Oct. 16, 2024 By Dean Moses Top NYPD brass and Mayor Eric Adams announced an action plan Tuesday night to clean up seedy parts of Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue that have been plagued with prostitution activity in recent years. “Operation Restore Roosevelt” brings together multiple city agencies to combat prostitution, illegal brothels and unlicensed vendors…
Mar. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Corona man was criminally charged in Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday, accused of recruiting a 17-year-old female migrant to have sex with strangers for his own profit.
Jan. 26, 2024 By Dean Moses The NYPD says that they have lost patience with sex trafficking in the Big Apple and are raiding brothels in short order. The first of the unannounced sieges began with a slew of alleged prostitution houses in Corona, Queens on Thursday following community complaints that the illicit businesses…
Oct. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn woman was sentenced on Oct. 19 in Queens Supreme Court to 13 years in prison on sex trafficking, kidnapping, assault and robbery charges for three 2022 incidents in which she lured victims to Queens locations for sex, then detained, assaulted and robbed them with the help of a Long Island man, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office. Destiny Lebron, 20, of North Portland Avenue in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty on Oct. 6 to sex trafficking; promoting prostitution in the second degree; assault in the third degree; two…
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Oct. 19, 2023 By Bill Parry
Sep. 14, 2023 By Bill Parry The woman who managed a Flushing-based sex trafficking and prostitution ring was indicted on racketeering and other related charges along with two of the criminal organization’s enforcers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Yuan Yuan Chen, 30, also known as “Xiao Pang,” Yichu Chen, 21, and Johnnie Kim, 53, all from Queens, were arrested Sept. 14 and arraigned hours later on a 31-count superseding indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court. The indictment adds 10 additional assaults in-aid-of racketeering to the pending charges against Rong Rong Xu, 31,…
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Mar. 17, 2023 By Bill Parry Jamaica resident Tyrone “Angel” Miles was sentenced on March 17 to seven years in prison for sex trafficking teenage girls at a hotel near JFK Airport in 2020, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office. Miles, 32, of 110th Avenue, and his co-defendant Bryant Lowery, forced young women to…
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