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Meeks: Flynn plea
should spur new probe
Shortly aft er former national security adviser
Michael Flynn entered his guilty plea
on Friday in connection with the ongoing
Russia probe, Queens Congressman Gregory
Meeks repeated his call for an independent
Congressional commission to investigate last
year’s election.
“Flynn’s guilty plea underscores the continued
need for a thorough investigation —
free of disruption, obstruction, or any other
attempts to impede it by President Trump or
anyone else — into the Trump campaign and
this administration’s ties to Russia,” Meeks
said in a statement. “Americans have every
reason to be concerned about the Kremlin’s
impact on our election and its infl uence over
senior White House offi cials.”
Meeks expressed concern that the president
might attempt to coerce Republican senators
into abandoning “the investigation into
his administration.” Senator Richard Burr of
North Carolina told Th e New York Times on
Nov. 30 that Trump had expressed to him a
desire to see the investigation concluded “as
quickly as possible.”
Queens Courier Staff
Richmond Hill cops
help lost woman get
home
Some fast-acting police offi cers helped a
senior woman fi nd her way home aft er she got
lost in Richmond Hill.
According to police, on Dec. 5 the woman
was walking around 111th Street and Jamaica
Avenue when she fl agged down offi cers from
the 102nd Precinct. Th e woman informed the
offi cers that she was lost.
A brief investigation by the offi cers determined
that the woman lived in Corona. Th e
offi cers then drove her home.
“Great work by Lt. Gulinello and his Offi cers.
Th is elderly woman was missing from her residence
in Corona. Aft er a brief investigation,
they were able to get her back home safely,”
tweeted Captain Courtney Nilan, the 102nd
Precinct’s commanding offi cer.
Emily Davenport
Photos by Robert Stridiron
ROAD RAGE RAMPAGE
Richmond Hill stabbing & hit-and-run sparked by minor accident
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com / @robbpoz
It started with a fender-bender; it
ended in deadly chaos.
A Rockaway man who allegedly
stabbed two men, then drove his car
through a crowded sidewalk outside a
Richmond Hill hookah lounge during
a parking dispute on Sunday morning
is now locked up without bail, prosecutors
announced on Tuesday.
Cops picked up Adrian Harry, 22,
of Beach 67th Street on Dec. 3 aft er
he went to Jamaica Hospital for treatment
of a cut to his hand, according to
WABC-TV. Injured victims at the hospital
recognized Harry as the driver of
the car and pointed him out to police.
“What allegedly began as a minor
tapping of fenders turned into a deadly
pre-dawn horror show that left a
young man dead and others seriously
injured,” Queens District Attorney
Richard A. Brown said in a Dec. 4 statement.
Th e trouble occurred at around 4:30
a.m. on Dec. 3 outside the XS NYC
lounge located on Liberty Avenue near
127th Street. According to the criminal
complaint, Harry was parking his white
2016 Hyundai Sonata when the vehicle
allegedly tapped a white BMW parked
behind him.
While neither vehicle suff ered damage,
Brown said, the two men inside
of the BMW got out and confronted
Harry. Seconds later, he allegedly
pulled out a knife and stabbed one of
the men in the torso, then the other in
the abdomen.
As a group of people went to assist
the stabbing victims, law enforcement
sources said, Harry allegedly drove
onto the sidewalk through the crowd.
Footage of the incident was captured
by nearby security cameras.
Six people, in all, were struck by the
car, police said. One of the victims,
Richard Chattergoon, 23, of Beach
68th Street in the Rockaways, was pronounced
dead at the scene. Prosecutors
said his injuries were consistent with
being struck and dragged by a motor
vehicle.
Th e others were taken to local hospitals;
two of the victims were listed in
critical condition, Brown said.
Th e two stabbing victims are listed
in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital,
the New York Daily News reported.
Law enforcement sources said
Harry’s vehicle was recovered near
Jamaica Hospital.
Harry was brought to the 106th
Precinct stationhouse in Ozone Park
for questioning and was later charged
with murder, two counts of assault, six
counts of reckless endangerment and
four counts of criminal possession of
a weapon.
During his arraignment on Monday
night before Judge Toko Serita, Harry
was ordered held without bail and to
return to court on Jan. 4. He faces up to
25 years to life behind bars if convicted.
Detectives escort Adrian Harry out of the 106th Precinct stationhouse in Ozone Park on Dec. 4.
