Aug. 13, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Corona man on charges of patronizing a person for prostitution, criminal solicitation, and child endangerment for allegedly approaching a 14-year-old girl blocks from his home and asking her to perform a sex act in exchange for money in June. Ali Hamed, 25,…
Aug. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a homeless man for shooting and killing his estranged wife and attempting to murder her daughter on a St. Albans street in June. Audwin Caines, 62, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday on an eight-count indictment charging him with murder in…
Aug. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry An Elmhurst man is facing 32 years to life in prison after he was found guilty on Aug. 6 of beating his 3-year-old son to death inside the shelter for homeless families in the old Pan American Hotel in November 2022. Shaquan Butler, 29, was convicted of depraved…
Aug. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry A Springfield Gardens teenager was sentenced to 1 ⅓ to four years in prison for causing the death of another teen who was a passenger in the BMW he was driving in 2023 when he was just 16 years old. The teen’s parents were previously sentenced on endangering…
Aug. 1, 2025 By Bill Parry An unlicensed interstate cannabis operation that transported thousands of pounds of marijuana and other illegal products from California to Queens was smashed following a search of two trucks and two storage locations in Maspeth and Long Island City, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday. Six people were…
Jul. 30, 2025 By Bill Parry Two Brooklyn men are criminally charged with staging two car crashes on Queens highways and another one in East New York and then seeking insurance payouts for damages and purported injuries, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Jaime Huiracocha, 53, of Milford Street, and Victor Murillo, 34,…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Manhattan man who allegedly tried to rape a woman near the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst late last month. Police from the 110th Precinct nearly caught him at the scene of the crime before they lost track of him at the Woodhaven…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry A New England man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for shooting a woman in Flushing in 2023 over a family debt. Minliang Zheng, 52, of Pope Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, was convicted of assault and criminal possession of a weapon in June, after a month-long…
Jul. 22, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jackson Heights man on murder charges for allegedly beating his wife to death in their apartment in 2024. Jose Lequerica, 50, of 34th Avenue, was arrested by the NYPD in the same apartment on Tuesday, July 22, and booked at the 115th…
Jul. 17, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens homeless man is being held without bail after he allegedly shot his estranged wife to death in front of his stepdaughter on a St. Albans street last month. Audwin Caines, 62, was apprehended in Upper Manhattan on Tuesday, July 15, by U.S. Marshals from the NY/NJ…