Posts by Renea Henry
LITTLE NECK MAN CONVICTED FOR KIDNAPPING WIFE AND EVADING POLICE IN HIGH SPEED CHASE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Yaspal Persaud, 28, has been convicted for kidnapping and other crimes by a jury for accosting his estranged wife at her job, forcing the 30-year-old woman into his vehicle and driving away with her in front on stunned onlookers. The defendant led police on a multi-county, high-speed…
Read MoreJURY CONVICTS ELMONT MAN OF MARCH 2020 ATTEMPTED MURDER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced today that Malcom White, 44, has been convicted by a jury of attempted murder for shooting his 34-year-old wife during a dispute at a hotel in Jamaica, Queens in March 2020. District Attorney Katz said, “I am committed to holding accountable those who perpetuate acts of brutal violence…
Read MoreFATHER AND SON AMONG FIVE DEFENDANTS INDICTED BY QUEENS GRAND JURY FOR OPERATING OPEN-AIR DRUG MARKET [PHOTO]
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, joined by New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, announced today that a group of four defendants were indicted by a Queens County grand jury. The defendants, including Boris Ford of Roosevelt Island, Manhattan and his son Barshawn Ford of Jamaica, Queens, are variously charged with conspiracy and criminal sale…
Read MoreQUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO 22 YEARS-TO-LIFE IN PRISON FOR 2020 GANG-RELATED SHOOTING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Otis Moore, 32, a reputed member of the Redfern Rowdy Gang and persistent felon, has been sentenced to a term of 22 years-to-life in prison. The defendant was convicted by a jury following a nine-day trial last month for a May 2020 gang-related shooting in the Dix…
Read MoreQUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS IN PRISON FOR NEAR FATAL SHOOTING OF FORMER COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jeffrey Thurston, 28, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for shooting a former student athlete outside a deli on Springfield Boulevard in July 2020. The defendant was also sentenced for a burglary related to a March 2020 incident involving an estranged girlfriend and her son,…
Read MoreTWO MEN INDICTED ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES FOR ROBBING ELDERLY WOMEN AND STABBING GOOD SAMARITAN PIZZERIA OWNERS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Supreme Gooding, 18, and Robert Whack, 30, have been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Supreme Court on attempted murder, assault, robbery and other charges. The defendants allegedly attacked two elderly women on two separate occasions in March and took their pocketbooks. The…
Read MoreQUEENS RESIDENT CHARGED WITH MACHETE ATTACK THAT KILLED HIS 29-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Mahadeo Sukhnandan, 50, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the brutal knife attack that claimed the life of a 29-year-old man, who lived in the basement unit at the same address as the defendant. The victim was repeatedly hacked and slashed…
Read MoreQUEENS MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER, ASSAULT AND OTHER CHARGES FOR ATTACKS ON SUBWAY AND IN BAKERY
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Donny Ubiera, 32, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and other crimes for three attacks last week. Ubiera allegedly used a nail-embedded board to strike a man inside a Roosevelt Avenue bakery on June 8, 2022. The defendant is also accused of knife attacks on two…
Read MoreDEFENDANT FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN DEATH OF NYPD DETECTIVE BRIAN SIMONSEN AND WOUNDING OF SECOND POLICE OFFICER DURING BOTCHED ROBBERY
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jagger Freeman, 28, has been convicted at trial of murder, robbery, assault and other crimes for his role in the February 2019 cell phone shop robbery that resulted in the death of New York City Police Detective Brian Simonsen in February 2019. A second police officer was…
Read MoreBRONX MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR BEATING WOMAN WITH NAIL-RIDDLED WOODEN PLANK
Queens District Melinda Katz announced today that James Fitzgerald, 55, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for nearly killing his estranged girlfriend. The defendant attacked the woman in front of a Jamaica fish market, kicking and punching her then using a wooden beam embedded with nails to continue the beating on May 16, 2020. District…
Read MoreGEORGIA DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR RAPING WOMAN IN QUEENS ALLEY IN 2020
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Rony Lopez Alvarez, 39, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape in the first degree. The defendant attacked a woman, dragged her into a dark alley and raped her in 2020. The defendant fled the state but was caught in Georgia…
Read MoreTWO DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO LENGTHY PRISON TERMS FOR GUNNING DOWN VICTIM IN BODEGA
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that 32-year-old Fabian DeJesus-Garcia has been sentenced to 25 years-to-life in prison after being convicted at trial of killing a man in a bodega in Jackson Heights, Queens. Second defendant, Gamaliel Desiderio-Sanchez, also 32, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the…
Read MoreMAN PLEADS GUILTY IN 2019 SEXUAL ATTACK OF ELDERLY QUEENS WOMAN
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Rodrigo Escamilla, 28, has pleaded guilty to criminal sex act for the 2019 attack on a 74-year-old Queens woman that took place inside the victim’s Corona apartment. District Attorney Katz said, “The defendant viciously violated an elderly woman in a place that is supposed to be her…
Read MoreDEFENDANT SENTENCED TO 16 YEARS-TO-LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER DURING BOTCHED SOUTH RICHMOND HILL HOME INVASION
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Kristof Williams, 27, has been sentenced to 16 years-to-life in prison after being convicted at trial of murder and other crimes for his role in the death of a 20-year-old man. The victim was killed during a home invasion in South Richmond Hill, Queens, in November 2016.…
Read MoreDEFENDANT FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER IN DEATH OF TWO MEN KILLED IN 2018 HOUSE FIRE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Kahj Woods, 20, has been found guilty at trial of two counts of manslaughter. The defendant set fire to a three-story building where he was visiting with a relative in December 2018. Two men – one an octogenarian and the other disabled – were unable to escape…
Read MoreQUEENS MAN CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR 2020 GANG-RELATED SHOOTING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Otis Moore, 32, a reputed member of the Redfern Rowdy Gang, has been convicted by a jury of attempted murder and other crimes for a gang-related shooting on May 17, 2020 in the Dix McBride Apartments, also referred to as Pinkfern in Far Rockaway, Queens. District Attorney…
Read MoreFORMER COLLEGE LACROSSE PLAYER SENTENCED TO 6 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER ASSAULT CONVICTION FOR STABBING TEAMMATE IN 2019
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz today announced that Matthew Stockfeder, 24, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison following a jury conviction in March to assault charges. The defendant and the victim – both former lacrosse teammates at St. John’s University – argued during a dispute in October 2019. The confrontation led to the…
Read MoreQUEENS RESIDENT CHARGED WITH MURDER IN SHOOTING DEATH OF WOMAN KILLED AT HER FRONT DOOR
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Giuseppe Canzani, 41, has been charged with murder and other charges in the shooting death of a 51-year-old woman killed in broad daylight. The victim was standing in her doorway when she was gunned down Wednesday afternoon. District Attorney Katz said, “As alleged, this defendant clearly has…
Read MoreQUEENS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED MURDER IN SHOOTING OF DELIVERY DRIVER WHO BLOCKED TRAFFIC WITH TRUCK
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jahsheen Osbourne, 21, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the January 2020 unprovoked shooting of a UPS delivery driver in Woodside, Queens. The 15-year-veteran UPS worker was attempting to parallel park the vehicle as the defendant waited while in the passenger seat of a stolen Mercedes.…
Read MoreQUEENS GRAND JURY INDICTS WOMAN FOR MURDER FOR STABBING DEATH OF IMMIGRATION LAWYER IN FLUSHING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that XiaoNing Zhang, 25, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on murder and weapon possession charges in the stabbing death of a Queens immigration lawyer last month. District Attorney Katz said, “As alleged, this was a brutal attack that…
Read More