2014 PRESS RELEASES
December
- Former Delta Airlines Employee and Alleged Brooklyn Gun Trafficker Allegedly Carried Guns and Ammo, Including Assault Weapons, On Many Delta Airlines Flights, Investigation Reveals; 153 Weapons Recovered.
video - Brooklyn Woman Indicted For Defrauding Five Immigrants
- Statement of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson on Call by New York State Attorney General to Act as Special Prosecutor In Cases of Fatal Shootings By Police
- School Teacher Indicted on Charges of Sexually Abusing and Inappropriately Touching Nine Students
- Statement of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson on Impaneling Of Grand Jury In Fatal Police Shooting Of Akai Gurley
- 15 Women Arrested In Prostitution/Human Trafficking Investigation Of Brooklyn Massage Parlors
- Brooklyn Man Indicted For Stealing From Aish HaTorah Organization
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Manslaughter
- Statement of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson on Sentencing of Defendant For Repeatedly Making Fake 911 Calls
- Chief of Brooklyn District Attorney’s Conviction Review Unit To Receive Prestigious Thomas E. Dewey Medal
- Robbery Defendant Charged With Soliciting Rikers Inmate To Kill Witness Sentenced To 20 Years To Life In Prison On Underlying Case
- Brooklyn Man Convicted Of Murdering & Dumping The Body Of 14-Year-Old Girl
November
- Statement of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson Regarding Alleged Fatal Police Shooting of Akai Gurley
- Statement of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson on Arraignment of Yonathan Souid for Allegedly Unlawfully Climbing Brooklyn Bridge
- 32 Defendants, Including Reputed Members of ‘Gates Avenue Mafia,’ Charged With Conspiracy Following Complaints of Violence, Drugs
- Brooklyn Man Arraigned On Murder Indictment for Beating Death Of Three-Year-Old Stepdaughter, Faces Up To Life in Prison
- Brooklyn Man Who Shot Stranger On Subway Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison
- Two Police Officers Indicted For Assaulting Teenager During Arrest In Crown Heights Captured on Video Tape
October
- Two Brooklyn Senior Citizens Charged With Possessing Child Pornography
- Two Men Indicted In Arson-For-Hire Plot; And On Grand Larceny, Identity Theft And Other Charges In Real Estate Scheme
- Two Drivers Indicted For Manslaughter And Other Charges In Death of Passenger Following Alcohol-Fueled, High Speed Collision
- Bushwick Man Who Fired Shots at Gay Men After Taunting Them With Homophobic Slurs Indicted For Attempted Murder as a Hate Crime video
- Suspended Lawyer Indicted for Embezzling Over $100,000 From Clients
- Twelve Charged With Narcotics Trafficking Following Undercover Investigation at Tilden Houses in Brownsville
- Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson Announces He Will Move to Vacate Conviction of David McCallum Who Has Been Wrongfully Imprisoned for Nearly 30 Years
- D.A. Thompson Announces New Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau Formed By Merging Gang and Major Narcotics Investigations Bureaus
- Brooklyn District Attorney Announces Appointment of First Latino Chief Assistant District Attorney During Inaugural Celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month
- Six Indicted in Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and “Crystal Meth” in New York City and Pennsylvania
September
- Brooklyn Man Indicted For Posing As Police Officer, Pulling Over Driver And Threatening To Shoot Him
- Brooklyn High School Teacher Indicted For Kidnapping, Criminal Sex Act and Other Charges Involving Six Students
- School Teacher Arraigned on Charges of Sexual Abuse Of Five Students
- Bronx Man Indicted For Slashing Bus Driver
- Queens Man Indicted For Two Carjackings, Shooting and Assault
- Ohio Man Sentenced To 37 Years-To-Life In Prison For Rape Of Prospect Heights Woman
- Ohio Man Sentenced To 37 Years-To-Life In Prison For Rape Of Prospect Heights Woman
- Robbery Defendant Indicted For Soliciting Rikers Inmate To Kill Witness
- Four Child Care Operators Charged With Submitting False Documents To The City Undermining Integrity And Safety At The Sites And In One Case Stealing City Funds
- Ex-Bank Teller Charged with Stealing $80,000 from Accounts To Pay Her Family’s Loans, Credit Card Bills
- Fare Beater Who Shot Police Officer Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison
- D.A. Thompson Announces Appointment of Civil Rights Bureau Chief and Creation of New Hate Crimes Unit
August
- Canarsie Man Sentenced to 25 Years to Life In Prison for Stabbing Death of His Girlfriend
- Brooklyn Contractor Indicted For Defrauding 70 Workers of Their Labor; Failed To Pay Them Over $100,000 For Demolition Work At Former Hospital
- Crown Heights Man Convicted Of Sexual Abuse Of 12-Year-Old Girl Following Jury Trial
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced To 25 Years to Life in Prison For Fatal Shooting of Man After Petty Dispute
- Approximately 100 Chinese Immigrant Families Defrauded By Bogus Sunset Park School to Receive Restitution Today
- Brooklyn Police Officer Charged With Soliciting Sex From NYPD Candidate In Exchange For Helping To Get Her Hired
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced To 25 Years To Life In Prison For Murder Of Former Boyfriend
July
- Two Men Sentenced To 25 Years To Life In Prison For Stabbing Death Of Stranger They Mistakenly Thought Was Gang Rival
- Fare Beater Who Shot Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Aggravated Assault
- Home Invasion Robber Sentenced To 20 Years To Life In Prison
- Brooklyn Man Charged With Stealing Over $42,000 From 87-Year-Old Woman By Forging Checks Against Her Account
- DUMBO Restaurant Owner Sentenced To 3 1/3 to 10 Years in Prison For Stealing $200,000 in Sales Tax, Evading $1.2 Million
- Eight People – Including Five Teenagers — Charged With Firearms Trafficking At Lafayette Gardens Housing Development
- Two Men Convicted Of Murder In Stabbing Of Brooklyn Man They Wrongly Thought Was Gang Rival; Victim Bled To Death In Street
