BY EMILY DAVENPORT
An off-duty NYPD officer died of his
injuries one month after a car crash
led to his car hitting multiple cars and
a pole in Springfield Gardens.
According to police, at 11:59 p.m.
on Jan. 17, officers responded to a 911
call regarding a crash at Lucas Street
and Nashville Boulevard. Upon their
arrival, officers found 34-year-old Michael
Ellis behind the wheel of a 2010
Nissan Altima, unconscious and unresponsive,
with severe trauma to his
head and body.
Officers also found a 28-year-old
man driving a 2006 Nissan Maxima
with his 20-year-ld male passenger,
both with trauma to their legs.
An investigation found that
the 28-year-old driver was driving
southbound on Nashville Boulevard
and as he approached Lucas Street,
he disobeyed a stop sign and went
through the intersection. As a result,
the car hit Ellis’s car, which
continued down Lucas Street and
hit a parked and unoccupied 2017
Nissan Pathfinder as well as an additional
parked and unoccupied 2011
Chrysler 300. Ellis’s car then hit
a telephone pole before coming to
rest.
EMS rushed Ellis to Jamaica Hospital
Medical Center, where he ultimately
died of his injuries on Feb. 27.
The 28-year-old and 20-year-old victims
were also taken to Jamaica Hospital
Medical Center by EMS, both in
stable condition.
No arrests have been made at this
time. The investigation is ongoing.
TIMESLEDGER | QNS.10 COM | MARCH 6-MARCH 12, 2020
106th Precinct
Thief steals cash from elderly man in casino
BY JACOB KAYE
The NYPD is looking
for a man who stole over
$2,000 in cash out of the
hands of an old man inside
Resorts World Casino
this month.
According to the police,
on Sunday, Feb. 2,
around 7 a.m., an unidentified
man grabbed about
$2,600 from a 91-yearold
man inside Resorts
World Casino, located at
110-00 Rockaway Blvd. in
Jamaica.
Police recovered video
of a man wanted for questioning
in connection
with the grand larceny.
The investigation is
ongoing.
Jamaica
Anyone with information in regard
to the identity of this male is
asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers
Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or
for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit their
tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers
website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.
COM, or on Twitter
@NYPDTips.
All calls are strictly confidential.
108th Precinct
Sunnyside
106th Precinct
South Richmond Hill
BY BENJAMIN MANDILE
The NYPD is looking for a man
wanted in connection to a grand larceny
in South Richmond Hill last
month.
According to police, on Saturday,
Feb. 29, around 10 a.m., a 37-year-old
NYPD traffic agent was issuing a
summons to a car at the corner of Liberty
Avenue and 121st Street, when an
unidentified man grabbed the agent’s
ticket machine out of their hand.
Making off with the machine worth
around $2,500, the man fled eastbound
on Liberty Avenue in a white Kia sedan,
cops say.
Anyone with information in regard
to the identity of this male is asked
to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers
Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for
Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The
public can also submit their tips by
logging onto the CrimeStoppers website
at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.
COM, or on Twitter
@ NYPDTips.
All calls are strictly confidential.
POLICE BLOTTER
Creep flashes genitals to woman in Sunnyside
BY ZACHARY GEWELB
Police are searching for the creep
who flashed a woman in Sunnyside
earlier in February.
Authorities say a 34-year-old
woman was sitting alone in her car
near 43rd Avenue and 45th Street
at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 7 when the man
approached the vehicle. The suspect
then exposed his genitals in front of
the victim at the driver’s side door
before fleeing on foot southbound on
46th Street, police said.
Cops released photos of the suspect
on Feb. 26.
Cops seek man who snatched ticket machine
from traffic cop in South Richmond Hill
113th Precinct
Springfi eld Gardens
Cop dies month after Springfield Gdns. crash