Manhattan DA offers 15-year deal to Jaia Cruz for the fatal stabbing of USPS carrier Ray Hodge, raising questions about NYC's handling of repeat offenders.

“She’s going to get out early and kill again,” Ada Rice told The Post after Jaia Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the Jan. 2 slaying of USPS postman Roy Hodge at Joe ...

The woman accused of fatally stabbing a postal worker​ at a Harlem deli pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter Wednesday as part of a plea deal.

Jaia Cruz, a 24-year-old repeat offender from New York City who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing U.S. Postal Carrier Ray Hodge III during an argument in a Harlem sandwich shop in January will ...

Jaia Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter for the fatal January stabbing Ray Hodge, 36, in a dispute witnesses say started over who was next in line at a Harlem deli. Republicans ...

Jaia Cruz was sentenced Wednesday in the murder of 36-year-old Ray Hodges, a postal worker who was on duty when he was stabbed in the stomach at the deli on Lenox Avenue near 118th Street on Jan. 2.

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On Wednesday, Ada Rice told The Post that her son’s 24-year-old killer, Jaia Cruz, who pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the January 2 killing of USPS postman Roy Hodge at Joe’s D ...