Dec. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica woman for first-degree murder and arson for deliberately setting a fire in a detached garage that killed her ex-boyfriend and another woman in a fit of jealous rage on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 2. Aliya Fakhri, 43, was arraigned in…
Nov. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry A Jackson Heights woman was indicted by a Queens grand jury for sex trafficking a transgender victim on Roosevelt Avenue starting in October 2023. Valezka Echeverrias, 30, of 80th Street, was arrested by the NYPD on Thursday, Nov. 21, pursuant to the indictment. She was arraigned in Queens Supreme… Read more »
Oct. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a fourth Cambria Heights man in connection to a Douglaston home invasion in August. Oneil Thompson, 45, was arraigned on Friday in Queens Supreme Court on a 41-count indictment charging him with seven counts of kidnapping and a slew of other crimes, including…
Oct. 25, 2024 By Bill Parry A Southeast Queens gun trafficking crew was taken down, and nearly 200 firearms, including 11 assault weapons, were recovered, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday. The 579-count indictment charges Deundre Wright, 32, of Jamaica, and Abner Sparkes, 31, and Ethan Charles, 22, both from Cambria Heights,…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a 15-year-old boy on charges of murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and other related crimes for allegedly shooting and killing a motorist in St. Albans last month. The alleged gang member was arraigned Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court on a five-count indictment…
Oct. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry A Manhattan man was convicted of murder for strangling a transgender woman to death in her Glendale apartment and then tampering with physical evidence in 2010 for the second time. Rasheen Everett, 43, of Jefferson Street in Lower Manhattan, was originally tried and found guilty in 2013. That…
Sep. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry Three Cambria Heights men were indicted by a Queens grand jury for a violent home invasion, burglary and kidnapping in Douglaston during the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 17. Jone Smith, 47, and brothers Ryan and Brandon Dash, 39 and 34, respectively, were arraigned in Queens Supreme…
May. 13, 2024 By Dean Moses
The alleged squatter accused of terrorizing a Queens homeowner had his criminal case adjourned until July during a Monday court hearing.
Nov. 29, 2023 By Bill Parry A Long Island man got 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for killing his pregnant girlfriend and leaving her body by the side of a road in Bayside in October 2020. Goey Charles, 33, of Rochelle Court in Uniondale, was convicted by a jury on Nov. 14 of murder in the second degree for killing 29-year-old Vanessa Pierre and abandoning her lifeless body on a sidewalk. According to the charges and trial testimony, at around 2:50 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2020, Charles drove the victim’s white Dodge Challenger to a location near 216-07…
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Nov. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry
Springfield Gardens resident Kassun Brown pleaded guilty on Nov. 20 to manslaughter for speeding through a St. Albans stop sign and crashing into another vehicle, killing its driver, an off-duty NYPD officer in 2020.