Category: Herkimer Gangs

Micron’s 100 Billion $ Investment Leads to Land Grab in Central NY

Land Grab
Housing Shortage in Central NY May be causing Land Grab

by Linda Kaidan

On Aug 25, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order to implement semiconductor funding in the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 Chip manufacturer Micron considered two candidate states for its new facility: Texas and NY. Just one week after  Hurricane IAN struck Gulf  Coast  Fort Meyers FL on October 4, 2022, Micron Announced its $100 Billion Megafab Manufacturing Facility would be built in central NY.

Texas has been troubled by significant flooding, drought, and tornados making it unattractive in terms of climate change safety! It is anticipated that the new Micron facility in Clay New York will bring 50,000 new jobs to New York State. US-based supply chain safe DRAM production reduces risk while improving our local economy.
 
There is limited availability of homes nationwide! Even before IAN caused massive devastation in Florida, Pewtrusts.org reported that it might take 10 years to catch up on housing shortages. Massive construction of housing projects in NYS will be needed to provide homes for those who move here!
 
Greedy investors are motivated to grab available properties in Central NY. Some may use street gangs to harass vulnerable owners into moving! If you feel that this is happening to you don’t give in or you will be giving up your personal goldmine! We recommend an easy solution that is totally legal. Try Halt II Dog Repellant. Legal in New York State it repels dogs of all kinds 🙂 Also, take lots of photos and post them on YOUTUBE. Use hashtag gangBgone#. Giving up your nest egg is idiotic and will result in far more economic insecurity for your family!
 
Be brave and keep safe. You CAN do it!
 
 
 

Neighbors Get Excited by Driveway Cleanout–Beat Me Up

by Linda J. Kaidan

Mean and irrational neighbors at 333 Pleasant Ave harassed me as I enthusiastically sorted my trash and continued my driveway cleanout. There were plenty of them yelling and berating, but time being of the essence, I continued my outdoor trash organization.

Seriously, it seemed to me as if some of these guys were high, drunk, or looking for a fight.

I think I’m about 1/3 of the way through my cleanout and hope to be continuing at the same rate until I’m finished!

No one physically harmed me until someone named Heidi, who was taller,  heavier and much younger, shockingly shoved me to the pavement, bruising my arm, skull, and neck. Believe it or not, this is the first time that  I was injured by someone on my own property, bashing my head on the paved driveway. Make sure to view the video of this. It’s been submitted to the Herkimer police! You’ll be able to see dear Heidi in action.

Souvenir of Heidi

Imp;rint of Heidi's large trollish fingers on my arm where she hurled me to the sidewalk.
Impint of Heidi’s large trollish fingers on my arm where she hurled me to the sidewalk.

333 Pleasant Avenue — Long a Troubled Property

333 {leasant Ave. We're always watching. Used to be home to drug dealear Joyce Barton.. She moved on, tired of our cameras. No drujg traffifcking now, but much consuming. The current tenants like to loudly harass us as they smoke their lives away.
333 Pleasant Ave. We’re always watching. Used to be home to drug dealer Joyce Barton. She moved on, tired of our cameras. No drug trafficking now, but much consuming. The current tenants like to loudly harass us as they smoke their lives away

New Herkimer Fire Antics

It’s been a few years, but fire antics have returned to the area behind 335 Pleasant and 341 Eureka Avenues.  They went on into the next morning. The fire was still smouldering at 7:30 am.

Here’s a video clip, taken shortly after midnight:

That fire is a few feet from a wooden border fence and clearly illegal. Here’s the law:

Herkimer Village Local Law No. 3 of 2003, Section 2, defines prohibited burning in the village:

1-12 Definitions

(a)    Open Fire:  Shall mean any fire or smoke-producing process wherein the combustion products are directly emitted into the atmosphere.

(b)   Stack:   Shall mean any lawful conduit, chimney, duct, vent, or flue arranged to conduct gases or gas-borne products to the other air.

