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A Bronx man was arrested Sunday for stabbing a 27-year-old man who tried to play peacemaker during a wild bar brawl, police said.

Kevin Velasquez, 21, drove a knife into Marcos Cruz’s chest early Saturday in front of Glen Roy’s Sports Bar and Tavern on E. 149th St., police said.

Velasquez was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Cruz was stabbed about 3:30 a.m. after stepping in between Velasquez and another man during a melee. Cruz didn’t know either man, police said. Read more..

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An alert Port Authority Police officer identified an SUV idling in front of the La Guardia US Airways terminal yesterday morning as a police vehicle which was stolen half an hour earlier in the Bronx with a loaded weapon inside. Officer Mohammed Anwar Sadat noted the marked Chevy Tahoe at 8 am, and remembered it when a call came through on an emergency frequency reporting the theft of the car. The weapon, a loaded shotgun, was locked onto a rack in the vehicle and was not disturbed.

The car was stolen from Highway Police Officer Nelson Robles, who left it running outside when he went into the Lydig Coffee Shop in the Bronx to buy breakfast, according to the News (the Times went with “a personal reason”).

Anibal Lugo, 48, of the Bronx, was found at a car rental counter at the airport with handcuffs, rubber gloves and paperwork which were apparently taken from the car. Luggage belonging to Lugo was found at the airport, but no tickets. Police aren’t sure why he drove to the airport. He told them it was a joyride. According to the News, he may be slightly cognitively impaired.

According to police, Lugo has a long history of relatively minor offenses, including theft of services, criminal trespass and filing a false instrument. The more serious charges he faces now are criminal possession of stolen property, grand larceny and impersonating a police officer.

Robles, a 15-year veteran, was suspended without pay, and his gun and badge were taken away. Read more..

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A police officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who spotted a city police sport-utility vehicle oddly parked at La Guardia Airport on Saturday discovered that it had been stolen that morning in the Bronx, the authorities said.

The S.U.V., a Chevrolet Tahoe, which was attached to the Police Department’s Highway Unit, was parked by an officer at 7:33 a.m. near Pelham Parkway South and Cruger Avenue in the Bronxdale neighborhood, the police said.

As the officer, Nelson Robles, left the vehicle idling and unattended to enter a store, a man jumped inside and drove off, the police said.

Officer Robles, a 15-year veteran, had gone into the store “for personal reasons,” an official said, without elaborating.

Later, after the officer was interviewed by supervisors, he was suspended without pay and stripped of his gun and badge, the police said.

About 20 minutes after the S.U.V. was stolen, the vehicle — equipped with lights and sirens, along with departmental logos on its side — turned up in front of the US Airways terminal at La Guardia, in Queens. There, the Port Authority officer, Mohammed Anwar Sadat, spotted it around 8 a.m., according to a law enforcement official. Read more..

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 Good news: This weekend’s gun-buyback program in the Bronx was a big success. Even good-er news? The people who turned in guns earned an estimated total of $243,200.

For every weapon that was handed in, a $200 pre-paid cash card was handed over, no questions asked. What counts as a weapon? Apparently anything that shoots bullets, because BB guns were even accepted.

People could swap as many guns as they wanted, but they were only paid a maximum of $600 for three guns. Officials estimate that 1,216 guns were taken off the streets.

Huzzah! But that also puts almost a quarter-million dollars back on the street, allowing criminals to buy even nicer guns. Seem weird to anyone else?

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NEW YORK Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. were joined by the pastors of four Bronx churches to announce the borough’s second gun buyback program in an effort to get illegal hand guns and other weapons off the streets and out of circulation.  Participants will receive a $200 pre-paid cash card for each eligible weapon surrendered, no questions asked.

The gun buyback / amnesty program will take place on one day only - Saturday, January 23, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at four drop-off locations.

Firearms may be surrendered at the following Bronx locations:

St. Luke’s Catholic Church
623 East 138th Street
(Between Cypress Avenue & St. Ann’s Street)
Reverend Msgr. Gerald J. Ryan
(718) 665-6677

St. Augustine’s Catholic
1183 Franklin Avenue
(C/O East 167th Street)
Reverend Thomas Fenlon
(718) 893-0072

Transfiguration Lutheran Church
763 Prospect Avenue
(C/O 156th Street)
Pastor Paul Block
(718) 378-3588

Our Lady of Grace
3985 Bronxwood Avenue
(C/O East 226th Street)
Father Levelt Germain
(718) 652-4817

Handguns, rifles and shotguns will be accepted, however guns belonging to either active or retired law enforcement officials are not eligible for the buyback program. Functional BB guns and air pistols may be exchanged for a gift card. Read more..

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