Two officers from the NYPD’s 105th Precinct were able to go home to their families on Thanksgiving, two days after both were shot while protecting a domestic violence victim in her Springfield Gardens home last Tuesday.
Officers Christopher Wells and Joseph Murphy, both married with children, were accompanied by their families as they were wheeled out of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center on Thanksgiving to cheers from a sea of blue.
The New York City Sheriff’s Office busted a swinger’s club over the weekend with 80 or more people inside a restricted yellow zone in Astoria.Deputy sheriffs entered the club just after midnight on Saturday night after they received a 311 com…
Two police officers were shot Tuesday in Springfield Gardens by a CUNY peace officer who was killed in the exchange of bullets.Rondell Goppy, 41, shot one officer in the right upper thigh, fracturing the officer’s femur, and shot the other at…
Crime has increased 7.7 percent in Forest Hills and Rego Park compared to 2019 but Capt. Joseph Cappelmann, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, says things are not as bad as the stat may have you think.There have been 516 index crimes c…
A 27-year-old man was shot to death while he sat in a cab in Elmhurst on Nov. 1.Capt. Jonathan Cermeli, commanding officer of the 110th Precinct, said an arrest has been made — and that the shooter was previously involved in a nonfatal shooti…
A Long Island City man who spent more than 25 years in prison for the fatal stabbing and robbery of a 70-year-old woman in November 1994 had his conviction thrown out last Thursday.Ernest Kendrick, 62, was freed by Queens Supreme Court Justic…
The NYPD is continuing to investigate the shooting deaths of two men who were found in their wrecked car near John F. Kennedy International Airport last Friday.Published reports have identified them as stepbrothers named Nair Vives and Angel …
The NYPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying and locating four people wanted for a robbery and assault in the Jamaica Center subway station at Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue on Nov. 11.Police said the attack took place at approxi…
The NYPD has released body camera footage from two police officers of the 113th Precinct who were involved in the Oct. 8 pursuit and gunfight that resulted in the death of a 24-year-old Addisleigh Park man who was a suspect in a multiple shoo…
Two police officers were shot Tuesday in Springfield Gardens by a CUNY peace officer who was killed in the exchange of bullets.
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