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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
May 29, 2025 By Bill Parry An autopsy by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has determined that a family puppy did not cause the death of a 1-month-old baby girl at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City on Tuesday morning and that the newborn had died from unknown causes. The NYPD… Read more »
May 29, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are still looking for a suspect who assaulted a senior inside the Burger King restaurant situated across from their station house late last month. A 78-year-old man was inside the fast food joint at 33-10 Astoria Boulevard South just before 8:30 a.m…. Read more »
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 »
May 27, 2025 By Bill Parry Two young girls were struck by a hit-and-run driver in Jackson Heights on Memorial Day, and the unidentified suspect remains at large. The motorist was behind the wheel of a blue Toyota Rav4 traveling westbound on 37th Avenue at around 1:20 p.m. and tried to pass another vehicle at… Read more »