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Your Weekly Update – August 2, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | August 2, 2024 |

My office charged a defendant with attempted murder this week for the alleged unprovoked stabbing attack on a woman leaving a subway station on Sunday, July 28… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – July 26, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 26, 2024 |

This past week, my office made significant headway in three vehicular crimes cases: (continued)

Your Weekly Update – July 19, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 19, 2024 |

My office recently secured a prison sentence for a Long Island man who stole an East Elmhurst home from its elderly owner by using forged documents to facilitate the transaction… (continued)

JAMAICA RESIDENT SENTENCED TO 36 YEARS IN PRISON FOR FATAL SHOOTING IN JANUARY 2020 AND SECOND HOMICIDE IN APRIL 2021

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 12, 2024 |

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Ashik Zaman was sentenced today to 36 years in prison for killing a 39-year-old man in 2020 in a dispute over money and for fatally shooting another man in 2021 outside a liquor store in South Ozone Park. That victim died the next day, his 29th birthday. District…

Your Weekly Update – July 12, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 12, 2024 |

My office works every day to prevent gun violence and to stop the manufacture of ghost guns — unregulated and untraceable firearms often made at home that have increasingly been found at crime scenes. We recently filed an amicus brief in a legal case before the U.S. Supreme Court… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – July 5, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 5, 2024 |

My office is currently handling several open investigations into card skimming — a type of theft that occurs when illegally installed devices on ATMs, cashier terminals, or fuel pumps capture card data and record PIN entries for purposes of fraud… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 28, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 28, 2024 |

My office secured a 22-year prison sentence this week for a man who unleashed a violent, unprovoked attack on a commuter at the Howard Beach-JFK Airport subway station in September 2022… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 21, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 21, 2024 |

We charged a man this week with first-degree rape, two counts of kidnapping, predatory sexual assault and other crimes for attacking two 13-year-olds in Kissena Park in the middle of the afternoon on June 13… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 14, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 14, 2024 |

My office seized an unlicensed mobile cannabis dispensary, known as “The Green Empress,” on the corner of 43rd Street and Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside this week… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 7, 2024

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 7, 2024 |

My office filed two counts of attempted murder in the first degree against a man who allegedly shot two NYPD officers in East Elmhurst on Monday… (continued)