Authorities are searching for a man they say escaped from a jail barge floating near the Hunts Point section of the Bronx early Saturday. Police say the man believed to be missing, David Mordukhaev, ...
A robbery suspect held without bail on a New York City jail barge has died hours after reportedly throwing himself several stories into the East River as part of an "attempted escape." Gregory Acevedo ...
NEW YORK — After 24 years behind bars, mostly in state prison, Gregory Acevedo seemed like a survivor to his sister and mother — so they don’t understand what it was about being in the custody of the ...
A detainee who tried to escape by jumping from a jail barge in the Bronx into the East River has died, city Correction Department officials have confirmed. Gregory Acevedo, 48, jumped roughly 50 feet ...
An inmate who jumped into the East River from a New York City jail barge has died, the city Department of Correction announced Wednesday. Gregory Acevedo, 48, was pronounced dead at about 11 p.m.
NEW YORK — An inmate jumped from an East River barge that’s part of New York City’s jail system on Tuesday and was taken to a hospital, authorities said. The inmate climbed a recreation yard fence at ...
The man who escaped from the Bronx’s floating jail barge last month told a federal judge Thursday that if she experienced the conditions of his confinement, she would have tried to jump ship as well.
Sitting behind 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the 222 tiny cabins on the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge await the imminent arrival of their occupants. The three-level Bibby ...