Apr. 14, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted two Flushing men on charges of sex trafficking, promoting prostitution, and other related crimes allegedly for holding a 43-year-old woman against her will at an East Flushing brothel and forcing her to engage in sex acts. A third Flushing man was criminally charged…
Apr. 1, 2025 By Bill Parry Two Queens contractors were arrested by officers from the Port Authority Police Department on Saturday for allegedly stealing copper wire from a warehouse at JFK Airport. Anildat Arnold, 46, of 114th Street in South Ozone Park, and Vejai Ramsarup, 54, of 214th Street in Queens Village, were separately…
March 28, 2025 By Bill Parry A third teenager was arrested and charged in connection with the Valentine’s Day fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old South Jamaica boy at a McDonald’s restaurant in Sunnyside last month. A 17-year-old Bronx boy was apprehended on Tuesday, March 25, after he was indicted by a Queens grand jury on… Read more »
Mar. 24, 2025 By Ethan Marshall and Ramy Mahmoud Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz recently held her annual Women’s History Month celebration on Wednesday, March 19, in the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Building at Queens College, located at 65-30 Kissena Blvd. in Flushing. Co-sponsored by Queens College, the Queens County Women’s Bar Association and the Center for…
Mar. 7, 2025 By Robert Pearl The Queens Jewish Link marked its 13th-anniversary “bar-mitzvah” celebration in spectacular fashion on Feb. 26, marking its milestone 600th issue with an evening of networking, activism and heartfelt tributes. The event, held at Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, brought together prominent community leaders, political figures, and advocates for…
Feb. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry An off-duty FDNY firefighter from Oakland Gardens is accused of driving three times over the legal speed limit while inebriated and high on cocaine and marijuana when he caused a pre-dawn collision that killed a Brooklyn man in East Elmhurst early Wednesday morning. Michael Pena, 28, of 220th Street,… Read more »
Feb. 13, 2025 By Bill Parry An off-duty FDNY EMT from Rockaway Beach was arrested on Thursday morning and booked at the 114th Precinct in Astoria after he was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a fatal gunpoint robbery near Steinway Street in April 2021. Jordan Hannah, 26, of Rockaway Beach Boulevard, was arraigned… Read more »
Feb. 13, 2025 By Bill Parry A married couple from Sunnyside was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday to 14 years in prison for attempted murder in a brutal assault of a neighbor over a parking spot in March 2023. Aruto Cuevas, 32, and Daisy Barrera, 28, of 48th Street, pleaded guilty to attempted… Read more »
Feb. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry A Southeast Queens gang leader was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the death of a 22-year-old Bronx man during a broad daylight shooting in Rufus King Park in Jamaica in October 2020 during a marijuana deal gone wrong. Chance Goode, 22, of Dillon Street…
Feb. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Flushing woman and her friend from the Bronx for various crimes related to the August 2024 hit-and-run death of 56-year-old David Opiela, two blocks from his Queensboro Hill home. Jamie Ferreira, 37, of 98th Street, was allegedly behind the wheel of a…