10 MARCH 22, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
POLICE BEAT Compiled by Emily Davenport and Robert Pozarycki
106TH PRECINCT
SOUTH QUEENS
HOWARD BEACH WISEGUY
COPS GUILTY PLEA
A reputed mob captain from Howard
Beach and two alleged associates
have copped pleas to their roles in
a multimillion-dollar racketeering
ring, federal prosecutors announced
on Monday aft ernoon.
Ronald (aka Ronnie G) Giallanzo, 47,
of Howard Beach, an acting captain in
the Bonanno crime family, and fellow
mobster Michael Palmaccio, 46, of
Queens pleaded guilty on March 19
to operating a loansharking racket
over a 10-year period, according to U.S.
Attorney Richard Donoghue.
Another friend of theirs — Nicholas
(aka Pudgie) Festa, 37, of Oceanside, NY
— entered a guilty plea on March 8 to
similar charges. Donoghue said that
all three individuals face a maximum
of 20 years imprisonment when they
are sentenced. Seven other co-defendants
have previously pleaded guilty
in the case, he noted.
“Through their acts of violence,
Giallanzo, Palmaccio and Festa
reaped substantial illicit profi ts at
the expense of their loansharking
victims,” Donoghue said on Monday.
“With today’s guilty please, these defendants
are being held responsible
for their destructive role in perpetuating
organized crime’s presence in
the community.”
Federal prosecutors said Giallanzo,
Palmaccio and Festa were part of a
Howard Beach-based crew that operated
a loansharking ring. According
to the indictment, they lent out more
than $3 million to customers who were
charged exorbitant interest rates.
In one episode outlined in the indictment
last March, Giallanzo and an
unidentifi ed cohort brutally assaulted
a loanshark customer (who had borrowed
$250,000 from Giallanzo but
failed to make his weekly payments)
until the individual wound up soiling
himself from the beating. Giallanzo
allegedly screamed at the customer,
“Where’s the f—ing money?” as he
attacked him.
As part of his plea bargain, Giallanzo
will forfeit $1.25 million to the federal
government and will be required
to sell the Howard Beach mansion he
constructed. Once a modest one-story
ranch home, Giallanzo transformed
it into a palace that could have doubled
as a mob boss’s home on “The
Sopranos.”
Palmaccio and Festa also agreed to
each forfeit $500,000 for their roles in
the loansharking scheme.
112TH PRECINCT
FOREST HILLS & REGO
PARK
FOREST HILLS MAN GETS
10 YEARS FOR CHILD
PORN
A Forest Hills man was ordered to
serve a decade in federal prison for
making a 12-year-old girl take sexually
explicit photos and spreading them
on social media when she refused
to continue, U.S. Attorney Richard
Donoghue said.
Christopher Arroyo, 26, was
charged with coercing and enticing
a minor to engage in sexually explicit
conduct. He was sentenced to 10 years
in prison plus fi ve years’ supervised
release to follow Arroyo’s prison
sentence, during which time he must
register as a sex off ender, and he will
not be allowed unsupervised contact
with minors.
According to trial testimony, in 2012,
Arroyo used Facebook and other social
media platforms to meet a 12-year-old
victim and then enticed her to take
sexually explicit images of herself and
engage in other sexual conduct.
Prosecutors said Arroyo continued
to exploit the girl for years, and when
the victim refused to comply with his
demands, Arroyo threatened and
harassed her, stating that he would
publicly post images of her across the
Internet.
Three years later, in 2015, Arroyo
created multiple fake social media
accounts and posted explicit images
of the victim. The FBI traced Arroyo’s
online activity to his residence in
Forest Hills and executed a search of
his home, seizing multiple computers
and other electronic devices.
A forensic examination of those
devices revealed that Arroyo had
archived images of the victim in an
electronic folder bearing her name.
Persons arrested in recent police
actions as reported by the 104th
Precinct include the following:
March 12: (Beat 4) Victoria Auringer,
at 64-02 Catalpa Ave., for menacing, by
P.O. Vasquez. (Beat 14) Luis Acevedo,
at Fresh Pond Road and Eliot Avenue,
for aggravated unlicensed operator, by
P.O. Paulsaint.
March 13: (Beat 13) Alexis Castro,
at Grandview Avenue and Himrod
Street, for criminal possession of stolen
property, by Det. Wright. (Beat 5)
Edgar Alvarez, at Cooper Avenue, for
menacing, by P.O. McCollough.
March 14: (Beat 5) Carlos Estrella, at
Cypress Avenue and Vermont Place,
for false personation, by P.O. Maksimiuk.
(Beat 4) Samuel Cruz, at 64-02
Catalpa Ave., for criminal mischief, by
P.O. Coronado. (Beat 4) Carlos Torres,
at 64-02 Catalpa Ave., for assault, by
P.O. Vazquez. (Beat 4) Carlos Sancho, at
64-02 Catalpa Ave., for assault, by P.O.
Anderson. (Beat 4) Roland Yosufuf, at
70th Avenue, for criminal trespass, by
P.O. Reyes. (Beat 16) Hasana Gritton, at
Cooper Avenue, for petit larceny, by
P.O. McGuire. (Beat 15) Joseph Corello,
at Grove Street, for assault, by P.O. Carr.
March 15: No arrests reported.
March 16: (Beat 13) Stephanie Pena,
at Metropolitan Avenue, for criminal
contempt, by P.O. Carr. (Beat 15) Lenin
Carchi, at Fairview Avenue and Linden
Street, for aggravated unlicensed
operator, by P.O. Nessler. (Beat 3)
Arslan Minhas, at Myrtle Avenue, for
aggravated unlicensed operator, by
P.O. Bielicka. (Beat 15) Cesear Leal, at
Harman Street and Forest Avenue, for
aggravated unlicensed operator, by
P.O. Bush. (Beat 6) Jaclynn Gachman,
at Pleasantview Street, for assault, by
P.O. Mamani-Campos.
March 17: (Beat 12) Christina Candelaria,
at 66th Drive, for criminal
contempt, by P.O. Defreitas. (Beat 2)
Braulio Chiwiant, at Gates and Seneca
avenues, for DWI, by P.O. Finnerty.
(Beat 4) Kendra Morales, at 64-02
Catalpa Ave., for assault, by Det. Demarco.
(Beat 2) Fuli Chen, Cuifang
Chen and Yuchang Yu, at Palmetto
Street, for assault, by P.O. Diaz. (Beat
10) Daniel Sokolowski, at 60th Avenue
and 61st Street, for DWI, by P.O. Gomez.
March 18: (Beat 9) Krzysztof Kruszewski,
at Grand Avenue and 74th Street,
for criminal trespass, by P.O. Gonzalez.
(Beat 3) Herbert Velez, at Wyckoff Avenue,
for assault, by P.O. Bertrand. (Beat
2) Sergio Caguana, at Palmetto Street
and Cypress Avenue, for aggravated
unlicensed operator, by P.O. Incantalupo.
(Beat 3) Jose L. Sesante, at Myrtle
Avenue, for aggravated unlicensed operator,
by P.O. Nisbett. (Beat 3) Russell
Dickerson and Edison Pou, at Madison
Street, for reckless endangerment, by
P.O. Montalbano. (Beat 14) Raymond
Pena Jr., at Metropolitan Avenue, for
petit larceny, by Det. Sandler.
The 104th Precinct, located at 64-02
Catalpa Ave. in Ridgewood, can be
reached by calling 718-386-3004. It
was noted that all criminal charges are
accusations, and all persons listed in
this blotter are presumed innocent until
proven guilty.
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