Aug. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry A Jamaica man was beaten to death by a neighbor after a verbal dispute escalated into violence. Michael Tobon, 39, of 179th Street, was bludgeoned to death after being struck multiple times in his body and head with a chair during a dispute on Friday, July 26, police…
Aug. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry A 34-year-old man was critically wounded on Monday night after a gunman shot him eight times in front of a Richmond Hill smoke shop. The victim was with a woman who got into a verbal dispute with the suspect inside Sky High Exotic at 119-11 Jamaica Ave. at…
Aug. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses An off-duty New York City Parks Department employee was arrested in Queens over the weekend for allegedly endangering himself and the public with his motorcycle, authorities said. Police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Hebron Joseph, who was apprehended around 3:07 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at Murdock Avenue and…
Aug. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses Police are searching for two suspects after a night out on the town in Queens ended with five people stabbed. Authorities said the bloody brawl unfolded just before 12 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3 near the corner of 100th Street and 37th Avenue in Corona, where two groups…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. has called the attack on an MTA Q53 bus rider in Woodhaven last month a senseless act of violence and is urging commuters to practice caution on public transportation. Police say a 37-year-old man riding the Q53 bus on Sunday, July 7 suffered…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A St. Albans man was arrested by the Port Authority Police Department after a loaded handgun was detected in his backpack at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Terminal C in LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday, July 31. Anthony Richard Morgan, 31, was checking in for a flight…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The number of reported rapes spiked in southern Queens during the 28-day period from July 1-28, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. Meanwhile, felony assaults jumped in northern Queens over the same respective period. Rapes in southern Queens…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD is looking for six members of a retail theft crew that has targeted nine sportswear and clothes shops in three boroughs during a three-month-long crime spree, with one of their biggest scores carried out in a sporting goods store inside the Queens Center Mall in late…
Aug. 1, 2024 By Bill Parry A Rockaway Beach man could spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting at cops at the Ocean Bay Apartments in Edgemere during the early morning of Saturday, July 27, following a night of heavy drinking. Joel Kelly, 60, of Beach 92nd Street, was arraigned in…
Aug. 1, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst are looking for a suspect who targeted women at or near the Queens Center Mall on two occasions in two days, snatching their pricey MacBook devices. The latest incident occurred on the evening of Wednesday, July 10, as a 57-year-old woman…