A Message from the District Attorney...

Dear Friends and Neighbors:

I hope you all had a safe and healthy New Year with your loved ones. Even amid the doldrums of the year-end holidays, my office remained hard at work safeguarding the public.

In the last couple weeks, we secured a 5-year prison sentence for a Yonkers man who strangled his partner to unconsciousness in front of their then-2-year-old son. And we obtained a guilty plea from a Mount Vernon man who stabbed another man to death in a cold-blooded assault.

I also stood arm in arm with Gov. Kathy Hochul, our fellow District Attorneys, volunteers with Moms Demand Action and other gun reform advocates to announce new legislation aimed at curbing the proliferation of ghost guns in New York State.

Perhaps most significantly, we obtained a sentence of 23 years to life in state prison for Hasseem Jenkins, the man who savagely murdered Westchester County social worker Maria Coto in 2024.

All of this exemplifies my unwavering commitment to holding violent offenders accountable, and to working with our governmental partners to make sure our criminal justice system keeps pace with the innovations in criminal conduct.

On Monday, we will observe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King's lifelong struggle to secure equal justice for all inspires me every day as I enter the courthouse that houses the Westchester County District Attorney's Office. Dr. King's statue is located on the pavilion right outside my office, and I can see it from the window. It is engraved with his timeless quote: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

I strive every day to embody these principles, and I promise to work this year toward delivering justice to everyone in Westchester.


In friendship,

District Attorney Susan Cacace

Setting Ghost Guns in Our Sights

Ghost guns are untraceable, unserialized weapons that evade the legal framework for regulating firearms.

Thanks to Gov. Hochul, we will soon lead the nation in state-driven legislation targeting ghost guns.

Justice for Maria Coto

Hearts were heavy as we stood with our CSEA Employees of Westchester County - Unit 9200 and CSEA Local 860 Westchester County brothers and sisters to memorialize former Westchester County social worker Maria Coto.


The Cacace administration stands firmly and unapologetically for the safety of our county employees, and we will not stop advocating for new protections for county employees to ensure no other family has to live through the same tragedy as Maria's family.


May Maria forever rest in peace.

Swearing-In Ceremony of Public Safety Commissioner Wade Hardy

District Attorney Susan Cacace, First Deputy District Attorney Nancy Barry, and Andrew Grascia, Chief Criminal Investigator, were among numerous colleagues from the District Attorney’s Office who proudly attended the swearing-in ceremony of Wade Hardy as the City of White Plains' new Public Safety Commissioner.


As Public Safety Commissioner, Wade Hardy will lead the overall operations of the City of White Plains police, fire, EMS, and 911 services.



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