- Husband Sentenced To 18 Years To Life In Prison For Beating Death Of Wife As She Lay In Bed
- Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces New Policy For Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Possession Arrests
June
- Eight Charged With Narcotics Trafficking Following Undercover Investigation at Lafayette Gardens Housing Development
- Hugh L. Carey Tunnel Temporary Toll Collector Charged With Stealing More Than $24,000 in Cash Tolls, Replacing It With Counterfeit Bills
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Brownsville Shooting
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Assaulting Police Officers in Street Encounter
- Twenty-Two Charged With Narcotics Trafficking Following Undercover Investigation at Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Roosevelt Houses
- DUMBO Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty in Connection With Stealing $200,000 in Sales Tax, Evading $1.2 Million
- Brooklyn Man Indicted On Murder and Other Charges For East New York Child Stabbings That Left Boy, 6, Dead and Girl, 7, Seriously Wounded
- Brooklyn Man Convicted of Assaulting Police Officers in Street Encounter
- Brooklyn Man Arraigned On Murder and Other Charges For Alleged Stabbing Spree That Left 6-Year-Old Boy Dead, 7-Year-Old Girl Wounded
- Statement of Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Regarding Latest Findings of Conviction Review Unit
- Brooklyn Man Indicted For Hammer Attacks On Subway Commuters
May
- Brookyn Man Convicted of Murder In Beating Death Of Wife
- Former Police Officer Arraigned On 39-Count Indictment For Anti-Semitic Vandalism in Borough Park
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Indictment of Driver in Canarsie Death of 9-Year-Old Girl
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Sentencing for Convicted Rapist Gurmeet Singh
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Dismissal of Charges Against Three Defendants
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Indictment of Kendel Felix in the Murder of Menachem Stark
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Indictment of Charles Diaz for Arson and Attempted Murder
April
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson and NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton Announce a 558-Count Indictment Against Six Firearms Traffickers
- Kings County District Attorney Ken Thompson Announces the Indictment of Five Members of the Williamsburg Neighborhood Watch Patrol for Gang Assault
- Kings County District Attorney Ken Thompson Announces the Indictment in the Murder and Robbery of an Elderly Victim
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Appointment of Felice Sontupe as Chief of the Newly Formed Frauds Bureau
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Extends Passover Greetings to the Observant Throughout Brooklyn
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Appointment of Rachel Singer as Chief of the New Forensic Science Unit
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Today Announces Charges Are Dismissed Against Jonathan Fleming
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Harvard Law Professor Ronald S. Sullivan As New Chief of the Conviction Review Unit
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Sentencing of 15-Years-to-Life in Prison for a Defendant Convicted in Domestic Violence Murder
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Conviction of a 28-Year old Man in the Sexual Assault of a 14-Year Old Girl
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Indictment of Michael Rodriguez Accused of Conducting a 10-day Bank Robbery Spree
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Appointment of Maritza Mejia-Ming to Head the DA’s Immigrant Fraud Unit
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P.Thompson Announces Harvard Law Professor Ronald S. Sullivan As New Chief of the Conviction Review Unit
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Today Announces Charges Are Dismissed Against Jonathan Fleming
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Appointment of Felice Sontupe as Chief of the Newly Formed Frauds Bureau
March
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Indictment of a Defendant in a Vehicular Homicide That Killed an 11-Year Old Passenger
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces a 68-Year Sentence for a Defendant Convicted in Twelve (12) Armed Robberies.
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Conviction in Fraud Trial Involving MTA Funds
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Public Integrity Hotline
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton Announce Multiple Indictments of Drug Dealers in the Bay Ridge Area
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Indictment in Stolen Art Case
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Charges to be Dismissed Against Samuel Kellner
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Indictment of Nelson Uruchima in the DV Shooting of His Girlfriend
February
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces the Appointment of Three Independent Attorneys to Assist in the Review of Cases Involving Allegations of Unlawful Convictions
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Indictment of an S.U.V. Driver Who Hit and Killed a 9-Year-Old Boy and Injured Two Others in Fort Greene
January
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson and NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton Announce Arrest of 12 for Dealing Crack Cocaine in Crown Heights after a Year Long Undercover Operation
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Appointments Of William E. Schaeffer as Chief Of Investigations and Emily Bradford as Deputy Chief Of Public Integrity
- Kings County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson Announces Appointments of Veteran Prosecutor Leroy Frazer, Jr. as Chief of Staff and Coleen Balbert as Chief of Sex Crimes
- Why New York needs to ‘raise the age’ for criminal responsibility (Commentary)