Mar. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows are looking for two burglars who slipped into a parking garage at a Briarwood co-op building during the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 25, and drove off with a Mercedes-Benz luxury sedan. Once inside the indoor car park at…
Feb. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Flushing woman and her friend from the Bronx for various crimes related to the August 2024 hit-and-run death of 56-year-old David Opiela, two blocks from his Queensboro Hill home. Jamie Ferreira, 37, of 98th Street, was allegedly behind the wheel of a…
Feb. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry The cheeky burglar who allegedly broke into a Kew Gardens Hills synagogue and toasted a security camera while swilling stolen booze from a plastic cup had some drinking buddies with him during an impromptu happy hour in December. The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect on Jan.…
Dec. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills are looking for a burglar who groped a 14-year-old girl in her own home on the afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 7. The victim was entering her residence in the vicinity of 66th Road and Yellowstone Boulevard just before 5 p.m.…
Oct. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry Flushing resident Haiyan Deng was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday to 27 years in prison for killing a man in her apartment and a related burglary in September 2021. Deng, 34, of 39th Avenue, pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in the first degree and burglary…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry A teenager who was wanted in connection to a burglary at St. John’s University last month turned himself in at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows on Tuesday. He was booked on burglary and criminal trespass charges for breaking into the office of SJU head basketball coach Rick…
Aug. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing man was indicted by a Queens grand jury for stealing a Sefer Torah from a Far Rockaway yeshiva in May. Saul Colon, 37, of Parsons Boulevard, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Monday on the indictment charging him with grand larceny and burglary for taking…
Aug. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry A resident from a city-run shelter in Long Island City was arrested Friday and booked at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows for stealing personal items belonging to St. John’s University basketball coach Rick Pitino from his office at Carnesecca Arena during the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 20.…
Aug. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows are looking for two young men who broke into Carnesecca Arena at the campus of St. John’s University in Hillcrest on Tuesday night. The suspects slipped into the office of basketball coach Rick Pitino, where they stole his personal memorabilia,…
Aug. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are looking for a Croc-wearing burglar who broke into one of the eateries at the International Food Court and stole cash and booze last month. The incident occurred during the early morning hours of Saturday, July 20, when the bushy-haired hipster entered… Read more »