{"id":2389590,"date":"2025-01-13T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-arrested-for-stabbing-boy-to-death-was-on-street-due-to-dems-no-cash-bail-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:27:52","slug":"suspect-arrested-for-stabbing-boy-to-death-was-on-street-due-to-dems-no-cash-bail-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-arrested-for-stabbing-boy-to-death-was-on-street-due-to-dems-no-cash-bail-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Arrested for Stabbing Boy to Death, Was on Street Due to Dems&#8217; No Cash Bail Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-arrested-for-stabbing-boy-to-death-was-on-street-due-to-dems-no-cash-bail-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Waldo\u200d mejia, a 29-year-old man, \u200cwas arrested in connection with \u2063the stabbing death of 14-year-old Caleb \u2063Rijos \u200cin the Bronx while he was\u2063 on his way to school. This <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">tragic event occurred<\/a> despite MejiaS prior arrests for multiple offenses,\u2063 including stabbings\u200d and gun charges. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch\u2062 expressed deep concern regarding the systemic failures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professors-car-stolen-as-soros-prosecutor-gives-lecture-on-rising-crime\/\" title=\"Professor\u2019s Car Stolen as Soros Prosecutor Gives Lecture on Rising Crime\">managing repeat offenders<\/a> and individuals \u200cwith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-girl-pepper-sprayed-during-interaction-with-rochester-police\/\" title=\"9-Year-Old Girl Pepper Sprayed During Interaction With Rochester Police\">mental health issues<\/a>, highlighting the devastating impact on victims and families.\u200b Mejia \u200bwas apprehended with a bloody \u2064knife just days after \u2063another \u200dstabbing incident, raising questions about \u2064the effectiveness of current law enforcement and judicial practices in \u200cdealing\u2063 with violent crime. This incident has sparked calls for urgent reforms to\u200c better protect the \u200dcommunity and\u2062 prevent similar tragedies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Waldo Mejia was arrested in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024, according to New York City police records.<\/p>\n<p>But he was out on the street Friday when 14-year-old Caleb Rijos was stabbed to death in the Bronx while walking to school, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/11\/us-news\/bronx-man-arrested-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-stabbing-of-14-year-old-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mejia, 29, was arrested for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/violent-crime-plagues-new-york-city-272-nypd-officers-file-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a> Saturday with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch noting that there was little to smile about.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, a 14-year old-boy is dead. A family is devastated. A city is in mourning, and the systems that we have in place to deal with repeat offenders and individuals with severe mental health issues continue to fail us,&rdquo; Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>After being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyc-mayor-slashes-police-budget-cope-illegal-aliens-amid-rising-crime-begs-wealthy-residents-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stabbed<\/a> twice in the chest, Rijos called his father<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, he called his father and told his father that he couldn&rsquo;t breathe and that he was scared, and his father heard him dying,&rdquo;&nbsp;Bronx District Attorney&nbsp;Darcel Clark&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s unfathomable to think about the level of this tragedy,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mejia was arrested by police on a knife charge in 2015, and a gun charge in 2017, before facing burglary and arson charges in 2019 after the lobby of a former girlfriend&rsquo;s building was set on fire. The 2019 charges were pleaded down to reckless endangerment, and Mejia was handed a conditional discharge<\/p>\n<p>Charges against Mejia did not end there.<\/p>\n<p>In November, he was charged with stabbing a Ring doorbell camera. Tisch said Mejia was released on his own recognizance, noting that crime was not one where Mejia could have been locked up and required to post bail.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">US NEWS<br \/> Bronx, New York<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zXpW0libkM\">pic.twitter.com\/zXpW0libkM<\/a><br \/>  Waldo Mejia, aged 29, Arrested for Stabbing Death of 14-year-old Caleb Rijos<\/p>\n<p>The Bronx man, identified as Waldo Mejia, who is accused of the murder of the 14-year-old, is also suspected of slashing this 38-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TT (@6002_TT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6002_TT\/status\/1878460608053432346?\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The status quo is just not working for New Yorkers,&rdquo;&nbsp;Tisch said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do not have a system that puts the rights and needs of victims first. And my message to New Yorkers is something has to give,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tisch said once again New York City faces the &ldquo;brutal, unprovoked killing of a 14-year-old child by a career criminal or recidivist over and over again, with [a severe] history of mental health interactions with the NYPD.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How many times [does] the mayor have to keep talking about this before something changes? I&rsquo;m hopeful something will change. Let this be a call to action,&rdquo; Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Jan. 5, five days before Rijos was killed, a 38-year-old man was stabbed at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ny-subway-homeless-man-sends-attackers-running-bloody-mess-authorities-fail-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subway<\/a> station &mdash; a crime police have linked to Mejia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During the course of this homicide investigation, an officer assigned to the Transit Bureau recognized that the suspect in this murder looked very similar to another perpetrator that had committed a stabbing on East 138th Street on the subway stairs,&rdquo; NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/bronx-teen-stabbed-14-year-old-boy-killed-mott-haven-police-searching-suspect\/15787011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WABC-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tisch said that when Mejia was arrested, he was &ldquo;wearing the same sneakers and pants he wore during the homicide, and he was in possession of a bloody knife,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/caleb-rijos-murder-bronx-stabbing-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Despite this record, he was free when 14-year-old Caleb Rijos was fatally stabbed in the Bronx while heading to school. Mejia was apprehended on Saturday for the crime. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch expressed her sorrow over the incident, highlighting the failure of systems meant to address repeat offenders and those with serious mental health issues. Rijos had called his father during the attack to say he couldn&#8217;t breathe and felt scared before succumbing to his injuries. Mejia&#8217;s previous charges included knife possession in 2015 and gun possession in 2017; he faced burglary and arson charges in 2019 but received a conditional discharge after pleading down to reckless endangerment. He had also been charged recently for damaging a Ring doorbell camera but was released without bail due to the nature of that charge. Tisch criticized the current system for not prioritizing victims&#8217; rights and called for change following this tragic event involving another young victim at the hands of a repeat offender with known mental health issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2389591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waldo-Mejia.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36508,48408,35975,46108,48407],"class_list":["post-2389590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crime-news","tag-no-cash-bail-policy","tag-public-safety","tag-stabbing-incident","tag-suspect-arrested"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waldo-Mejia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389594,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389590\/revisions\/2389594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}