Queens detectives are asking fro help from the public to identify a man found dead under a van in Astoria on May 6.Police and emergency responded to a 911 call at about 4 p.m. on Monday, after a tenant spotted the man laying underneath a van parked in the front yard of a residence at 42nd Street near 30th Avenue, […]

A 25-year-old homeless man this week was charged with sexually abusing two young girls on May 1 – one on the steps of her own home in South Ozone Park.Cops working on a tip called in to the NYPD Crime Stoppers HOTLINE arrested Lee Samuels on a Bronx street corner on May 7, police said.Samuels, who has a history of […]

A flight out of Detroit made an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday morning, after the aircraft was struck twice by lightning, authorities said.The pilot of American Eagle flight 4563 declared an emergency as a precaution at about 10:41 a.m., asking the tower at LaGuardia for clearance to land the jetliner with 22 people on board, authorities said.The plane […]

An aspiring Queens rapper nabbed by city Transit cops for jumping a subway turnstile is being questioned in connection with two shootings outside the Ravenswood Houses in December 2012.Hakeen “Flow Cash” Jamison, 18, struggled with police when he was arrested on March 20 for jumping a turnstile at the Northern Boulevard “R” station in Woodside, police said.Cops said Jamison wrestled […]

State investigators took down an illegal prescription drug dealing operation that allegedly used forged prescriptions to purchase oxycodone pills at more than half a dozen pharmacies in New York City and the Hudson Valley, including one in Richmond Hill, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said recently.The alleged ringleader, John Bland, 48, of the Bronx, supplied his accomplices with fake prescriptions […]

The defense attorney for a 27-year-old pedophile who confessed to suffocating his mother’s boyfriend – and burying the man in the family’s back yard, said his client needs psychiatric help before his case can be tried in court.A weeping Derek Tudor walked into the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood with his father on April 30 and announced that he had suffocated […]

Queens detectives are searching for a slick con man who impersonated a delivery driver and loaded 15,303 bottles of high-end Blueprint drinks onto his truck on May 4, making off with about $153,000 worth of juice products from the Long Island City manufacturer.Cops said the man showed up at the company warehouse on Friday afternoon, signed a shipment receipt and […]

Queens police officials believe that a man who is wanted for molesting a 7-year-old girl outside her South Ozone Park home on May 1 is responsible for a similar attack several hours later – and may be the same man who exposed himself to another young girl on May 2.Police last week released video surveillance of the suspect that shows […]

A former Queens traffic agent last week was awarded a $20,000 settlement for his 2010 run-in with disgraced City Councilmember Dan Halloran and a former Halloran aide.Former traffic agent Daniel Chu sued Halloran, his ex-chief of staff Dennis Ring and the city for slander and defamation of character in November 2010, charging Halloran’s “maliciously false statements” damaged Chu’s reputation in […]

With hot summer temperatures looming in the near future, city officials are again warning city residents to be alert when purchasing food from unlicensed street vendors.Cit health officials said licensed vendors are a “best bet” when purchasing food at street fairs, festivals and on busy shopping strips. Unlicensed vendors often do not have proper cooling equipment to store and serve […]