#rent-dispute

#rent-dispute

QUEENS, NY - A 21-year-old East Elmhurst man has been sentenced to 22½ years in prison for killing his landlady during a rent dispute in 2023, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday. The defendant, identified as - also known as Deiby Vidal - pleaded guilty last month to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 55-year-old Zoraida Leo. Prosecutors said Vidal lived in the attic apartment of Leo's multi-unit home for two years before the confrontation turned deadly.

Porterhouse, the pub operator and landlord of Forged's Glasnevin-based brewery, locked the doors of the facility sometime in April after a dispute emerged over alleged unpaid rent, industry sources said. The rent dispute eased sometime in late August or early September, with Forged allowed back into the facility where brewing has since taken place, sources said. It suggested that some kind of payment or agreement was reached between the parties over the matter.