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DA KATZ CHARGES QUEENS MAN WITH MURDER IN QUEENS SUBWAY SHOOTING DEATH OF 15-YEAR-OLD
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Keyondre Russell, 18, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly shooting and killing a 15-year-old following a dispute on an A train in Far Rockaway. District Attorney Katz said, “Just tragic. At a bare minimum, we in New York City have…
QUEENS DISTRICT ATTORNEY MELINDA KATZ APPOINTS 49 NEW ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced the appointment of 49 new assistant district attorneys, the largest class to ever join the Queens District Attorney’s Office. “I am proud to welcome this diverse group of talented professionals into the Queens District Attorney’s Office. I look forward to working with them in support of this Office’s…
QUEENS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER IN DEADLY SHOOTING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Nazieer Basir, 22, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the deadly shooting of a 22-year-old man in Ozone Park, Queens in December 2020. District Attorney Katz said, “This case is as appalling as it is completely senseless. In pleading guilty, the defendant took responsibility for killing an…
QUEENS MAN INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGES FOR DEADLY MOTHER’S DAY HIT-AND-RUN CRASH THAT KILLED LOCAL MOM
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Roosevelt Rose, 56, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on charges of murder, reckless driving and other crimes for the fatal hit-and-run crash that resulted in the death of 49-year-old Florence Ngwu outside of her home in Jamaica. The…
FORMER STUDENT CHARGED WITH MAKING TERRORISTIC THREAT TO BOMB QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, joined by New York City Police Department Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell, announced today that a 16-year-old former student has been charged with making a terroristic threat, reckless endangerment, and other crimes for allegedly orchestrating a phoned bomb threat to St. Francis Preparatory High School on April 25, 2022. The defendant…
MASPETH MAN ARRAIGNED IN STABBING DEATH
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Olmedo Osorio, 46, has been indicted by a Queens grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on murder and other charges for allegedly stabbing a 55-year-old man to death during a dispute across from a Queens bar on September 19, 2022. District Attorney Katz said, “As alleged,…
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ASSAULTING POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS STRUCK IN EYE WITH CROWBAR
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Andres Tabares, 40, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on assault charges for striking a police officer with a crowbar causing severe physical injuries. Police officers were pursuing two defendants who were attempting to burglarize a home on April 16, 2019, in Kew Gardens, Queens…
QUEENS GRAND JURY INDICTS MAN FOR HATE CRIME ATTACK ON MUSLIM WOMAN
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Joval Cedeno, 41, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on assault as a hate crime and other charges for allegedly pursuing and then attacking a Muslim woman inside the N train near the Queensboro Plaza train station on February…
TWO DEFENDANTS PLEAD GUILTY TO SEX TRAFFICKING MINOR VICTIMS AT JAMAICA HOTEL
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Tyrone “Angel” Miles, 32, and Bryant “Dollaz” Lowery, 24, have pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of a child for forcing female victims to have sex with strangers for cash at the JFK Inn Hotel in Jamaica, Queens. An escape attempt by one of the trafficking victims in…
QUEENS MAN INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGES FOR DEADLY STABBING OF FDNY EMS WORKER IN ASTORIA
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Peter Zisopoulos, 34, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on murder and other charges for the killing of Alison Russo-Elling, a 25-year veteran of the FDNY Emergency Medical Services, who was posthumously promoted to rank of Captain. The defendant…
CONNECTICUT RESIDENT SENTENCED ON VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES IN DEATH OF DIRT BIKE RIDER KILLED ON THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jorge Serrano, 30, has been sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison for striking and killing a 19-year-old man riding a dirt bike on the Long Island Expressway in September 2021. The defendant pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in Queens Supreme Court…
DEFENDANT INDICTED ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES IN BRUTAL ATTACK ON WOMAN INSIDE HOWARD BEACH SUBWAY STATION
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Waheed Foster, 41, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury on attempted murder and assault charges in the brutal and unprovoked attack on a woman exiting the subway at the Howard Beach/JFK Airport station. The defendant allegedly pounced on the victim and threw her to…
BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR HIT-AND-RUN BOX TRUCK CRASH THAT KILLED MOTORIST IN MIDDLE VILLAGE IN 2020
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Ramon Pena, 39, was sentenced to up to 22 years in prison for causing a deadly collision with a box truck on Metropolitan Avenue at the Metro Mall exit on July 30, 2020. A 25-year-old motorist died as a result of the crash. District Attorney Katz said,…
BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON FOR SLASHING MAN AFTER HURLING HOMOPHOBIC AND RACIAL SLURS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Ramon Castro, 56, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for assault as a hate crime for a July 2021 incident near a Flushing, Queens subway station where he slashed a man in the face after using racial and homophobic slurs. District Attorney Katz said, “Hate-motivated…
QUEENS MAN INDICTED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AND ROBBING TWO VICTIMS HE MET ON “GRINDR” AND “LOCANTO”
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jadu Davindra, 34, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on criminal sexual acts, robbery and other charges for allegedly forcing a stranger he met on an online dating app to engage in sexual acts before demanding money. The defendant…
62 GUNS TAKEN OFF THE STREETS AT BUYBACK EVENT CO-HOSTED BY QUEENS DA MELINDA KATZ & NYPD
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the New York City Police Department announced that 62 guns were collected today at Calvary Assembly of God Church in Ozone Park, Queens. The gun buyback comes as the city has experienced an increase in gun violence and sought to curb this devastation by accepting working unloaded firearms —…
MASPETH MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER IN STABBING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Olmedo Osorio, 46, has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing a 55-year-old man to death during a dispute across from a Queens bar on September 19, 2022. District Attorney Katz said, “As alleged, the defendant fatally stabbed the victim following a late-night dispute outside of a…
UNLICENSED DRIVER CHARGED WITH CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE IN DEADLY HIT AND RUN OF 5-YEAR-OLD BOY
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Xavier Carchipulla, 40, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an incident and other crimes for allegedly striking a 5-year-old pedestrian with his 2018 Dodge Ram pickup truck. The defendant, whose license was suspended at the time of the incident, immediately fled the…
DEFENDANT INDICTED BY GRAND JURY FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE SLAYING OF GIRLFRIEND AND HER FAMILY INSIDE HER JAMAICA HOME
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Travis Blake, 29, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on murder charges and other crimes for the June 2022 murders of his girlfriend, her adult son and niece inside her Jamaica home. The defendant fled to Maine and was…
QUEENS MAN CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME AND OTHER CHARGES FOR DESTROYING STATUE IN FRONT OF HINDU TEMPLE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Sukhpal Singh, 27, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for allegedly smashing a statue in front of the Tulsi Mandir Temple last month. The incident took place around 3:00 AM on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. District Attorney Katz said, “As alleged, the…
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