Jan. 31, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are still looking for an elderly woman who slashed a 44-year-old man across his face in a house of worship inside a home at 32-23 26th St. on the night of Tuesday, Jan. 21. The victim was trying to close his church… Read more »
Jan. 30, 2025 By Bill Parry and Dean Moses The NYPD Queens Special Victims Squad is investigating an attempted rape in East Elmhurst during the early morning hours of Friday, Jan. 24, and is asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect, who can be seen in new video surveillance released on Wednesday. Police… Read more »
Jan. 30, 2025 By Bill Parry For the second time in five months, the FDNY battled a stubborn fire at a commercial recycling operation on Newtown Creek in the Blissville section of Long Island City on Wednesday night. The three-alarm blaze broke out at around 9:30 p.m. at the Sims Metal recycling facility at 30-27… Read more »
Jan. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry A Woodside cyclist died on Friday, Jan. 25, more than a year and four months after he was rear-ended by a driver on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, police said Sunday. Francisco Valle-Alatorre, 44, of 62nd Street, succumbed to complications from the severe head trauma he suffered when he… Read more »
Jan. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are looking for a gunman who should be easy to spot if he’s still wearing the distinctive-looking jacket he wore on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 19, when he fired his handgun multiple times near the Astoria Houses NYCHA complex. The suspect… Read more »
Jan. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry The two men who allegedly assaulted and robbed a 76-year-old Asian man near Roosevelt Avenue in Elmhurst during the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 2, were arrested separately earlier this month. Carlos Peralta, 29, of 94th Street in Jackson Heights was arrested Jan. 8 and booked at the… Read more »
Jan. 21, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are still looking for four men who allegedly roughed up a 7 train rider before robbing him in Hunters Point on the night of Friday, Jan. 10. The 37-year-old victim was onboard a Manhattan-bound 7 train… Read more »
Jan. 20, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct announced today that they are looking for a bank robber who targeted the Capital One branch located at 40-20 Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside on the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 15. The suspect entered the bank just before 4:30 p.m. and passed a note to… Read more »
Jan. 17, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for an alleged bank robber who targeted a Chase branch alongside the Queensboro Plaza subway station and remains at large. The masked perpetrator entered the bank at 24-16 Queens Plaza South just before 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan… Read more »
Jan. 16, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria man admitted that he was the teen gunman who fired the stray shot that killed an innocent bystander at the Astoria Houses complex in 2020. Jerald Bethea, 24, of 27th Avenue, pleaded guilty on Monday in Queens Supreme Court to manslaughter in the first degree for the… Read more »