Oct. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood and Transit District 33 are looking for the perpetrator who attacked and robbed a 13-year-old boy in broad daylight on board an M train on Tuesday, Oct. 8. The youngster was riding in a southbound M subway car approaching the Seneca…
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A new deal for Roosevelt Avenue: What the NYPD is doing to stop prostitution on Queens strip
Oct. 16, 2024 By Dean Moses Top NYPD brass and Mayor Eric Adams announced an action plan Tuesday night to clean up seedy parts of Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue that have been plagued with prostitution activity in recent years. “Operation Restore Roosevelt” brings together multiple city agencies to combat prostitution, illegal brothels and unlicensed vendors…
Times Square’s ‘Little Devils’: Street gang subset causing mayhem in Midtown, NYPD chief says
Oct. 15, 2024 By Dean Moses They call themselves “Los Diablos de la 42,” which translates in English as “Little Devils of 42nd Street.” They’ve proven to be a big problem for Times Square and the NYPD. Police officials say they are working to nab members of the Los Diablos, a subset of the…
Two robbers sought for targeting a Hillside Avenue cell phone store in Jamaica Hills: NYPD
Oct. 15, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are still looking for two masked men who robbed a cell phone store of cash and merchandise late last month. The suspect entered the storefront at 159-08 Hillside Avenue in Jamaica Hills at around 8 p.m. on the night of Wednesday,…
Sleeping man at Jamaica subway station beaten, slashed and robbed last week: NYPD
Oct. 14, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows and Transit District 20 are looking for two young men who beat, slashed and robbed a 42-year-old man on Hillside Avenue in broad daylight last week. The victim’s ordeal began when he was sleeping on a bench inside the Sutphin…
NYPD School Safety Agent busted for threatening daughter with machete in St. Albans home: NYPD
Oct. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry An off-duty NYPD School Safety Agent was arrested and booked at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica late last month after officers responded to a domestic dispute call at her St. Albans home. Janet Williams, 54, of Elmira Avenue, was taken into custody on the evening of Monday, Sept.…
Construction worker killed in Astoria after piece of equipment strikes him in head: NYPD
Oct. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry A married father of two from New Jersey was killed in Astoria when he suffered a blow to his head while working on a water sewage system more than a hundred feet underground. Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria responded to a 911 call just after 10 a.m…. Read more »
Southeast Queens man sentenced to decade in prison for stabbing Jamaica man who rushed to defend girlfriend: DA
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…
Deviant sought for allegedly groping 14-year-old girl on an M train in Ridgewood on Sunday: NYPD
Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood and Transit District 33. are looking for a pervert who allegedly groped a 14-year-old girl on an M train on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 6. The youngster was onboard a southbound M train approaching the Seneca Avenue subway station in…
NYC crime: NYPD reports another drop in major felonies in September, though shootings spiked
Oct. 8, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Major NYC crime dropped for the ninth consecutive month, NYPD officials reported Tuesday — crediting the department’s “laser focus” on gun crime for making the city’s streets safer. Interim Commissioner Tom Donlon provided his first monthly crime data report alongside Mayor Eric Adams, who appointed…