Monday Bronx Links - Norwood News

Happy Monday! Here are some local news stories that Breaking Bronx is following this morning:

Police are looking for a man who groped a woman in the Kingsbridge Road B/D train subway station.

Local Bronx activist Brian Hynes, of Bedford Park, was among a group of demonstrators arrested and convicted of disorderly conduct for protesting Guantanamo Bay detentions during a House of Representatives session in Washington, D.C. According to the blog Legal Times, Hynes was one of five people convicted for shouting slogans during hearing at the capitol; he told the website he was happy the incident could bring their cause to a wider audience.

Cops have identified the one of the suspects accused of shooting 11-year-old Ryan Aquari. According the Daily News, police arrested 17-year-old Kijana Jenkins as one of the assailants. Aquari was shot Thursday in his apartment building at 2735 Creston Ave.

Two off-duty corrections officers were arrested in the Bronx this weekend, one for getting into a brawl on E. 204th Street in Norwood, and the other for allegedly trying to pick up a prostitute in Hunts Point.

Meanwhile, a Bronx assistant district attorney was arrested for drunken-driving early yesterday.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., continues to make his case for the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, this time with a YouTube video urging the City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to talk a vote on the bill. For some background on the legislation, see some of our coverage here. Check out Diaz’s video below.

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