Nov. 19, 2024 By Dean Moses, Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Queens cops and an armed robber traded gunfire in a shootout on a busy shopping strip Tuesday night, leaving an officer and an innocent bystander wounded and the suspect dead, police said. Authorities said the shooting happened at about 6:30 p.m. on Nov.…
Nov. 17, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for four robbers who violently stabbed a man while stealing his cellphone on Saturday night. Cops said the bloody robbery occurred at about 7:53 p.m. on Nov. 16 in front of a Wendy’s restaurant at 138-42 Jamaica Ave. in Jamaica. Officers from the 103rd…
Nov. 13, 2024 By Bill Parry A jury convicted Jamaica resident Devin Spraggins of attempted murder in the first degree on Tuesday for shooting NYPD Detective Brett Boller after an altercation in April 2023. Boller was a rookie cop when he was on routine patrol with his partner, NYPD Officer Anthony Rock, in the…
Nov. 13, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are looking for a gunman who shot a teenager in broad daylight on Thursday, Nov. 7 and remains at large. The shooting went down just after 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Archer Avenue and 153rd Street in Downtown Jamaica, a…
Oct. 30, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The amount of reported grand larcenies across Queens dropped a significant amount across both northern and southern Queens during the 28-day period from Sept. 30 to Oct. 27, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. Another notable trend over…
Oct. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are looking for a suspect who savagely stabbed a 43-year-old man who refused to give him a cigarette in broad daylight last week. The victim was sitting in his car in the vicinity of Lowe Court and 148th Street after dropping…
Oct. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry An off-duty NYPD School Safety Agent was arrested and booked at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica late last month after officers responded to a domestic dispute call at her St. Albans home. Janet Williams, 54, of Elmira Avenue, was taken into custody on the evening of Monday, Sept.…
Oct. 3, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for three men connected to a botched robbery that ended with two people shot and wounded. Police released on Wednesday night images of two suspects involved in the shooting that occurred at about 2:10 a.m. on Sept. 29 near a playground at the corner…
Sep. 26, 2024 By Czarinna Andres A statue of the Blessed Mother was damaged in a vandalism incident early Tuesday at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jamaica. The attack occurred around 3:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, when a man was caught on camera using a rock to strike the…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD released surveillance images on Tuesday of a suspect being sought by the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica for allegedly stalking a woman at a Key Food supermarket in downtown Jamaica and groping her before fleeing on a bicycle in mid-August. The incident occurred on the night of…