A Manhattan judge pulled a plea offer Wednesday for the teen terror
accused of running down 4-year-old Ariel Russo because he’d been
arrested several times since the tragedy.
Franklin Reyes, 18, was previously offered a deal that would give him
only a maximum of four years behind bars and would eventually leave him
with a clean record.
But since Reyes' bust for the June 4, 2013, Upper West Side crash he
has been arrested three times, including once for assaulting a cop.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro said that while he would
not give Reyes — who was 17 and speeding without a license when he
killed Russo — the "youthful offender" deal originally offered, he was
still weighing his age as a factor.
"I am still considering the defendant's age and if the defendant wishes
to take responsibility for each one of these cases [he'll get] what
would amount to 3-to-9 years as an adult," Carro said at an afternoon
hearing.
Prosecutors had wanted up to 15 years behind bars for the reckless
teenager, who is being held at Rikers Island without bail because of his
repeated run-ins with the law.
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