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Manhattan D.A. appoints One Hundred Black Men of New York’s Courtney Bennett as new Harlem Office Director 
Courtney Bennett will direct the Manhattan District Attorney’s Harlem community office starting Feb. 6. The lifelong Harlemite most recently served as the executive director of One Hundred Black Men, Inc. of New York.
Rapist on parole found guilty in Manhattan rape
A 62-year-old man was found guilty on Monday of raping a woman in a sidewalk shed in Manhattan.
‘So what, I just slashed a few people’: Man accused of attacking 2 men in Manhattan
After an officer nabbed a slashing suspect in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown, the purported attacker allegedly said, “So what, I just slashed a few people.”
UES woman indicted for using cryptocurrency to fund Syrian terrorist group
A 43-year-old Upper East Side woman was indicted for using cryptocurrency to fund and launder money for a Syrian terrorist group, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Speaks to West Side Rag
Alvin Bragg is making the rounds. The District Attorney for Manhattan has kicked off the new year with a series of interviews, sitting down with NY1, the New York Times, City and State, and others. Last week, it was West Side Rag’s turn to talk with the DA about issues on the minds of Upper West Siders.
Registered sex offender convicted for the brutal rape of Asian woman at Manhattan construction site
A 62-year-old Manhattan man was convicted of sex crimes charges Monday for the brutal assault and rape of a 23-year-old Asian woman inside a sidewalk construction shed in Chelsea in December 2021, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Darryl Phelps, who was a registered sex offender, was convicted by a jury in less than hour of deliberations for attacking and raping the young woman at around 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2021, while she was walking home from her job as a waiter in Korea Town.
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