Sep. 17, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria man is accused of driving drunk when he struck a 13-year-old girl and a 72-year-old man while speeding through the narrow residential streets of Corona on the night of Sunday, Sept. 14. Luis Saula Quindi, 40, of 48th Street, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on…
Sep. 15, 2025 By Bill Parry The owner of a Corona boutique and two of his employees were arrested and charged with criminal possession of stolen property for their alleged roles in a fencing operation. More than $50,000 in merchandise was allegedly stolen from major retailers, including Macy’s, Lululemon, Abercrombie & Fitch and American…
Sep. 15, 2025 By Bill Parry An alleged hit-and-run driver from Long Island is being held without bail for intentionally driving into four people, including a 16-year-old girl and her mother, killing the youngster, after he sexually propositioned the teen and her mom minutes earlier on Roosevelt Avenue in Elmhurst early Saturday morning, according…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man and his accomplice on weapons and drugs charges for trafficking illegal guns from Georgia into southeast Queens. Teddy Gaston, 39, of Linden Boulevard, and Jezerel Huston, 41, of Macon, Georgia, were arraigned Sept. 9 in Queens Supreme Court on a…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry The Bronx man accused of murdering an elderly Bellerose couple did a lot of talking as he was escorted out of the 107th Precinct by homicide detectives on Thursday afternoon to make his first court appearance in Queens Criminal Court hours later. During his arraignment on Sept. 11,…
Sep. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica teenager for the killing of a 17-year-old and injuring others in a high-speed collision on the Cross Island Parkway in Bayside last October. Mohammad Sk, 19, of 87th Avenue in Jamaica, was arraigned on Sept. 10 on a 12-count indictment charging…
Sep. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jackson Heights woman on charges of sex trafficking, grand larceny and other related crimes for allegedly forcing a woman to engage in prostitution on Roosevelt Avenue and to pay the defendant a daily sum of money. Valezka Echeverrias, 31, of 80th Street,…
Aug. 22, 2025 By Bill Parry A St. Albans man was charged with grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $872,000 that was meant to feed the needy from a Queens charity where he worked as an administrator, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday. Otto Starzmann, 60, of Anderson Road, was arraigned in…
Aug. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry A Woodhaven man and a Queens Village resident were among four people arrested during a sweeping enforcement action against six illegal cannabis storefronts across the borough, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday. Dubbed “Operation Weed Whacker,” the months-long investigation included undercover buys and resulted in the padlocking…
Aug. 15, 2025 By Bill Parry A Bayside man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Aug. 14 for attempted assault and other crimes for driving his minivan on the Clearview Expressway, ramming multiple vehicles and injuring two motorists in separate collisions in 2023. Joseph Lee, 30, of 211th Street in Bayside, was…