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By: Corey Kilgannon Five years after a prominent East Village community leader was beaten to death on a street in Queens, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty yesterday to manslaughter, bringing a case that had galvanized the victim’s friends and family close to a resolution. The attacker, Shaguye Colbert, 29, of Newark, entered his plea […]
By HUGH SONDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A veteran cop accused of killing a young Brooklyn motorcyclist while driving drunk was acquitted of all charges yesterday, a verdict that outraged the victim’s family. Off-duty Officer Victor Wilson, 43, had just left a Bay Ridge bowling alley when he crashed into Stefanos Kiladitis’ motorbike at 88th St. […]
Staten Island Advance By REGINALD PATRICK A Livingston police officer, charged with driving drunk while off-duty and fatally injuring a motorcyclist in Brooklyn, walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom a free man yesterday. Victor Wilson of Davis Court, a 12-year NYPD veteran assigned to the North Shore-s 120th Precinct, was acquitted of vehicular manslaughter and […]
Staten Island Advance Panel gets read-back of statement by motorcyclist who accompanied victim allegedly hit by officer By Reginald Patrick Advance Staff WriterIn its first full day of deliberations yesterday, the jury in the trial of an off-duty Staten Island cop charged with fatally injuring a Brooklyn motorcyclist while driving drunk reviewed the testimony of […]
Officer could get 7 years. in fatal DWIBy Nancie K. Katz Ð Daily News Staff Writer A jury began deliberating yesterday on vehicular manslaughter charges against an off-duty cop accused of driving drunk when he collided with a motorcyclist. Officer Victor Wilson, 43, of Tottenville, S.I., could face up to seven years in prison if […]
Staten Island Advance By REGINALD PATRICKADVANCE STAFF WRITER The case of Victor Wilson, the Livingston cop accused of driving drunk while off-duty and fatally injuring a motorcyclist in Brooklyn, was scheduled to go to the jury today. The prosecution and defense presented their closing arguments yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Wilson, who is assigned to […]
State Island AdvanceLivingston cop is on trial for drunken driving and fatally injuring a motorcyclist Saturday, March 20, 2004By: SAM DOLNICKADVANCE STAFF WRITER The defense lawyer for a Livingston police officer, on trial for drunken driving and fatally injuring a motorcyclist, tried yesterday to discredit a toxicologist who testified for the prosecution regarding the defendant’s […]
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE By SAM DOLNICKADVANCE STAFF WRITER A Livingston cop accused of driving drunk and fatally injuring a 21-year-old motorcycle rider in Brooklyn did not appear to be intoxicated at the accident scene, according to two police officers who testified yesterday. Police Officer Victor Wilson, a Davis Court resident who had been assigned to […]
By NANCIE L. KATZDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITEROriginally published on March 12, 2004 The police officer who arrested a cop who is accused of killing a motorcyclist while driving drunk said a state highway officer at the scene suspected his colleague was intoxicated. Even though he knew Police Officer Victor Wilson had failed his sobriety test […]
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEBy: SAM DOLNICKADVANCE STAFF WRITER On the first day of the trial of a Staten Island police officer accused of driving drunk and fatally injuring a 21-year old motorcycle rider in Brooklyn, a friend who was riding with the victim testified the off-duty cop ran a red light, causing the crash. Thomas Blanchett, […]
A lawyer for a cop accused of killing a young man in a drunk-driving accident charged yesterday that the victim was responsible for his own death because he used the Brooklyn residential street as a “raceway for ninja motorcycles.” The trial of veteran police officer Victor Wilson involved in a fatal crash that killed 21-year-old […]
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEBy: SAM DOLNICKADVANCE STAFF WRITER Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of a Livingston police officer accused of killing a Brooklyn motorcyclist while driving drunk in June 2002. Officer Victor Wilson, then assigned to the North Shore’s 120th Precinct, is accused of running a red light while intoxicated on the night of […]
By Nancie L. KatzDaily News Staff WriterThe trial of an off-duty cop accused of mowing down a motorcyclist while driving drunk nearly two years ago begins in Brooklyn Supreme Court this week. Jury selection begins today in the vehicular manslaughter case against Police Officer Victor Wilson, who allegedly crashed into motorcyclist Stefanos Kiladitis on June […]
By Zachary R. Dowdy Just over three years ago, James Gunther, veteran emergency services New York City police officer, looped a bed sheet around a clothing hook at the Nassau County jail and hanged himself. It was one in a string of suicides at the Nassau County and Suffolk County jails in the past few […]
NewsdayThe Associated Press A Long Island subcontractor pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday in connection with the deaths of five workers killed in a Manhattan scaffold collapse. Philip V. Minucci, 42, of Commack, N.Y., pleaded guilty to a single count of second-degree manslaughter in exchange for a sentence that state Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller said […]
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