Hynes opens satellite office in Dyker Heights
Residents who live far from downtown Brooklyn and who don’t want to take a long ride on a train or a bus to seek help from Brooklyn District Attorney Charles in his office at 350 Jay St. can get assistance right in their own neighborhoods, thanks to dozens of community service centers the DA has set up all over the borough over the last 10 years.
The DA’s satellite offices are manned by trained staff members who deal with walk-ins complaining about everything from suspected drug deals on their block to suspicions that they are being financially ripped off by relatives. The staff members document the information and hand it over the DA’s investigators.
“We get a lot of seniors who are victims of financial fraud, or who are being exploited,” Executive Assistant District Attorney Virginia C. Modest told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The offices handle a wide variety of cases, Modest said. “People come and talk to us about gang activity, drug activity, identity theft, scams. We get landlord-tenant disputes, immigrants who are being exploited because of their status, and neighbors complaining about excessive noise,” she said.