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Crime & Cases October 1, 2009  RSS feed
Say Jewelry Thief Can’t Outrun Shopkeeper, Cops In Ridgewood
Seek Accomplice In Daylight Robbery
      Trying to swipe a pricey bracelet from a Ridgewood jewelry store was a caper that didn’t pay off for a Brooklyn man busted by police after being pursued by the store’s owner last Saturday, Sept. 26, it was re ported. The suspect was identified by po lice as Luis Almodovar, 24, of Presi dent Street in Park Slope.
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Murderer Heads To Prison For Shooting His Cheating Cousin
Say Affair Led To Fatal Gunfire
      A 50-year-old former resident of Georgia has been sentenced to up to life in prison for the murder of his first cousin in broad daylight on a street in Richmond Hill in August 1999, it was announced.
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Raped, Robbed In Forest Park
Victim Was Attacked From Behind
      A woman’s early morning walk home following an appointment with her hair stylist proved costly, as she was allegedly raped and robbed after being dragged into a wooded area of Forest Park in Woodhaven last Thursday morning,
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HISTORY LESSON ON LOCAL CRIME
110th Pct. Compares Crime Numbers Over The Years
      Community members of Elmhurst and Corona received more than the usual 28-day crime statistics at the Monday, Sept.
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Alleged Terrorist Who Visited Flushing Cuffed For Bomb Plot
Say Local Probe Stopped Explosive Plan
      A grand jury has indicted a suspected terrorist from Colorado who surfaced in Flushing a day before the eighth anniversary of the Sept.
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Queens Man Can’t Beat Rap For Beating Officer With Bat
Judge Hands Down 16-Year Sentence
      A 23-year-old Queens man has been convicted of brutally beating an on-duty police officer with a baseball bat and robbing him of his weapon, it was announced.
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Wanted For Woodside Robbery
     Law enforcement agents are asking the public’s help in tracking down two men wanted for the recent holdup of a Woodside gas station.
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MTA Worker Tried To Solicit Teen For Sex
14-Year-Old Girl Was Cop In Disguise
      A veteran Metropolitan Transit Authority employee—who has since retired—has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to meet for sexual relations a person he had met online and who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl, law enforcement sources said.
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104th Pct. Blotter
      Persons arrested in recent police actions as reported by the 104th Precinct included the following indi viduals:
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