MAN SENTENCED TO MAXIMUM TERM IN FATAL HIT-RUN IN BRONX
Convicted by Jury of Leaving the Scene of an Accident;
Sentenced to 2 1/3 to Seven Years in Prison
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Manhattan man has been
sentenced to the maximum prison term in the 2015 hit-and-run crash that left a 38-year-old man
dead.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant struck the victim, who was heading home
from his job, and callously sped away from the scene as the victim lay dying in the street. For
this senseless crime, he will spend time in prison.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Michael Longo, 61, of Payson Avenue,
Manhattan, was sentenced today to 2 1/3 to seven years in prison and fined $5,000 by Bronx
Supreme Court Justice Miriam Best. Longo was convicted by a jury on January 31, 2018 of
Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting, a Class D Felony.
According to the investigation, on February 23, 2015, shortly before 7 p.m., Longo was
driving a 2007 Dodge Magnum on Broadway near West 225th Street in Marble Hill, Manhattan
(within the jurisdiction of the Bronx) when the vehicle struck Daniel Cabrera, 38.
Longo then accelerated and drove southbound over the Broadway Bridge. Police
recovered the vehicle in upper Manhattan near Longo’s home. Cabrera died of his injuries at a
local hospital.
BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS IN PRISON FOR
FATALLY SHOOTING MAN AFTER DISPUTE
Defendant Convicted by Jury of Manslaughter; Fired Four Shots into Group
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been
sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing a man on a Bronx street after a petty dispute.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant had been in a fight, and got a gun he had
stashed in a bodega and fired four shots at a group of people on a street corner, killing one
man. A jury has convicted him and now he will serve 18 years in prison. We will prosecute to
the fullest extent of the law anyone who brings gun violence to our streets.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Yousi Edwards, 28, of 185 Webster Avenue,
was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for Manslaughter and 15 years for Criminal
Possession of a Weapon, to run concurrently, and five years post-release supervision by Bronx
Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy. Edwards was convicted by a jury on March 5, 2018.
According to the investigation, on December 14, 2014, at about 4:30 a.m., Edwards got
into a dispute inside an illegal club on East Burnside Avenue. The fight spilled into the street,
and Edwards went to the bodega next door, where he had stashed a gun before entering the club.
He retrieved the weapon and fired four shots into a group of people outside the bodega, striking
Christopher Chau, 29, once. Chau died of his wound.
BRONX WOMAN WHO SUFFOCATED 91-YEAR-OLD WOMAN SENTENCED
TO 25 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON
Defendant Convicted by Jury of 2003 Murder of Nellie Hocutt
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx woman has been
sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in the torture and killing of a 91-year-old woman during a
robbery in her Williamsbridge apartment in 2003.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant committed a crime that is singularly cruel
and vicious. She suffocated a defenseless woman during a robbery that netted her $120. Nellie
Hocutt’s family finally has a measure of justice, as they have continued to grieve the loss of
their beloved matriarch.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Sparkle Daniel, 33, was sentenced today to 25
years to life in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice John Carter. Daniel was convicted by a
jury of second-degree Murder on March 6, 2018.
According to the investigation, on January 10, 2003, Daniel and co-defendant Nadine
Panton offered to help Nellie Hocutt bring her groceries into her apartment on Laconia Avenue.
Once inside, they rifled Hocutt’s purse. Then they tied her to a chair and poured wine, rubbing
alcohol and wood alcohol down her throat, put a rag at her mouth and fastened a plastic bag
over her head. She was later found asphyxiated.
Daniel was convicted of second-degree murder in 2010, but the conviction was reversed
on appeal. At the same trial, Panton was convicted of murder.
