New York City’s upside-down justice system is sending a 67-year-old man to prison for four years for owning unlicensed guns — while rapists, stabbers and serial gropers go free.
Queens man Charles Foehner, 67, will serve four years in prison for owning unlicensed guns after accepting a plea deal.Charles Foehner was on his way back from buying cigarettes in the wee hours of a May 2023 morning when Cody Gonzalez, 32, a career criminal with 15 prior arrests and a history of mental illness, confronted him.
Foehner says Gonzalez demanded money and cigarettes; surveillance video shows a swaying Gonzalez then charge at Foehner with what he mistook for a knife, but turned out to be a pen.The elderly man will spend four years in prison after taking a plea deal to avoid getting up to 25 — not for the self-defense killing, which the district attorney didn’t charge him on, but for theMamdani’s base wants campus chaos, the left needs a new playbook and other commentaryprison for a senior citizen with no priors? Sure, confiscate his weapons, fine him, put him on probation and warn that reoffendingan ongoing danger to himself or others — unlike all too many violent repeat offenders who get cut loose with zero prison or even jail time, again and again.on the condition that he undergo mental-health treatment after he lured a 14-year-old to his apartment and raped her in 2023, only to Or the menace with a history of random attacks who was cut loose on supervised release after he stabbed a stranger on a Bronx train in September, onlythreats to society get lighter punishments than a guy who had illegal guns in his house for decades, and seemingly only used one once for his own self-protection? Gonzalez himself was a repeat offender who’d likely be alive today if the system had done its job and either jailed him or forced him into treatment for his mental illness.prompting even lefty Mayor Brandon Johnson to call it “an absolute failure of our criminal justice” and “mental health institutions.”Serious criminals unleashed time and again on the unsuspecting public, while those who try to defend themselves get locked up: Such is the progressive perversion of “justice.”Starbucks barista strike expands nationwide days after Zohran Mamdani's call for boycott Miss Jamaica to remain hospitalized in ICU for at least another week after tumbling off Miss Universe stage
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