Aug. 30, 2023 By Dean Moses An off-duty NYPD officer is hospitalized, and two brothers are under arrest, Wednesday after an apparent road rage dispute in Queens led to the cop being shot, police said. According to Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, the unnamed officer was driving a Kia eastbound on Queens Boulevard at…
Aug. 30, 2023 By Bill Parry An Astoria woman was arrested by federal agents and charged with assaulting one of their own with a karate chop that was caught on surveillance video at JFK Airport last week. Emilia Mathias, 57, of Steinway Street in Astoria, had just returned from a trip to Brazil and was making her way through Terminal 4 when she was stopped by a female U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer on Tuesday, Aug. 22, according to the criminal complaint. The agent told Mathias that she could not enter the secured area and tried to get…
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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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Aug. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry A for-hire driver was beaten and robbed by three passengers alongside the Long Island Expressway near LeFrak City earlier this month, according to the NYPD. Police say the 22-year-old victim began arguing with the two of his female passengers at around 5:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 4, when he…
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Aug. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry A 7-train rider was beaten and robbed in Corona last week and the suspects behind the attack remain at large, according to the NYPD. Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights and Transit District 20 are looking for two men who approached the 39-year-old victim as he rode…
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Aug. 17, 2023 By Bill Parry Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz moved quickly to bring criminal charges against an alleged sexual predator from Jamaica in connection with a brutal rooftop rape earlier this week. Jerson Vasquez, 23, of 170th Street, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Aug. 16 on charges of rape in the…
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Jul. 17, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki
Police in Queens are looking for two suspects who stabbed a woman during a dispute early on Monday morning.
Jul. 8, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki and Lloyd Mitchell Detectives in Queens have a suspect in custody in connection with a shooting spree in Queens and Brooklyn on Saturday morning that left one man dead and three others injured. Law enforcement sources said a scooter-riding suspect shot the three victims in Richmond Hill, Queens,…
Jul. 8, 2023 By Zachary Gewelb Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park are searching for the crook who assaulted an elderly man who had asked for directions to Resorts World Casino after exiting a southbound A train at the Aqueduct-North Conduit Avenue station Friday afternoon. The 62-year-old victim exited the train at approximately…
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Jul. 7, 2023 By Bill Parry