Month: <span>February 2010</span>

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Letter To Rapist Read In Court; He Gets 437 Years

By K. S. Nikhil Kumar The victim had asked to speak to her attacker. She rose and came to the front of Judge Vincent DelGiudice’s Brooklyn courtroom today. The judge was about to pronounce sentence for Boker Thomas, 31, who stood convicted of multiple counts of rape, criminal sexual assault, burglary and robbery. Three court...

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Update on hit and run

The owner of the car that hit two young women in Prospect Heights on Sunday has agreed to be questioned, police announced at a press conference today. Erin Phelan, an aide for Mayor Bloomberg, and her friend Alma Guerrero are still hospitalized.

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Housing project rapist sentenced

Thomas Boker was sentenced to between 432 1/3 to 437 years in prison today in an emotional hour long hearing on four separate crimes: rape, sexual assault, robbery and burglary. “I am innocent. I am not a monster,” Boker said in court. Four of the eight victims were present at the hearing. Our reporter K....

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Zazi’s guilty plea

Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to three terrorist charges yesterday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. Zazi described his involvement with Al Qaeda and his training in Pakistan. Our reporter Danielle Bengsch covered it from the courtroom.