Defendant was Convicted by Jury
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing a loaded gun and for leading cops on a chase until he crashed into several parked cars.
District Attorney Clark said, “The jury has spoken: anyone who has a loaded gun on the streets of the Bronx will be held accountable. We must end the proliferation of firearms that rip our community apart. The defendant not only had a gun, he fled police, drove recklessly on a major roadway and crashed into parked cars.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Dante Anderson, 36, of 2850 Grand Concourse, was convicted of second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon, and third- degree Unlawfully Fleeing a Police Officer in a Motor Vehicle after a jury trial on September 27, 2023. He was sentenced January 31, 2024, before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Raymond Bruce to 15 years in prison and 5 years post-release supervision.
According to the investigation, at 1:00 a.m. on October 28, 2021, near East 188th Street and the Grand Concourse, officers of the 52 Precinct’s Public Safety Team saw a 2012 Range Rover changing lanes without signaling. When they tried to pull the vehicle over, Anderson drove off. Police pursued him as he drove wildly for at least seven minutes on the Grand Concourse and tossed a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol out the window before crashing into a group of parked cars and running away. Officers arrested him about a block away.
District Attorney Clark also thanked NYPD Detective Milton Feliberty of the Bronx District Attorney’s Squad, NYPD Officers Matthew Guerrido of the 52 Precinct and Angela Merriot of the Queens Special Victims Unit, (formerly of the 52 Precinct,) Police Officer Julio Rosa of the Evidence Collection Team, and Detectives Anthony Taccetta of the 52 Precinct Squad and Judah Stavrakoglou of the Police Laboratory, Firearms Analysis Section.
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