The Bronx Crime Report, published weekly on the Breaking Bronx blog, includes the latest crime-related stories from the borough and the latest crime statistics from each of the Bronx’s precincts.

The Wanted

-The NYPD released a new video today of two suspects wanted for the murder of Candido Fernandez, 48, who was found around 6 p.m. Friday evening near Hoe Avenue in the Foxhurst section of the Bronx with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, ABC News reports. According to police, the shooter passed the gun to his accomplice before they both fled in opposite directions.

— Police are searching for a man who reportedly robbed a livery cab driver on the corner of East 176 Street and Crotona Avenue in the East Tremont section of the Bronx early Sunday morning, NY1 reports. According to detectives, the man got into the cab and pulled a gun on the driver, demanding money. After the driver gave him a couple hundred dollars in cash and his mobile phone, the suspect, five feet tall, five inches and 180 pounds with short black hair, ran away.

The Stories

-According to Bronx News 12, last night a Wakefield resident was stabbed in the hand at 1a.m. on 241^st Street, the same spot where a 25-year-old man was shot and killed earlier this month. NYPD reports that felony assaults are up by 10-percent this year compared to 2012, and incidents of federal assaults, rape, and grand larceny have spiked in the 47^th Precinct.

–NY1 reports that police have arrested Gerson Rodriguez, 33, for following a 73-year old woman into her apartment in the Melrose section of the Bronx Saturday night. Rodriguez, who attacked his victim as she was opening the door and forced his way into the apartment, is being charged with criminal sex act and burglary.

-A Manhattan Judge upheld four long prison sentences for four men arrested and charged in 2009 with plotting to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military cargo planes upstate, NY1 reports. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen, whose defense argued that the men were unfairly mislead by an FBI informant, were each convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

–Bronx News 12 reports that 35-year-old Ibushio Sealey was found last night in at his apartment building at 2290 Andrews Avenue in University Heights with two gunshot wounds to his torso. The victim, who was rushed to Saint Barnabas Hospital, was pronounced dead upon arrival. No arrests have yet been made.

-An unidentified 55-year-old woman was found stabbed to death on the floor of a vacant apartment at East 187th Street in Belmont, ABC News reports. Police discovered the body on Wednesday at 5:45a.m. in a pool of blood, and said the victim, who lived several doors down on the third floor, may have been sexually assaulted before being fatally attacked. Investigators identified a second story roof which could have provided an escape root for the perpetrator.