Category: Crime

Long Island City teacher arrested on rape charge involving former student

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June 3, 2025 By Dean Moses and Queens Post News Team A public school teacher in Long Island City was arrested Tuesday morning at the school where he worked, following allegations that he raped a former student, police said. David Ospino, 36, was taken into custody without incident on June 3 at I.S. 204 Oliver… Read more »

Brothers sentenced to prison for possessing bombs, assault weapons, ghost guns in LIC apartment: DA

June 2, 2025 By Bill Parry Two Long Island City brothers were sentenced in Queens Supreme Court on Monday for possessing bombs, assault weapons, 3-D printed ghost guns, and ammunition in their apartment across Vernon Boulevard from the Ravenswood Generating Station. Instructions for making a variety of bombs and anarchist propaganda were also discovered during… Read more »

Long Islander pleads guilty to causing fatal three-car collision on the Long Island Expressway in 2023: DA

May 30, 2025 By Bill Parry A Nassau County man pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and assault for causing a high-speed, three-car chain-reaction collision on the Long Island Expressway that left one of his passengers dead and three others seriously injured in November 2023. Reginald Nash, 26, of Lincoln Avenue in Roosevelt, admitted Thursday… Read more »

Infant mauled to death by family dog at Queensbridge Houses: NYPD

May 27, 2025 By Bill Parry A one-month-old girl was killed early Tuesday morning after being mauled by the family dog inside a Queensbridge Houses apartment in Long Island City, police said. Officers from the 114th Precinct in Astoria responded to a 911 call from the infant’s 27-year-old mother just before 6:40 a.m. on May… Read more »