Longtime Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes dies at 83

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles J. Hynes, a former Brooklyn district attorney who served 24 years as the top law enforcement officer in New York City’s most populous borough, has died at age 83.
Hynes died Tuesday at a hospice in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Sean Hynes said on Wednesday that his father had been in failing health for some time.
Hynes was first elected district attorney in 1989 and served until 2013, when he lost his re-election bid to Kenneth Thompson in the Democratic primary.