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Man slashed across face by armed robbers during Corona chain-snatching: NYPD

Dec. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for two armed robbers who slashed a man across the face during a chain-snatching in Corona. The bloody attack occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, Dec. 1, when the 35-year-old victim was standing in front of a… Read more »

Two men sought for swastika vandalism case at Elmhurst Educational Campus: NYPD

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Dec. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is now searching for two vandals who scrawled a swastika on the front of the Elmhurst Educational Campus just south of the Long Island Rail Road tracks back in September. Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst reported that on the night…

DA Melinda Katz and NYPD announce takedown of 11 ‘worst of the worst’ gang members in Queens

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Dec. 5, 2024 By Colum Motherway Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the NYPD have announced the indictment of 11 alleged members after a three-and-a-half-year investigation, entitled ‘Operation: Deadliest Catch,’ into gang violence in Southeast Queens. The alleged members are from the ‘Whole Blocc Boys’ (WBB) and ‘Score On Anything’ (SOA) – two subsets…

Crunching the Queens crime numbers: rapes nearly halved in southern Queens, grand larcenies continue to decline across borough

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Dec. 4, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The number of reported rapes across southern Queens dropped significantly during the 28-day period from Nov. 4 to Dec. 1, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the latest crime stats from the NYPD. Additionally, grand larcenies continued to trend down across both northern…