12 The QUEE NS Courier • OCTOBER 3, 2013 FOR Breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com s police beat COMPILED BY TONia N. CIMINO & cristabel tulmoa Cement & Brick Work Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, Auburndale, Hollis Hills and Fresh Meadows Officer Evan Ostrofsky (far left) and Sergeant Nick Gravino were awarded by Captain Derick Seneus and Community Council President Jack Fried. 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Alexander Ciszewski was holding onto the passenger side of the truck while it was driving down 47th Avenue near 32nd Place around 11:30 a.m. when he lost control and fell underneath the rear wheel of the vehicle, said police. Ciszewski, a Sunnyside resident, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police are looking for the truck driver involved in the accident. His vehicle is described as a white 2005 GMC box truck. Teen pedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver Luis Bravo was walking on Broadway at 58th Street when a car driving by struck and killed him. On Saturday, September 28 around 11 p.m., police responded to a 9-1-1 call of a car accident involving Bravo, 19, police said. Upon arrival, officers found Bravo unconscious and unresponsive, with severe trauma. He was takento Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The driver, traveling southbound on Broadway in a dark colored sedan, fled the scene. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing. 110th Precinct Corona and Elmhurst Jackson Heights man arrested for fatal Roosevelt Avenue shooting A Jackson Heights man has been arrested and charged in the murder of another man on Roosevelt Avenue. According to the NYPD, on Friday, September 20 at approximately 5:54 p.m., after responding to a report of a man shot, police found Ivan Rodriguez, 33, of Corona in front of 89-09 Roosevelt Avenue with a gunshot wound to his neck and head. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police arrested Pedro Silva, 20, of Jackson Heights in connection to the incident. He has been charged with two counts of murder, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of criminal use of a firearm. 114th Precinct Astoria, Long Island City, Woodside and Jackson Heights Cops looking for bike-riding groper in Astoria Police are searching for a man who allegedly rode by on his bicycle and grabbed a woman’s buttocks in Astoria. The 24-year-old victim was at the corner of 24th Avenue and Crescent Street around 9:10 p.m. on Saturday, September 21 when the suspect, while on his bike, approached her from behind and touched her buttocks, said cops. He then fled the scene on the bicycle. The suspect is described as Hispanic, 20 to 30 years old, of medium build, 5’6″ to 5’10″, with long curly Mohawk-style hair shaved on the sides. He was wearing a dark jacket with a red stripe on the sleeves and blue jeans. His bicycle is silver with a metal basket attached to the rear. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800- 577-TIPS. BY MELISA CHAN [email protected] A man who police say burglarized homes in a business suit after posing as a children’s nonprofit employee has been arrested, according to the 111th Precinct. Police believe a 26-year-old man from northeast Queens was behind a spike in burglaries between July and August. The suspect, whose name is being withheld by The Courier, was a “well-dressed” man who knocked on doors in the middle of the day to gauge if homes were empty, according to police. He would talk about his nonprofit — and then leave — if someone answered the door, authorities said, and would burglarize the home if it was vacant. “Your burglar isn’t always going to be who you traditionally think,” said Sergeant Nick Gravino. “They don’t always look like that.” Gravino and Officer Evan Ostrofsky were honored as the precinct’s “Cops of the Month” for their August 8 arrest of the apparent burglar. “Before they made the arrest, we were hit hard by burglaries from July,” said Captain Derick Seneus, the precinct’s new executive officer. “That’s when the guy they arrested came out of jail and burglaries started going up. After they made that arrest, they started going down.” Gravino said he had personally arrested the suspect twice for burglary-related incidents before the August collar. He said he and Ostrofsky saw the suspect walking in Auburndale, when they noted suspicious behavior. “We watched him, he disappeared down an alleyway, comes out a few minutes later carrying a bag,” Gravino said. “We pretty much knew what he was up to at that point.” This was the perp’s third arrest for burglary related incidents in 14 months, police said. Seneus, meanwhile, was promoted about two months ago. He has spent about two weeks at the 111th Precinct after being transferred from the 114th based in Astoria. “I was told that the 111th is the best in the borough,” he said. “So far, I think it’s true.” 111th Precinct Bust burglar in business suit
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