Devin Spraggins stood emotionless inside a Queens courtroom Monday as state Supreme Court Justice Judge Kenneth Holder ordered him to serve 39 years to life behind bars after being found guilty of attempting to murder a police officer last year. While police union leaders hailed the sentence as a triumph for justice, Spraggins’ lawyer…
The hero cop who was shot after a shootout with an armed robber on lifetime parole was released from hospital Wednesday as the suspect’s 42-year criminal history came to light. NYPD Police Officer Rich Wong waved as he was wheeled out of Jamaica Hospital on Nov. 20. Wong, a seven-year veteran of the force…
Queens cops and an armed robber traded gunfire in a shootout on a busy shopping strip Tuesday night, leaving an officer and an innocent bystander wounded and the suspect dead, police said. Authorities said the shooting happened at about 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 19, when officers from the 103rd Precinct approached the robbery suspect…
Nov. 19, 2024 By Dean Moses, Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Queens cops and an armed robber traded gunfire in a shootout on a busy shopping strip Tuesday night, leaving an officer and an innocent bystander wounded and the suspect dead, police said. Authorities said the shooting happened at about 6:30 p.m. on Nov.…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside are still looking for two gunmen more than three weeks after a drive-by shooting in Douglaston left two men wounded. The incident went down on the night of Saturday, Oct. 5, with the two victims sitting in a car at the…
Sep. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica are investigating yet another shooting incident in St. Albans, but this latest case was non-fatal. The most recent shooting occurred in broad daylight on a quiet residential block during the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 17. A 21-year-old man was walking past…
Sep. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry Homicide detectives out of the 113th Precinct in Jamaica are working to determine why a 31-year-old man was gunned down outside a Merrick Boulevard watering hole on Sunday morning. Police responded to a 911 call of a person shot outside the Wave Juice Bar and Lounge at 125-22…
Sep. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry A 15-year-old boy was arrested early Wednesday morning and booked at the 113th Precinct in Jamaica in connection to the fatal shooting of a Cambria Heights father of three in St. Albans on Monday afternoon. The youngster, who was not identified because he is a juvenile, was charged…
Sep. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry A masked teenager is being sought for allegedly bringing a gun to an afterschool melee in St. Albans and using it to send nearly a dozen youngsters running for their lives while setting off a tragic chain of events on Monday afternoon in which a Cambria Heights man…
Sep. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man for the fatal drive-by shooting of a rapper outside a Woodhaven pub in 2018. Johnathan Rice, 43, of 178th Street, was arraigned on Friday on an indictment charging him with murder in the second degree for allegedly gunning down 35-year-old…