Darcel is taking on the issues that matter most
ABC - Bronx DA Darcel Clark to man who shot baby girl: 'You're not going to get away with it
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News 12 - New Bronx program gives youth facing jail time a second chance
A new program in the Bronx is giving younger people facing jail time a chance at re-entering society. In Bronx criminal court, nine young men were recognized for completing a crime prevention program known as BoGap – which stands for Bronx District Attorney and Osborne Association Gun Accountability and Prevention Program. The program took two years to come to fruition, and the opportunity gives 16- to 25-year-olds who face gun possession charges and have no prior violent felony convictions a second chance at a normal life.
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Wall Street Journal – Juvenile Crime Surges, Reversing Long Decline. ‘It’s Just Kids Killing Kids.’
“The tragedy here is that we’re talking about a gunman who is too young to be called a gunman because he’s 15 years old,” said Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark after Kyhara’s death. “These ages make you weep.”
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ABC - Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark vows to win battle against gun violence
THE BRONX, New York City (WABC) -- In an exclusive sit down interview with Eyewitness News, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark gave a stern warning to those responsible for an increase in violence and discussed new ways to combat crime in the area.
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NBC - NYC Judge Drops Over 800 Loitering for Prostitution Cases, Some Date Back to 70s
A New York City judge has dismissed over 800 loitering for prostitution cases on Monday at the request of the Bronx District Attorney.
“The dismissal of warrants and cases related to this charge is the right thing to do," District Attorney Darcel Clark said about the ruling on Monday. The dismissals include 278 pending cases and 544 disposed cases for a total of 822 cases, according to the DA's office. Some of cases those date back to the 1970s and 1980s.
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News 12 - ‘It has to stop.’ Bronx DA Clark hosts 4th annual March to End Gun Violence
Community members and gun violence victims' families joined the Bronx District Attorney’s Office for the 4th annual March to End Gun Violence on Saturday – a joint effort to bring awareness to gun violence and prevention programs.
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New York Times - He Spent 19 Years in Prison for Murder. Now Prosecutors Say His Confession Was Coerced.
On Thursday, a state judge in the Bronx finally believed Mr. Burton’s claim that his confession was coerced and vacated his conviction.
The judge, Steven L. Barrett, ruled after lawyers for the Innocence Project and the Bronx district attorney’s office brought forward new evidence that suggested someone else killed Ms. Burton, and that detectives had used psychologically coercive interrogation techniques to get Mr. Burton to give a false confession.
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Amsterdam News: Bronx DA Darcel Clark holds inaugural mental health and criminal justice summit
Last Tuesday, more than 70 attendees from prominent nonprofits and local agencies gathered at the Bronx Zoo to talk with District Attorney Darcel Clark about solutions to the mental health and criminal justice issues affecting the city’s northernmost borough.
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NY1: 3 Rikers officers accused of covering up inmate assault
Three city Department of Correction officers were indicted by the Bronx district attorney Tuesday in an alleged scheme to cover up one officer’s alleged assault of an inmate on Rikers Island.
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Pix11: Justice for Junior trial: Bronx gang leaders guilty of murder
THE BRONX (PIX11) — During the past four years, all of Leandra Feliz’s days have been steeped in suffering.
“It’s been the same day, over and over. I’m suffering. That’s my life,” said Feliz, the mother of slain 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz.
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Norwood News: Bronx DA & NYPD’s Gun Buyback Yields 136 firearms – Mostly Handguns
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Monday, Oct. 26, that 136 guns – mostly revolvers and semi-automatic pistols – were turned in at the Bronx Gun Buyback event held on Saturday October 24, 2020 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in the Wakefield section of the Bronx.
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NY Post: 20 alleged Bronx gang members in violent ‘drill rap scene’ indicted
Twenty alleged Bronx gang members were indicted Thursday in connection to a series of violent assaults and shootings over a more-than-three-year span in the “drill rap scene,” officials said.
“These defendants terrorized residents of the Fordham/Bedford Park neighborhoods who were forced to run for their lives as bullets flew,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said announcing the takedown.
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The Root: Here's How COVID Affected Crime Rates, According to The Bronx's D.A.
Bronx District Attorney, Darcel Clark, warns violence and crime are not the answer to increasing economic insecurity and a precarious political future.
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NY Daily News: Up in smoke: Bronx DA Clark dismisses more than 6,000 marijuana cases in wake of legalization
More than 6,000 Bronx misdemeanor marijuana cases went up in smoke Thursday, dismissed in line with state laws making much use of the drug legal.
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New York Times - Bronx District Attorney Says New System Will Reduce Case Delays
Ms. Clark, now the Bronx district attorney, intends to reduce those delays by adopting a new system of handling all cases starting this month. The system — known as “vertical prosecutions” — will assign every incoming case to a single prosecutor who will be responsible from beginning to end. Ms. Clark said the system would allow prosecutors to get to know their cases better and to take ownership of them. It would also foster closer relationships with victims and their families, she added.
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ABC - Bronx district attorney urges credit card companies to cut ties with ghost gun sellers
BRONX, New York (WABC) -- In an effort to keep illegal and untraceable ghost guns off New York City streets, the Bronx district attorney is pleading for major credit card companies to stop doing business with ghost gun sellers.
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New York Times - Rikers Island Cases Are Focus for New Bronx District Attorney
The new Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, oversees the prosecution of crime in a dozen police precincts and scores of neighborhoods.
But it is one particular trouble spot that is her focus: Rikers Island.
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Bronx Justice News - Bronx District Attorney to End Marijuana Prosecutions in Single-Charge Cases
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark has instructed her office to decline prosecutions of marijuana possession cases when a defendant faces no other charges, according to a statement provided to the city council.
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NY Daily News - Last remaining defendant pleads guilty in brutal Bronx murder of ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz
The last Trinitarios gang member responsible for the horrifying 2018 murder of 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, was convicted for manslaughter on Tuesday, the Bronx district attorney’s office said.
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AMNY - Justice served: Man charged in 22-year old Bronx cold case
Tuesday NYPD officials and the Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark officially announced the arraignment of an alleged child murderer dating back over two decades.
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New York Times - Contractors Face Homicide Charges After Worker Was Crushed by Cinder Blocks
Nearly four years after a Bronx building collapse killed an Ecuadorean construction worker crushed under 1,000 pounds of debris, three contractors have been charged in his death, one of a series of worksite fatalities that have raised alarms about a perilous industry.
The contractors, Augustine Adesanmi, 67, Akhlak Choudhary, 54, and Abazi Okoro, 66, were all accused of criminally negligent homicide, among other charges, in the death of Segundo Huerta, a laborer at the building site on East 208th Street in Norwood, the Bronx district attorney said on Wednesday.
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Bronx Times, The City - Bronx judge changed his mind twice before finally freeing a wrongly convicted man who served 26 years
This Tuesday morning, Norberto Peets walked out of a Bronx courtroom officially a free man.
Since last September, Peets, who was convicted of attempted murder and gun possession following a 1996 shooting, has lived in an odd judicial limbo — having his conviction vacated, reinstated and now vacated again, this time for good.
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Norwood News - Two Men Charged Separately for Stealing from & Scamming Bronx Seniors
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Thursday, June 15, that two men have been charged in separate indictments for stealing from elderly people, highlighting economic abuse of seniors who, she said, put their trust and life savings in the hands of fraudsters.