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Hours Before Expected Release, Rikers Detainee Dies After Apparent Seizure   Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year. This article originally appeared in The City.  By Reuven Blau Bronx Voice November 22, 2025 NYC LOCAL NEWS - Edwin Ramos was hours away from freedom.  Ramos, 38, was set to plead guilty to an attempted burglary charge at a hearing in Brooklyn court Friday morning. The judge was then expected to release him from Rikers Island into some type of program, according to a source familiar with his case.  He died a few hours before that, after experiencing what appeared to be a seizure inside a shower, the city Department of Correction said in a press release.  “Just days ago, Mr. Ramos spoke with family and showed no signs of distress,” Legal Aid Society, which was handling his defense, said in a statement. “This morning, he was ...

Perv Exposes Self on Bronx Bus


Police are searching for this man in connection with a committing a lewd act on a city bus.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

February 25, 2023


BRONX - Cops are searching for a perv who exposed himself to a woman on a bus riding on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.




At around 6 pm on February 11, a 23-year-old woman boarded a BX1 bus on the Grand Concourse near East 203rd Street.



While on the bus she noticed a man in a red hoodie exposing himself and committing a lewd act.



The perv got off the bus at West 231st Street and Broadway. But not before his image was caught on surveillance video.

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The suspect is described as as a male with a dark complexion, brown eyes, and short black hair. He was last seen wearing a red hoodie, red sweat pants and dark colored shoes.




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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