Many Sunnyside residents were awoken in the early hours of Monday morning by a low-flying police helicopter. The helicopter was flying over 42nd and Queens Blvd at 2:00am as police were pursuing three teenagers who were tagging the building above Dunkin’ Donuts.…
A man was arrested Friday night after a fight broke out at Center Cinemas. Miguel Melchor, 20, allegedly got involved in an altercation at the Queens Blvd theater and then went on to smash the glass in the entrance, police said.…
A Woodside man was sentenced to 25 years in prison today for fatally stabbing his wife in front of their 7-year-old daughter. Balbir Singh, 37, killed his wife, Kulwinder Kaur, after the two got involved in an argument in their 64th Street Woodside home on Sunday,…
A 16-year old youth who allegedly mugged six Sunnyside women on the northern side of Queens Blvd in early January has been arrested, according to police. Damari Morris, from Brooklyn, allegedly followed the women to their apartment buildings from the 40thStreet subway station,…
The drunk driver who killed a deliveryman for a Sunnyside Chinese restaurant pleaded guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter on Wednesday. Richard Contreras, 29, of Long Island City, admitted that he was drunk when he struck down and killed Jianqui Chen, 52,…
A Woodside man was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday, after pleading guilty last month to the October 2009 killing of a Sunnyside resident and then trying to hire a hit man to kill two witnesses who were expected to testify against him.…
The number of burglaries reported in the northern section of Sunnyside, accounted for one-quarter of all burglaries in the 108 police precinct last month. Police Precinct Capt. Donald Powers said that eight burglaries occurred in Sunnyside for the 28-day period ending Jan.9,…
Police 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.…
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.…
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.…