14 The Queens Courier • DECEMBER 8, 2016 for breaking news visit www.qns.com Detectives arrest suspect for murdering a supermarket owner in Elmhurst four years ago By Robert Pozarycki rpozarycki@qns.com @robbpoz More than four years later, police have arrested a convicted bank robber whom they say fatally bludgeoned an 89-year-old supermarket owner in his Elmhurst home back in March of 2012, authorities announced. Harry Pacheco, 40, of 68th Drive in Kew Gardens Hills was formally charged on Friday, Dec. 2, for the murder of Demaso Llano during an apparent home invasion. Llano, who owned the El Mundo supermarket in Corona, was found dead in his home on 43rd Avenue near Junction Boulevard on the morning of March 26, 2012. He had severe head trauma and his hands were bound with cable ties. The New York Daily News reported on Sunday that Pacheco, who was previously convicted on federal bank robbery charges, confessed to the murder while testifying against a former associate on trial. He is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence. Pacheco was arrested by the 110th Precinct Detective Squad following an investigation. He faces a seconddegree murder charge. Deputy Inspector Christopher By Robert Pozarycki rpozarycki@qns.com @robbpoz A man died and a passenger was critically injured after an SUV crashed into a concrete wall and burst into flames on Union Turnpike in Kew Gardens on the night of Dec. 3, police reported. The fiery crash took place at 8:27 p.m. along the eastbound lanes of Union Turnpike at the Grand Central Parkway overpass. According to law enforcement sources, an unidentified man was behind the wheel of a 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee traveling with a 31-year-old male passenger eastbound on the Grand Central Parkway when the vehicle exited at Union Turnpike at a high rate of speed. Police said the SUV went up the ramp but was not able to safely navigate the exit. It subsequently hurtled across all three lanes of the eastbound Union Turnpike before slamming into a concrete wall at the overpass above the parkway. The SUV then caught fire. Officers from the 107th Precinct and EMS units rushed to the scene. Though they were able to pull the passenger from the wreck, the driver was not The body of Demaso Llano as it was removed from his 43rd Avenue home in March 2012. able to escape and died. His identity was withheld by police pending family notification. The passenger, meanwhile, was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/ Queens hospital, where he is listed in critical condition with trauma about the torso. An investigation by the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad is ongoing. Photo via Google Maps The stretch of Union Turnpike in Kew Gardens where an SUV crashed and burst into flames on the night of Dec. 3. By Robert Pozarycki rpozarycki@qns.com @robbpoz Police now have three men in custody for the fatally stabbing a man in Elmhurst on Thanksgiving Day during an apparent melee and robbery. Jesse Granados, 23, and Michael Velez, 27, both residents of 88th Street in Jackson Heights, were taken into custody on Dec. 2, law enforcement sources announced. They and Fernando Balcarce, 25, of Brooklyn face second degree murder and first-degree robbery charges for the Nov. 24 murder of Bronx resident Jan Carlos Salcedo. The 23-year-old Salcedo was stabbed in the torso front of a home on Judge Street between Elmhurst and Whitney avenues at about 12:18 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. He was taken by private means to nearby Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Sources familiar with the investigation Photo by Robert Stridiron said Salcedo, Granados, Velez and Balcarce were involved in an altercation with an group of unidentified suspects. The exchange turned deadly when one of the suspects allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Salcedo three times in the chest. Valuables were stolen from Salcedo, but police did not identify exactly what was taken from him. Balcarce, Granados and Velez were tracked down through the 110th Precinct Detective Squad’s ongoing investigation. In addition to being charged with murder and robbery, they were additionally booked for gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Multiple unidentified individuals involved in the deadly altercation remain at large, and police need help in finding them. Anyone with information about the murder is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confidential. One dead, another fighting for his life in a fiery collision in Kew Gardens: NYPD THREE UNDER ARREST FOR THANKSGIVING HOMICIDE Manson, commanding officer of the 110th Precinct, took to Twitter to announce the arrest the night of Dec. 2, writing, “The 2012 murder of a beloved store owner from Junction Blvd has been solved by the 110 Detectives. The perpetrator has been arrested.” Manson also congratulated the squad for arresting two suspects for the Thanksgiving Day murder of a Bronx man on Judge Street in Elmhurst. The block of Judge Street in Elmhurst where a man was fatally stabbed on Thanksgiving Day.
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