{"id":208552,"date":"2026-04-24T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:31:08","slug":"six-charged-with-violent-carjacking-home-invasion-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208552\/","title":{"rendered":"Six charged with violent carjacking, home invasion spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 AN 11-COUNT INDICTMENT was unsealed on Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, charging six men in a three-week carjacking and home invasion crime spree across Brooklyn and Queens, according to Joseph Nocella Jr., U.S. Attorney for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/six-defendants-charged-participating-violent-spree-carjackings-and-home-invasion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Eastern District of New York<\/a>, and Bryan DiGirolamo, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, New York Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs alleged, these defendants used violence to threaten and intimidate, turning their victims\u2019 everyday routines into terrifying ordeals,\u201d Nocella said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Between July 12, 2025, and Aug. 2, 2025, the defendants allegedly stole several BMW luxury vehicles, along with cash and other possessions, while armed, sometimes allegedly pistol-whipping or shooting their victims. They are also accused of entering residences with firearms and stealing cash.<\/p>\n<p>Leny Cruz, Brandon Corona, Eddie Nunez, Jose Ramos, Savion Jones and Justin Kenny, residents of Brooklyn and Long Island aged 21-28, were variously charged with carjacking, attempted carjacking, Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy, being a felon in possession of ammunition and interstate transportation of stolen property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 AN 11-COUNT INDICTMENT was unsealed on Thursday in Brooklyn federal court, charging six men in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1689,3302,14768,303,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-208552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-armed-robbery","tag-breaking","tag-courts-and-law","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}