Feb. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are still looking for a burglar who allegedly targeted three nail salons in recent months, and similar commercial establishments in Brooklyn and Manhattan. His biggest score went down on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 28, when the suspect broke into Athena’s Nails… Read more »
Feb. 17, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who snatched a woman’s handbag on an F train in Woodside and remains at large more than a week later. The 31-year-old victim was riding a northbound F train at around… Read more »
Feb. 14, 2025 By Bill Parry A Venezuelan man who was living in the migrant shelter on Randall’s Island is now on Rikers Island after he was arrested last month and criminally charged with attempted murder for shooting an Astoria business owner during an armed robbery with his accomplice from Long Island in November. Elier… Read more »
Feb. 13, 2025 By Bill Parry An off-duty FDNY EMT from Rockaway Beach was arrested on Thursday morning and booked at the 114th Precinct in Astoria after he was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a fatal gunpoint robbery near Steinway Street in April 2021. Jordan Hannah, 26, of Rockaway Beach Boulevard, was arraigned… Read more »
Feb. 13, 2025 By Bill Parry A married couple from Sunnyside was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday to 14 years in prison for attempted murder in a brutal assault of a neighbor over a parking spot in March 2023. Aruto Cuevas, 32, and Daisy Barrera, 28, of 48th Street, pleaded guilty to attempted… Read more »
Feb. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry A Corona man died Friday, nearly a week after he crashed his motorcycle into an SUV on the Grand Central Parkway in Astoria and was thrown from his bike, police said Tuesday. Jian Trujillo, 38, of 57th Avenue in LeFrak City, was riding a 2003 Yamaha motorcycle westbound on… Read more »
Feb. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry Residents of the Gotham Point development in the Hunters Point South section of Long Island City are on edge after a woman was found dead inside an apartment in the South Tower on Monday afternoon. Police from the 108th Precinct rushed to Gotham Point after a 911 call was… Read more »
Feb. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry Homicide detectives from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights have identified a prime suspect in connection to a cold-blooded murder of a Forest Hills man in broad daylight on a residential street in East Elmhurst during the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 11. Sebastian Agudelo is the alleged gunman who… Read more »
Feb. 5, 2025 By Bill Parry Two months after an unhinged robber allegedly attacked a woman in a Long Island City subway station, the NYPD released new images of the suspect and asked for the public’s help in identifying him. Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria and Transit District 20 are still looking for… Read more »
Feb. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry A former superintendent at the Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City and two other NCHA complexes in Queens was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for awarding micro-purchase contracts and other contract work to vendors. Juan… Read more »