A 26-year-old construction worker from Howard Beach was sentenced to 18 years in prison following the 2009 attack of an off-duty police officer during a traffic dispute.
An online community sprung up to support him with a “Free Joseph Meyer” Facebook page boasting almost 900 supporters.Meyer, was convicted of first-degree gang assault and first-degree assault.
According to a press release from the District Attorney, witnesses said Meyer was among a group of people that assaulted Officer Damien Bartels in the early morning hours of August 30, 2009.
Bartels was treated for a shattered nose, two broken eye sockets, a broken jaw and shifted teeth.A fingerprint from Bartels’ car matched Meyer’s and he later admitted, in a written statement, to being in the August 2009 altercation. Bartels has since returned to his NYPD duties..
Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause of death for a father and son who died in their Ozone Park home. Police found Kuo-Kung Chen, 66, and his son Aaron Chen, 29, unconscious and unresponsive inside their 90-08 101 Ave. home.
Ozone Park native Jacob Berelowitz, 27 years old, received the Lifetime United States Presidential Volunteer Call To Service Award, for contributing over 4,000 hours to volunteering in community service.
Two former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers based at John F. Kennedy Airport were sentenced after pleading guilty to third-degree grand larceny and other charges after stealing$40,000 in cash from a piece of checked baggage.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in his State of the State address yesterday that he wants to bring the largest convention center in the United States to Queens by turning the Aqueduct Race Track in Ozone Park into a 3.8-million-square-foot venue.
Queens racks up $567,780 in claims form holiday blizzard. The December blizzard in 2010 ended up costing New York City $1.855 million in accident damage claims, the most for any storm in recent memory—with Queens netting the most claims out of all five boroughs.
Heroin highway halted; drug ring dismantled.
An enormous drug trafficking operation that had been funneling massive amounts of heroin through Queens was shut down when 121 individuals were arrested on drug possession charges.
A man described by neighbors as increasingly paranoid was killed by an explosion in his Ozone Park home on the corner of 111th Avenue and 113th Street in Ozone Park.
Theodore Ellinghaus, 50, was holding the explosive close to his body when it went off.
When police arrived they taped off the entire block out of fear of other explosives.
They determined by the afternoon, however, that Ellinghaus had no terrorist ties.
Woodhaven resident Ismelda Rosario,24, took steps to ask the public to help in finding her father’s killer, after he was shot to death inside his tire shop near Bushwick.Carlos Rosario was shot once in the chest by an assailant who was attempting to rob the store. There was a $12,000 reward posted for the arrest.
The River Fund, a Richmond Hill non-profit took part in the annual Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids initiative.
Dozens of families and their children—filled the Richmond Hill store for the second year in a row.
Richmond Hill man charged with murdering wife. After allegedly stabbing his wife in the neck and chest in her Richmond Hill home, Oscar Novakovsky was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Police received a call for a domestic assault at 101-41 117th Streetand found 32-year-old Diane Sharma with multiple stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
