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From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2025-08-30, Leroy N. Soetoro 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 Im 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, hes 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, wasnt 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
> didnt 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
> wasnt 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 hasnt 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 systems revolving door is one of the things
> that frustrates police officers and has so many of them racing for the
> exits.
>
> Its 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.
> Thats a 2.6% drop from 30,754 at the same time last year. But its a
> 37.5% jump from five years ago.
>
> I got the call from Braggs 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 Braggs office offered to help me with victims services.
>
> Ive 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.
--
pothead
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