Yonkers Insider: STATEMENT from John Rubbo: Justice Served In Asian Hate Crime.

 

JUSTICE SERVED.

Yonkers is amongst the safest cities in America because of our great police department and the many wonderful not-for-profit organizations across our city.  Any and all hate crimes must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Our citizens deserve to live in peace. Thank you DA Mimi Rocah and the Yonkers Police Department for prioritizing our residents.  Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah and Yonkers Police Commissioner Christopher Sapienza announced that Yonkers resident Tammel Esco, 42, was sentenced on Nov. 29, 2022, to 17 ½ years in state prison for the March 2022 violent hate crime against a 67-year-old Asian woman in Yonkers. The defendant, who pled guilty on Sept. 27, 2022, to Assault in the First Degree as a Hate Crime, a violent felony, has been held without bail since his arrest by the Yonkers Police Department on March 11, 2022, the day of the attack.