Arrests in store burglaries, robberies: Staten Island’s top crime stories of week
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
NYPD: 39K HAUL FOR COMMERCIAL BURGLAR
Police cars are stationed in New Dorp Lane following a report of a burglary on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
A burglar stole $39,000 by raiding an ATM at a deli on New Dorp Lane and busted through a glass door and wall of an adjacent storefront to burglarize a restaurant on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor, authorities allege.
When officers tried pull over Juan Reyes, 39, of Graniteville, in a stolen van shortly after the restaurant caper, the suspect hit the gas and led officers on a wild chase through the streets of Mariners Harbor, according to the criminal complaint and police.
Tompkinsville man indicted on murder charge in alleged girlfriend slay
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
Posted Feb 11, 2021
Natasha Colon, 38, died after she suffered a laceration to the throat inside her apartment building on Montgomery Avenue on Dec. 15, 2020, said police (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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Milton Bolton, 39, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday in state Supreme Court, St. George.
Prosecutors allege Bolton killed Natasha Colon, 38, on Dec. 15.
Her throat had been cut, said authorities.
Bolton was Colon’s boyfriend, according to a law enforcement source.
Police said officers responded at about 8:45 p.m. to the couple’s apartment inside a multi-family building on Montgomery Avenue, between Fort Place and Victory Boulevard.
Arrest in Sept. murder; admission in bizarre body case: S.I.’s top crime stories of week
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
NYPD MAKES ARREST IN SEPT. MURDER
Police investigate on Jersey Street in New Brighton after a fatal shooting in September. (Staten Island Advance/Irene Spezzamonte)
A 25-year-old man faces multiple charges after allegedly gunning down a 34-year-old man who was attending a New Brighton memorial for a shooting victim in September.
Tyler Carmon, 25, a resident of the 500 block of Manor Road in Castleton Corners, was charged Thursday with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm, according to a statement from the NYPD.
Boyfriend held on murder charge is ‘where he needs to be,’ says friend of victim
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The Staten Island man charged in the stabbing death of his longterm girlfriend, Natasha Colon, is being held without bail, amid questions swirling in regard to what some describe as a tumultuous history at the couple’s Tompkinsville home.
Prosecutors on Thursday charged Milton Bolton, 39, with second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the incident Tuesday night on Montgomery Avenue.
EMTs and police responded at about 8:45 p.m. to an apartment at the residence, after Bolton allegedly called 911 to report the incident, a law enforcement source told the Advance/SILive.com