Driver Gets Prison In Wrong-Way Crash That Killed NYPD Detective

NYPD Detective Paul Duncan was killed in a crash on the Sprain Brook Parkway on Friday, Feb. 27. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A Westchester County driver will spend four to 12 years in prison for a high-speed, wrong-way parkway crash that killed an NYPD detective. Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty says Efren Moreano of Yonkers was sentenced Wednesday in the February 2015 death of Detective Paul Duncan.

Suburban NYC county official to resign, law change mulled

Officials say a suburban New York City commissioner is resigning, and now local lawmakers must decide whether to waive a law that bars county workers from joining companies for at least a year if those companies work with the county. A spokesman for Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino tells the Journal News in White Plains that public works and transportation commissioner Jay Pisco will resign on July 1. Pisco has requested a waiver so he can work with Holzmacher, McLendon and Murrell Consulting Engineers, which has two agreements for work at wastewater-treatment plants in Yonkers and Port Chester.

Westchester Man Sentenced To 30 Years For Murder Conspiracy

A prominent Yonkers gang member has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder, racketeering and narcotics charges earlier this year. Da'Quan Johnson, 25, a member of the GMF street gang, was sentenced on Friday in White Plains federal court to three decades in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy and for conspiring to murder rival gang members which resulted in the death of Tyrone Arthur.