Re: What the buck? NYPD finally nabs brute who attacked me two years ago, and DA Bragg asks for a lousy $1 bail

On 2025-08-30, Leroy N. Soetoro <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2025/08/30/us-news/goon-who-punched-me-picked-up-on-
> drug-charges/
>
> They finally got him — but forgive me if I’m not popping the bubbly.
>
> The monster who randomly sucker-punched me in the gut while I was walking 
> to work two years ago was arrested on Aug. 18 — and given an insulting $1 
> bail by infamously soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
>
> Luckily, he’s behind bars on Rikers Island — because he allegedly tried to 
> sell drugs to an undercover cop just before he was collared. That case was 
> given to Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and bail was set at 
> $200,000.
>
> https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/kamieo-caines-
> attacked-tina-moore-109841903.jpg?resize=720,480&quality=75&strip=all
>
> Kamieo Caines, who was wanted for assaulting me, was arrested on drug 
> charges charges earlier this month in Midtown.
> Steven Hirsch
> Kamieo Caines, 36, a violent recidivist with 20 prior arrests who was on 
> parole when he attacked me, wasn’t caught for two years — and when he 
> finally was, the statute of limitations on my assault case had already run 
> out.
>
> Police were only able to charge Caines in my assault because cops were 
> actively seeking him in the drug case – which kept the clock in my case 
> legally ticking, a police source told me.
>
> But Caines was always their top suspect, cops told me. So I, like 
> thousands of NYC crime victims before me, am forced to wonder: What took 
> so damn long?
>
> I took a photo of Caines on Chambers Street and Broadway moments after he 
> slugged me as we passed each other at around 10 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2023. He 
> didn’t say a word after hitting me and took off toward the nearby No. 
> 1/2/3 subway line. I gave the photo to detectives.
>
> His parole officer even confirmed his ID to cops after my assault. But I 
> wasn’t able to pick him out in a photo array at the precinct stationhouse.
>
> Cops looked for the ex-con, but their hands were tied because of criminal-
> friendly bail reform.
>
> No judge would have held him for simple assault — a misdemeanor. Since 
> bail reform laws passed in 2019 the offense hasn’t been bail eligible — 
> and police know that all too well.
>
> Even if officers arrested Caines two years ago, he would have been right 
> back out on the street. The system’s revolving door is one of the things 
> that frustrates police officers and has so many of them racing for the 
> exits.
>
> It’s even more infuriating as a victim.
>
> In what world should a repeat felony offender attack a stranger and walk 
> free for two years without punishment?
>
> This happens more often than it should. There have been 29,963 misdemeanor 
> assaults like mine in the city so far this year, according to NYPD data. 
> That’s a 2.6% drop from 30,754 at the same time last year. But it’s a 
> 37.5% jump from five years ago.
>
> I got the call from Bragg’s office about Caines while I was away on 
> vacation.
>
> Caines was busted at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and West 35th 
> Street in Midtown Aug. 18 after cops saw him selling drugs to another 
> person, according to a criminal complaint against him. When cops searched 
> Caines they discovered 17 vials of crack and seven baggies of heroin on 
> him, the paperwork shows.
>
> Investigators with the NYPD Narcotics Bureau had been looking for Caines 
> since he sold undercover cops almost three ounces of cocaine over two days 
> in November 2022 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, according to the paperwork. 
> He was charged with three counts of criminal sale of a controlled 
> substance.
>
> Caines has 20 prior arrests for violent crimes on his record, including 
> assault and weapon possession, according to police sources.
>
> He was imprisoned for a conviction in the 2017 attack on two men with a 
> box cutter during the evening rush inside the Fulton Street subway station 
> in Manhattan. That bloodletting happened about six blocks from where he 
> punched me.
>
> Caines was discharged from Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County on 
> Jan. 18, 2022. His parole ended on April 29 this year.
>
> He was convicted in 2013 for injuring a person while confined at Rikers. 
> He was sentenced to three years in prison and five years parole for that. 
> While on parole, his bail was revoked twice for failure to appear, 
> officials said at his Aug. 20 arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court.
>
> Caines was still raging during that recent court appearance.
>
> At one point, he allegedly kicked another inmate in the head multiple 
> times while waiting in line to be searched. Then, he spit in the faces of 
> two EMS workers who came to take the man to the hospital, prosecutors and 
> a police source said.
>
> Caines also threatened “to kill everyone around him” during the intake 
> process, officials said.
>
> I reported my assault so nobody else would get hurt. It seemed like the 
> right thing to do when so many people have been randomly struck while 
> walking down the street
>
> I have a restraining order to keep my attacker away from me for a year, 
> and Bragg’s office offered to help me with victim’s services. 
>
> I’ve written plenty of stories about crimes — from the horrible to the 
> heartbreaking — as a crime reporter in the Big Apple for more than 20 
> years.
>
> Stories about random assaults exploded since bail reform went into effect 
> in 2019.
>
> New York needs to do better by me — and all the other victims of crime in 
> this city.
>

NYC is lost.
Mamandi is ahead by a lot in the polls for mayor.
Kiss NYC goodbye.



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pothead

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