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A man released without bail after allegedly fracturing another man’s skull in New York City has been taken back into custody, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Friday. Van Phu Bui, a 55-year-old convicted sex offender, was first arrested on Wednesday in connection with the unprovoked attack outside a Fordham Heights restaurant in the Bronx before 11 p.m. on Aug. 12. He was re-arrested on a parole violation on Friday. Surveillance video shows a man approaching 52-year-old Jesus Cortes from behind and sucker punching him in the head. He says something to onlookers before apparently leaving the scene. Cortes, a Mexican...

A man accused of punching out a stranger on a Bronx street was taken back into custody on Friday for breaking the terms of his lifetime parole at Gov. Kathy Hochul's nudge after he was previously released without bail. Bui Van Phu, 55, was arrested after state officials contacted the Bronx District Attorney's Office to "talk about the actual charges that were filed" and "make sure that our laws are being properly executed," Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Friday, the New York Post reported. "I took action in my own hands," Hochul said during an unrelated news conference on Long...

A convicted sex offender who allegedly cold-cocked a man on a Bronx street — leaving him in a coma with brain injuries — was freed without bail Thursday after getting his attempted-murder charges reduced in the unprovoked attack. Bui Van Phu, 55, was instead charged by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office with assault and harassment, both misdemeanors, for the brutal knockout punch last Friday that left 52-year-old Jesus Cortes unconscious on the street ... The NYPD had charged Phu with attempted murder after arresting him Wednesday for the attack that appeared to have come out of the blue. .... Phu...