 Prohibited Burning

 1-13  No person shall burn any garbage, rubbish, or solid waste in any open fire except as permitted by provisions set forth herein.

 Permissible Burning

 1-14  When not prohibited by law, regulation, ordinance, or State officials having jurisdiction, such as the State Commission of Conservation or the State Commissioner of Health, the following types of open  burning are permissible:

 (A)   Outdoor grills and fireplaces for the purpose of preparing food.

(B)   Camp fires and fires used solely for recreation purposes when such fires are located at least one hundred (100) feet from any dwelling, structure, or vehicle and are properly controlled and supervised by the Herkimer Fire Department.

I called 911 at 9:51. The operator asked me why I thought the fire was illegal. I cited the law. He said he’d send the police. If he did, they had no effect.

This is a highly flammable village, with many trees and close-packed old, dry houses. We’ve lost people to fires in the last few years, three of them children. 

The partygoers all appear to be the guests of Carrie Ann Bass of 341 Eureka, as indicated by the presence of her son Harvey, visiting for the event. Bass is a notorious scofflaw noted for, among other things, her weaponized parties.

Carrie Ann Bass Hosts Party At Herkimer’s Historic Child Trafficking Hub

The Fire Next Time

The next time this happens, and it will, I and my law-abiding neighbors would appreciate a firm police response. 

Stay safe, Herkimer. And make sure you’ve paid your fire insurance.

Climate Migration and the Gangs of the Rust Belt. A Cautionary Tale

Stephen Ames Berry

Moving north to climate safety? Lovely county up here, but it’s not all apple blossoms and 4H. Please read this book before you make any firm plans: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7SW861Y

Wife Linda and I relocated from Sarasota to Central New York in 2013. We’d done our homework. We knew Florida was doomed and that the Rust Belt was a sweet spot climate safety zone. And so far that’s proven true. 

We did our homework, checked out Realtor, identified possible relocation spots, pulled the crime stats for those places we could afford, and bought a very nice old house for very little money–very little being what we had.  Herkimer, a historic New York village near Utica, became our home. 

We moved in on March 13, 2013. Soon after that, the long years of warfare began with the trafficking gangs that controlled Herkimer, their presence hidden from research–the police didn’t register complaints—statistically, Herkimer’s crime rate was similar to Nantucket’s. Herkimer had gotten rid of many unwelcomed newcomers before. Two more “old, weak people” didn’t seem much of a challenge. They had no understanding of the power of social media. But we did.

We videoed it all blogged about it and fielded a YouTube channel through all those long years. And now that it’s over and we won–with a lot of help from the Feds–I put it all in the book, which relies heavily on our blog and the videos. You wouldn’t believe me otherwise.  “What county is that?” we sometimes asked each other.

It’s all in the book: the in-your-face corruption, the wholesale drug and child trafficking, the protected, gang-run neighborhoods, the menacing, the poison gas attacks, the blogger beatings, the cop-proof thugs.

I’m a science fiction writer. This is my first and last work of nonfiction. I didn’t enjoy writing it. But we all have a duty to warn. Pass it on. There are a lot of Herkimers and ambush predators up here in the Rust Belt.

From Gork’s summary of the related X post:

  • The post promotes Stephen Ames Berry’s memoir “This Is Our Place!”, detailing a Florida family’s decade-long struggle against a Rust Belt trafficking gang, tying into climate migration—a concept supported by a 2021 study in Nature Climate Change predicting 200 million climate migrants by 2050 due to rising sea levels and economic shifts.
  • The Rust Belt’s transformation from industrial decline to a potential climate migration hub is underscored by Danny Schleien’s 2021 Medium article, which notes its historical population loss reversed as people flee coastal climate risks, challenging the narrative of its permanent economic stagnation.
  • Berry’s work aligns with emerging research, like a 2023 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper, linking climate-driven displacement to increased crime rates, offering a gritty, firsthand perspective on gang activity amid environmental upheaval.
 

