Oct. 17, 2023 By Bill Parry Police are searching for the crook who robbed a Howard Beach smoke shop pistol-whipped an employee last week. Police from the 106th Precinct reported that the heist occurred on the night of Wednesday, Oct. 11, when the suspect entered the Gem Smoke Shop at 150-19 Cross Bay Blvd., just…
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Oct. 16, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating an assault that occurred Sunday on board an MTA shuttle bus in South Richmond Hill after a young rider was allegedly attacked for wearing a turban and a face mask, according to authorities. The 106th Precinct reported that the bias crime went…
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Oct. 13, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from several Queens precincts are searching for three men who were behind a string of robberies last month. Two of the incidents occurred in the 106th Precinct in Forest Hills beginning on the night of Wednesday, Sept. 20. A 65-year-old man was walking along a residential block in the vicinity of 128th Street and 107th Avenue in South Richmond Hill at around 7:20 p.m., when two strangers approached him and shoved him into a driveway before forcibly removing his wallet, which contained his credit cards and $125 in cash. The suspects then jumped…
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Oct. 11, 2023 By Ethan Marshall While burglary cases continue to trend down, felony assault and grand larceny of automobiles have been on the rise from Sept. 10 to Oct. 8 when compared to the same time period as last year, according to the 28-day crime stats released by the NYPD for the precincts in northern and southern Queens. This continues a similar trend seen in the previous report, for Sept. 3 through Oct. 1. Additionally, there were some crimes, like grand larceny, that had very different changes between northern and southern Queens. In northern Queens, the number of burglary…
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Oct. 4, 2023 By Ethan Marshall While felony assaults and grand larceny auto cases are on the rise, overall crime has decreased in Queens, according to 28-day crime stats released by the NYPD for police precincts in northern and southern Queens. The NYPD released crime stats for Sept. 3 to Oct. 1 in northern and…
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Sep. 26, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD is searching for a masked man who has been targeting MTA bus riders in a series of robberies in the last month, primarily in the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park. The suspect began his robbery spree in the confines of the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 23, when he snatched a cellphone off a 15-year-old boy who was on board a Q52 bus as it approached the intersection on Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, before running off the bus in an unknown direction, according…
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Sep. 26, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park are still looking for the crook who allegedly robbed a neighborhood smoke shop last week. A young man entered the Zaza Exotics and Smoke store, located at 105-12 Cross Bay Blvd., at around 8:20 p.m. on the evening of Wednesday, Sept….
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Sep. 19, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The NYPD’s crime stats for northern and southern Queens precincts spanning Sept. 11 to Sept. 17 reveal that the number of burglaries throughout the borough has dropped, while felony assault cases increased. One thing that remained completely the same compared to last year was the fact that there wasn’t…
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Sep. 6, 2023 By Ethan Marshall Robberies, burglaries and other property crimes are dropping across Queens, according to a review of recent crime statistics covering the end of August and the start of September. The NYPD released its crime stats for its precincts in northern and southern Queens during the week of Aug. 28 to…
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Aug. 28, 2023 By Bill Parry An off-duty Brooklyn cop was arrested and booked at the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park on Saturday, Aug. 26, for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in her South Ozone Park apartment near the Aqueduct Racetrack, according to authorities. NYPD Police Officer Aneal Mahabir, 23, was taken into custody after he allegedly…
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