Nov. 10, 2023 By Bill Parry A Bronx man was arrested on Thursday, Nov. 9, and booked at the 114th Precinct in Astoria, where he was charged with murder in connection with a fatal hit-and-run just five blocks east of the precinct on the morning of Friday, Oct. 20, according to the NYPD. Zahir Williams,… Read more »
Nov. 9, 2023 By Bill Parry A man in Jamaica Hills suffered a serious eye injury during an unprovoked attack in late September, according to the NYPD. Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are looking for a suspect who approached the 41-year-old victim on the morning of Monday, Sept. 25, as he stood in front of a smoke shop at 179-46 Hillside Ave. and threw an unknown object into his face, police said. The assailant ran off westbound on Hillside Avenue. EMS responded to the crime scene and rushed the victim to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for treatment for…
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Nov. 9, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD is looking for a pair of individuals who assaulted MTA workers in two Queens police precincts last month. Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are searching for a woman who attacked two bus operators in two separate incidents nearly two hours apart in College Point during…
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Nov. 9, 2023 By Dean Moses A vigilante wanted for taking justice into his own hands by firing shots inside of a Midtown subway station at a panhandler who was attempting to rob a woman was cuffed Wednesday for endangering the lives of commuters, police said. John Rote, 43, of Astoria, intervened in a…
Nov. 8, 2023 By Bill Parry A College Point man was arrested Nov. 6 and booked at the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst, where he was charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other crimes in connection with a fatal collision on the Long Island Expressway last December. Jason Jiang, 20, of 125th Street, was allegedly…
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Nov. 8, 2023 By Bill Parry A Staten Island man was criminally charged with grand larceny and other crimes on Nov. 6 for allegedly siphoning $1.4 million from a Long Island City apparel company where he worked as the financial controller, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Nov. 8. Glenn Jakers, of South Railroad… Read more »
Nov. 8, 2023 By Bill Parry An F train rider was beaten unconscious during a random attack in a Jamaica Estates subway station last month, according to the NYPD. Police from the 107th Precinct and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who approached the 45-year man as he stood on the platform of the Jamaica-179th Street station on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 21. The stranger walked up behind the victim and sucker punched him in the face causing him to fall to the platform, police said. While the victim was down, the assailant proceeded to punch and…
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Nov. 8, 2023 By Dean Moses Police in Queens continue to search for the hit-and-run driver who crashed his car into a police vehicle over the weekend, leaving two cops hospitalized. According to police sources, two cops from the 109th Precinct were driving a squad car along 32nd Avenue and College Point Boulevard in…
Nov. 7, 2023 By Bill Parry A Middle Village man was arrested Sunday and booked at the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood in connection with two forcible touching incidents early last month, according to the NYPD. David Perez, 33, of 79th Street, was taken into custody on Nov. 5 for targeting women in two different police precincts on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Perez allegedly approached a 25-year-old woman as she was walking in the vicinity of Metropolitan Avenue and 65th Place in Middle Village at around 5:20 p.m. and grabbed the victim’s buttocks before running off in an unknown direction, police said….
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Nov. 6, 2023 By Bill Parry A motorcyclist from the Rockaways was struck and killed by an SUV driver making an illegal U-turn on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach early Monday morning, according to the NYPD. Police from the 106th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a vehicle collision at the intersection of…
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