Oct. 6, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for the suspect who shot and killed a man on Sunday morning. Police said the homicide happened at about 3 a.m. on Oct. 6 in an apartment building at 101-66 125th St. in South Richmond Hill. Officers from the 102nd Precinct,…
Sep. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man for the fatal drive-by shooting of a rapper outside a Woodhaven pub in 2018. Johnathan Rice, 43, of 178th Street, was arraigned on Friday on an indictment charging him with murder in the second degree for allegedly gunning down 35-year-old…
Aug. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is looking for a vandal who sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti in Woodhaven just after midnight on Wednesday, Aug 14. Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill reported that the unidentified man was in the vicinity of 91st Street and Jamaica Avenue, where…
Aug. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill are looking for a gunman and his accomplice who walked into a smoke shop at 119-11 Jamaica Ave. and began to argue with a store worker before shooting him multiple times on the night of Monday, Aug. 5. The two…
Aug. 7, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill and Transit District 20 are looking for a pervert who subjected a 20-year-old woman to public lewdness while she was riding a J train in Woodhaven on Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred at 3:30 p.m. on a Manhattan-bound J train…
Aug. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry A 34-year-old man was critically wounded on Monday night after a gunman shot him eight times in front of a Richmond Hill smoke shop. The victim was with a woman who got into a verbal dispute with the suspect inside Sky High Exotic at 119-11 Jamaica Ave. at…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. has called the attack on an MTA Q53 bus rider in Woodhaven last month a senseless act of violence and is urging commuters to practice caution on public transportation. Police say a 37-year-old man riding the Q53 bus on Sunday, July 7 suffered…
Jul. 31, 2024 By Anthony Medina Sam Esposito, the former president of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association, has been arrested for allegedly ripping off out-of-state license plates from multiple cars, according to authorities. Police from the 102nd Precinct arrested Esposito on Saturday, July 20, following a reported incident earlier in the week on…
Jul. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry A panhandler from the Bronx was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Monday evening on a criminal complaint charging him with attempted murder in the second degree and other crimes for allegedly stabbing a 23-year-old woman inside the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station on Sunday night. Randol Contreras, 24,…
Jul. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill are looking for a couple who allegedly attacked a 37-year-old man on an MTA Q53 bus in Woodhaven and remain at large more than three weeks after the bloody assault. The victim was sitting on the bus as it approached…