Woman Killed by Drunk NYC Car Wash Worker After Tipping for Her Clean: DA This is a heartbreaking, senseless tragedy and a woman who just wanted to get her car washed is dead because of the defendant’s alleged actions, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement
Published February 17, 2021 •
Updated on February 17, 2021 at 10:49 am
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Edwin Vargas allegedly had a blood-alcohol level of .115, above the .08 legal limit, when he drove a vehicle off the cleaning rack and hit victim Tracy McManus as she headed toward her newly cleaned car at the wash and lube shop on Cross Bay Boulevard and Desarc Road Monday, Queens prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Kevin Hart s former personal shopper has been charged with stealing more than $1m (£730,000) from the US star.
Dylan Jason Syer, who began working for the Jumanji actor in 2015, is accused of making unauthorised purchases using Hart s credit cards.
He is alleged to have racked up the payments between October 2017 and February 2019.
The 29-year-old has been charged with grand larceny, criminal possession, identity theft and scheme to defraud.
If convicted, Mr Syer, from Long Island City in New York, faces up to 25 years in prison. He is due to return to court on 17 February.
These items were packed in boxes, piled high on more than 100 shipping pallets, Katz said.
Other warehouse workers remain under investigation. We believe this to be one of the largest single seizures of counterfeit masks since the pandemic began, Katz said.
District Attorney Melinda Katz said the masks were labeled 3M and sold to hospitals to protect healthcare workers
The masks were being sold to health care workers, who believed they were purchasing and using genuine 3M masks.
Instead, the substandard masks were imported from overseas, or produced in the warehouse, and repackaged with 3M branding. 3M is aggressively fighting counterfeiting of our critical products needed by health care and front line workers during the pandemic, 3M said in a statement. We are grateful to the Queens District Attorney s Office investigation, which has resulted in getting counterfeit respirators out of circulation. 3M recommends only buying products from authorized distributors.
Four people were arrested and over $200,000 cash and $12 million in street value of heroin and fentanyl was seized in a heroin mill bust in Queens, officials said.