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Those accused of crimes involving a firearm or a weapon should be eligible to be sent to jail rather than be released under the state’s bail reform statutes.
Assemblyman Charles Lavine, D-Glen Cove, has introduced A.6737, which would amend the list of bail-eligible in the state Criminal Procedure Law.
The state’s April 2019 bail reform legislation included nine categories of charges overwhelmingly felonies that allowed judges to set bail. Amendments in 2020 added several categories of crimes to the bail-eligible list, but Lavine wrote that crimes committed with a firearm or weapon should be further added to the list. Some misdemeanors are eligible for bail, but none include being sent directly to jail for pretrial detention.
The stolen items are statues that belong to family memorials, among them one valued at $46,675.
That theft a bronze sculpture of a couple dancing has one family member devastated. What went through my head was, how can I go there now? said Michelle Gigante [daughter of the couple whose memorial was robbed] How can I go sit in that site and be able to handle that kind of a loss, that kind of a violation, and look at that empty stump?
In the last month, two statues from memorials have been stolen.
Buffalo Police Capt. Jeff Rinaldo said police have recovered one of them, but would not provide more details to avoid jeopardizing the probe into the thefts, reports the Buffalo News.
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