A 43 year old corrections officer attacked his wife in their Woodside home on Monday evening in front of their 9 year old daughter, according to court documents. Mohammed A.Ali allegedly dragged his wife by the legs across the living room floor and then punched her several times in the face,…
Guard your wheels. There have been three incidents throughout the area where car owners have discovered their vehicles without rims and wheels. The latest incident (see photo) occurred on 47th St and 39th Ave in Sunnyside Gardens on Feb. 15, 2012.…
A man entered Chase Bank at 47-11 Queens Blvd on Tuesday and demanded cash. The police said that the man, described as a black male, presented the teller with a note at 2:55 pm and asked for money. According to one source,…
The police arrested a man on Thursday who allegedly murdered a Berkeley Towers resident in October. Raymond Epps, 55, strangled Wayne Graves in his 11th floor apartment at 52-40 39th Drive, according to police. Graves, 62, was found dead in his bathtub on Oct.…
Employees at the Sunnyside branch of GameStop got a tough dose of reality Thursday. Around 11:00 am, a man entered the 47-21 Queens Blvd store allegedly carrying a silver firearm covered by a newspaper, police said. The perpetrator then displayed the weapon to an employee and went around the back of the counter to steal property and cash.…
The police are looking for a Woodside man who broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Astoria apartment Sunday, and threatening to kill the woman and her son with a meat cleaver, cops say. The police are seeking the public’s help to find the suspected perpetrator,…
The police department is trying to shut down a Greenpoint Ave. restaurant following a shooting that took place outside it in December, said Captain Donald Powers, the commanding officer of the 108 precinct. The shooting occurred outside Restaurant Azteca, a Mexican restaurant located at 47-16 Greenpoint Ave.,…
A man was shot early Saturday morning following an argument that broke out between two men at a Sunnyside Mexican restaurant, according to police. Eladio Espejo, a 26-year-old Hispanic man, allegedly shot the victim in the arm and thigh shortly after he had been involved in a verbal exchange with the victim at Restaurant Azteca,…
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.…
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,…