Bill Parry

1 week ago | qns.com | Bill Parry

A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man for attacking an airport worker in a Howard Beach subway station late last month. Courtney Jacobs, 38, of Liberty Avenue, was arraigned Wednesday in Queens Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with attempted murder in the second degree and other related crimes for allegedly hitting the 50-year-old man with a cane and slashing him across the chest with a knife.

1 week ago | qns.com | Bill Parry

A Southeast Queens man was sentenced to a decade in prison for a hate crime for punching out a Sikh man following a 2023 fender bender in Kew Gardens. The victim suffered a head injury and died five days later. Gilbert Augustin, 32, of 111th Avenue in Jamaica, pleaded guilty on June 2 to assault as a hate crime after he derided 66-year-old Jasmer Singh as “turban man” and repeatedly punched him, knocking him to the ground where his head struck the pavement.

1 week ago | qns.com | Bill Parry

Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are looking for a young robber who targeted a senior at the Shops at SkyView Center late last month. The teen was seen on video surveillance just inside the mall entrance at 40-24 College Point Blvd. at around 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, when he spotted a 72-year-old man and approached him from behind and snatched a wallet from his hand, police said Tuesday.

1 week ago | qns.com | Bill Parry

A man was beaten and robbed by a gang of teenagers in broad daylight on a residential block in Flushing, and the half dozen suspects, who range in age from 13 to 16 years old, remain at large nearly a month after the attack. The 27-year-old victim was walking past 143-46 37th Avenue just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, when two teens approached him from behind and began punching him repeatedly with closed fists in his face, head, and right eye, causing him to fall to the ground, police said.

1 week ago | politicsny.com | Bill Parry

Flushing resident Dao Yin was arrested on Friday the 13th and charged with wire fraud in Brooklyn federal court for allegedly stealing more than $160,000 in campaign matching funds from New York State taxpayers during his failed attempt as a Democratic candidate for the New York State Assembly in 2024. Yin is accused of reporting false campaign donations — including forged signatures of purported contributors — to secure matching funds.