Good afternoon! Welcome back to Breaking Bronx, where every weekday you can find links to Bronx news stories and weather. Today’s forecast: Beautiful, sunny, high of 61. Now, here are the Bronx stories we’re reading today.

Brandon Landau, an 18-year-0ld Bronxite attending Illinois Wesleyan College, died this past weekend after attending a party thrown near a state park. Landau was found with his legs in a stream and his torso draped over a log.  A handful of students were arrested for underage drinking in the area around where the party took place and Landau’s blood-alcohol level was said to be over the state’s legal limit. Landau grew up in Riverdale and attended the Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy.

The NYPD honored slain Bronx cop Daniel Enchautegui, who was off duty when he was killed trying to stop a home invasion in Pelham Bay. Steven Armento was convicted of first-degree murder in the case and “Bronx Tale” actor Lilo Brancato was convicted of first-degree burglary.

As jury selection began in the trial for indicted former Bronx pol Pedro Espada, a fedeal judge in Brooklyn ruled that tax evasion charges, that were tacked onto Espada’s original embezzlement charges, should be tried in Manhattan, not Brooklyn.

Mayor Bloomberg was at Zero Otto Nove in the Bronx’s Little Italy (the best Little Italy in NYC, I might add) on Arthur Avenue yesterday to tout the city’s restaurant and grading system. The system has come under fire from restaurant owners who say the inspections often amount to harassment. Bloomberg says the grading system is one reason the city’s restaurants are cleaner than ever.

Police are looking the driver in the video below who they say was involved in the hit-and-run death of a Bronx woman in Hunts Point last month.

Maxine Nodel, the principal at the Bronx’s Millennium Arts Academy, got a new gig in Newburgh.

Two men and a prostitute have been arrested in connection with the beating death of a Bronx construction worker.

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