June 13, 2025 By Bill Parry An urgent manhunt is underway for a suspect who allegedly strangled a woman inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park on the morning of Friday, June 6. Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst reported that the 31-year-old woman was in the vicinity of 48th Avenue and 111th Street in front… Read more »
June 12, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted a Jackson Heights man and his mother for allegedly orchestrating a violent campaign of harassment and intimidation against his ex-girlfriend, who is also the mother of his young child. Brayahan Agudelo, 31, of 34th Avenue, was arraigned Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court on… Read more »
June 11, 2025 By Bill Parry Two 16-year-old girls are criminally charged for the beating of a 15-year-old student at William Cullen Bryant High School as she waited for a subway in Astoria on Monday. The two defendants from Elmhurst are both juniors at the school and were arraigned Tuesday in Queens Criminal Court on… Read more »
June 11, 2025 By Bill Parry The homeless Venezuelan migrant who admitted he shot two on-duty police officers while resisting arrest in East Elmhurst just over a year ago was sentenced to 28 years in prison Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court. Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 20, pleaded guilty on May 20 to attempted murder in… Read more »
June 9, 2025 By Bill Parry A teenager from the Woodside Houses was arrested for an armed robbery in Flushing late last month, and the NYPD is still looking for his accomplice, who remains at large. Isaiah King, 18, of 31st Avenue in Woodside, and his partner entered a commercial building at 136-51 37th Ave…. Read more »
June 9, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are looking for a suspect who groped two women about a half-hour apart after warning them he saw a spider crawling on them on the night of Monday, June 2. The first incident occurred at Astoria Boulevard and 22nd Street at around… Read more »
June 6, 2025 By Bill Parry A veteran principal at a Dutch Kills high school was arrested by detectives from the Queens Special Victims Squad late last month and booked at the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills for allegedly fondling two of his teachers, repeatedly, for nearly a year. William Bassell, 66, was taken into… Read more »
June 5, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct are still looking for a woman who allegedly robbed a cabbie at knifepoint in the Dutch Kills section of Long Island City and gave him a beating last month. The 68-year-old taxi driver was in front of 23-10 41st Ave., a block north of… Read more »
June 5, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for the armed robbers who terrorized residents on a block in the Court Square section and stole two French Bulldogs from the condo of one of the victims. The two-man crime spree began around 3:20 p.m. on Saturday,… Read more »
June 4, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl aboard a subway in Jackson Heights late last month. The victim was riding on a Jamaica-bound E train that was approaching the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street station… Read more »