Posted on 01/10/2020 2:51:31 PM PST by karpov
A homeless man with a criminal history of assaulting women was cut loose without bail Friday despite allegedly beating up two women in unprovoked attacks hours apart the day before.
Eugene Webb is the latest defendant to be let out on supervised release under the states newly imposed bail reform, which allows those charged with most misdemeanors and some felonies to walk free.
Webb, 26, is accused of randomly punching a 23-year-old woman in the face so hard, around 6 a.m. Wednesday in Greenwich Village, that one of her teeth was knocked out.
He allegedly struck again the same day just after 7 p.m., attacking a 35-year-old woman near Grand Central Terminal, shoving her to the ground and kicking the back of her head, prosecutors said.
Webb, who police believe is homeless, was nabbed shortly after the second assault.
At his arraignment Friday morning, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Ashlyn Rich requested that Webb be held on at least $10,000 cash bail noting that the serial slugger had an open case for a similar assault in September and failed to return to court for an Oct. 7 date.
The first incident charged in the defendants new case took place on West Houston Street, a little over a mile from this courthouse. The second incident took place on 42nd Street, Rich told the judge. This is clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is fully capable of moving around Manhattan, at will, with nothing to prevent him from returning to court.
Judge Ann Thompson freed Webb, who is charged in the newest case with misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault and second-degree aggravated harassment, on supervised release.
Webb left his arraignment with a smile on his face. Hes due back in court Feb. 25.
His lawyer Rebecca Phipps declined to comment.
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I hear ya.
The big problem was local DAs saying they would not prosecute non-felony crimes.
Now businesses, homes, and the public are exposed to people who can steal from them, and not have to spend a single night in jail.
time for vigilantism......Is there no more mafia left in NY?
Couldn’t the Mets use this guy?
Who is known to the police.
Liberals: It was just women
This is the case in any “sanctuary city”, state, etc. - happening here in NJ as well. Not just because of the “bail reform” (which has also lowered our quality of life), but because of what it says about these states’ abilities to manage prison systems/jails: The states are broke, and can’t provide three hots and a cot to its unassimilated permanent underclass anymore.
At least the optics look good; no more “mass incarceration of blacks”...
While it may seem counterintuitive on the surface, many totalitarians view anarchy as a means to an end. The descent into chaos will inevitably create a clamor for order, creating a groundswell of support for a strongman dictator or cabal that promises to bring order if they are just given the tools to do so.
Sadly, there is no shortage of useful idiots for whom anarchy is the desired end state and will unwittingly provide all the chaos needed for the budding tyrants to make their case.
You are correct...this is Communism 101, although it is a common strategy used by budding strongmen of many different ideological flavors because it generally works. The sad thing is so many fall for it regardless of how obvious a ploy it has become.
Serial robbery suspect freed with no bail then allegedly robs another bank
A serial robber who allegedly knocked over four banks in less than two weeks was released without bail on grand larceny charges Thursday and is now suspected of robbing a fifth bank on Friday, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
I cant believe they let me out, sources said he boasted as he retrieved his vouchered property at One Police Plaza. What were they thinking?
The suspect, 42-year-old Gerod Woodberry, went on the mini bank-robbing spree starting on Dec. 30, when he slipped a teller a robbery note at a Midtown bank and escaped with more than $1,000, the sources said.
He struck again in Harlem on Jan. 3, again handing a teller a robbery note, but didnt get any cash in that caper.
In the West Village on Jan. 6, he escaped with more than $1,000 again, in another robbery, the sources said. Two days later, he passed another note to a teller on the Upper West Side, but again left empty-handed.
He was arrested by patrol cops in Manhattan on Thursday but released without bail for the robbery spree.
Woodberry is now wanted for another bank robbery on Friday in Downtown Brooklyn, law-enforcement sources said.
In the heist, he allegedly passed a teller a note and made off with more than $1,000.
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