Last Thursday, at 4:30 PM two suspects, a 16- and 17-year-old, were arrested after one of them allegedly shot a 45-year-old man in the thigh at the Pergola Hotel in Jamaica.
According to sources, the teens had gotten into a fight with the man, and the 16-year-old allegedly passed a handgun to the 17-year-old, who is accused of shooting the victim once in the thigh.
Nearby patrol cops received a shot-spotter notification about the shooting and arrested the two teens after responding to the hotel, the sources said.  The cops recovered a handgun and found a magazine in one teenâs pocket. The suspects were also identified by witnesses.
A 70-year-old woman is accused of lacing her husband’s coffee with ant and roach killer multiple times, causing him to become sick. Suncha Tinevra was caught on home surveillance video Jan. 12 retrieving a bottle from beneath a sink and squeezing its white powdery contents into her husband’s coffee, Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz said Saturday. “The victim. conspiracy Oct 30, 2020
Six people, including two former airport workers, have been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $6 million worth of designer merchandise, including Chanel handbags and jewelry, using tractor-trailers in a series of complex heists at John F. Kennedy Airport this year, prosecutors in Queens announced Thursday.
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QUEENS, NY A man who had a cop s knee placed on his neck as he was arrested in Queens had all charges against him dropped Thursday.
In January, Sircarlyle Arnold was hit with a handful of traffic violations and misdemeanor reckless endangerment charges after riding an all-terrain vehicle in the street.
The District Attorney s decision to dropping the charges was the bare minimum that justice requires, his lawyer said Thursday.
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At the time of his arrest, Arnold was pinned to the ground at Sutphin Boulevard in South Jamaica by three police officers, one of whom kneeled on his neck for at least 15 seconds as bystanders repeatedly begged for them to stop, according to a video posted to Twitter.
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Tijuana Brown says police using a battering ram to break open the door of her Jamaica, Queens home just before 6 a.m. on March 5 left behind a great deal of physical and emotional damage.
“I don’t sleep straight through the night! I’m up. And I’m up through the duration of the night,” said Brown.
Brown says the officers tore her home apart for more than an hour, narrowing in on her nephew Andre Brown, who lives in the basement. But she said they only found a very small amount of marijuana.
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arrow George Bell was released from prison last month after a Queens judge vacated his conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct. Scott Heins / Gothamist
They came up at a time when prosecutors were expected to be tough, and this was one of the toughest offices around: Queens under District Attorney Richard Brown. Back then, Queens prosecutors made sure to back their brothers in blue and they did a betterjoblocking up the bad guys than anyone else in the city. And if some idealistic judge decided Brown’s rank-and-file were a little overzealous in their pursuit of justice and ordered a new trial? So be it. They could always try again. Discipline was almost never called for.