Posts belonging to Category 'Crime'
May 20, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
As reported earlier this week, McGurk had a May 20 hearing. The following resulted in:
WPIX
SUNNYSIDE, N.Y. (WPIX) – Gary McGurk has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other charges in the gruesome killing of a New York City Police Department criminologist, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced Thursday.
Civilian criminologist Michelle Lee, McGurk’s girlfriend at the [...]
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May 18, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
This week marks the first anniversary of the arrest of Gary McGurk, an Irish national from Woodside, who allegedly strangled and stabbed his one-time Sunnyside girlfriend to death on April 26, 2009. He faces a murder charge.
Despite all of the attention at the time, McGurk’s case is still slowly moving through the Queens court system– as his case has yet to go to [...]
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May 3, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
The crime figures reported by the 108th Police Precinct (which covers Sunnyside, Woodside and LIC) were released last week and crime for the 28-day period ending April 25 was down 10% compared to the same period in 2009.
The biggest reason for the decline was the large drop in grand larcenies, burglaries and grand larceny autos. Meanwhile, crimes such as robbery and felony assaults rose.
The number of [...]
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April 22, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
Daily News
Disgraced labor leader Brian McLaughlin’s son and dozens of others were busted in a takedown of a sprawling network of pill-pushers working out of a Queens gay club.
The defendants – including a mother and her two sons and 16-year-old daughter, a club owner and a bartender – dealt in prescription painkillers like Vicodin and [...]
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April 11, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
A Woodside woman who violently shook a baby boy to his death has been charged with murder, according to public records.
Yohani Moran, 37, of 35-47 64th Street was initially charged with felony assault for shaking Dilan Criollo, the nine-month-old boy whom she was babysitting. Dilan was admitted to the hospital with severe brain and eye injuries and swelling of the brain. The child [...]
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April 2, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
New York’s major tabloid newspapers have been reporting that crime is up throughout the city. Unfortunately, Precinct 108, which covers Woodside, Sunnyside and Long Island City, is no different.
In the last 28-days, Deputy Inspector Thomas Kavanagh reported that crime jumped 26% over the same period one-year earlier. A spike in “burglaries”, “felony assaults” and “grand [...]
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March 30, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
The perpetrator of some ugly graffiti at Sunnyside’s PS 150 has been arrested, according to police.
Daniel Wattenbarger, a 58-year-old male who lives on 41st Street, was arrested on March 23 for painting a message full of expletives on a wall adjacent to PS 150 — for all the students to read. He had been complaining to teachers at the school that the 6-to-10 [...]
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Categories: Crime, General News | Tags: PS 150, Van Bramer | 11 Comments »
