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 »
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 »