People v. Junior Lightbody

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Albert Lorenzo, *633J.), rendered June 19, 2008, convicting defendant, after a jury-trial, of insurance fraud in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of five years’ probation, unanimously reversed, on the facts, and the indictment dismissed.

The verdict to the extent it found that Bronx County was a proper venue was against the weight of the evidence (see People v Cullen, 50 NY2d 168, 173 [1980]). On April 5, 2006, while in Queens County, defendant falsely reported to the police that his car had been stolen. In making this report, defendant claimed…