Archive for December 2022
Your Weekly Update - December 30, 2022
In my three years as your District Attorney, I have worked tirelessly to keep the people of this Borough safe, while implementing effective strategies to empower our communities.... (continued)
HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MOWING DOWN WIFE WITH SUV AND STABBING HER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Stephen Giraldo was charged today with attempted murder, assault and other crimes for allegedly hitting his wife with his SUV and then stabbing her...
Your Weekly Update - December 23, 2022
As we prepare to visit our loved ones for the holidays, it is incumbent upon me to stress the importance of safe driving. Each of us bears the individual responsibility to remain alert and cautious wh...
QUEENS FATHER INDICTED FOR ALLEGED MURDER OF 3-YEAR-OLD SON
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Shaquan Butler has been indicted for murder, endangering the welfare of a child and other crimes in connection with the death of his 3-year-old son...
Your Weekly Update - December 16, 2022
Currently, legal cannabis sales in New York are only available to patients at 38 state-authorized medical dispensaries. State regulators recently awarded 36 of the state’s first retail dispensary lice...
BROOKLYN MEN INDICTED IN SERIES OF CONVENIENCE STORE ROBBERIES
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Reginald Williams, Calvin Scantlebury and Dewkwan Cooper were indicted by a grand jury and arraigned on robbery and other charges for allegedly hol...
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO 8 YEARS FOR SEX TRAFFICKING HOMELESS WOMAN
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Adam “Damian” Lee was sentenced to eight years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes for forcing a homeless woman into prostitution and th...
DA KATZ CHARGES OPERATORS OF UNLICENSED CANNABIS DISPENSARY IN ROCKAWAY PARK
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that two men were charged with unlawful sale and criminal possession of cannabis for allegedly operating an illegal marijuana dispensary from a conv...
BROOKLYN RESIDENT SENTENCED IN DEADLY BELT PARKWAY CRASH
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jason Bical was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for aggravated vehicular manslaughter after pleading guilty last month to striking and kill...
DA KATZ SECURES INDICTMENT ON ATTEMPTED RAPE, BURGLARY FOR VIOLENT HOME INVASION
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Michael Rispers was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned on attempted rape, burglary, assault and other charges stemming from an armed home invas...
TWO MEN INDICTED FOR DEADLY EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN BROOKVILLE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Dariel Herrera and Zandrae Ennis have been indicted and arraigned on murder and attempted murder charges, respectively, in the deadly exchange of g...
BROOKLYN MAN CHARGED IN TRIPLE HOMICIDE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the indictment of Jabari Burrell who was arraigned today on murder charges in the stabbing deaths of his grandmother and two other relatives in their Sp...
DA KATZ SECURES INDICTMENT OF ALLEGED DRUG DEALER IN POSSESION OF DEADLY FENTANYL
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Dennis Carrol was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned today on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance. After U.S. Drug Enforce...
Your Weekly Update - December 9, 2022
Tomorrow is International Animal Rights Day, a time to celebrate and recommit ourselves to protecting the rights of our furry friends. The campaign is shared with Human Rights Day because animals are ...
DA KATZ SECURES INDICTMENT FOR SUBWAY ATTACK ON WOMAN
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Abel Pita Aviles was indicted and arraigned today for allegedly robbing and then groping a woman at knifepoint inside an “M” train subway car in Du...
MAN INDICTED FOR FATALLY STABBING BROTHER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Henrry Gutierrez was indicted by a Queens grand jury and arraigned on murder and other charges for the fatal stabbing in July of his 52-year-old br...
BROOKLYN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER IN ROCK ATTACK ON WOMAN IN CORONA
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Elisaul Perez pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in the November 2021 Thanksgiving weekend attack of 61-year-old Guiying Ma. Ma was struck in t...
DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR FATAL STABBING FOLLOWING BABY CHRISTENING PARTY
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the sentencing of Antonio Martinez for stabbing to death a fellow guest at a 2019 celebration of a baby’s christening in Corona. Martinez argued with th...
DA KATZ BRINGS ANIMAL CRUELTY CHARGES AFTER 45 DOGS RESCUED FROM DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Fred Thomson has been charged with failure to provide proper care to animals for allegedly keeping more than 45 dogs and puppies in unsanitary cond...
DA KATZ SECURES GUILTY PLEA AND RESTITUTION IN UNION MEMBERSHIP CASH CON
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jofre Ortega pleaded guilty today to grand larceny and other crimes for conning people eager to join the Mason Tenders Local 79 Union by offering m...
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR FAR ROCKAWAY MURDER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Joaquin Bullock was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of a Far Rockaway man. The...
Your Weekly Update - December 2, 2022
This week marked the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an annual international campaign that calls for the prevention and elimination of such harm against members of our ...
DA KATZ CHARGES CORONA MAN WITH MURDER IN ATTACK ON 22-YEAR-OLD
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Michael Santander has been charged with murder, gang assault and other crimes in the beating death of a 22-year-old man in Corona following a dispu...