Queens Crime News

A homeless man attacked a 6-year-old boy in Kew Gardens last Thursday, according to police.

Laurance Gendreau, 35, was walking at Metropolitan Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard at approximately 4:50 p.m. when he picked up the boy and threw him to the ground. Police took Gendreau, whom they described as an emotionally disturbed person, into custody at the scene without further incident.

A 36-year-old Queens karate teacher has been charged with raping a 12-year-old girl he was teaching, prosecutors said last Wednesday.

Hector Quinchi, who taught at Hugo’s Tae Kwon Do Studio on Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside, faces up to 25 years in prison. He allegedly fondled and sexually contacted the victim in other ways between Aug. 15 and Oct. 5, when she was raped.

Police arrested a 54-year-old homeless man last Friday in connection with a brutal Oct. 6 beating in Ridgewood.

Jeremiah McCarthy has been charged with assault in the death of Constantin Palaghia, 54, who also was undomiciled.

The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying and locating four people seen in surveillance photos from a robbery and slashing in Jamaica on Oct. 8.

According to police at the 103rd Precinct, the incident tool place at approximately 5:50 p.m. at a shop at the corner of 108th Avenue and 157th Street. Police said two victims, ages 16 and 17, were approached by a group of males who demanded their property. A sharp instrument was produced and both victims were slashed. A cell phone and AirPods were stolen before the robbers fled the scene in an unknown direction.