A&E’s Neighborhood Wars Showcases Herkimer Thugs Jordan Bormann and Mom Kim Vargas

Stephen Ames Berry
Linda J. Kaidan

We’re delighted to announce that herkimerpost.com is now partners with Junkin Media, the producers of A&E’s hugely popular Neighborhood Wars.  The series is currently the third most popular show on A&E and 252nd overall on TV. It streams on 11 services with all episodes available.

Our first Herkimer Neighborhood Wars show, Season 6, Episode 14,  aired on May 28th. Entitled “All Barking”, it’s part two of the episode. It features Herkimer’s own Kim Vargas, aka Kim Bormann and her son, Jordan Bormann,  harassing their elderly neighbors and sending one of them–me–to distant Albany Medical with a traumatic brain injury. In its first week alone, the Bormann episode had 483,000 views, per the A.C. Nielsen ratings, double that of our well-viewed Herkimer Child Trafficking series.

Junkin Producer Evan Garland reached out to us after coming across my YouTube video of our confrontation with expectant-mom-tasering cop Jason Crippen. Evan asked for more videos, to date licensing eleven of them. The May 28th episode is a skillful editing of three of our Vargas-Bormann YouTubes: Yard Nazis, Blinded by the Light and Murder on Their Mind. The HD quality is flawless, the editing brilliant, the narration superb, the action intense. The audio is so crisp you can hear my head slamming kachunk! onto the pavement from Bormann’s murderous shove. 

Which of Herkimer’s abundant thugs may be up next on A&E? From the videos they’ve already licensed, I’d guess Jason Crippen, Joyce Barton, Shianne Hill and Curtis Doolen, aka Curtis Cool. (We have more.)

Stephen Berry on camera interview by Evan Garland of Neighborhood Wars. Linda Kaidan serves as Production Assistant. ("I'm not going to be interviewed, Evan. The lights make me look like a freshly dead ghoul.")
Stephen Berry on-camera interview by Evan Garland of Neighborhood Wars. Linda Kaidan serves as the Production Assistant. (“I’m not going to be interviewed, Evan. The lights make me look like a freshly dead ghoul.”)

We spent an intense but enjoyable afternoon online with Evan and his team, interviewed about the Vargas-Bormanns, Bormann’s attack, Herkimer crime, police misconduct, the village’s history, and the region’s importance as a climate change refuge–enough material for many future episodes.

Neighborhood Wars is always thirsting for fresh content. And our cameras are always rolling, awaiting auditions.

Stay safe, Herkimer.

Ding Dong! Kim Vargas Moves On

Stephen Ames Berry

Herkimer drug thug Kim Vargas goes from success to success: after several years of harassment and drug trafficking along Pleasant Avenue, she wrapped up her stint next door by helping her son Jordan Bormann on his way to prison,  charged with a class D violent felony. Jordan Bormann, 21, assaulted an elderly neighbor, sending the old veteran to Albany Medical center with a traumatic brain injury. 

Vargas, the subject of many herkimerpost.com articles, enjoyed a two-and-a-half-year reign of unchecked criminality next door to us at 328 Pleasant Avenue, long a gang sanctuary and retail drug thug front. 

328 Pleasant in the past has been tenanted by such local gang luminaries as Curtis Doolen, aka Curtis Cool, Xavier Rowe, Amanda West and unnamed crew members of gang chieftain Stanley Sykes’ drug and child trafficking gang. It is the next-to-the-last property on Pleasant Avenue to be emptied of Herkimer drug and child trafficking filth. (Landlord Jay Smith’s properties comprising Herkimer’s Historic Child Trafficking Hub remain unflushed.)

