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Man Indicted for Punching Jew While Making Pro-Hamas Statements in NYC 
A Queens man has been indicted on hate-crime charges for allegedly punching an Israeli tourist in Times Square while making pro-Hamas and antisemitic statements, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Tuesday.
Man Charged with Hate Crimes in Times Square Assault on Israeli Tourist
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced today the indictment of Yehia Amin, 28, for a hate crime assault against a 23-year-old Israeli tourist in Times Square. Amin faces charges including First and Third Degree Stalking as a Hate Crime, Third Degree Assault as a Hate Crime, and Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree.
Manhattan D.A. Bragg Returns 41 Antiquities To Türkiye
Eight of the pieces were recovered pursuant to an ongoing and far-reaching criminal investigation into a well-organized antiquities-smuggling network that systematically looted Bubon, a magnificent Roman-era site in southwestern Türkiye that experienced widespread looting in the 1960’s. The pieces were returned at a ceremony with Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye Gökhan Yazgi and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tom Acocella.
Manhattan jury convicts cousin in murder of East Harlem mother; killer sent texts from victim’s phone to hide crime
A Manhattan jury on Tuesday convicted the cousin of a single mother who was strangled in her East Harlem apartment before her body was left to rot in a plastic storage bin and dumped miles away in the Bronx.
New York prosecutors move to vacate ‘wrongful’ murder convictions of 2 men
New York City prosecutors moved on Monday to vacate the convictions of two men who both spent more than 20 years in prison after being convicted in the 1990s in separate murder cases.
2 convictions tied to notorious Harlem NYPD precinct overturned on same day
Manhattan judges overturned the convictions Monday of two men who spent decades in prison for separate killings investigated by detectives in the same NYPD precinct in Harlem.
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