Dec. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry A South Ozone Park man is facing up to 80 years in prison after a jury in Queens Supreme Court convicted him on Monday for shooting at NYPD police officers during an armed standoff at his home. Marco Mosquera, 46, has been found guilty of attempted murder, attempted…
Dec. 5, 2024 By Colum Motherway Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the NYPD have announced the indictment of 11 alleged members after a three-and-a-half-year investigation, entitled ‘Operation: Deadliest Catch,’ into gang violence in Southeast Queens. The alleged members are from the ‘Whole Blocc Boys’ (WBB) and ‘Score On Anything’ (SOA) – two subsets…
Oct. 20, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for the suspects behind an early-morning shooting on Sunday morning that left a man with bullet wounds to both legs. The gun violence erupted at about 5:06 a.m. on Oct. 20 near the corner of 43rd Avenue and 11th Street in Long Island City.…
Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Jamaica resident Rahlik Pinnock was sentenced to ten years in prison on Thursday for stabbing a man during an altercation shortly after Pinnock tried to solicit the victim’s girlfriend to engage in prostitution in front of a Sutphin Boulevard liquor store in February 2022. Pinnock, 35, of 115th…
Sep. 20, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Brooklyn man for first-degree attempted murder after ramming into an NYPD officer with a stolen car in North Corona last month. Keyah Richardson, 19, of Sutter Avenue in Brownsville, was arraigned Wednesday in Queens Supreme Court on a 19-count indictment charging him…
Sep. 9, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives continued to search Monday for the suspect behind a triple shooting on Sunday that left one man dead and two others seriously wounded. Law enforcement sources said the gunfire erupted at about 1 a.m. on Sept. 8 outside a home on the 13200…
Sep. 8, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Detectives in Queens are on the hunt for the shooter who seriously wounded a man near an apartment building on Sunday morning. Police said the 29-year-old male victim was shot at about 5:05 a.m. in front of the Rockaway Village apartment building located at 1725 Village Lane, near…
Aug. 31, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for the shooting suspect who opened fire on a man outside a home early on Saturday morning. Police said the 36-year-old victim was attacked outside a residence on the 2100 block of Steinway Street in Astoria at about 3:57 a.m. on Aug. 31. Officers…
Aug. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry A Rockaway Beach man faces a potential life sentence after a Queens grand jury indicted him on charges of first-degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting at NYPD officers in Edgemere following a night of heavy drinking. Joel Kelly, 60, of Beach 92nd St., was arraigned Wednesday in Queens…
Aug. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry A Bronx panhandler was indicted by a Queens grand jury for the attempted murder for the stabbing of a 23-year-old woman who was attacked while leaving the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station in Richmond Hill last month. Two good Samaritans from Venezuela, who live with their families at a…