Aug. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry An MS-13 gang associate from Fresh Meadows was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison on Tuesday, Aug. 26, for the 2018 slaying of a Corona teenager in Flushing’s Kissena Park. Juan Amaya-Ramirez, 27, and his co-defendant Oscar Flores-Mejia, 25, from Elmhurst, who is also an associate of…
Aug. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry An Elmhurst man is facing 32 years to life in prison after he was found guilty on Aug. 6 of beating his 3-year-old son to death inside the shelter for homeless families in the old Pan American Hotel in November 2022. Shaquan Butler, 29, was convicted of depraved…
Aug. 6, 2025 By Bill Parry An Elmhurst man is being held without bail after he was criminally charged in the fatal stabbing of his neighbor on Sunday evening. Rosendo Lopez, 35, of 40-38 Case St., was arraigned Aug. 5 in Queens Criminal Court on a complaint charging him with murder in the second…
Jul. 22, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jackson Heights man on murder charges for allegedly beating his wife to death in their apartment in 2024. Jose Lequerica, 50, of 34th Avenue, was arrested by the NYPD in the same apartment on Tuesday, July 22, and booked at the 115th…
Jul. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry A College Point man is being held without bail after he was arrested and charged with murder for the fatal stabbing of a Corona man in May. Carlos Castro Alvarado, 26, of 121st Street, was apprehended near his workplace on Tuesday, July 15, by members of the Regional…
Jan. 26, 2025 By Dean Moses Queens detectives are questioning a teenager who allegedly stabbed a man to death during an argument early on Sunday morning. According to police sources, officers from the 115th Precinct were called to a home near the corner of 35th Avenue and 102nd Street in Corona just after 6…
Sep. 19, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_80976" align="alignnone" width="518"] Cops are looking for this suspect, who allegedly gunned down a Corona man in front of his home on 96th Street on Friday the 13th. Photo courtesy of the NYPD.[/caption]
Sept. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry
A young man in Queens was shot dead on Friday night, police reported. Police said the 23-year-old victim was slain in front of a home on the 3300 block of 96th Street in Corona at about 7:20 p.m. on Sept. 13. Officers from the 115th Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about the…
Sep. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Two Queens MS-13 gang associates pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Friday in connection to the notorious 2018 murder of a teenager in Flushing’s Kissena Park. As part of their guilty pleas, Juan Amaya-Ramirez, 26, of Fresh Meadows, and Oscar Flores-Meija, 24, of Elmhurst, admitted to killing…
Jul. 1, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Brooklyn gang member was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison Monday in Queens Supreme Court for gunning down a teenager at point-blank range in front of a Corona barbershop in July 2021.