March 2, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post North Country Gazette
QUEENS—Three individuals with ties to Eastern Europe have been charged with putting “skimmer” devices on a Woodside bank’s ATMs last week in order to steal the account numbers and other personal information from customers’ credit/debit cards used at the machines.
Mirel A. Leahu, 23, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., and Marian A. Tudor and Danel [...]
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February 27, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post A man was shot in a late-night dispute at El Potrero, a Mexican sports bar at 46-12 Greenpoint Ave., on Thursday Feb. 18, according to police who gave their month crime report at the 108 precinct last week.
This shooting, in addition to the murder of a woman who was found under the Queensboro Bridge, and the apprehension [...]
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February 17, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post Queens Gazette
An unlicensed cabbie found himself behind bars on February 7 after he beat a Queens woman over a fare dispute, police said.
Cops said cabbie Francisco Martinez agreed on a fare of $30 to drive the 24-year-old female victim from The Bronx to her Sunnyside residence, but when he pulled up outside her apartment building [...]
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February 7, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post A retired city correction officer working security at a Queens bowling alley was arrested Saturday after he shot two rowdy customers during a wild fight, police said.
Michael Iavecchio was charged with two counts of second-degree assault after the confrontation just outside the AMF Bowling Center in Woodside, police said.
Iavecchio, 54, ejected Gerard Hourigan and Justin Donaghy [...]
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February 2, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post A Sunnyside doctor was arrested for failing to file tax returns.
Avelino Rosales, a Cedarhurst resident who operates his practice out of 41-21 Greenpoint Ave., was charged with failing to file tax returns from 2002 to 2006, according to the Nassau County District Attorney.
He is charged with repeated failure to file personal income taxes, an E felony. [...]
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January 27, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post Reported by Yournabe.com and Sunnyside Post
Crime dropped more than 10 percent during a mostly quiet year for police in the 108th Precinct, which covers Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside.
All major crimes either remained at 2008 levels or declined with the exception of rapes. The number of rapes jumped 55 percent to 14.
There were 158 robberies [...]
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January 22, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post The trial of Officer Richard Kern, a Woodside resident, began Thursday, where he is accused of repeatedly shoving his retractable baton between the buttocks of a drug suspect. The New York Times carried the story.
Vivid Testimony in Trial of Three Officers Accused in Subway Station Assault
In October 2008, from different vantage points, three members of the Dallas family [...]
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