Sep. 3, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The amount of reported rapes and burglaries across Queens had notable increases during the 28-day period from Aug. 5 to Sept. 1, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. However, grand larcenies took a deep dive across the borough…
Sep. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst are looking for three men who slugged an 18-year-old store worker with brass knuckles during a robbery at the Queens Place Mall in late July. The incident occurred on the night of Thursday, July 25, when the three assailants entered 88-01…
Aug. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are still looking for a gunman who shot and wounded two men in the parking lot of the Beach Channel Shopping Center near Bayswater Park more than three weeks ago. The shooting incident occurred on the night of Monday, Aug.…
Aug. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry A manhunt is underway in southeast Queens for a sexual predator who allegedly kidnapped a 9-year-old girl at a Queens Village supermarket while she was grocery shopping with her grandmother on Thursday evening. The abduction occurred inside the Key Food at 213-22 Jamaica Ave. just after 7:20 p.m.,…
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. 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. 28, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for a brute who assaulted a senior woman in broad daylight as she walked near the Big Six Towers in Woodside. The random attack occurred on Queens Boulevard and 63rd Street just after 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug…. Read more »
Aug. 28, 2024 By Bill Parry A Jamaica man was indicted by a Queens grand jury on murder and other charges for beating a 39-year-old neighbor to death with a chair last month. Rahmel Tedder, 30, of 175th St., was arraigned Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court on a five-count indictment charging him with murder,…
Aug. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is looking for a vandal who sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti in Woodhaven just after midnight on Wednesday, Aug 14. Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill reported that the unidentified man was in the vicinity of 91st Street and Jamaica Avenue, where…
Aug. 27, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann While camping is usually synonymous with Upstate New York, the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau of Patrol Borough Queens South set up camp in Baisley Pond Park in Jamaica on Thursday, Aug. 22, for its annual “NYPD Camping in the Park” event. The NYPD Community Affairs Bureau partnered with…