Littlejohn convicted
A Brooklyn jury of seven men and seven women last week found Darryl Littlejohn guilty of first degree murder for killing Imette St. Guillen, 24, a John Jay College student, after abducting her from a Soho bar on Feb. 25, 2006.
The June 3 verdict came after less than seven hours of deliberation at the end of a trial in which a young woman testified about being kidnapped and molested by Littlejohn in Queens several months before the St. Guillen murder. Littlejohn, 44, is currently serving 25 years to life for the Queens kidnapping.
Lawyers for Littlejohn said last week they would appeal the St. Guillen murder conviction on the grounds that the Queens victim should not have been allowed to testify.
Littlejohn had been employed as a bouncer at The Falls, 218 Lafayette St., where St. Guillen was last seen alive. Her bound and gagged body was found in the wetlands off the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. DNA evidence was crucial in the conviction.
Daniel Dorrian, 36, manager of The Falls at the time of the incident, also testified and acknowledged that he had failed to tell police that he had ordered Littlejohn to help St. Guillen out of the bar at closing time. The Falls went out of business shortly after the St. Guillen murder.
Dorrian’s family also owns Dorrian’s Red Hand on Second Ave. at E. 84th St., where Robert Chambers, convicted in the 1986 “Preppie Murder” case, met his victim. Littlejohn is scheduled to be sentenced July 8.
Gallery robbed
Two men entered Koh Art Gallery at 66 W. Broadway at Murray St. around 8:30 p.m. Thurs., June 4 and demanded money from the woman, 60, who owns the place with her husband. When the woman refused, the suspects tried to grab her handbag but her husband, 71, shoved the two intruders out and locked the door. The suspects returned sometime later, entered the gallery and pointed what appeared to be a gun on the man and knocked him to the floor. One of the suspects then grabbed the woman, took her handbag with $140, credit cards and ID, and fled with his accomplice, police said.
The receptionist at Koh said no one was available for comment Wednesday.
Teen girl suspect
Police are looking for a teenage girl in connection with a May 13 purse snatching on the Lower East Side that resulted in the victim’s falling to the sidewalk and suffering a head injury. The female victim, 47, was walking in front of 62 Hester St. between Ludlow and Orchard Sts. at 1:35 p.m. when the suspect, described as a Latina between 15 and 17 years old with brown hair, ran up behind her and grabbed her bag, knocking her to the ground, police said. The incident was classified a robbery because the victim was physically injured. Phone the N.Y.P.D. Crimestoppers line at 800:577-TIPS (8477) or submit information about the suspect on line at www.crimestoppers.com.
— Albert Amateau with Jared T. Miller contributing reporting
