8 AUGUST 8, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Suspect in Glendale, Ozone Pk. muggings nabbed
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BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
Police have made an arrest
after surveillance video
has captured the likeness of
a man who fi ve women say groped
them in Corona last month.
The five incidents on July 30,
which occurred in the area of
55th Avenue and 99th Street,
were reported within five
minutes of each other, according
to the 110th Precinct.
Cops took Stephen Delvalle
Pena, 21 of Woodhaven,
into custody on Aug. 2 and
charged him with 10 counts of
forcible touching.
Law enforcement sources said
Pena’s spree began with a 30-
year-old woman reporting an
incident at 8:15 a.m. where she
told police her breasts had been
touched at said intersection,
followed by a 57-year-old woman,
a 17-year-old woman, a 30-yearold
and a 29-year-old reporting
to police that their buttocks
were groped.
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
Police arrested a woman on
charges of robbing and assaulting
several people in Glendale and
Ozone Park over the course of a single
night last week.
Between the two cases on July 31,
20-year-old Beach Channel resident
Christina Riddick was charged
with second-degree robbery, thirddegree
assault, criminal possession
of stolen property, unauthorized use
of a vehicle and grand larceny.
Police said that the robberies took
place between 1 and 1:05 a.m. July 31
at 71st Place and Cooper Avenue in
Glendale and between 1:20 and 1:30
a.m. July 31 at the intersection of 81st
St. and 95th Avenue in Ozone Park.
Regarding the Glendale robbery,
the criminal complaint provided by
the Queens District Attorney’s office
indicated that an assailant punched
the victim in the face repeatedly,
while another shoved him against
the wall. The perpetrators grabbed
at his shoulder bag and ripped his
Galaxy 9 smartphone from his
pants pocket.
A surveillance video from the
surrounding location captured the
scene where an individual, later
identified as Riddick, allegedly
punched the complainant while
another figure joined to try and
remove the bag and cell phone.
As for the Ozone Park robbery,
law enforcement sources said, a
pedestrian noticed a gray SUV
parked across the street at 97th
Avenue and 80th Street immediately
before he was followed by a shirtless
Hispanic man with a ponytail, who
threw him on the ground, repeatedly
punched him in the face and took his
cell phone after it fell out of his shirt.
The man then ran toward the SUV.
The criminal complaint noted
that another man in front of an 81st
Street was accosted by a Hispanic
man wearing no shirt and another
individual approached him, punched
him in the face and reached into his
pocket to take his wallet, which
contained several credit cards and
debit cards.
Prosecutors said an eyewitness
to the 81st Street incident was later
approached by the individuals. One
attempted to grab the pocketbook
before the other pushed her to the
ground and took it.
Police say that video footage from
the scene captures the third scuffle
and shows that one of the assailants
was carrying what appears to be a
folding knife.
Officers found Riddick in the
driver’s seat next to a shirtless man
in a gray Nissan Pathfinder at 6:30
a.m. that morning in Cypress Hills
after following the signal of one of
the victim’s cell phones to the car.
They recovered two victims’ cell
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
An alleged burglar from
Maspeth was arrested
last week for breaking
into a Ridgewood restaurant and
stealing three tablet computers, law
enforcement sources said.
Lawrence Lemmerman, 54,
was arrested and charged with
burglary, criminal possession
of a controlled substance, petit
larceny and criminal mischief
on July 31.
According to charges, at 4
p.m. on July 18, the owner of El
Rincón Grill & Bar, located at
46-63 Metropolitan Ave., left the
restaurant having secured three
tablets inside.
When the owner returned on
July 21, he found that the glass
front door at the restaurant had
been shattered and the tablets
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were missing.
Af ter reviewing security
footage, it showed Lemmerman
allegedly using objects to
break the glass door and enter
the restaurant prior to the
owner’s return.
Police arrested Lemmerman
just before 2 p.m. on July 31 at
the corner of Putnam Avenue
and Fresh Pond Road. During his
arrest, officers allegedly found
a glass pipe with cocaine inside
Lemmerman’s shorts pocket.
Lemmerman was ordered to be
held on $25,000 bail cash or bond,
and is due to return to court on
Aug. 21.
Serial groper
gets cuff ed
in Corona
Cops catch Ridgewood eatery burglar
phones as well as one’s driver’s
license and credit cards from
the vehicle.
Cops also recovered a knife
located in the back of the SUV,
authorities said.
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