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Yonkers boy in grave condition after apparently accidental shooting
YONKERS – Yonkers Police responded shortly before midnight Sunday night to an apartment within 358 Nepperhan Avenue on a report of a 12-year-old child down bleeding from the head. The boy was on the bedroom floor., Yonkers Fire Department and Empress Emergency Medical Services members rendered aid and transported to a local area hospital where…
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Cops: Yonkers man shot dead
YONKERS – A man was found shot dead in Yonkers Thursday night, police said today. Police discovered the man, 30-year-old Dymere Graham, lifeless behind his home at 9 Riverview Place with a gunshot wound to his lower body. “The preliminary investigation has yielded that the victim died at scene, and that he may have been targeted and…
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Woman dies in Yonkers house fire
YONKERS – A fire at a one-story building at 131 Park Avenue in Yonkers has claimed the life of a woman.Ida Martinez, 69, was a resident of that address. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. No one else was injured.The fire was reported before 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Police…
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Yonkers man arrested in connection with two 2016 Orange County burglaries
TOWN OF WALLKILL – State Police arrested a Yonkers man following an investigation into commercial burglaries that occurred during December 2016. Brian Conklin, 24, was charged with two counts of felony burglary. He was sent to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond. On December 21 and then Christmas…
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Yonkers fugitive arraigned on murder charge
WHITE PLAINS – A former Yonkers man was arraigned in Westchester County Court on a sealed indictment in the shooting death of a man in Yonkers in April 2016. Anthony Burton, 38, also known as David Burton, also known as “Faseoff,” was remanded to the county jail. A grand jury had earlier handed up a…
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Yonkers fugitive arraigned on murder charge
WHITE PLAINS – A 38-year-old former Yonkers man was arraigned in Westchester County Court on a sealed indictment in the shooting death of a man in Yonkers in April 2016. Anthony Burton, also known as David Burton, also known as “Faseoff,” was remanded to the county jail. A grand jury had earlier handed up a…
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PRESS RELEASE: Update by Westchester County Executive George Latimer Regarding Yonkers Homeless Situation
“For many years, those who are classified as homeless cluster in our urban core areas. Society, working through government, provides some minimum baseline of shelter particularly on cold nights. Part of this is a legal requirement, part of this is a moral requirement. Downtown Yonkers is one of those areas, and for a number of…
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Two sentenced to state prison for Yonkers burglary spree
WHITE PLAINS – Two Yonkers men were sentenced in Westchester County Court on guilty pleas stemming from a December burglary spree in Yonkers where they targeted apartment building laundry room cash- boxes. Rajad Daily and Jonathon Echols pleaded guilty Oct. 9, to eight counts each of Burglary in the Second Degree, class C felonies, while…
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Body in Yonkers duffle bag was a Virginia man
YONKERS – Yonkers police say they know whose body was found in a duffle bag on Monday. Deshawn Cortez-Seaborne, 24, a black male from Portsmouth, VA, apparently had been stabbed several times, based on stab and puncture wounds to his back, torso, neck and head areas. His body was found about noon on Monday in…
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Human remains found in Yonkers
YONKERS – Members of the Yonkers Police Department responded shortly after noon today to the Wells Fargo Bank branch at 500 Odell Avenue on a report of a suspicious duffle bag left in the area. Members of the Emergency Service Unit located the bag on the west side of the building adjacent to a garbage…