This March makes our ninth year in Herkimer. For seven of those years, 328 Pleasant Avenue has been tenanted by a succession of low criminal types trafficking drugs and occasionally kids, and doing their inept best to force the “weak old people” from “their” street. As with all else in their wretched lives, they failed. Here’s a 328 Pleasant Avenue rogues gallery:

The Froth On the Scum Of The Earth: 328 Pleasant Avenue Rogues Gallery

Herkimer Monster Mom Kim Vargas
Herkimer Monster Mom Kim Vargas
Herkimer elder-basher Jordan Bormann, unfortunate son of Kimberly (Bormann) Vargas, with vile friends on porch of 328 Pleasant Avenue.
Herkimer elder-basher Jordan Bormann, unfortunate son of Kimberly (Bormann) Vargas, with vile friends on the porch of 328 Pleasant Avenue.
Kim Vargas' son Jordan Bormann assaults elderly neighbor in front of 328 Pleasant Avenue, causing traumatic brain injury. Officer Jason Crippen investigation, found elderly neighbor guilty of the assault. Reinvestigation based on victim's survei9llance cam footage saw Bormann charged with Class D Violent Felony.
Kim Vargas’ son Jordan Bormann assaults elderly neighbor in front of 328 Pleasant Avenue, causing traumatic brain injury. Officer Jason Crippen’s investigation found elderly neighbor guilty of the assault. Reinvestigation based on victim’s surveillance cam footage saw Bormann charged with Class D Violent Felony.
Curtis Cool, aka Curtis Doolen, harassing elderly neighbors from 328 Pleasant Avenue.
Curtis Cool. Cop-coddled Herkimer drug thug and probable child trafficker ally, menacing his neighbors from driveway of 328 Pleasant Avenue.
328 Pleasant Avenue's Amanda West menacing old folks on their porch.
328 Pleasant Avenue’s wacky Amanda West harassing old folks on their neighboring porch.
328 Pleasant Avenue's Xavier Rowe harassing neighboring old folks.
328 Pleasant Avenue’s Xavier Rowe harassing neighboring old folks.

Herkimer police officer Jason Crippen responding to Kim Vargas' call. from 328 Pleasant Avenue. Crippen threatened us with arrest for using foul language in our driveway.
Herkimer police officer Jason Crippen responding to Kim Vargas’ call. from 328 Pleasant Avenue. Crippen threatened one of us with arrest for using foul language in our driveway.

I’ve speculated at length as to who controls 328 Pleasant Avenue, using it as a retail drug trafficking front. The demographics of the Herkimer area are rapidly going upscale.  We’ll see if they sell the place or move another set of gang scum in there. Whatever happens, there are a lot of surveillance drones around and our cameras stand ready.

333 Pleasant Avenue Apprentice Vandals Bombard House

Stephen Ames Berry

This pair of apprentice vandals from 333 Pleasant Avenue have been bombarding our house daily this week with ice balls. They took out a window. 333’s the former Barton Gang place, across the street from us. Joyce Barton and her crew left it with kindred spirits, who are apparently raising their kids in the Herkimer gang tradition of vandalism and harassment. 

Herkimer gang kids are weaponized from an early age. Our former neighbor, child trafficker  and arch-poisoner Stanley Sykes trained his kids on us early: 

The young man who’s the principal thrower is careful to video his work–assume he’s being paid. Assume probably by neighboring drug thug and monster mom Kim Vargas, who’s upset that her son Jordan Bormann’s facing a felony prison sentence for savaging an elderly neighbor in the street.

333 Pleasaant Avenue Herkimer apprentice vandal joyfully breaking window with fresh iceball.
333 Pleasant Avenue apprentice vandal joyfully breaking window with fresh iceball.
333 Pleasant Avenyue, Herkimer. The Joyce Bartons moved on, their trash heaped propuidly behind them.
333 Pleasant Avenue, Herkimer. The Joyce Bartons moved on, their trash heaped proudly. behind them.
Herkimer Monster Mom Kim Vargas
Herkimer Monster Mom Kim Vargas

Will send this on to the police. They’ll have a chat with the kids and their folks.

