Cops save baby Police officers assigned to the guard gate and the lobby of City Hall helped save the life of a 13-month-old baby girl on Monday afternoon, Sept. 22.
The child, Anale Fernandez, subject to seizures because of a hereditary condition, had been running a fever on Sunday and her mother, Anna Reyes, 22, was taking her to New York Downtown Hospital by bus on Monday when the child had a seizure, according to police.
Reyes got off the bus, started running Downtown and screamed for help. Officers John Francis and Robert Oles, assigned to the east gate at City Hall, heard the screams and took the apparently unconscious child into the gatehouse where they began administering C.P.R., police said. Oles then ran to the City Hall lobby where he knew that Det. John Madden had an oxygen mask available.
The child revived after the three officers gave her oxygen, police said. An ambulance took her to Downtown Hospital. The girl was released before nightfall and was taken with her mother to her grandmother’s home on the Lower East Side, according to a Daily News article.
Assault conviction A federal jury on Mon., Sept. 22 found Cao Yi Guo, 40, guilty of assaulting a witness in a criminal case in April of last year involving four defendants convicted of extorting money from private van drivers who shuttle passengers between Chinatowns in Manhattan and Sunset Park. Cao was the cousin and associate of the lead defendant, Hui Chen, in the extortion trial last year. Cao was arrested last March 26 and charged with assault for dragging a witness who had testified in the trial from his car, throwing him to the pavement, punching and kicking him and threatening to kill him. Judge Sidney H. Stein denied Cao’s bail application and ordered him held pending a Jan. 9, 2009 sentencing.
Road rage stabbing
A Brooklyn motorist got into a traffic dispute with another driver in Lower Manhattan on Fri., Sept. 19 and stabbed the other driver with a screwdriver, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
The suspect, Mamadou Ndadaye, 33, was charged with second degree assault and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon. He was being held in lieu of $1,000 bail pending a Sept. 25 court appearance.
Ndadaye jumped out of his car at the red light at the intersection of Church and Cortlandt Sts. and stabbed the other driver four times in the chest and arm, according to the charges.
Ndadaye also faces charges of assault, menacing and harassing a cab driver in Brooklyn in June, according to a spokesperson for the Brooklyn District Attorney.
The intersection is near the World Trade Center site, where construction-related lane closures have added congestion to the area.
Bribery arrest The FBI arrested an employee of the federal Metropolitan Detention Center at Foley Sq. on Thurs., Sept. 18 and charged him with soliciting bribes from an inmate in return for special favors, said a spokesperson for U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia.
Joseph Frangiosa, 41, a plumbing work supervisor at the detention center, agreed to pass stock trade information to the family of the inmate in return for money in August of this year, according to the charges.
An FBI undercover agent posed as a member of the inmate’s family and received payments for passing the stock tips and for allowing the inmate to make a private phone call from the detention center, according to the charges.
The defendant could face a 15-year maximum prison sentence if found guilty.
–Albert Amateau
