April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry Police are searching for a serial burglar who targeted mail rooms in at least five Queens apartment buildings last month — including one Jackson Heights location he struck three times, authorities said. Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for the lone burglar who broke into… Read more »
April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was sentenced to 3 ½ to seven years in prison Tuesday in connection with five residential apartment mailbox thefts in Queens last year. Brandon Sestoso, 43, of McAlester Avenue in Hicksville, pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court on March 24 to burglary in the third… Read more »
April 15, 2025 By Dean Moses Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a 61-year-old man experiencing a mental health crisis while armed with a knife on a public sidewalk in Astoria, her office announced Tuesday. Police brass said that they attempted to de-escalate the shooting that happened… Read more »
April 15, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted nine individuals in connection with the sale and possession of controlled substances—including fentanyl, cocaine, and crack—following a 17-month investigation into a drug-dealing crew operating on 95th Street in Jackson Heights, District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday. Undercover officers made 40 purchases during the… Read more »
April 14, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria woman is accused of driving without a license when she crashed her car into a crowd of pedestrians, injuring two girls and an adult male in front of Our World Neighborhood Charter School on 35th Avenue on the afternoon of Thursday, April 3. Salmata Bah, 35, of… Read more »
April 14, 2025 By Adam Daly Detectives in Corona are questioning a person of interest after a 22-year-old man was fatally stabbed early Monday morning, police said. Officers from the 115th Precinct responded to a call about the stabbing at the intersection of Junction Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue in Corona at around 12:47 a.m. on… Read more »
April 14, 2025 By Dean Moses and Queens Post News Team Police fatally shot a knife-wielding man during an encounter early Monday morning in Astoria, authorities said. The police-involved shooting occurred just before 6:30 a.m. on April 14 near the intersection of 31st Street and 30th Avenue. More than a dozen shots may have been… Read more »
April 10, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force arrested an Astoria man on Wednesday for vandalizing a religious statue and menacing a priest inside the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Sunday. Jose Rodriguez, 38, from Shore Boulevard in the Marine Terrace apartments, was taken into custody by police from the 114th… Read more »
April 8, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct are looking for a suspect who assaulted a man in broad daylight in an unprovoked attack on Roosevelt Avenue along the border between Sunnyside and Woodside. The 68-year-old victim was walking past a 99-cent store at 49-05 Roosevelt Ave., across from the Mobil on… Read more »
April 8, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for a suspect who assaulted a 66-year-old man in an unprovoked attack inside a Queens Plaza Starbucks just before noon on Wednesday, April 2. The two men were standing next to each other in line at the coffee… Read more »