“Many More Of Them, Live Next Door”

Stephen Ames Berry

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

On November 4, members of the neighboring gang from landlord Jay Smith’s 332 Pleasant Avenue attacked my wife, Linda Kaidan, as she exited her car in our driveway after a 500-mile drive. One kept shouting “I’m gonna drag her!” before assaulting Linda in our driveway. They broke off their attack on the 68-year-old grandmother and returned to their front yard when the police arrived.  Linda counted nine of them, in and around the driveway. (Not to be confused with the gang that hangs out at the gang house on the other side of us: 328 Pleasant Avenue. The gang meat puppet currently living there is Herkimer Mother of the Year Kim Vargas.)

11.4.22 Herkimer teen from 332 Pleasant Avenue attacks 68-year-old grandmother in our driveway.
11.4.22 Herkimer teen from 332 Pleasant Avenue attacks 68-year-old grandmother in our driveway as she exits her car.

“Those cameras don’t work at night.”

For some time now, we’ve been overhearing that our cameras don’t work at night because the little red lights aren’t always on. The little red lights are the infrared beams that illuminate the dark in the absence of enough ambient light. When there is sufficient ambient light, they don’t come on. Thus they are off. The cameras work fine.

11.4.22 This photo was taken without the use of infrared enhancement, as the gang's porch light and the street lamp provide enough light.
11.4.22 This photo was taken without the use of infrared enhancement, as the gang’s porch light and the street lamp provide enough light.

The detail provided by this blind camera is more than enough for me to identify familiar faces:

11.4.22 332 Pleasant Avenue gang who participated in criminal trespass and harassment in support of assault on 68-year-old grandmother.
11.4.22 332 Pleasant Avenue gang who supported or participated in criminal trespass and harassment of the assault on the 68-year-old grandmother. Left to right: drug thug and gang den mother Kimberly (Bormann) Vargas of 328 Pleasant Avenue. The Pirate, seen trespassing and throwing stuff prior to the assault. Teenager and frequent criminal trespasser and hate graffiti artist called “Lem” by his friends, all of whom hang out at Kim Vargas’ house. And the “Gonna drag you!” teen, who assaulted Linda Kaidan. She is most probably the sister of Kyle Stone, ace crack trafficker from 332. Not circled, but to the top of Vargas, next to the police officer: Kylee Figueroa, Joyce Barton’s daughter. The Bartons moved recently, leaving Kylee at 332 but taking their beloved dog.    
Bare ruined choris: Joyce Barton moved out recently,leaving amount of trash and daughter Kylee behind. (Their dog, they took.)
Bare ruined choirs: Joyce Barton moved out recently, leaving a mound of trash and daughter Kylee behind. (Their dog, they took.)

So yes, the cameras work at night. We’ve forwarded more videos to the police and expect charges to soon be filed. Of course, we’ll just keep, what was it? “Dragging,” on the blog.

Gang’s Last Gasp?

 

Hate–From Their Porch To Our Door

Stephen Ames Berry

On November 11th, someone spray-painted our front door with hate graffiti. Videos of previous criminal trespassing suggest it was one of the several teens who hang out at Herkimer drug thug Kim Vargas’ 328 Pleasant Avenue, adjacent to our house. Surveillance videos show Vargas to very much be their den mother, providing them with food and whatever.

Vargas is the mother of 21-year-old Jordan Bormann, charged with a Class D Felony Assault on a 74-year-old neighbor, sent to Albany Medical Center on 9/30 with a brain injury.

Herkimer Monster Mom Kim Vargas
Herkimer Monster Mom Kim Vargas

Thanks to New York bail reform, young Mr. Bormann is at home on an appearance ticket, visible to his neighboring victim (me), hanging out on Vargas’ porch, eating takeout and smoking weed as he awaits trial this Spring.  Confined to home, Jordan has the Lost Boys of the video to keep him company. (And Democrats wonder why they lost seats in New York.)

