Archive for June 2023
MANHATTAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPING IN BOTCHED RICHMOND HILL HOME INVASION
Four Women and Baby Held Hostage at Gunpoint
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Tex Ortiz pleaded guilty today to a kidnapping in which five people – including a 9-month-old – were ...
BROOKLYN MAN SENTENCED FOR SERIES OF CONVENIENCE STORE ROBBERIES
Defendant and Two Others Robbed Stores at Gunpoint
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Reginald Williams was sentenced today to 11 years in prison for a robbery spree that hit 10 loc...
Your Weekly Update – June 30, 2023
I will not allow our neighborhoods to be turned not dumping grounds.
When Council Member Nantasha Williams reached out about going after illegal dumpers, we responded with a detailed investigation th...
MAN CHARGED WITH APPROACHING 12- AND 14-YEAR-OLD GIRLS WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL FOR EXPLICIT PHOTOS, SEX ACTS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that James Villarruel was arraigned on a charge of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child and other crimes after allegedly paying a 14-year-...
LONG ISLAND MOTHER AND SON SENTENCED IN FAR ROCKAWAY SHOOTING DEATH
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Raymond Jackson and his mother, Avita Campbell, were sentenced today on manslaughter and gun possession charges in the September 2020 shooting deat...
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR POSSESSING ARSENAL OF ILLEGAL GHOST GUNS
20 Ghost Guns Recovered, Including Semi-Automatic Pistols and Assault Weapons
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Chaz McMillan was sentenced today to five and one-half years in pris...
FOREST HILLS ATTORNEY CHARGED WITH POSSESSING AND PROMOTING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIALS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that attorney and former FBI agent John Magri was arraigned on charges of promoting a sexual performance by a child for allegedly sending child sexual a...
Your Weekly Update - June 23, 2023
The long-overdue modernization of the Queens County Supreme Court Criminal Term was unveiled this week. The upgrades provide an improved experience for everyone (continued).
ALBANY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO AGGRAVATED VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER FOR FAR ROCKAWAY CAR CRASH THAT KILLED 8-YEAR-OLD SON
Defendant Was Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Victor Mitchell pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide for a Far Rocka...
GRANDMOTHER SENTENCED TO 23 YEARS IN SHOOTING OF DAUGHTER’S BOYFRIEND
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Suzette Olin was sentenced to 23 years in prison today for the shooting death of Shaka Ifil, her daughter’s boyfriend and the father of her grandch...
QUEENS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDERING 92-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
Victim Sexually Assaulted in Street and Found Naked From Waist Down; Sentencing Scheduled for July 6
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Reeaz Khan pleaded guilty today to murder an...
QUEENS MAN, 73, SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER IN DELI SHOOTING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that James Fraley was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and drug and weapons possession charges in the 2021 shooting of a deli ...
Your Weekly Update – June 16, 2023
We arrested eight people this week who are accused of operating a major gun and drug trafficking ring in and around Rufus King Park in Southeast Queens…(continued)
MILLION-DOLLAR DRUG-AND GUN-TRAFFICKING RING TAKEN DOWN
Charges Based on Dozens of Undercover Buys of Cocaine, Ecstasy and Guns
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that an investigation in collaboration with the NYPD has led to drug and gun...
DELI WORKERS CHARGED IN ASSAULT, STRANGULATION OF CUSTOMER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Saber Abuhamra and Jorge Hernandez are charged with assault and strangulation after they allegedly came out from behind the counter at a Rockaway P...
MANHATTAN MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE AT JAMAICA STORAGE FACILITY
Faces Up to 25 Years to Life in Prison
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Charles Rowe was arraigned for allegedly raping a 69-year-old woman, attacking another woman, and committin...
Your Weekly Update – June 9, 2023
Two young men in separate cases are alleged to have tragically killed three people in horrific car crashes that should have never happened. (continued)
LONG ISLAND TEEN INDICTED ON MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES IN CRASH THAT KILLED 16-YEAR-OLD
Faces up to 5 to 15 Years in Prison
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Yaser Ibrahim was indicted today by a Queens grand jury and arraigned on manslaughter and other charges in con...
BROOKLYN WOMAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER IN SUBWAY SHOVING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Shemecca Wise was arraigned on charges of attempted murder and attempted assault for allegedly shoving a commuter onto the tracks Monday at a Woodh...
MAN CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR HOMICIDE, DWI FOR DEADLY RICHMOND HILL CRASH
Two Men Killed
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Tamir Khan was arraigned today on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and other crimes for a coll...
UNCLE CHARGED IN SHOOTING DEATH OF NEPHEW
Defendant Faces Up to 25 Years-to-Life in Prison
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Durran Morgan was charged with murder in the shooting death of his 25-year-old nephew after a min...
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED FOR POSSESSING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIALS
Photo and Video Purchases Traced Through Cryptocurrency Transactions
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Andre Hyman was sentenced today to one to three years in prison for possessin...
Your Weekly Update - June 2, 2023
A wild shootout on the streets of Queens sent bullets flying into a yeshiva and parked cars. And in another example of senseless gun violence, an off-duty police officer was shot in a botched carjacki...