Suffolk County District Attorney's Office

Federal immigration officials are urging New York authorities not to release a Salvadoran national accused of raping a 16-year-old girl on Long Island. The Department of Homeland Security has issued an immigration detainer against Aureliano Antonio Melendez Reyes, who faces charges including rape and endangering the welfare of a child.

A jury convicted Alvin Campbell, the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, of 21 out of 22 counts including aggravated rape and kidnapping. He posed as a rideshare driver to target women between 2017 and 2019, and faces up to life in prison at his June 29 sentencing. The jury was deadlocked on one rape charge.

A jury convicted Alvin Campbell, brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, of 21 counts including aggravated rape and kidnapping for sexually assaulting women while posing as a rideshare driver. He faces up to life in prison at his June 29 sentencing, with the jury deadlocked on one rape charge.

A jury convicted Alvin Campbell, the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, of 21 counts including aggravated rape and kidnapping for sexually assaulting women between 2017 and 2019 by posing as a rideshare driver. The jury was deadlocked on one rape charge, and he faces up to life in prison at sentencing on June 29.

Tiffany Bradley, a 16-year-old from Allentown, Pennsylvania, was identified 26 years after her murder through advanced DNA testing and investigative genetic genealogy. Her remains were found in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and her killer, Eugene McCollom, had already been convicted. Authorities confirmed her identity after decades of investigation, providing closure to her family.

A 24-year-old former college soccer player, Elizabeth Dankert, was killed in a boat crash after she and her friends allegedly took a vessel without authorization in Massachusetts. The group had been in Boston's Seaport District when they boarded a Freedom Boat Club vessel after the club had closed. The incident is being investigated by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.

Jose Ignacio Bonilla Garcia, an illegal migrant from Honduras, was arrested in Texas on a Greyhound bus while fleeing toward the southern border after being linked to a violent rape in New York. The victim was allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted behind a dumpster outside a restaurant in Amityville, leading to charges of first-degree rape and felony assault. Bonilla Garcia was extradited to New York and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

Keyonna Waddell, a 35-year-old woman from Deer Park, New York, was convicted of first-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon after throwing a homemade dynamite stick at her sleeping boyfriend, causing him to lose his hand. The incident occurred in March 2024, with Waddell facing up to 25 years in prison at her sentencing on May 27.