PAROLEE FACING UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a 23 year old Bronx man has been convicted by a jury of the Attempted Aggravated Assault of Police Officer Soraya Batista, hours after being released from prison on New Year’s Eve 2003.

Kevin Carroll, who also was found guilty of Resisting Arrest, is facing a maximum sentence of up to 15 years imprisonment and mandatory post release supervision for 5 years upon the completion of his sentence. State Supreme Court Justice Efraim Alvarado set sentencing for Tuesday, June 6, 2006 in Part T-32.

The crime occurred on December 31, 2004 only hours after Carroll had been released from the Greenhaven State Correctional Facility where he had served a two year sentence for attempted robbery. Carroll was on the southbound platform of the IRT #2 subway station at 149th Street and the Grand Concourse when Officer Batista asked him for identification documents and warned him to stop annoying other passengers. Instead of complying with the officer’s request, Carroll threw her on the ground and attempted to push her onto the tracks into the path of an approaching train. The defendant also attempted to grab the officer’s service pistol before being subdued by other police officers who responded to the incident.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Aaron Kaplan and Marc Brown.