{"id":331340,"date":"2026-08-27T21:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331340\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:30:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-2-men-sentenced-for-staging-car-crashes-on-nyc-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331340\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 2 Men Sentenced For Staging Car Crashes On Nyc Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two Brooklyn men convicted of staging car crashes on city highways have learned how long they will spend in prison.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The district attorney says Jaime Huiracocha, 53, was the organizer of the plan and received a two- to four-year sentence in prison.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Victor Murillo, the 34-year-old driver, got a two-year sentence. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the men staged three crashes in 2024, where Murillo would merge in front of a victim, slam on the brakes and cause a crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The duo also enticed other people to join with promises of cash payouts, the DA says.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThose people faked their injuries with the expectation of a payout,\u201d says Queens DA Melinda Katz. \u201cDuring each staged crash, the occupants in Murillo\u2019s car exited the vehicle and held their necks or their backs in very exaggerated motions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both men previously pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Brooklyn men convicted of staging car crashes on city highways have learned how long they will spend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-331340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331340","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=331340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}