12 The Courier SUN • FEBRUARY 11, 2016 FOR Breaking news visit www.qns.com police beat COMPILED BY THE QUEENS COURIER STAFF 103rd Precinct Jamaica Cops catch man who kept gun stash in car with four flats on Jamaica street A team of vigilant officers busted a Jamaica man on Feb. 3 who allegedly had a cache of firearms inside a disabled vehicle, according to police. Three members of the 103rd Precinct Anti-Crime Unit — Police Officers Robert DiFalco, Benjamin Aboagye and Joseph DeGirolamo — were on plainclothes patrol and riding in an unmarked vehicle when they observed 28-year-old Terrell Smith inside a white Subaru parked at the corner of 153rd Street and 109th Road at 6:40 p.m. on Feb. 3. Within seconds, they observed Smith exit from the Subaru — which had four flat tires — and throw a firearm onto the front seat before fleeing on foot. The officers moved to arrest Smith, who led them on a brief foot pursuit. Assisted by fellow Anti-Crime Unit members Sergeant Mary Humburg and Police Officer Daniel Gasperetti, the officers apprehended Smith shortly thereafter and brought him to the 103rd Precinct stationhouse for booking. Officer DiFalco reportedly injured his wrist in the process of arresting Smith; he was treated at North Shore Hospital in Manhasset. In searching the disabled Subaru, authorities said, police recovered six guns as well as large quantities of ammunition and marijuana. Smith, who resides on 153rd Street in Jamaica, was subsequently charged with assault on a police officer, tampering with physical evidence, obstruction of governmental administration, criminal possession of marijuana and multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon. 104th Precinct Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village Suspect busted nearly a year after robbing deliveryman in Ridgewood Following a lengthy investigation, a 21-year-old man was locked up last week for participating in an armed robbery outside a Ridgewood store last April, police reported. Shaquan Bullock of Brooklyn was taken into custody on Feb. 2 by the 104th Precinct Detective Squad for his alleged role in the robbery that occurred at 2:23 p.m. on Apr. 21, 2015, outside a shop on Woodward Avenue near Woodbine Street. According to the criminal complaint that the Queens District Attorney’s office provided, Bullock and an accomplice — 19-year-old Denty Jones, also of Brooklyn — approached the victim as he was delivering items to the grocery store. Jones pointed a black firearm at the deliveryman’s waist and demanded money. Bullock then removed $1,600 in cash from the victim’s pants pocket, then fled with Jones inside a gray sedan with North Carolina license plates, prosecutors said. The incident was reported to the 104th Precinct; there were no injuries. Moments later, authorities said, police in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, observed the two suspects inside the sedan in the area of Malcolm X Boulevard and Gates Avenue. According to the complaint, the duo stopped the vehicle and fled on foot; Jones was arrested shortly thereafter, but Bullock managed to evade capture. Police later recovered from the car a black 9mm pistol with two live rounds. Bullock was arraigned last Tuesday in Queens Criminal Court on first- and second-degree robbery, seconddegree armed robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. He remains held on $100,000 bail and is due back in court on Feb. 16, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office. Call artie Wet Basement? Basement Water Proofing Specialist Serving Queens for 35 Years For more information contact Artie DiBiase Mason Contractor 718.767.0072 Licensed #08097 and Insured 111th Precinct Bayside, Douglaston, Flushing, Little Neck Son charged with fatally beating father in Flushing dispute Police charged a 19-year-old man with fatally beating his father during an argument inside their Flushing home on Feb. 5.Dimitrios Safetis was booked on manslaughter, assault and weapons possession charges in the death of his father, 57-year-old Ioannis Safetis, inside their home on 190th Street near Utopia Parkway in the Auburndale section at about 9:30 p.m. Officers from the 111th Precinct and EMS units responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call about the incident and found Ioannis Safetis unconscious with blunt force trauma to his head and scratches across his face. Paramedics rushed him to NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens hospital, where he was pronounced dead.Dimitrios Safetis was taken into custody at the scene and brought to the 111th Precinct’s Bayside stationhouse, where he was questioned by detectives and subsequently charged with his father’s death. The investigation is ongoing. Tribeca collapsed crane is owned and operated by Queens companies The tower crane that collapsed on a Manhattan street on Feb. 5 and killed a pedestrian is owned and operated by firms based in Queens, according to the mayor’s office. Long Island City’s Bay Crane owned the huge rigging device operated by Maspeth’s Galasso Trucking and Rigging Inc. that fell onto Worth Street in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan at 8:24 a.m. on Feb. 5.The mayor’s office indicated that workers were moving the crane into a secure position when the accident happened. This was done, sources said, because winds were approaching 25 mph in the middle of the morning’s snowstorm. The collapse claimed the life of a Manhattan resident; three others suffered injuries. No buildings suffered structural damage. According to the mayor’s office, the crane first went into operation at the location on Jan. 30 “to replace generators and air conditioners on the building roof.” Buildings Department inspectors checked the crane at 6:20 a.m. on Feb. 4 “and found it to be in full compliance,” it was noted. The investigation is ongoing; reportedly, it is believed high winds, not human error, was to blame for the crane’s collapse. QNS reached out to both Bay Crane and Galasso Trucking and is awaiting responses. On their websites, both companies noted their more than 60 years of service in the construction and logistics industries.
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