The domain names of a dozen websites have been seized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office after an investigation allegedly found the credit card information of tens of thousands of New Yorkers was being sold online.
“After a year of abuse, Ernest Wright fatally strangled his girlfriend Kayla Estevez in a horrific act of intimate-partner violence,” said District Attorney Bragg. “I extend my deepest condolences to Kayla’s loved ones who spoke at today’s sentencing and thank the prosecutors who tried this case. Help is available: if you or someone you know is a victim of intimate-partner violence in Manhattan, please call us at 212-335-9373.”
“The domains seized by my office were used to host sophisticated, structured online marketplaces that exclusively trafficked in stolen information,” said D.A. Bragg. “My office’s Cyber Crime Bureau is actively investigating as part of its ongoing efforts to protect New Yorkers from computer- and cyber-enabled crimes.”
Prosecutors allege that 20-year-old Geovalny Alcantara stabbed a 56-year-old man on board a 1 train at the W. 145th Street and Broadway station in West Harlem during the morning of July 14. According to the indictment, Alcantara stabbed the man, unprovoked, several times in the head and face with a knife.
State prosecutors charged a Bronx man Thursday with allegedly placing an imitation pipe bomb outside the NYPD’s Times Square substation last month, forcing an evacuation of the busy tourist hub for more than an hour.
