12 THE QUEENS COURIER • FEBRUARY 23, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM police beat COMPILED BY EMILY DAVENPORT AND ROBERT POZARYCKI “When Only The Best Will Do!” Great Quality, Fair Pricing! PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE NCC FOUNDATION BUSINESS LEADERS COUNCIL TOWER NETWORKING RECEPTION TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017 6 PM – 8 PM 364 Rice Circle Garden City, NY 11530 SPONSORSED BY Call (516) 572-0670 to RSVP or email rudy.breedy@ncc.edu 103rd Precinct Jamaica Runaway bull dies after two-hour chase A bull that was found running free around Jamaica on the morning of Feb. 21 died shortly aft er being wrangled by police. According to DNAinfo, a NYPD spokesman said that the bull was fi rst seen at 10 a.m. on Feb. 21 near Archer Boulevard and 146th Street. Th e bovine was cornered at a house on Marsden Street for about an hour before it evaded police again. Offi cials say that the bull escaped from a Jamaica slaughterhouse. Two hours aft er the bull made his break for it, cops were able to wrangle and sedate it in the backyard of a nearby home, according to WABC-TV. Police sources say that the bull died at around 1:30 p.m. while it was in the custody of an Animal Care Centers of NYC facility in Brooklyn. It was not immediately known why it died. Th is is not the fi rst time that a bovine was seen running loose in Jamaica. A little over a year ago, a cow named Freddie made a daring escape the day before he was meant to be killed at a Jamaica slaughterhouse. 104th Precinct Maspeth, Middle Village, Glendale, Ridgewood Two injured in apartment house fi re Two people were injured aft er a blaze ignited inside a Middle Village apartment building on the morning of Feb. 20, the FDNY said. According to the Fire Department, the one-alarm inferno broke out at about 7:24 a.m. on Feb. 20 on the second fl oor of a two-story residence on 79th Place between Metropolitan Avenue and Juniper Valley Road. Sixty firefighters from 12 Fire Department units responded to the scene along with the 104th Precinct and EMS units. Th e two injured residents were treated at the scene for injuries not considered life-threatening. Other residents inside the apartment house were able to exit on their own. Firefi ghters brought the blaze under control at about 8:32 a.m.; the cause of the fi re is unknown and under investigation, Fire Department sources said. 108th Precinct LIC, Maspeth, Sunnyside, Woodside ATM skimmers hit Woodside bank If you withdrew cash from a bank in Woodside recently, you may want to check your fi nancial records for any fraudulent activity. Police said an unidentified duo, described as white males wearing winter clothing, installed skimming devices onto ATMs at the HSBC bank located at 51-20 Northern Blvd. in the Tower Square shopping center. Bank employees discovered the devices at 1 p.m. on Feb. 11 and reported it to the 108th Precinct. It’s not immediately known when the devices were fi rst installed, or if any accounts were compromised as a result, law enforcement sources said. Skimmers, which are installed over the slots where customers insert their credit or debit cards into an ATM, are used to record the personal information contained on the cards’ magnetic strips. Th ieves use the information retrieved from skimmers to make illegal withdrawals from a victim’s bank account, or to fraudulently open credit card accounts in a victim’s name. In recent months, police in Queens have reported numerous instances of skimmers illegally affi xed to ATMs at banks and convenience stores across the borough. Customers are advised not to use any ATM machines that may appear broken or malfunctioning, such as those which have a loose ATM slot. Th ey should also make sure to block the keypad with one hand while using the other to type in their PIN. Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of the men who installed the skimming devices in Woodside should call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confi dential. 109th Precinct College Point, Flushing, Whitestone College Point infant dies suddenly Police are investigating the death of a 7-month-old boy who lost consciousness inside his College Point home on Saturday aft ernoon. Offi cers from the 109th Precinct and EMS units rushed to an apartment on College Point Boulevard near 18th Avenue at 3:25 p.m. on Feb. 18 aft er receiving a 911 call. Upon arrival, they found Simon Naula- Cabrera unconscious and unresponsive. Police said there were no visible signs of trauma to his body. Paramedics rushed the child to NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. His body was transported to the Offi ce of the Chief Medical Examiner to determine the cause of death. Photo by Robert Stridiron Photo: Robert Pozarycki/THE COURIER Photo courtesy of NYPD
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