The hate sprayer is of the age and size of one of the criminal trespassers caught on a previous video, raiding our property from Vargases. His friends call him Lem. (video-3:26)  We’ve seen Lem several times in the driveway of 326-326 ½ Pleasant, the house on the other side of Vargas’. As we walked by there on 11/11, he called my wife a “Crazy fucking bitch.” He might have gone on, but I pointed to my bodycam and he shut up.

Lem - Herkimer criminal trespasser and suspected hate crime perpatrator. Often seen at Kim Vargas' 328 Pleasant Ave.
Lem-Herkimer criminal trespasser and suspected hate crime perpetrator. Often seen at Kim Vargas’ 328 Pleasant Ave.

The sturdy lad doing hate art may also be Chunky Monkey, caught on camera vandalizing one of our security lights—a light Kim Vargas complained often and bitterly about, lighting up her drug trafficking as it did.

Video Timeline

0:01-0:41 The Hate Spraying

0:42-2:16 Previous recent criminal trespass incidents from Vargas’ house.

2:17    Trespasser’s friends on Vargas’ porch encourage him, call him “Lem” as he enters our driveway.

3:37 – End “The guilty flee where no one pursues.” (Proverbs 28:1

This behavior has gone well beyond youthful hijinks and has been reported to the police and the State of New York Attorney General’s Hate Crimes Unit. No one in our family is African American, but several are Jewish. These guys aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed and may confuse a darkly-complected Ashkenazic Jew — my wife–with an African American. Not that they would know what a Jew was. But you don’t need to get your victim’s ethnicity right for it to be a hate crime. For example, I’ve overheard people expressing sympathy for “the old Jew who got beat up in the street.” My wife is Jewish; I’m Icelandic Dane. Doesn’t matter–hate’s hate.

The Herkimer Post is widely read. Lots of folks in this time of change looking for places up here to move to and invest in. If Herkimer doesn’t want the image of a racist community, it needs to track this kid down and charge him.

Sparks Fly! Chunky Monkey Could’ve Died

Gang’s Last Gasp?

Stephen Ames Berry

Things have livened up here on Herkimer’s Pleasant Avenue since I survived a vicious street assault on 9/30. Formerly quiet gang-allied neighbors have grown aggressive, harassing and assaulting my wife and daughter in our driveway. A squad of them went after my daughter Alex and wife Linda on 10/24, 10/25, and 11/4. The pattern keeps repeating: one of us enters our driveway after dark, and the swarm descends from next door at 332 Pleasant Avenue, long a gang haven— trespassing, throwing stuff, menacing, and attacking a 68-year-old grandmother as she defends herself. They scatter as soon as they spot the police. It’s a miracle no one here has been injured as the gangers practice elder abuse. I went down with a brain injury when Kim Vargas’ son Jordan Bormann threw me to the sidewalk and kicked me. (I was videoing his mother, drug thug Kim Vargas accosting my wife.)

“We do not retreat—retreating is how Rust Belt Herkimer became a pirate haven.

If this continues, one of us will be injured. We do not retreat—retreating is how Rust Belt Herkimer became a pirate haven. These folks aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed and may not know what a Class B Violent Felony verdict would do to their lives—the sort of verdict young Mr. Bormann is facing. No more probation-only: it’s a mandatory multiyear prison sentence. Used to be, beating up old folks in New York was a misdemeanor blood sport, just youthful hijinks. No more. And if you kill or permanently injure one of us oldsters, you won’t be seeing the Outside for a very long time. Open Season on the elderly in New York is now closed. The Herkimer Police responded promptly. Hopefully, they’ll soon shut this dangerous game down.

The video is of all three incidents, somewhat edited. Those familiar with South Herkimer gangdom will recognize Kylee Figueroa, Joyce Barton’s daughter. (The Bartons left town about a month ago, leaving their trash and Kylee behind.) The young woman trespassing and assaulting my wife is also from 332 Pleasant, probably the colorful Kyle Stone’s younger sister. (She’s the one shouting “I’m gonna drag her!” meaning my wife.) 10:07

Don’t know who the ball-hugging, object-throwing trespasser is.
Don’t know who the ball-hugging, object-throwing trespasser is.

