The handler of a frail carriage horse that collapsed on a busy Manhattan street and later died — causing advocates to call for a ban on the industry — has been hit with animal abuse charges more than a year after the horrifying ordeal, prosecutors said Wednesday.
“As alleged, Ryder should not have been working on this hot summer day. Despite his condition, he was out for hours and worked to the point of collapse,” said District Attorney Bragg. “All animals deserve to be treated with the utmost care and the type of abuse that Ryder allegedly suffered is unacceptable.”
A suspended lawyer copped Tuesday to conspiracy and identity theft charges in New York state court, telling a Manhattan judge he conspired to assume the identity of an import business to intercept $2 million worth of pants.
A man convicted of attacking two people with a knife on an MTA bus in Harlem in 2020 “without any provocation” was sentenced Thursday to nearly a decade and a half in prison, authorities said.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Thursday announced a Bronx man was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for a brutal bus attack back in 2020.
