Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. Alvin – a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor – has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer.
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ICYMI: D.A. Bragg Urges Comprehensive, Nationwide Action To Combat 3D Printed Guns In USA Today Op-Ed
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging a comprehensive, nationwide approach to address the widening threat of 3D printed guns. These weapons are readily available through what D.A. Bragg describes as the “kitchen table pipeline,” and bad actors are manufacturing fully operable firearms at home for just a few hundred dollars.
Manhattan DA Bragg: We must confront deadly threat of 3D printed guns
My office has prioritized prosecuting those manufacturing and selling homemade guns. We have announced several indictments and prison sentences for those who have made, sold and trafficked these weapons.
D.A. Bragg: Larry Atkinson Sentenced For 1994 Murder Of Mother And Daughter
“We are resolute in our commitment to solving homicides and providing justice to victims and their families, no matter how long it takes,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Thirty years after strangling Sarah Roberts and her daughter Sharon, Larry Atkinson stands convicted by a jury of two counts of murder and will serve decades in prison. Thanks to the skill of our prosecutors and the dogged work of our partners at OCME and the NYPD, there is finally closure for this horrific crime.”
Manslaughter Plea in Fatal Car Crash
The case of the horrific fatal car crash that killed husband-to-be Kirk Walker, and his cousin, Rob McLaurin, on the Henry Hudson Parkway on August 24, 2024, reached its criminal resolution with the recent announcement that Jimmy Connors, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and two counts of Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting.
Man Pleads Guilty to Murder in June ‘24 East Village Stabbing
Alejandro Piedra, 31, pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing 38-year-old Clemson Cockfield and injuring two others in the East Village in a wild June 2024 melee, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. recently announced. According to a contemporary Straus News report, “the south side of East 14th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A is a known trouble spot“ that locals had dubbed the “thieves’ market.”
Shooter of New York Jets Player Indicted; Forcible Touching in Kips Bay
Manhattan’s properly very serious District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., isn’t a man for irony, at least not publicly, but the recent announcement that Frederick Green, 20, had been indicted as the shooter of Jets cornerback Kris Boyd surely raised some eyebrows among NFL gridiron fans generally, and long suffering members of “Gang Green Nation” specifically.
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