Sep. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island motorcyclist was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Van Wyck Expressway alongside Flushing Meadows Corona Park on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 8. Police from the 110th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a crash near Exit 12B at the Long Island Expressway…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Northern Queens experienced significant declines in several major crimes year-over-year during the 28-day period from Aug. 4-31, while southern Queens had sharp declines in robberies and burglaries over the same period of time, according to the NYPD. In northern Queens, rapes, robberies, felony assaults, burglaries and grand larcenies…
Aug. 26, 2025 By Bill Parry The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) has launched a probe into the death of a civilian on Saturday, Aug. 23, following a motor vehicle collision involving NYPD officers in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. At approximately 4:37 p.m., an NYPD officer from the 110th Precinct…
Aug. 20, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst are looking for a suspect who allegedly robbed a woman at knifepoint on the night of Friday, Aug. 8, and remains at large nearly three weeks later. The 24-year-old victim was walking on Justice Avenue near 53rd Street at around 10:15…
Aug. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a woman who allegedly assaulted an E train rider at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station near Queens Center Mall during an unprovoked attack in the early morning of Wednesday, Aug 6. The woman was…
Aug. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry A 14-year-old boy was arrested Aug. 7 and charged with assault, menacing, and other related crimes for allegedly stabbing a classmate multiple times in broad daylight on Broadway in Elmhurst, according to authorities. The youngster, who was not identified because he is a minor, got into a dispute…
Aug. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry An Elmhurst man is facing 32 years to life in prison after he was found guilty on Aug. 6 of beating his 3-year-old son to death inside the shelter for homeless families in the old Pan American Hotel in November 2022. Shaquan Butler, 29, was convicted of depraved…
Aug. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry Homicide detectives from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst are investigating a murder inside an apartment just a few blocks away from their station house on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 3. Police responded to a 911 call of a man in need of medical attention at 40-38 Case…
Jul. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry A motorcyclist from the Hallets Point section of Astoria was killed on the Long Island Expressway after he was thrown from his bike during a fatal collision in Corona on Thursday, July 24, according to authorities. Police say Kahyl Pena, 24, of 3rd Street in Astoria, was riding…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Manhattan man who allegedly tried to rape a woman near the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst late last month. Police from the 110th Precinct nearly caught him at the scene of the crime before they lost track of him at the Woodhaven…