June 6, 2024 By Queens Post News Team Dozens of local residents raised concerns about food trucks by Gantry Plaza State Park in a fiery meeting with officers from the 108th Precinct at the New York Irish Center on Thursday, May 30. Long Island City residents complained to the Commanding Officer, Capt. Tony Wong about… Read more »
Category: Crime
Suspect identified for allegedly kidnapping 7-year-old boy in front of Long Island City school on Thursday afternoon: NYPD
May 31, 2024 By Bill Parry Police are searching for an alleged kidnapper who abducted a 7-year-old boy in front of a Long Island City school on Thursday afternoon, before dropping him off at his mother’s home just minutes later, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. The NYPD released a photo… Read more »
Woodside cab driver indicted for fatal collision that killed an Astoria deliveryman in LIC last November: DA
May. 21, 2024 By bparry May 21, 2024 By Bill Parry A Woodside man was indicted by a Queens grand jury for allegedly driving the wrong way on Northern Boulevard and striking and killing an Astoria delivery man who was riding a scooter in a head-on collision last November. Mohammad Bhuiyan, 48, was arraigned in… Read more »
Botched robbery in Corona, clumsy crook armed with flowers fails miserably
May. 20, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_74531" align="alignnone" width="521"] Cops are looking for this suspect, who tried to rob a man in Corona and threw a punch that missed his face. Photo courtesy of the NYPD[/caption]
May 20, 2024 By Bill Parry
New video emerges of slashing suspect at the Queens Plaza subway station in LIC: NYPD
May 16, 2024 By Bill Parry Detectives from the 108th Precinct have uncovered new video surveillance that shows a suspect walking through the Queens Plaza subway station in Long Island City after he allegedly slashed a 22-year-old woman on board an E train on the night of Friday, May 10. The victim was riding a… Read more »
Pervert wanted for public lewdness towards senior woman on the 7 train: NYPD
May 16, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are still looking for a sexual deviant who subjected a 7 train rider to public lewdness late last month. On the night of Wednesday, April 24, a 64-year-old woman was on a northbound 7 train approaching… Read more »
Panhandler assaulted by ticked-off E train rider at Queens Plaza subway station: NYPD
Apr. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry A persistent panhandler was punched out by an angry commuter on board a northbound E train at the Queens Plaza subway station on Sunday, Apr. 21. Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 reported that the assault occurred just after 8 p.m., when… Read more »
Two scooter-riding armed robbers sought for targeting four victims in Jackson Heights, LIC: NYPD
Apr. 25, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_73341" align="alignnone" width="438"] Cops are looking for these masked men, who allegedly robbed four people in just over an hour during the early morning of Apr. 16 in Jackson Heights and Long Island City. Photos courtesy of the NYPD[/caption]
Apr. 25, 2024 By Bill Parry
Two teenagers stabbed during argument with group of men in Astoria: NYPD
Apr. 24, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_73269" align="alignnone" width="680"] Two teenagers were stabbed during an argument with a group of strangers in the Steinway section of Astoria Monday evening. File photo by Lloyd Mitchell[/caption]
Apr. 24, 2024 By Bill Parry
Three men sought in armed heist at a Jackson Heights cell phone store: NYPD
Apr. 11, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_72772" align="alignnone" width="874"] Cops are looking for a three-man crew who allegedly robbed a cell phone store in Jackson Heights at gunpoint late last month before driving off in a gray SUV with no license plates. Photos courtesy of the NYPD[/caption]
Apr. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry