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police beat COMPILED BY EMILY DAVENPORT, SUZANNE MONTEVERDI AND ROBERT POZARYCKI
105th Precinct
Southeast Queens
Arrest made in Cambria
Heights murder
Police arrested a man who was connected
to a shooting in Cambria Heights that
left a man dead early in the morning of
Sunday, June 3.
According to police, at 4:38 a.m. on
June 3, offi cers from the 105th Precinct
responded to a 911 call regarding a male
shot in front of a home on 230th Street
near 120th Avenue.
Upon their arrival, cops found 26-yearold
Derrick Stansbury, a resident of
Rosedale, in the driver’s seat of a parked
vehicle, unconscious and unresponsive,
with multiple gunshot wounds in the
torso.
EMS responded to the scene and took
Stansbury to Jamaica Hospital, where he
was pronounced dead.
As a result of an investigation, on June
5, detectives arrested 24-year-old John
Hines of 111th Avenue in Queens Village,
an acquaintance of Stansbury through
mutual friends. At this time, it is not clear
what the motive was behind the shooting;
sources familiar with the investigation,
however, believe that it stemmed from
a dispute between Stansbury and Hines.
Hines was charged with one count of
murder and two counts of criminal possession
of a weapon.
109th Precinct
College Point, Flushing,
Whitestone
Firefi ghters injured in
blaze at vacant home
A two-alarm blaze at a Flushing home
that broke out early in the morning of
Monday, June 4, left 12 people injured,
authorities said.
According to the FDNY, a call came in
regarding a fi re at 147-09 41st Ave. aft er
2 a.m. on June 4. Authorities said that 25
units and 106 fi refi ghters were deployed
and sent to the scene.
Th e fi re was brought under control at
4:03 a.m. Two civilians had managed to
escape the building and were transported
to Cornell Medical Center with serious
injuries.
Ten fi refi ghters suff ered minor injuries
and were brought to local hospitals
for treatment.
At this time, the cause of the fi re is
unknown and under investigation. ABC7
reported that the building had been
vacant.
111th Precinct
Bayside, Douglaston, Flushing,
Little Neck
Bayside business
burglar busted
A Bayside man is facing multiple
charges aft er allegedly burglarizing two
local businesses last month, including
Pesso’s Italian ice stand.
Hossam Arafa, 36, was arrested on May
31 and charged with burglary, criminal
mischief and grand larceny. Arafa has 12
prior arrests, law enforcement sources
said, and is due back in court on June 13.
According to a criminal complaint provided
by the Queens District Attorney’s
offi ce, on May 22 at around 1 a.m., Arafa
broke into New Love Nails at 203rd Street
and 35th Avenue through a rear door.
Th e suspect then used tools to break into
an ATM, which contained $2,980, stole
$50 from a tip jar and spilled detergent
onto the fl oor of the business.
Prosecutors said that Arafa then broke
into Pesso’s Ices & Ice Cream, which is
two doors away, through the entrance
door. Surveillance footage shows the suspect
using tools to open the register,
which contained $830, and placing the
cash into a white garbage bag found
under the counter.
Arafa also stole two Bluetooth speakers
and unplugged several freezers, leaving
the contents melted, the complaint
notes. Damages sustained at the property
are estimated at $1,500.
Both shop owners told prosecutors they
did not know Arafa.
Th e NYPD’s Queens North Grand
Larceny Division and 111th Precinct
investigated the case.
Queens man busted with
real guns and fake cop gear
He wasn’t a cop, but a Rosedale man
arrested on May 31 had enough fi repower
and gear to play the role, police
said.
Kevin Nugent, 40, was busted following
a court-ordered search of his 254th
Street home linked to an ongoing police
investigation into drug-related activity.
Th is isn’t Nugent’s fi rst run-in with
the law, sources familiar with the investigation
said, as he was picked up just
last year for criminal impersonation. His
rap sheet also includes arrests for petit
larceny in 2012, two robbery counts in
2013 and an attempted robbery in 2014.
Following his criminal impersonation
arrest last December, according to court
records, Nugent had been released on
$10,000 bond; another court hearing on
that case is set for June 19.
Regarding the May 31 raid, law
enforcement sources said members
of the NYPD Queens South Narcotics
Division and Major Case Squad developed
information that led them to
obtain and execute a search warrant of
Nugent’s residence at 2:20 p.m. that day.
During the search, police found a
loaded .380 Ruger handgun and a loaded
Mossberg shotgun, along with 370
cartridges of ammunition.
Th ey also located and recovered two
ballistic vests and identifi cation cards
that NYPD offi cers typically use and
two fake police identities. One of the
vests had the letters FBI on the front,
while a shirt labeled “NYPD Counter
Terrorism” was also recovered.
Police also found in Nugent’s home
41 methadone pills and $2,230 in cash.
Nugent faces charges of criminal possession
of a weapon, possession of a
forged instrument, criminal possession
of a controlled substance and violation
of a local law. At his arraignment on
June 1, he was ordered held on $75,000
and must return to court on June 9 on
the matter.
107th Precinct
Flushing, Fresh Meadows and
Jamaica
Drunk driver gets up to 21
years for deadly pileup
A New Jersey man will be spending
up to two decades in a New York prison
for causing a deadly crash on the Grand
Central Parkway in Queens while driving
drunk last July.
Andrew Shakespeare, 34, of Roselle,
NJ, pleaded guilty in April to aggravated
vehicular homicide, Queens District
Attorney Richard A. Brown said.
Shakespeare was ordered on Monday,
June 4, to serve between 7 and 21 years
behind bars; following his release, he
must also have an interlock ignition
device installed on any car he drives for
a fi ve-year period.
Law enforcement sources said the
deadly crash occurred at 6:30 a.m. on
July 16 along the westbound lanes of
the Grand Central parkway near 188th
Street.
Prosecutors said Shakespeare was
operating a black BMW X5 SUV at a
high rate of speed, carrying several passengers
on board, returning home from
a wedding celebration.
As he attempted to pass a white Nissan
vehicle in the entrance lane, Shakespeare
side-swiped the car, then lost control of
the SUV, which set off the chain reaction
crash that involved two other vehicles.
Offi cers from the NYPD Highway
Patrol and numerous EMS units rushed
to the scene. Upon arriving at the scene,
paramedics found one of Shakespeare’s
passengers — Akeam Grant, 16, of
Brooklyn — lying on the roadway with
severe trauma about his body. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
A second passenger, Brooklyn’s Layon
Campbell, 34, was found unconscious
behind the front passenger seat. Aft er
being extracted from the wreckage by
fi rst responders, paramedics rushed him
to a local hospital, where he was pronounced
dead.
Five others involved in the four-car
pileup were hospitalized with serious
injuries.
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