SLAP ON THE WRIST: Francisco Valencia AKA "Frank Valencia", 18, of New Rochelle, received probation and youthful offender status when he was sentenced by Judge George Villegas of Bronx Supreme Court on Sept. 20.
THE DA WAS IGNORED: The light sentence was meted out over the objections of prosecutors representing the Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark.
JUDGE LET HIM WALK: On May 31 this year, Valencia, then 17, was arrested at a White Castle restaurant on Fordham Road in the Bronx.
Valencia was carrying a 9-mm semi-automatic gun in his waistband.
Valencia had two backpacks. One of them was filled with 300 rounds of 9-mm and .40-caliber ammunition; the other contained a machete, metal knuckles and a substance believed to be marijuana.
Valencia turned 18 in June, the same month that he was indicted by the Bronx District Attorney for Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the second degree.
Valencia “pleaded guilty in July to the judge’s offer of youthful offender status and five years probation, over the district attorney’s objection.”
The formal sentencing was last Wednesday, Sept. 20, and Valencia was able to walk out of court a free man.
Five days later, Yonkers police said he was one of two men in a “suspicious vehicle” that was called in on 911.
Officer Kayla Maher was one of the responding officers who approached the car at Marshall Road and Ridge Drive in Yonkers.
That’s when someone inside the car fired at the cops, hitting Maher in the jaw.
18 year old Frank Valencia, who was also shot himself
Maher is the daughter of a retired NYPD police sergeant. The younger Maher is in serious but stable condition.
This was the first police shooting in Yonkers in 30 years.
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