Shon Holland, 40, of Manhattan, was charged in the July rape of a 79-year-old woman in the Bronx after a routine check with the state’s DNA database.
Sun 29 Aug 2010
Filed under: East Harlem (NYC), Bronx Special Victims Unit, Holland, Shon, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Bronx (NYC), Manhattan (NYC), Police, Sex Crimes — @ 5:30 am
Sun 29 Aug 2010
Filed under: East Harlem (NYC), Bronx Special Victims Unit, Holland, Shon, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Bronx (NYC), Manhattan (NYC), Police, Sex Crimes — @ 3:40 am
Shon Holland, 40, of Manhattan, was charged in the July rape of a 79-year-old woman in the Bronx after a routine check with the state’s DNA database.
Thu 25 Mar 2010
Filed under: Brown, Tolila, Aguilera, Jesus, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Prisons and Prisoners, Bronx (NYC), Murders and Attempted Murders — @ 4:23 am
Jesus Aguilera, 56, already in prison for two murders, was charged with strangling a woman whose body was found in the Bronx.
Fri 19 Feb 2010
Filed under: Forensic Science, Police Department (NYC), DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Sex Crimes — @ 4:32 am
DNA samples from two separate rapes were used to make a DNA profile, which was linked to a suspect this week, years after the crimes had been committed.
Thu 4 Feb 2010
Filed under: Mineo, Michael, Forensic Science, Police Department (NYC), DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Police Brutality and Misconduct, Brooklyn (NYC) — @ 4:49 am
In the trial of three officers accused in an attack on a Brooklyn man, a specialist said that genetic material found on a police baton was a mixture.
Mon 25 Jan 2010
Filed under: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), New York State — @ 5:14 am
New York has become the latest jurisdiction to permit a controversial use of DNA evidence that gives law enforcement authorities a sophisticated means to track down criminals.
Sun 27 Dec 2009
Filed under: Rockefeller University, Genetics and Heredity, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Trinity School — @ 5:07 am
Two students collected 217 samples they encountered daily and found mislabeled food and at least one surprise: hot dogs actually made of beef.
Sat 5 Dec 2009
For nearly a month, Biswajit Paul’s remains sat in the medical examiner’s office, pinned under the weight of bureaucratic law.
Sat 5 Dec 2009
For nearly a month, Biswajit Paul’s remains sat in the medical examiner’s office, pinned under the weight of bureaucratic law.
Fri 13 Nov 2009
A judge dismissed murder charges against Fernando Bermudez, who had served 18 years for the crime, a shooting in Greenwich Village in 1991.