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Bronx News: Janitor Sexually Assaulted Girl, Age 8, Inside School

Janitor Sexually Assaulted Second Grader Inside Empty Classroom  Bronx Voice  October 28, 2025  BRONX NEWS - A school janitor has been sentenced to sexually assaulting an 8-year-old student inside an empty classroom in a Bronx school, prosecutors said. “The defendant grabbed a little girl and abused her, in what should be a haven for children,” said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. “He will spend five years in prison and register as a sex offender for violating a child.” According to the investigation, on December 17, 2024, at approximately 3:45 p.m., inside a public school, the defendant, a janitor at the school, forcefully pulled an 8-year-old girl into an empty classroom. He sexually assaulted the girl, and she ran out of the classroom screaming for help. A teacher called 9-1-1. The defendant was linked to the attack by DNA. Clark said the defendant, Cesar Ortega Licona, 45, of Yonkers, was sentenced to five years in prison plus five years post release s...

Scammers Skim Shopper Data

Tampered with Cash Register Credit Card Scanner 

The NYPD is searching for a man and a woman in conection with the installation of a credit card skimming device at a Bronx supermarket. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD is searching for a man and a woman in conection with the installation of a credit card skimming device at a Bronx supermarket. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

June 15, 2024


BRONX - A couple is being sought by cops for allegedly installing a credit card skimmer at a Bronx supermarket.



The NYPD released surveillance video of the man and woman being sought in connection with the installation of a skimming device. The device would record an unknowing customer’s credit card information for identity theft.



At around 7 pm on June 7, a man and a woman entered the Fine Fair Supermarket at 167th Street. Law enforcement said the couple installed a skimming device on a credit card reader at the checkout stand.



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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