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Crime & Cases December 17, 2009  RSS feed
Slain In L.I.C. Apartment
Ex-Boyfriend Is Sought As Suspect
      Law enforcement agents are seeking a 43-year-old man wanted for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death inside her Long Island City apartment during an apparent domestic dispute last Saturday morning, Dec. 12, it was reported.
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D.A. Brown Talks Crime At 104COP Meet
     Members of the Glendale/104th Precinct Civilian Observation Patrol (104COP) got an overview on crime from Queens’ chief prosecutor during the group’s Dec. 9 meeting at St.
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Speedster’s Ride Comes To Dead End
Plows Through Gates, Hits Expw. Exit Ramp
      Speeding through a South Ozone Park street proved to be a deadly journey for a man who died on Sunday morning, Dec. 13, after his vehicle lost control and crashed through a guardrail before landing on a Van Wyck Expressway exit ramp, it was reported.
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Wanted For Abduction Attempt
     This composite sketch depicts the suspect wanted by police for attempting to kidnap a 14-year-old girl from a Forest Hills intersection last Tuesday morning, Dec. 8.
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Pct. Eyes Burglary Pattern
Collar One Suspect; Another Sought
      Efforts to combat an active burglary pattern in South Ozone Park as well as a recent melee at a local nightclub highlighted the 106th Precinct Community Council’s Dec. 9 meeting at the command’s Ozone Park stationhouse.
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He Exposed Self On Subway Train
     Police are asking the public to help them find this man who is wanted for fondling and exposing himself to an 18-year-old woman on a Forest Hills-bound G train in Elmhurst at around 3 a.m.
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COMET’S EYES ON AREA BURGLARIES
104th Precinct Shows A Spike In Incidents
      Burglaries are on the rise in one of the three precincts covering the Citizens of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together (COMET) area, the civic group learned at its Dec. 7 meeting at Bethzatha
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Girl To Send Him Nude Photos
Ex-Flushing Sex Predator Sentenced
      A 22-year-old New Jersey man who befriended and sexually abused a 13-year-old female who used to be his neighbor in Flushing admitted to directing the underage girl to take naked pictures of herself and send them to him, it was announced.
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Mobster’s Son Convicted Of Drunk Driving Crash On L.I.E.
Five Were Injured In High-Speed Wreck
      An Ozone Park man who is the son of a reputed mobster faces up to seven years in jail after being convicted last Wednesday, Dec. 9, for causing a serious accident on the Long Island Expressway in 2006 that injured six passengers, it was reported.
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Capture Fugitive Principal Of Sex With Student
      A former Brooklyn public elementary school principal sentenced in 2004 in absentia for molesting a young relative, was extradited to Queens from Connecticut last Wednesday, Dec. 9, arraigned on bail jumping charges and will soon to begin his 20-year prison sentence, it was announced.
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104th Pct. Blotter
      Persons arrested in recent police actions as reported by the 104th Precinct included the following individuals: Dec. 7: (Beat 11) Ramon Rodriguez, at Woodhaven Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue, for robbery, by P.O. Pellot. (Beat 5) Vladimir Jankovic, at Myrtle Avenue, for forgery, by Det. Murray.
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L.I.C. Woman Fatally Struck By Truck Blocks Away From Home
Victim Hit Crossing At Intersection
      Blocks from her Long Island City home, an elderly woman was fatally struck by a box truck while attempting to cross at an intersection last Wednesday night, Dec. 9, law enforcement sources said. Police identified the victim as 72- year-old Gloria Zemana of 44th Drive. The accident reportedly took place at around 8 p.m. at the intersection of 44th Drive and 21st Street.
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Offered Cash For Officer’s Murder
Would Kill To Keep Cop From Testifying
      A Rikers Island inmate who pleaded guilty in connection to a jailhouse plot to hire a “hit man” to kill a New York City police officer in order to prevent him from testifying at the defendant’s trial was sentenced last Wednesday, Dec. 9 to five years in prison.
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