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Your Weekly Update – August 22, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | August 22, 2025 |

We took sweeping enforcement action against six illegal cannabis storefronts in the borough in close collaboration with the NYPD/New York City Sheriff’s cannabis task force… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – August 15, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | August 15, 2025 |

A squatter who unlawfully occupied a vacant single-family home in St. Albans has been sentenced to two to four years in prison this week, following a successful investigation and prosecution by my office’s Housing and Worker Protection Bureau… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – August 8, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | August 8, 2025 |

I recently announced the interception of an unlicensed interstate cannabis operation that transported thousands of pounds of illegal cannabis product from California into Queens… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – August 1, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | August 1, 2025 |

Two men were charged this week with staging a motor vehicle accident, reckless endangerment, conspiracy, insurance fraud and other crimes. They stand accused of deliberately orchestrating three car crashes and then seeking insurance payouts for damages and purported injuries… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – July 25, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 25, 2025 |

My office filed criminal charges this week against a former Amazon employee for allegedly stealing close to 2,000 pairs of work boots and sneakers through a program meant to provide free safety footwear to new employees… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – July 11, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 11, 2025 |

A subway attacker was sentenced this week to 25 years to life in prison for an unprovoked assault on a commuter inside the Queens Plaza subway station in Long Island City in 2022… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – July 4, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | July 4, 2025 |

My office secured a guilty plea this week from Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng on multiple counts of rape and sexual abuse for assaulting acquaintances and female hospital patients… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 20, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 20, 2025 |

I joined United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella, Jr. and members of the FBI in announcing the indictment of eight alleged members and associates of the transnational 18th Street gang… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 13, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 13, 2025 |

A defendant was sentenced this week to 28 years in prison for shooting Police Officer Richard Yarusso in the lower chest and Police Officer Christopher Abreu in the leg at close range… (continued)

Your Weekly Update – June 6, 2025

By ASokol@queensda.org | June 6, 2025 |

We filed criminal charges against a defendant accused of animal neglect and abuse for allegedly hoarding 48 Belgian Malinois in a cramped and filthy apartment filled with the animals’ excrement… (continued)