that same person, the Westchester County district attorney’s office said Thursday. Shaun Rhames was indicted June 1 on those counts as well as unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession…

A 52-year-old Westchester County man was sentenced to up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a dozen charges related to a 2019 child sex abuse case in Port Chester, prosecutors said Friday. John Passaretti, of Pleasantville, admitted taking sexually explicit photos of a young child, the daughter of an acquaintance, at the family’s home. He used his…

A former police officer who allegedly hit two people with his pickup truck before fleeing the scene has pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence.

A Scarsdale man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing his prominent pediatrician wife 22 times while she was in the shower, killing her.

A former police officer is facing charges in connection to a hit-and-run in New York that left two pedestrians seriously injured, authorities announced Thursday.

In the weeks immediately after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, teenagers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut made a flurry of violent threats, according to law enforcement statistics tallied by the I-Team.