Oct. 23, 2023 By Bill Parry A Jamaica man was arrested Oct. 20 and charged in the killing of a Sikh man during a road rage incident on the Van Wyck Expressway in Richmond Hill a day earlier. Gilbert Augustin, 30, of 111th Avenue, was taken into custody and booked at the 102nd Precinct on…
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Oct. 20, 2023 By Anthony Medina A 63-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a truck driver at the border of Woodhaven and Ozone Park on Friday morning, according to authorities Police say at approximately 8:04 a.m. on Oct. 20, officers responded to a 911 call of a woman found unconscious at the corner…
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Oct. 18, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The NYPD released the crime stats for northern and southern Queens from Sept. 17 to Oct. 15. While much of it follows a similar trend to last week’s stats, there are some notable changes in trends. Rape cases in northern Queens rose from 15 to 20 year-over-year. While the 104th, 111th and 112th precincts each saw no change, the only northern Queens precinct to experience a decline was the 115th, from five last year to one this year. Southern Queens, on the other hand, experienced no change compared to the same period of time…
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Oct. 13, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from several Queens precincts are searching for three men who were behind a string of robberies last month. Two of the incidents occurred in the 106th Precinct in Forest Hills beginning on the night of Wednesday, Sept. 20. A 65-year-old man was walking along a residential block in the vicinity of 128th Street and 107th Avenue in South Richmond Hill at around 7:20 p.m., when two strangers approached him and shoved him into a driveway before forcibly removing his wallet, which contained his credit cards and $125 in cash. The suspects then jumped…
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Oct. 12, 2023 By Bill Parry A Richmond Hill man was sentenced Thursday in Queens Supreme Court to 25 years in prison for attempted murder in connection to a random assault of a six-year-old boy he committed in 2019. The defendant, Laurence Gendrau, lifted the boy over his head and slammed him head-first into the…
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Oct. 11, 2023 By Ethan Marshall While burglary cases continue to trend down, felony assault and grand larceny of automobiles have been on the rise from Sept. 10 to Oct. 8 when compared to the same time period as last year, according to the 28-day crime stats released by the NYPD for the precincts in northern and southern Queens. This continues a similar trend seen in the previous report, for Sept. 3 through Oct. 1. Additionally, there were some crimes, like grand larceny, that had very different changes between northern and southern Queens. In northern Queens, the number of burglary…
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Oct. 4, 2023 By Anthony Medina An ATV driver from Brooklyn who was driving in a reckless manner collided with an NYPD vehicle in Ozone Park last weekend, leaving three police officers injured, according to authorities. Police say that officers from the NYPD’s 102nd Precinct were situated at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard at approximately 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 1, when 32-year-old Marchello Carter, 32, of West 28th St. in Brooklyn, collided with an NYPD vehicle while driving a 2022 Yamaha ATV in a reckless manner. As a result of the collision, three officers were injured,…
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Oct. 4, 2023 By Ethan Marshall While felony assaults and grand larceny auto cases are on the rise, overall crime has decreased in Queens, according to 28-day crime stats released by the NYPD for police precincts in northern and southern Queens. The NYPD released crime stats for Sept. 3 to Oct. 1 in northern and…
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Sep. 26, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD is searching for a masked man who has been targeting MTA bus riders in a series of robberies in the last month, primarily in the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park. The suspect began his robbery spree in the confines of the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 23, when he snatched a cellphone off a 15-year-old boy who was on board a Q52 bus as it approached the intersection on Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, before running off the bus in an unknown direction, according…
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Sep. 19, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The NYPD’s crime stats for northern and southern Queens precincts spanning Sept. 11 to Sept. 17 reveal that the number of burglaries throughout the borough has dropped, while felony assault cases increased. One thing that remained completely the same compared to last year was the fact that there wasn’t a single murder case across any of the precincts in northern and southern Queens. There wasn’t much of a drastic change in rape cases. Northern Queens saw the cases shrink from seven last year to four this year. After reporting just one case across each…
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