![[UPDATE] Jimmy Meng arrested on a federal wire fraud charge](http://queenscourier.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jimmyweb-140x105.jpg "[UPDATE] Jimmy Meng arrested on a federal wire fraud charge")
Former Queens Assemblymember Jimmy Meng, the father of congressional hopeful and current Assemblymember Grace Meng, has been arrested on a federal wire fraud charge for allegedly attempting to scam $80,000 in cash from a state court defendant, federal officials said. Meng allegedly promised the defendant — who sought the former elected official’s help after being [...]
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An NYPD officer was arrested this morning by federal agents and charged with allegedly providing inside police intelligence and information about fellow cops to a drug trafficking organization. Devon Daniels, 30, was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration and NYPD Internal Affairs detectives and is scheduled to be arraigned today in Brooklyn federal court. Daniels [...]
Queens couple found dead in apparent murder suicide [New York Post]
GOP hopeful that Police Commissioner Kelly will run for mayor [New York Post]
Fearless squirrels invade Queens co-op [New York Post]
Residents Help Clean Rockaway Beach For The Summer Season [NY1]
Queens man arrested for breaking into Diddy’s East Hampton mansion, eating his food and wearing rapper’s clothes [Daily News]
Rookie police officer arrested after assaulting fiancee in his Queens home [Daily News]
NY Jets’ Tim Tebow attends Yankees-Angels game, sits with Dwyane Wade and gets booed by fans [Daily News]
Ex-con gets 12 years to life for siccing pit bull on cop chasing down Queens drug suspect An ex-con with a decades-long rap sheet has been sentenced to 12 years to life in prison for siccing his pit bull on a cop chasing down a drug suspect in Queens two years ago. “Get him!,” Jeffrey Cofield ordered before [...]
Mom Throws Baby Out Window to Escape Suspicious Fire in Jamaica A desperate mother threw her baby out the second-floor window of a Queens home that was engulfed by a suspicious blaze early Thursday, fire authorities and witnesses said. The child, who couldn’t have been more than 2 or 3 years old, landed safely in [...]
Teen arrested in Bronx boy’s shooting A teen was arrested for the shooting of an 11-year-old Bronx boy, police said. Kijana Jenkins, 17, was arrested today and is awaiting arraignment, authorities said. Jenkins and an unidentified cohort fired the shots in the closed door of the Creston Avenue apartment around 11 p.m. Thursday, cops said. [...]
Madonna Badger spared details of fire that killed her 3 daughters & parents The marketing executive whose three daughters and parents died in a Christmas morning fire was spared the horrific details of the tragedy, her brother said Tuesday. Madonna Badger was “as devastated as you could imagine,” Wade Johnson said. “Like any mother and [...]
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced the arrest of Antonio Olmeda, age 53 of Manhattan, in the attempted shooting of two New York City police officers on December 2nd in Jackson Heights, Queens. “Our officers miraculously escaped injury when their assailant fired at extremely close range, narrowly missing them,” Commissioner Kelly [...]
End of an era in North Korea: Kim Jong Il dies after nearly two decades in power North Korea’s Communist leader Kim Jong Il, whose nearly two-decade reign of power was marked by nuclear threats against his neighbors and a stifling of freedoms for his own people, has died. North Korean television announced Sunday night that [...]
