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Taxi Federation offers reward for info on taxi thieves The NY State Federation of Taxi Drivers is upping the reward to catch carjackers of cabbies. This comes after a slew of robberies and carjackings in the Bronx. -Photos by NYPD, File Photo By David Greene Bronx Voice  May 6, 2024 BRONX - The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers (NYSFTD) is offering a $7,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any individuals responsible for what they claim is an uptick in robberies of taxi drivers. At a press conference at the federation’s headquarters on Bruckner Boulevard in the South Bronx, members claimed there have been nine robberies of taxi drivers in the prior two weeks, some ending with the drivers’ vehicles being stolen. Driver Bamory Sanogo, 57, recalled his harrowing experience when he was recently robbed, assaulted, and carjacked by a male and female team—who Sanogo says crashed his taxi into two parked cars shortly after the robbery. Sanogo, a fa
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New Years Day Bat Attack in Bronx


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 27, 2023


BRONX - A Bronx man was attacked with a baseball bat and stabbed in the back by a group of four attackers.


At around 9 pm on January 1st, a 20-year-old man was walking in the hallway of a residential building in the vicinity of E 169th Street and Fox Street when he was approached by four men. One of the attackers tried to hit the victim with a baseball bat.


As the victim grabbed the bat from his attacker, another in the group stabbed him in the back three times.


The attackers ran out of the building in an unknown direction.


The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was listed in stable condition.


The attackers are described as males with dark complexion, and believed to be in their late teens- to-early 20s.


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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Location: Fox St, The Bronx, NY, USA

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