Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. Alvin – a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor – has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer.
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D.A. Bragg: Man Indicted For Arson Patterns On Upper East Side And Upper West Side
“Michael Patterson allegedly committed a series of arsons on Manhattan’s public streets,” said District Attorney Bragg. “These dangerous fires extensively damaged public and private property, including five vehicles, and it is fortunate that no one was injured. In Manhattan, we take extremely seriously conduct that endangers our communities – whether to people or to property.”
Man Sentenced For Morningside Heights Double Murder 30 Years Ago: Manhattan DA
A man was sentenced Thursday for a shocking double murder three decades ago that claimed the lives of a Morningside Heights woman and her special-needs daughter, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday.
ICYMI: D.A. Bragg Urges Comprehensive, Nationwide Action To Combat 3D Printed Guns In USA Today Op-Ed
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging a comprehensive, nationwide approach to address the widening threat of 3D printed guns. These weapons are readily available through what D.A. Bragg describes as the “kitchen table pipeline,” and bad actors are manufacturing fully operable firearms at home for just a few hundred dollars.
Manhattan DA Bragg: We must confront deadly threat of 3D printed guns
My office has prioritized prosecuting those manufacturing and selling homemade guns. We have announced several indictments and prison sentences for those who have made, sold and trafficked these weapons.
NYC judge rips cold case killer at sentencing for 1994 murders of mom, daughter – as lowlife whines he’ll die in prison
Ailing ex-con Larry Atkinson, 67, predicted he has two years to live moments before Judge Althea Drysdale sentenced him to 40 years to life behind bars for the killings of Sarah Roberts, 57, and her developmentally disabled daughter Sharon, 23, who were found strangled to death inside NYCHA’s Grant Houses on Feb. 20, 1994.
Decades later, convicted killer of Harlem mother and daughter sentenced to 40 years
The steep term was handed down to Larry Atkinson, 67, following his October conviction at trial on two counts of second-degree murder for fatally strangling Sarah Roberts, 57, and her 25-year-old daughter Sharon inside their Grant Houses apartment on W. 125th St. on Feb. 20, 1994.
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