Dec. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry A South Ozone Park man is facing up to 80 years in prison after a jury in Queens Supreme Court convicted him on Monday for shooting at NYPD police officers during an armed standoff at his home. Marco Mosquera, 46, has been found guilty of attempted murder, attempted…
Dec. 5, 2024 By Colum Motherway Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the NYPD have announced the indictment of 11 alleged members after a three-and-a-half-year investigation, entitled ‘Operation: Deadliest Catch,’ into gang violence in Southeast Queens. The alleged members are from the ‘Whole Blocc Boys’ (WBB) and ‘Score On Anything’ (SOA) – two subsets…
Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Jamaica resident Rahlik Pinnock was sentenced to ten years in prison on Thursday for stabbing a man during an altercation shortly after Pinnock tried to solicit the victim’s girlfriend to engage in prostitution in front of a Sutphin Boulevard liquor store in February 2022. Pinnock, 35, of 115th…
Aug. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry A Bronx panhandler was indicted by a Queens grand jury for the attempted murder for the stabbing of a 23-year-old woman who was attacked while leaving the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station in Richmond Hill last month. Two good Samaritans from Venezuela, who live with their families at a…
Aug. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry A homeless man from Brooklyn was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a stabbing spree that left two men wounded in Ozone Park during the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 7. Feruz Radjabov, 40, whose last known address was on East 10th Street in Midwood, was arraigned Friday…
Jul. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry A panhandler from the Bronx was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Monday evening on a criminal complaint charging him with attempted murder in the second degree and other crimes for allegedly stabbing a 23-year-old woman inside the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station on Sunday night. Randol Contreras, 24,…
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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Aug. 29, 2023 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted Jerson Vasquez on attempted murder, rape and other charges for allegedly arranging to meet a woman for paid sex and then beating her and then robbing her in Jamaica, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Aug. 29. Vasquez, 23, of 170th Street in…
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