12 THE QUEENS COURIER • SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com police beat Compiled by ANGELA MATUA AND SUZANNE MONTEVERDI 108TH PRECINCT LIC, Maspeth, Sunnyside, Woodside Man arrested for sexually assaulting two women on the same morning in Woodside A 22-year-old man reportedly assaulted and tried to rape two women on a Woodside street on the morning of Sept. 20. According to the Daily News, Luis Flores-Guerra allegedly stalked a 30-year-old woman walking along 69th Street and Woodside Avenue at 2 a.m. on Sept. 20. Flores-Guerra threw her to the ground, bit her face and thigh and groped her, police sources told the paper. Her screams caught the attention of bystanders, who yelled at Flores- Guerra. He fled the scene; the woman was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Though police could not confi rm the fi rst assault, an NYPD spokesperson said Flores-Guerra struck again just a little while later, when he assaulted a 27-year-old woman walking in the same area. Sgt. Christopher Miro and Detective Everett Newman were patrolling the crime scene when they witnessed Flores-Guerra assaulting the second victim. He grabbed and wrestled the victim to the ground and grabbed her groin in an effort to rape her, the spokesperson said. She suffered a laceration to her right hand when she struggled to fi ght him off but Miro and Newman were able to pull him away. They arrested him at about 5 a.m. Flores-Guerra resisted arrest and injured the offi cers in an attempt to fl ee, according to the NYPD. He was charged with rape, assault, sexual abuse and two counts of forcible touching. 109TH PRECINCT College Point, Flushing, Whitestone Creep gropes woman’s butt, then blows kisses at her before bus ride in Flushing A u t h o r i - ties are asking for help identifying a man who f o r c i b l y touched and blew kisses at a woman boarding an MTA bus in Flushing earlier this month. T h e 29-year-old victim was boarding a bus on Roosevelt Avenue and Main Street on Sunday, Sept. 4, at around 3:30 p.m. when the suspect grabbed her on the butt, police said. After the victim entered the bus, the perpetrator remained outside and began blowing kisses at her as the bus pulled away. The suspect is described as a male, Hispanic, 30 to 40 years old and standing between 5 foot 4 inches and 5 foot 5 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt, light blue jeans and black sunglasses. Video footage of the suspect can be viewed below. The incident occurred within the 109th Precinct. Anyone with any information regarding the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish speakers, dial 888-57- PISTA), visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confi dential. 115TH PRECINCT Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights Driver collides with motorcyclist in Jackson Heights and fl ees the scene A driver hit a 21-year-old motorcyclist, causing him to fl y off of his bike, in Jackson Heights last month, but the driver didn’t stick around to see if the victim was alright, police said. On Aug. 19 at 4:26 p.m., the motorcyclist was driving his bike in front of 85-21 37th Ave. when the driver attempted to make a U-turn in the same area. The motorcycle collided with the red Cadillac SRS sport utility vehicle and the victim was thrown of his bike. The suspect then fl ed westbound on 37th Avenue. The victim suffered a fractured right hand and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in serious but stable condition. The suspect driving the car is described as a white or Hispanic male, 20 to 30 years old, with black hair. 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). The 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 and messages are kept confi dential. • Masonry “When Only The Best Will Do!” Great Quality, Fair Pricing! Couple sentenced for housing a huge stash of illegal cigarettes in their Flushing residence A Long Island couple admitted in court this week to smuggling in and storing hundreds of cartons of untaxed cigarettes and scores of counterfeit tax stamps in a Flushing home they owned, prosecutors announced. Ben C. Chen, 42, and Qin F. Liu, 39, of Syosset paid the price for the cache of 375 cartons of untaxed cigarettes and 3,540 individual counterfeit tax stamps that detectives discovered at 136-19 60th Ave. during a raid on March 1, 2016. The court-authorized search of the residence was the result of a long-term investigation by authorities into the illegal distribution and sale of untaxed cigarettes from out-of-state. “Tobacco bootleggers who illegally bring untaxed cigarettes from other locations into New York for resale cheat the public by failing to contribute their fair share to city and state coffers,” said District Attorney Richard A. Brown. “For every dollar or two dollars a store owner or consumer saves by purchasing an untaxed pack of cigarettes, the honest taxpayer becomes the victim by being forced to dip into his or her own pocket to pay hi gher taxes.” In Queens Supreme Court this Tuesday, Sept. 13, Chen pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted criminal possession of a forged instrument — a class E felony — and was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 3 years in prison. Liu pleaded guilty to attempting to evade or defraud a tax on a cigarette or tobacco — also a class E felony — and was sentenced to fi ve years’ probation. She has paid $70,000 in restitution.
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