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Bronx Man Gets 10 Years After Leading High-Speed Smuggling Pursuit and Injuring 11 Migrants
UPDATE Norwood: Car Fire in Parking Lot Results in No Injuries
UPDATE Allerton: One Person Hospitalized after Car Accident
Woodlawn: No Injuries Reported after Track Fire at Woodlawn Subway Station
Former Bronx Professor Gets Over 8 Years for Human Trafficking & Sex Crimes
A 45-year-old Bronx man, Jorge Alberto Ramos, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 6, to over 8 years in prison for smuggling three female victims from El Salvador to the U.S., where he sexually abused them, federal prosecutors said. The man’s sentence was also for possessing child pornography. Danielle R. Sassoon, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl, who also presided over the defendant’s guilty plea.