Jul. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry Police are still searching for two moped-riding suspects behind a three-month-long chain-snatching spree that has targeted teenagers and women across multiple neighborhoods, including Ridgewood’s 104th Precinct. Among the victims was a 64-year-old woman who successfully fought off an attempted robbery in front of Maspeth Federal Savings Bank in…
Mar. 20, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 106th Precinct in South Ozone Park are looking for a purse snatcher who targeted a 53-year-old woman who had just finished shopping at a C-Town Supermarket at 134-16 Liberty Ave. in South Richmond Hill during the afternoon of Saturday, March 15. The victim was loading…
Feb. 21, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man is facing two decades in prison after he admitted he crossed into Queens multiple times during the summer of 2022 to commit a “sadistic crime spree,” according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Gil Iphael, 25, of Copiague Street in Valley Stream, pleaded guilty…
Dec. 24, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica are looking for a serial groper who targeted three teenage girls and a mother walking with her young son in Southeast Queens on the morning of Monday, Dec. 16. The suspect struck within a brief 20-minute span, beginning with his first…
Dec. 7, 2023 By Bill Parry
A South Ozone Park man was criminally charged for targeting four Queens spas in armed robberies in just over a week.