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108th Precinct
LIC, Maspeth, Sunnyside &
Woodside
Feds raid drug lab
in LIC apartment
A luxury apartment building near the
Long Island City waterfront was raided
by Drug Enforcement Agents today aft er
offi cials found that residents were making
synthetic drugs there.
Brian Parker, 34, of Long Island City
and Viktoria Koleski, 29, of Farmingdale,
NJ, were arrested by New Jersey DEA
offi cials on Aug. 29 who showed up to
45-45 Center Blvd. wearing hazmat suits
to remove boxes of illegal substances and
lab equipment.
Th e DEA was able to link Parker to an
overdose of a Madison, WI, man in 2016,
according to the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce. A
36-year-old man died aft er taking drugs
he bought from Parker’s website.
Th e drugs sold on these sites, www.
unbeatablechems.com and rcpowders.
com, are synthetic opioids several times
more potent than morphine. Koleski and
other New Jersey residents would have
raw materials shipped to their houses
from as far away as China and would
then send them to Parker’s Long Island
City home.
Th e location at Center Boulevard acted
as a drug den where Parker used lab
equipment to make the drugs and ship
them back to New Jersey. Koleski than
fi lled the online orders. From June 30
through July 5, Koleski shipped approximately
218 parcels from a post offi ce
located in Farmingdale.
A court-authorized search found that
75 of those packages contained the drugs
PCP and PHP. Undercover agents were
able to purchase several chemicals from
Parker and paid him through the money
app Venmo, according to the criminal
complaint. Using Reddit posts published
by Parker on June 28, agents were able
to track his address and “establish surveillance.”
Aft er a number of undercover purchases
of PCP and PHP, agents from the
DEA of New Jersey conducted the raid.
A neighbor told CBS 2 News that offi -
cials rammed Parker’s door down early
on Tuesday.
According to offi cials, Parker was previously
charged with two federal narcotics
crimes. On Sept. 18, 2007, he pleaded
guilty in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Georgia to conspiracy
to distribute and possess with intent to
distribute anabolic steroids.
Four years later, on June 20, 2011, Parker
pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
to 15 counts of introducing misbranded
drugs into interstate commerce, conspiracy
to commit the same, and failure to register
a manufacturing facility.
Both defendants are charged with conspiring
to distribute controlled substance
analogues, and distributing and possessing
with intent to distribute the controlled
substance analogues U-47700,
A-PHP, and 3-MEO-PCP. If convicted,
they face a maximum of 20 years in prison
and a $1 million fi ne.
111th Precinct
Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck
Truck kills man on
Clearview Expwy.
Police are continuing to investigate the
death of a man who was apparently hit
by a truck while attempting to cross the
Clearview Expressway in Bayside.
At 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 25, authorities
said, offi cers responded to a 911 call of a
motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian
struck on the Clearview Expressway
at 46th Avenue. Upon their arrival, cops
found an unidentifi ed man lying in the
roadway unconscious and unresponsive.
During their preliminary investigation,
members of the NYPD Highway District’s
Collision Investigation Squad determined
that the victim was attempting to cross
the northbound Clearview Expressway
from east to west when a 2009 Peterbuilt
tractor was headed down the middle lane
of the expressway at the same time.
Th e operator, a 49-year-old male, saw
the victim and attempted to swerve away
from him, hitting the victim with the
passenger side fender. Th e truck driver
stopped his rig and remained at the scene.
Paramedics transported the victim to
NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens hospital,
where he was pronounced dead. His identity
was withheld by police pending family
notifi cation.
No charges have been fi led against the
driver at this time.
112th Precinct
Forest Hills & Rego Park
Forest Hills wallet
thief at station
Police are looking for a thief who stole a
man’s wallet at a Forest Hills subway station
and used the stolen credit cards to
make purchases.
At 11:20 a.m. on July 9, a 69-year-old
man was walking up the stairs of the
67th Avenue subway station when an
unknown man reached into his pocket
and took his wallet, which contained
several credit cards. Th e victim struggled
with the suspect, who fl ed to parts
unknown with the wallet.
Following the incident, the thief went to
use the victim’s credit cards to make multiple
purchases.
Th e suspect is described as a black male
with dark skin.
Anyone with information in regards to
this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s
Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS
(8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA
(74782). Th e public can also submit their
tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers
website or by texting their tips to 274637
(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are
strictly confi dential.
113th Precinct
Cambria Heights, Laurelton,
Rosedale, St. Albans
Queens man locked up for
murdering a Cambria Heights
woman after a dispute: DA
A St. Albans man sits in a jail cell aft er
being arrested last week on charges that
he fatally shot a 21-year-old woman following
a dispute on a neighborhood street
earlier this month, prosecutors said.
Jonel Lattore, 34, of 199th Street was
arraigned on Aug. 26 on second-degree
counts of murder and criminal possession
of a weapon for allegedly killing Teriana
Holcombe, 21, of Cambria Heights on the
night of Aug. 15.
Earlier that evening, according to
Queens District Attorney Richard A.
Brown, Lattore got into a physical dispute
with one of Holcombe’s friends.
Th at friend was walking with Holcombe
and several others in front of a store at
the corner of 198th Street and Murdock
Avenue at 9:23 p.m. on Aug. 15 when they
heard someone call out to them.
When Holcombe and her companions
turned around, prosecutors said, Lattore
— who was with a group of people —
allegedly opened fi re, striking Holcombe
in the head. He then fl ed the scene.
Officers from the 113th Precinct
and EMS units responded to the incident.
Holcombe was rushed to Jamaica
Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Following an investigation, detectives
picked up Lattore on Aug. 25; during his
arraignment, he was ordered held without
bail and to return to court on Sept. 8.
If convicted, he faces up to 25 years to life
behind bars.
“Th e senseless killing of this young
woman is another example of why we must
remain vigilant in the fi ght against illegal
fi rearms,” Brown said in a statement. “Th e
victim in this case was just 21 years old and
could have lived a long, fulfi lling life if not
for this needless gun violence.”
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