BY LUKE TABET The 109th Precinct Community Council honored its auxiliary officers for their “invaluable service” over the past year at the council’s annual awards ceremony. The Tuesday, May 29 event kicked off with Deputy Inspector Brian Maguire telling attendees, “We’re here to honor the dedication and work put in by our auxiliary officers.” He said [...]
A woman was allegedly punched in the face and elbowed after she told a man to stop touching her leg on a Queens subway train. Police are now looking for the person who assaulted her. The incident happened aboard a Manhattan-bound E train near the Court Square-23rd Street station at 7:50 a.m. on May 30, [...]
Loris Primus said he heard a woman’s screams before he heard the four gunshots. Roughly two or three minutes later, he said, he heard two more shots. Primus, 61, of St. Albans lives across the street from police officer Sherlon Smikle, who allegedly shot and killed his wife, Lana Morris, outside of their Camden Avenue [...]
Authorities are looking for several suspects wanted in a Richmond Hill arson. The suspects, who were caught on video during the May 24 incident, threw two Molotov Cocktails into the yard of a home around 12 a.m. then fled, said police. There were no reported injuries. Anyone with information in regards to this incident is [...]
Marijuana grows in Maspeth. Andrea Sanderlin, a suburban mother from Scarsdale, reportedly came off as a typical mom taking care of her three children, driving her Mercedes SUV around town. That was until federal authorities busted her for allegedly running a large-scale marijuana operation on the side. Her double life was unearthed when the Drug [...]
A gas explosion that destroyed a Howard Beach house last week was not caused by fixes from the city’s post-Sandy repair service, an FDNY spokesperson said. The May 29 blast sent resident Theresa Pepitone to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center with severe burns. Witnesses said the burns took skin off of her face and scalp. [...]
Two bodies were found in a Ridgewood apartment building Monday night, police said. Cops made the grisly discovery around 9:30 p.m. after responding to a 9-1-1 call about a possible assault. The victims, Franco Montoya, 21, and Beatrice Morris, 28, were pronounced dead on the scene and sustained blunt force trauma to the head, according [...]
Updated Wednesday, June 5 The suspect in the deadly shooting of a 14-year-old aboard a Queens bus last month has been arrested. Kevin McClinton, 21, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and NYPD officials on Tuesday, May 21 in South Carolina, said District Attorney Richard Brown. As of Wednesday morning he was still awaiting [...]
Barbara Sheehan, who was acquitted of charges for fatally shooting her husband in 2008, has lost an appeal to have another charge revoked. She was sentenced in 2011 to five years in prison for criminal possession of a weapon and appealed the case before the latest ruling last week. Sheehan will also be under supervision [...]
Following multiple shootings across the city this weekend, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has ordered additional police resources to prevent more violence, Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne said in a statement. These resources include the assignment of additional uniformed officers to public housing developments citywide, the deployment of plainclothes officers during shooting-prone hours experienced recently, and the [...]
