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Bodega Owner Facing Charges After Shooting Gunman with ‘Found’ Weapon Founder and spokesman for the United Bodegas of America Fernando Mateo (Center) is calling on the Bronx District Attorney to drop all charges against bodega owner Jhony Gomez during a rally on Elton Avenue. -Photo by David Greene By David Greene  Bronx Voice  December 17, 2024  Follow @Bronxvoice1 BRONX - A Bronx bodega owner is facing illegal weapons charges after he claimed to have found a stashed handgun in his public bathroom and used it against two alleged stickup men before he could turn it in to police. According to the United Bodegas of America (UBA), Jhony Gomez, the owner of Mi Gerizin Market at 777 Elton Avenue was behind the counter on Thanksgiving morning, November 28, when two masked men entered the store demanding cash. UBA claims Gomez was defending customers inside his store and himself when he f...

Laundry Thieves Steal Clothes from Building



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

December 22, 2022


BRONX - Police are looking for a pair of fashion conscious burglars who stole clothes right out of the dryers in a Bronx building near Yankee Stadium and whole heist was caught on video.


On December 3rd, two men snuck into the laundry room of an apartment building in the vicinity of Gerard Avenue and East 158th Street near Yankee Stadium.




Security video shows the men wandering around the room checking through laundry bins before removing clothes from a dryer.




Nothing else was taken.


In addition to the video, one resident snapped a cell phone photo of one of the suspects outside the building holding a basket of what looks like laundry supplies.




Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/

 or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.



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