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OPEN DAILY FOR ADOPTIONS SUN - THURS 10 AM - 9 PM FRI - SAT 10 AM - 10 PM animalleague.org • 1.516.883.7575 25 Davis Avenue • Port Washington, NY Home of the Mutt-i-gree® FOLLOW US: 1.516.883.7575 102ND PRECINCT Kew Gardens, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven Man with box cutter menaced E train rider in Richmond Hill Following a recent number of random slashing cases across the city, police want to fi nd a man who pulled out a box cutter and frightened a woman on board a train in Richmond Hill earlier this month. The incident took place at 4 p.m. on Feb. 5 on board a Jamaica Center-bound E train as it entered the Jamaica-Van Wyck station. According to authorities, a 43-year-old woman witnessed the suspect — described as a black male between 35 and 40 years of age, standing 5 foot 10 inches to 6 feet tall and weighing 180 pounds — pull a box cutter out of his jacket pocket. Fearing for her safety, police said, the woman exited the train at the station, but the man remained on board. The woman later reported the incident to police; there were no injuries. Law enforcement agents said the suspect was last seen wearing a black wool cap, a dark colored bubble coat, dark colored pants and white sneakers. Anyone with information regarding the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800- 577-TIPS (for Spanish speakers, dial 888-57-PISTA), visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confi dential. 103RD PRECINCT Jamaica Man roughed up and robbed an MTA worker in Jamaica Police released on Thursday images and video of the suspect who assaulted and robbed an MTA maintenance worker inside the Sutphin Boulevard/ Archer Avenue subway station earlier this month. According to authorities, the incident occurred at 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 14, when the perpetrator — described as a black or Hispanic male believed to be 35 to 45 years old and standing 5 foot 8 inches tall — walked up to the 61-year-old worker and demanded that the employee hand him back his cellphone. The worker, police said, did not have the suspect’s phone. The crook then punched the victim in the face and stole his two-way radio. Authorities said the bandit walked back to the mezzanine area of the station and smashed the radio; he then fl ed back into the station to parts unknown. Police said the suspect was last seen wearing a black Kangol-style hat, a darkcolored jacket and a lime green hooded sweater; he had a black bicycle in his possession. Anyone with information regarding the robbery or the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish speakers, dial 888-57-PISTA), visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confi dential. Three southeast Queens gang members jailed for murder plot The last of three street gang members in southeast Queens convicted of plotting to murder two rivals was sentenced on Feb. 18 to spend as much as 25 years behind bars. Jahmarley Jones, 21, was ordered by Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert Kohm to serve 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison after being convicted on second-degree conspiracy and other charges. Two of his associates — Justin Campbell and Dane’e Cato, 23, also of southeast Queens — received the same sentence from Justice Kohm on Feb. 17 after they were convicted of the same charges. According to police, Campbell, Cato and Jones, along with a fourth, previously convicted individual conspired to kill two members of a rival street gang between March 30 and April 1, 2014. The plot came about following the March 2014 shooting death of a fellow gang member. On April 1, 2014, prosecutors said, the gang members gathered in Montbellier Park in Springfi eld Park. Police, however, showed up at the scene, and the group scattered. Campbell was picked up after running from a stolen 1996 Honda Accord; a second individual was apprehended and found in possession of a loaded, defaced handgun. “This sentencing is the fi nal chapter in the convictions of four violent street gang members,” Brown said in a statement announcing Jones’ sentencing on Feb. 18. “The lengthy prison terms imposed by the court should strike fear in the hearts of these unifi ed criminal groups that have for too long plagued our society and put innocent bystanders at risk.” The gang members were busted through an investigation conducted by the NYPD Queens Gang Squad, the 113th Precinct Strategic Enforcement Team and the DA’s Career Criminal Major Crimes Bureau. Cops fi nd spare tire full of cocaine in Ozone Park A Valentine’s Day drug bust in Ozone Park took 12 kilograms of cocaine, valued at just under $3 million, off the streets of Queens, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced on Feb. 18. According to Brown, three individuals — one woman from Ozone Park and two men from Texas — were charged for allegedly transporting the drugs from Texas into New York City hidden inside a spare tire and planning to sell them on the streets. “Great police work led to the seizure of more than 12 kilograms of cocaine concealed within a spare tire of a vehicle the two men allegedly used to drive from Texas to New York,” Brown said. “The arrests of these three defendants is the result of a long-term investigation. The defendants are alleged to have conspired to bring the drugs to Queens and then to sell them here and in other parts of New York City. The Queens resident, whose home allegedly contained drug paraphernalia, is accused of playing a role in the plot.” Brown identifi ed the defendants as Ozone Park’s Augustina Masea Baez, 51, of 97th Avenue and Houston’s Felipe Estacio-Ortiz, 63, and Jose Luis Ortiz-Garcia, 44. They were all arraigned Tuesday, Feb. 16, on charges of fi rst- and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree conspiracy before Queens Criminal Court Judge Karen Gopee. Baez is additionally charged in a separate complaint with second and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia. According to the charges, at 6:15 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14, police stopped a white Nissan Armada at the intersection of 97th Avenue and 75th Street in Ozone Park. The vehicle was taken to the 115th Precinct where a court-ordered search warrant was executed the following day. As a result of the search warrant, police recovered six packages containing the 12 kilograms of cocaine — with an estimated street value of $2.94 million — wrapped in electrical tape concealed inside the spare tire in the rear of the vehicle. Additionally, the charges state that Masea Baez was observed by police entering and exiting a house on 97th Avenue on Feb. 14, carrying a bag on her shoulder that contained a small quantity of cocaine, along with a scale and $3,398 in cash. Police executed a search warrant on the home the following day and recovered two plastic twists containing cocaine, three plastic twists containing heroin and two digital scales from the inside of a closet. All three defendants were ordered held without bail and to return to court on March 1. If convicted, the defendants face up to 20 years in prison
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