While the crime rate dropped significantly in the Sunnyside/Woodside and LIC districts in the past month, a number of loose ends remain untied – such as bringing charges against a man who allegedly murdered a Woodside man and finding a groper of local women.…
Category: Crime
Police Continue Search for Woodside Murderer
Police were still searching for a suspect in connection with a homicide that left a 62-year-old man strangled in the bathtub at his Woodside apartment, a police spokesman said Thursday night. The body of Wayne Graves was discovered by his superintendent at his apartment at Berkeley Co-op Towers Section II,…
Sunnyside/Woodside Serial Groper Still on the Loose
Police have yet to apprehend the so-called Sunnyside/Woodside groper, citing a lack of video evidence, photos and the difficulty that the victims have had in identifying the perpetrator. In recent months, a man on a black mountain-bicycle has approached several local women riding up behind them and grabbing their buttocks or breasts–before fleeing.…
Woman Dead, Man Arrested Following Shooting
The woman who was shot in the head Monday night in Maspeth/Woodside died Thursday. Delilah Cordova, 21, was shot in an apartment on 64th Street, near 51st Avenue, and rushed to Elmhurst Hospital. The police have arrested Elijah Stamateris, 22, who lives in that apartment.…
Pols Notify Residents of Sunnyside/Woodside Groper
Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer held a press conference on 46th Street and Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside today to alert the public and aggressively search for a perpetrator who has been groping women, and one 12-year-old girl in the Sunnyside/Woodside neighborhoods of Queens.…
Burglars Target Two Sunnyside Buildings
Burglars have targeted two Sunnyside apartment buildings on 40th Street–and the residents want answers. Residents from the buildings turned out at the Police Precinct 108 meeting in Sunnyside last week claiming that their respective buildings have been broken into 8 to 10 times in recent months.…
Sunnyside Woman Busted on Bribery Charge
A Sunnyside woman is facing bribery charges after she offered cash to local cops to get her boyfriend out of jail. Police said Anjail Sharma, 20, and her boyfriend, Jose Reyes, 19, were driving at 58th Street and Broadway in Woodside on Sept.…
Perpetrators of Local Crime About to be Prosecuted/Sentenced
Two men who attacked a number of Sunnyside and Woodside women earlier this year–in a series of separate incidents– are expected in court in October. Meanwhile, a Woodside woman who threw her baby in the trash at Elmhurst Hospital will be in court Sept.…
Violent Crime Drops in Sunnyside/Woodside Area
Violent crime in the Sunnyside/Woodside & LIC precinct has declined so far this year, according to the latest police statistics. This year (through Sept. 4) there have been NO murders in police precinct 108 compared to TWO for the same period in 2010.…
Rapist Gets 25 years, Nailed By DNA
A Queens man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a string of sexual attacks that had been previously listed as cold cases, according to the Queens district attorney last week. Mauricio Rosales, of Woodhaven, was arrested for four sexual attacks after he was require to submit a DNA sample after he was arrested for stealing $3,000 from a former employer.…