12 THE QUEENS COURIER • MAY 2, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com s police beat COMPILED BY TONIA N. CIMINO & CRISTABELLE TUMOLA Cement & Brick Work Ridgewood rocked by discovery of remains Old World Craftsmanship Cement & Brick Work CALL ARTIE THE COURIER/Photo by Maggie Hayes A man’s remains were found buried behind a Ridgewood apartment building. 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Police say she is 5’5” tall and weighs 90 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. 115TH PRECINCT East Elmhurst, North Corona and Jackson Heights Police searching for suspects in Corona robbery Police are looking for four suspects in connection with a robbery in Corona. On Saturday, April 13 at 5 a.m., the suspects approached a 28-year-old victim and assaulted him as he was walking in front of 35-02 103rd Street, police said. They removed his wallet and chain before fleeing the scene. The victim suffered injuries to his face and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center. Police described the first suspect as a Hispanic male who was wearing a dark blue jacket, gray pants and gray sneakers. The second suspect is a Hispanic male with dark facial hair wearing a black winter hat, black hooded sweatshirt, black bubble vest, blue jeans and black sneakers. The third suspect is a Hispanic male with dark, short hair wearing a black leather coat, black jeans with a chain on his left pocket and black sneakers. The fourth suspect is a Hispanic male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and black sneakers. He was also carrying a white plastic shopping bag. Authorities have released a surveillance video of three of the suspects. Remains found inside East Elmhurst garbage bag A woman made a shocking discovery last week when she found unidentified remains in a discarded garbage bag next to an East Elmhurst home. According to police, the woman stumbled on the remains near 99th Street and 31st Avenue. She kicked the bag to see what was inside and a glass jar rolled out containing the remains. The medical examiner’s office is still investigating the incident, but the Daily News reports the remains may be a human fetus. The publication also said a human skull and a few dollar bills were found in the garbage bag. Woman struck and killed at Queens subway station A woman was killed on Friday, April 26 when she jumped in front of an F train, said the FDNY. The incident happened at about 6:30 a.m. She was struck at the Sutphin Boulevard/Hillside Avenue station in Jamaica, according to the MTA. BY MAGGIE HAYES [email protected] A missing Ridgewood man may have been found buried in his own backyard. Frank Soucie, 60, was last seen on Monday, April 22, said neighbors. Ann Marie Mandala, who lives on the same Putnam Avenue block as Soucie, said she knew he liked to gamble and thought he may have gone to the casinos for a getaway. But when police showed up in their quiet neighborhood on Tuesday, April 30, neighbors knew something was wrong. “We knew something had happened,” said Debbie Webster, a longtime friend of Soucie. “When I saw the crime unit vans, I assumed it was Frank,” Mandala said. Soucie, a retired postal worker, lived with his girlfriend and her son in an apartment building. According to neighbors, the couple frequently argued over her 27-year-old son Derek. Soucie “would kick him out of the house, bring him back in and kick him out again,” Webster said. On Tuesday morning, eight days after Soucie went missing, Derek was seen wandering inside Soucie’s building. He walked into a third-floor apartment and was discovered by the tenant. Derek seemed “panicked” and asked to use the fire escape to get into to Soucie’s second-floor apartment just below, according to the tenant’s boyfriend, Raymond Velez. “It was weird how this kid was acting,” Velez said. Moments later, neighbors saw Derek come out of the building with a large white laundry bag. He threw it into a garbage can, and Velez, who was outside, went to investigate. Velez said he opened the bag and found what appeared to be burnt clothes inside layers of black garbage bags. He said the clothes gave off a burning, chemical smell. Neighbor Emma Alameda called the 104th Precinct to report the suspicious activity. Police responded and searched the area. They found a burnt jacket in the garbage can and an unidentified male buried in the backyard. According to media reports, the male is believed to be Soucie. After the discovery, neighbors said Derek turned himself in to the local police precinct. Police told The Queens Courier no arrests have been made. Residents of Soucie’s close-knit Putnam Avenue block are shocked this could happen to someone like Soucie. “I’ve known him my whole life,” Mandala said. “He would never hurt anybody.” Neighbors said Soucie sat outside on his patio every night drinking beers, listening to the radio and watching out for everybody passing by. “You felt safe if he was out here,” Mandala said. “He watched out for everybody.”
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