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police beat COMPILED BY EMILY DAVENPORT, ALEJANDRA O’CONNELL-DOMENECH AND ROBERT POZARYCKI
103rd Precinct
Jamaica
Thief takes city bus for joyride
Cops are looking for a suspect who took
an MTA bus from Jamaica on a joy ride
through Queens and Brooklyn early in
the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 15.
According to police, at 5 a.m. on Jan.
15, an MTA employee reported that a bus
was missing near 165th Street and South
Road in Jamaica. Reports indicate that the
bus had been taken at around 3 a.m. that
morning.
Th e bus was recovered by another
MTA employee at 6:04 a.m. at the intersection
of Liberty Avenue and Conduit
Boulevard in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.
Th ere was no damage to the bus and no
one was reported injured.
No arrests have been made at this time.
Th e investigation is ongoing.
107th Precinct
Fresh Meadows
Suspects locked up
for shooting
Two Fresh Meadows men have been
arrested for allegedly shooting at a
woman through her kitchen window in
an early-morning attack, prosecutors
announced on Monday, Jan. 14.
Alec Bilciu, 21, and Jacob Yagudayev,
22, were charged with fi rst-degree
assault, two counts of second-degree
criminal possession of a weapon and
first-degree reckless endangerment.
Th ey were arraigned in Queens Criminal
Court on Jan. 13; bail was set at $150,000
for Yagudayev and $100,000 for Bilciu.
According to the criminal complaint,
at 5:45 a.m. on Jan. 12, Bilciu
and Yagudayev allegedly showed up to
the 20-year-old female victim’s apartment
on 163rd Street and repeatedly
knocked on the door. Th e victim’s boyfriend
answered the door and recognized
Bilciu, whom he knows as “Mike.”
Prosecutors said that Bilcui allegedly
then told the boyfriend, in sum and
circumstance, “Yo, what’s poppin’,” and
then allegedly stepped back to show
Yagudayev, who was standing directly
behind him.
Aft er seeing both men, the boyfriend
immediately shut and locked the apartment
door. According to the charges,
the defendants then allegedly banged on
the door again and ripped off the doorknob.
Law enforcement agents said that
Bilciu and Yagudayev then allegedly
fi red four shots into the apartment
through the front door and a side window,
striking the victim, who was in
bed. Th e victim was struck in her leg and
transported to a local hospital, where she
is currently being treated for injuries,
including a shattered femur bone.
109th Precinct
Flushing
Arrest made in sex assault
A Jackson Heights man has been arrested
for allegedly attacking and sexually
assaulting a woman on a Flushing street.
At 2 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2018, Jose Montes,
32, allegedly approached a 56-year-old
woman in the vicinity of 165th Street and
Sanford Avenue and punched her several
times in the face.
Montes then allegedly put his hands
down the victim’s pants and penetrated
her with his fi ngers. Police say that
Montes then fl ed the scene on foot in an
unknown direction.
EMS responded to the scene and transported
the victim to a local hospital,
where she was treated and released.
Aft er receiving a tip from Crime
Stoppers, police say, Montes was arrested
on Jan. 12. He was charged with sexual
abuse, assault and harassment.
114th Precinct
Astoria
88-year-old man
fatally hit by car
A medical examiner determined on
Jan. 14 that an 88-year-old man who was
fatally struck by a vehicle as he crossed an
Astoria street last weekend had died from
the injuries he sustained in the incident.
Miguel Hernandez, 88, of 33rd Street
in Astoria was struck at the corner of
Crescent Street and Broadway at 3:15
p.m. on Jan. 11, police reported.
According to law enforcement sources,
Hernandez was walking across the
intersection when he was hit by a 2016
Toyota sedan operated by a 40-year-old
man heading southbound on the oneway
Crescent Street. Th e driver of the
sedan stayed on the scene aft er hitting
Hernandez.
Offi cers from the 114th Precinct
responded to a 911 call about the incident
and found Hernandez lying near
the intersection half-conscious with head
injuries.
Emergency Medical Services arrived
and took Hernandez to Elmhurst Hospital
Center to be treated for his injuries; however,
he succumbed at the hospital on Jan.
12. Two days later, the medical examiner
confi rmed that Hernandez died from the
injuries he sustained in the collision.
No arrests have been made and the
investigation is ongoing, according to
police.
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Jamaica man hit with
17,000 child porn counts
A Jamaica man faces up to seven years
in prison aft er being indicted on more
than 17,000 counts of allegedly downloading
thousands of child porn pictures
and videos, prosecutors announced.
Vishal Lalbeharry, 30, of 95th Avenue
appeared on Queens Criminal Court
on Jan. 14 for arraignment on a 17,725-
count indictment charging him with
promoting a sexual performance by a
child as a sexually motivated felony, promoting
a sexual performance by a child,
possessing a sexual performance by a
child and sexual misconduct.
According to Queens District Attorney
Richard A. Brown, Lalbeharry allegedly
downloaded the massive amount of
depraved videos and images between
March and April of 2018, stored upon
four laptops, four cellphones and fi ve
hard drives that investigators seized
from his home. Moreover, detectives
also discovered 16 video recordings
showing Lalbeharry allegedly having sex
with a dog.
Prosecutors said that a detective of the
NYPD Computer Crimes Squad discovered
on March 27, 2018, an IP address
linked to one of Lalbeharry’s computers
which had allegedly downloaded 1,150
fi les containing pornographic images
of children, some of whom were shown
being sexually abused by men. Some of
the victims in the images were as young
as 6 months old.
Aft er his arrest, Lalbeharry allegedly
told law enforcement agents that, “while
I was downloading regular porn, some
images of child pornography were in the
fi les” and that he had seen the images
“by mistake.”
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