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New York Metropolis has seen an increase within the variety of violent crimes carried out by males who’re repeat offenders, typically being arrested for violent or alarming crimes prior to now, however not held in jail whereas they waited for his or her court docket date.

Winston Glynn: ‘Shot lifeless teen cashier at Burger King the place he used to work’ 

Winston Glynn, a 30-year-old homeless man, was arrested over the cold-blooded homicide of a 19-year-old Burger King cashier throughout a theft in January.

He was free to kill after being launched with out bail for menacing one other man with a screwdriver little greater than a month earlier than the homicide. 

Glynn was out on the road following his arrest on November 30 as a result of his crime was ‘not bail eligible.’ 

Xavier Israel: ‘Beat up Good Samaritans’

Xavier Israel, 25, who beforehand assaulted three different folks prior to now two weeks, had attacked an unidentified 59-year-old man who tried giving the homeless man his coat amid freezing temperatures. He has been charged with assault, theft and grand larceny.

Israel had been arrested and launched for his three earlier assaults, one on January 2, when he allegedly beat up two 18-year-olds in Central Park, after which on Saturday when he attacked a 49-year-old lady who tried to supply him assist.

He had been launched each occasions on desk look tickets – that means he needed to seem in court docket on one other date – since he had no prior convictions, in accordance with NYPD data.

Craig Tamanaha: ‘Set hearth to Fox Information Christmas tree’

Craig Tamanaha, 49, was arrested for setting hearth to the Fox Information Christmas tree on December 7. It was not a political assault – the homeless man focused the tree at random, climbing it as Fox Information staffers watched on then utilizing a lighter to set it alight. 

Tamanaha has a prolonged felony file spanning no less than 20 years and two states, and he was arrested in November for exposing himself exterior the Ghislaine Maxwell trial within the metropolis.

In 2002, the then-30-year-old Tamanaha was picked up in Abilene, Texas, on a public intoxication cost. Between 2017-2018, he was arrested on three separate events and charged with public intoxication, housebreaking and resisting arrest.

Tamanaha, who’s described as unhoused and ’emotionally disturbed’, faces six misdemeanor prices, together with arson, reckless endangerment, felony mischief and felony trespassing.

As a result of all his prices are misdemeanors, bail couldn’t be set for him and Tamanaha is again on the road with out supervision or psychological well being help. 

Agustin Garcia: Arrested in crime spree that started in Bronx

Agustin Garcia, 63, was arrested 3 times inside 36 hours in against the law spree that started within the Bronx, the place he allegedly stole a twelve-pack of Coors Gentle from a bodega on East one hundred and sixty fifth Road round 7.30 pm on November 21.

He was charged with petty larceny and turned again onto the road – a couple of hours later, he was again in handcuffs, in accordance with the New York Police Division.

Garcia then robbed a subway rider at knifepoint on the Canal Road subway station round 3 am on November 22, telling her to ‘keep again’ when she pursued him, police mentioned.

He was arrested, charged with felony theft, and launched once more. 

Simply seven hours later, police arrested Garcia as he tried to climb up onto a platform from the tracks again on the West 145th Road/Lenox Avenue station. He fled into the tunnel after stealing one other commuter’s iPhone.

After this third arrest he was charged with grand larceny and felony trespass, and was despatched to Bellevue Hospital for a 72-hour psychiatric analysis.

Darrell Johnson: ‘Beat up two ladies on Higher West Facet’ 

Darrell Johnson, 28, was arrested on December 2 for allegedly beating two ladies on Manhattan’s Higher West Facet simply minutes aside, leaving one of many victims with a ‘disfiguring’ harm and sending each to the hospital.

The profession felony was out within the streets regardless of dealing with further assault, tried assault and harassment prices stemming from an incident in August 2020 throughout which he allegedly punched and stomped on a person in Harlem. 

Johnson was charged with two misdemeanor counts of assault with intent to trigger bodily harm and a number of tried assault and harassment prices for the December assaults.

Regardless of the slew of recent and previous prices in opposition to him, and his prolonged rap sheet itemizing no less than 15 prior arrests, a Manhattan choose agreed to free Johnson with out bail pending trial.

Johnson is due again in court docket on February 1, 2022.

Anthonia Egegbara: ‘Shoved harmless lady towards Occasions Sq. prepare tracks’   

Anthonia Egegbara, 29, of Queens, was charged with tried homicide on October 7, over surveillance footage which confirmed her shoving an harmless lady towards the tracks as a prepare hurtled into Occasions Sq. station.

The unprovoked assault comes simply three months after she was launched with out bail following an alleged assault on July 5 which left a 40-year-old lady struggling a black eye, damaged nostril and a knocked-out tooth.

 Egegbara, who’s been recognized with schizophrenia, has a historical past of assault arrests, together with no less than seven occasions beforehand, in accordance with NYPD data, 

The three most up-to-date incidents concerned her allegedly kicking or biting different ladies on public transport. 

Isus Thompson: ‘Randomly bashed cop within the head with backpack full of steel secure’

Isus Thompson, 38, randomly bashed Officer Kyo Solar Lee within the head with a backpack full of a steel secure, a DVD participant and plenty of grownup movies within the Bronx on November 14.

Unprompted, Thompson approached Lee, 30, on East 194th Road in The Bronx’s Fordham Manor neighborhood round 1.30am earlier than assaulting him from behind.

Thompson, who was additionally present in possession of a steel box-cutter on the time of his arrest, was given three separate assault prices, weapon possession, harassment and resisting arrest, court docket data present.

One in every of his assault prices was listed as a felony, which grants judges discretion to set bail, however Thompson was as an alternative let out on supervised launch, that means that he’s simply required to periodically examine in with the court docket.

Thomas had been beforehand arrested for stabbing officer Demitrios Raptis with a knife in 2008. 

Thompson pleaded responsible in 2008 to second-degree tried homicide for stabbing Raptis six occasions within the experience aspect of the abdomen. Many of the blows had been absorbed by Raptis’s bulletproof vest, however he additionally suffered stab wounds and nonetheless has a scar. 

‘I might have died that night time,’ Raptis informed the New York Publish. ‘I believe the man must be locked up, shouldn’t be set free. He might have killed this officer too. He must be behind bars.’ 

After the stabbing, Thompson was sentenced to 5 years in jail starting in 2010 and was launched two years in a while parole, which expired in 2015, corrections data present. It’s not clear whether or not the prosecutor in Thompson’s most up-to-date offense was conscious of his prior conviction.