Don’t know who the ball-hugging, object-throwing trespasser is. Probably from somewhere here on our Pleasant Avenue. (There are people still living who swear it was once pleasant.)

Sorry, I couldn’t join the fray, but am still recovering from a subdural hematoma, courtesy of Jordan Bormann. (I get to see him each day as he lounges on his mother’s porch, 15 feet away, eating takeout and smoking weed. His trial’s tentatively scheduled for April. Until then, he gets to lounge at home, courtesy of New York bail reform. Don‘t worry, I’m protected from my violent mercurial assailant by a restraining order and his ankle monitoring device.)

Frankly, I think this is all about rage at the loss of drug and child trafficking income here in the ‘hood. We’ve lived here for 9 years and trafficking’s never been this light. Plus, our attackers keep checking in with mother-of-the-year Kim Vargas, who may be incentivizing their behavior. The dynamics of the Mohawk Valley are rapidly changing, fueled by an influx of affluence, itself catalyzed by climate change and the chip fab construction boom. 

Things are quickly changing here, hopefully for the better.

Monster Mom Kim Vargas: People v. Jordan Bormann–The Apple Didn’t Fall Far

Stephen Ames Berry

On 9/30/22, 21-year-old Jordan Bormann savagely attacked his 74-year-old neighbor, leaving the elderly veteran unconscious and bleeding on the sidewalk in front of his home. He was diagnosed with a brain injury. Bormann is charged with a violent felony against an oldster, a local blogger who was videoing a confrontation between Bormann’s drug peddler mother and the victim’s wife.

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree: Bormann and his mother Kimberly (Bormann) Vargas, moved into the rental house next to the victim’s two years prior to the heinous attack. Mother Kimberly immediately began harassing and threatening the elderly homeowners, objecting to their surveillance cameras, their security lights and their activist blog, where they posted her alleged drug trafficking activities. She’d call the police and falsely report them for harassment and trespassing–charges given the lie by their surveillance videos.

The day of the assault, Kim twice threatened the victim’s wife with physical violence–in keeping with her history of threats and harassment. Bullied from Vargas’ porch as they were in their adjacent driveway, the couple sallied forth, the wife confronting Kim, her husband filming, Jordan’s friends heckling him and his wife as Jordan watched. (If you don’t confront bullies, they just escalate.)

With a role model like Kimberly Vargas, how else would Jordan turn out? Watch Kimberly strut her foul-mouthed stuff over the two years she’s lived next to us, the elderly couple: threatening violence, harassing our mentally ill daughter. Just a few brief highlights of her despicable behavior:

Jordan Bormann is of an age where he’s responsible for his actions and will be held accountable for them in court. He’s facing a mandatory minimum of 2 years, a maximum of 7, for a Class B Violent Felony.

As I told the District Attorney’s staff and the court, I hope his sentence sees him sent far away from his mother’s reach, where he can receive effective counseling and learn a vocation. To be just given probation would leave him where he is now, 15 feet from our house, lounging on his mother’s porch, eating takeout and smoking weed. He won’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of a decent life if he’s returned to his mother Kimberly’s foul clutches.  To reinforce my suggestion to the court, I included a copy of this video with my Victim’s Impact Statement, which is reviewed prior to sentencing.

You can imagine what I think of New York’s crazy gone-today-here-tomorrow bail law.

Jordan Bormann--far right, on porch railing. He's with his heckler friends.Boy-next-door Jordan Bormann–far right, on porch railing. He’s with his heckler friends.

Bormann;s unconscious victim bled profusely.
Bormann’s unconscious victim bled profusely. Bormann kicked him as he lay out cold.

11/2/22 Correction. The name of my assailant is Jordan Bormann, not Jordan Harris. (I worked with Harris at Harvard. He never beat me up.)