Category Archive for CrimePolice have arrested the man who allegedly robbed the Sunnyside branch of Chase Bank in December, according to published reports. Victor Larsen, 48, was originally picked up by the police for stealing a movie at a Best Buy on Lexington Avenue. A cop then recognized him from an NYPD wanted poster. Last month, Larsen allegedly entered the Chase branch Read More »
Two masked men entered the Sunnyside Pharmacy on Skillman Ave. on Nov. 15 and approached the owner with a knife. The two men then blindfolded the proprietor, sat him down in a corner of the store, and then began riffling through the prescription drug section. They then stole Oxycodone, a crude subsititute for heroin, and Read More »
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced yesterday that a 58-year-old teacher, who has taught at Aviation Career & Technical Education High School in the Long Island City section of Queens for more than 20 years, has been charged with sexually abusing a female student at the school between December 2008 and January 2009. District Read More »
Despite providing the public with a clear photo, the police have yet to make an arrest of the man who robbed the Chase Bank at Queens Blvd in Sunnyside. On Monday, December 20, 2010 at approximately 11:00 am the pictured man allegedly entered the Chase Bank located at 47-11 Queens Boulevard, approached a teller armed with a handgun in his Read More »
While the murder rate in the Police Department’s Precinct 108 remained historically low in 2010, the overall crime rate went up nearly 4%, compared to 2009. There was a significant jump in the number of reported rapes, robberies and felony assaults compared to 2009; however, these statistics remained low compared to 10 years ago. There Read More »
A Woodside man who murdered a Sunnyside resident in October 2009—and later ordered the killing of two witnesses to that crime – pleaded guilty to all charges Friday. Gino Florencia, 32, who shot two men, one fatally in front of 45-55 48thStreet on Oct. 24, 2009, had been incarcerated in Rikers Island on murder and Read More »
While crime in Police Precinct 108 is up this year, the increase is modest and shouldn’t be viewed with alarm, according to police and local leaders. Crime is up 4.8% in the precinct for the 2010 year through Nov. 28, compared to the same period in 2009. The precinct, which covers Sunnyside, Woodside and LIC, Read More »
NY1 News (click on picture to see NY1 video) A Brooklyn man was arrested Monday in connection with a deadly stabbing at a Queens nightclub over the weekend. Police say Jose Soto, 25, is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Police believe he stabbed Brahim Prasad, 26, in the torso during a dispute Read More »
A man was fatally stabbed during a brawl outside a Woodside night club early Sunday. The man was stabbed in the neck outside of the Otro Rollos Tropical Bar on Northern Blvd. in Woodside (pictured above). He was identified as Brahim Prasad, of Flushing, police said. As many as 30-40 men were in a melee outside the premises.
The police arrested a man on Queen Blvd. early Thursday morning after he pulled a 9mm handgun on a Sunnyside resident after the pair got into a dispute. Police said that the perpetrator went to the victim’s home near 39th Street and decided to settle an ongoing issue by pulling a handgun. While no shots Read More »
Captain Donald Powers, the head of the 108th Police Precinct, reported at Tuesday night’s precinct meeting that the number of reported crimes dropped 22.5 percent for the 28 days ending Oct. 24, compared to the same 28-day period in 2009. Powers said that crime was up 1.7% for the year so far—compared to the same Read More »
The police are looking for a Hispanic man who allegedly tried to abduct a young woman on the border of Sunnyside and Woodside on Tuesday morning. A 20-year old woman–who was walking to the subway–was accosted at about 6:30 am on 40th Street and 50th Ave. A man pulled over in a white pick-up truck with a cab, Read More »
Gino Florencia, who was charged with murdering a Sunnyside man outside a 48th Street apartment building last October, tried to kill two witnesses to that crime before his upcoming trial, according to police. Florencia killed Edison Vera, via a gunshot to the chest on Oct. 24, 2009, while wounding Miguel Llanos, who survived shots to the torso and Read More »
Political leaders met at Casa Romana this morning to celebrate the closing of the infamous establishment. The bar was the site of a bloody brawl last month, when a “Teen Night” hosted by the restaurant went awry resulting in the stabbings of two minors and a total of 14arrests, including the owners. The location has had Read More »
Daily News A Queens man was shot to death outside a Brooklyn housing project early Sunday morning, cops said. Cops responded to a 911 call shortly after 2:30 a.m. and found Pablo Rolan, 36, mortally wounded on a sidewalk outside the Bushwick Houses on Bushwick Ave. Rolan, of Sunnyside Gardens [31-50 51st Street], had been Read More »
A handful of Woodside residents turned out to the Police Precinct 108 monthly meeting on Tuesday and claimed that teenagers are wrecking havoc at Doughboy and Windmuller parks. These complaints dominated the meeting, in what was largely a low-crime month. The precinct, which covers the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Woodside and LIC, reported that the crime Read More »
The brawl that erupted at Casa Romana on August 28 began when one teenager stepped on another’s foot, according to this district’s police captain who spoke at Tuesday’s United Forties Civic Association’s monthly meeting. Donald Powers, the new police captain at the 108 Precinct, said that the incident at Casa Romana (at 39-20 Queens Blvd.) Read More »
