Two neighbors are facing various weapons charges in connection to the Saturday night Queens shooting that ended in the murder of a 10-year-old boy days before his birthday, the NYPD announced Friday. Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted Friday that detectives executed a search warrant Thursday night on Beach 45 Street in Far Rockaway and arrested Ashram Lochan, 26, eventually.
Court drops convictions of 3 men wrongfully imprisoned for 1996 murder of off-duty NYPD officer
NEW YORK (WCBS) Three men who spent two decades in prison had their convictions dismissed in a Queens court Friday after new evidence was uncovered.
Cheers erupted as George Bell, Gary Johnson and Rohan Bolt walked out of criminal court free men with their names cleared, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported.
The three were wrongfully convicted of a double murder in Queens and spent 24 years in prison.
“I dreamt about this moment for so many years, for so many years waking up in a prison cell looking at bars,” Bell said.
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A Manhattan man has been indicted by a grand jury for the 1996 rape of a female passenger in Jamaica, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
Danny Stewart, 58, was arraigned Thursday on a one-count indictment charging him with rape in the first degree. Stewart has been ordered to return to court on June 15.
According to the charges, on Sept. 15, 1996, at approximately 4 a.m., the then-23-year-old victim was on her way home after completing back-to-back shifts at two restaurants. She flagged down a livery cab in the vicinity of Parsons and Archer Avenues. As the vehicle approached her residence, she attempted to exit the car, but the defendant allegedly refused to let her out. Instead, he drove to a dark parking lot nearby, allegedly displayed what appeared to be a firearm, choked the woman and then raped her. After the assault the defendant allowed her to exit the vehicle, at which time she walked home and then went to the hospital.
NYPD: Vandals desecrated Vietnam memorial in Queens
NYC war memorial vandalized
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a case of vandalism of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Queens, N.Y.
NEW YORK - The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a particularly profane act of anti-Semitic vandalism of a war memorial in a park in Queens.
Police officers responded to a 911 call on Wednesday afternoon that someone scrawled swastikas and slogans on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst Park. The officers took a statement from a witness and called in the Hate Crimes Task Force. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst was constructed to honor the lives of military members lost during the war, the NYPD tweeted. The desecration of this site with swastikas and other graffiti is beyond detestable, and is now being investigated by