16 THE QUEENS COURIER • JUNE 14, 2018 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
Stay of deportation
for College Point
pizza deliveryman
BY RYAN KELLEY
rkelley@qns.com
Twitter @R_Kelley6
A driver for a College Point pizzeria
facing deportation aft er delivering
food to the Fort Hamilton
Army Base in Brooklyn, where he
was turned in to immigration offi -
cials, got a reprieve as the investigation
continues.
Pablo Villavicencio Calderon,
35, an undocumented immigrant,
reportedly presented his IDNYC card
to the military police on duty at the
base upon arriving, according to the
New York Times. Military police told
Calderon that he needed a driver’s
license, which he did not have, and an
on-site background check revealed an
open order of deportation from 2010,
the report notes.
Th e New York Daily News reported
on June 9 that Calderon’s lawyers
successfully secured a last-minute
stay of deportation from a federal
judge. He remains incarcerated in
New Jersey for the time being.
For the past eight months, Calderon
had been working at Nonna Delia’s
brick-oven pizzeria in College Point.
Even though it is more than an hour
away from the Fort Hamilton base,
the pizzeria had delivered there in the
past, a manager told the Times.
Military personnel detained
Calderon and called Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
offi cers, who took him into custody.
A spokesperson for ICE told the
Times that Calderon had no criminal
record, but aft er electing not to leave
the country when he was granted a
voluntary departure order from an
immigration judge in 2010, Calderon
knew he was at risk.
Th e report also notes that Calderon
married his wife — a naturalized citizen
from Columbia — fi ve years ago,
and applied for a green card earlier
this year.
Calderon lives with his wife and
their two daughters in Hempstead,
Long Island. He is scheduled for
deportation to Ecuador next week,
his wife told the Times.
South Qns. sewer overhaul fi nally underway
Police search for Jamaica groping suspect
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
Police are looking for a man accused
of sexually abusing a girl in Jamaica last
month.
On May 16 at around 3:35 p.m., the
unidentified suspect approached a
12-year-old female victim at 144th Street
and 87th Road and asked her if she wanted
money for the grocery store, according
to law enforcement sources. He then
handed the victim one dollar and hugged
her.
Aft er the suspect tried to hug her a second
time, the victim moved away from
the suspect, who then grabbed her breasts
before fl eeing the scene. Th e incident was
reported to the 107th Precinct.
Police described the suspect as a
Hispanic man between 30 to 40 years old,
standing at 5 feet 4 inches. He was last
seen wearing a pink T-shirt, white shorts
and black sandals.
Surveillance footage and a still photo of
the suspect can be seen below.
Anyone with information in regards to
this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s
Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS
(8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA
(74782). Th e public can also submit their
tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers
website or by texting their tips to 274637
(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls
and messages are kept confi dential.
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
edavenport@qns.com / @QNS
Aft er road conditions led to street
fl ooding and damage, the sewers of a
south Queens neighborhood will fi nally
get some much-needed repairs.
Th e NYC Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP) and the NYC
Department of Design and Construction
(DDC) announced on Th ursday that a
$62 million infrastructure project that
will install new storm sewers, repair local
street conditions has begun in Rochdale.
“Like many parts of southeast Queens,
this neighborhood has experienced signifi
cant fl ooding and ponding issues that
can linger for days aft er a heavy rainfall,”
said DDC Acting Commissioner
Ana Barrio. “We’re very happy to work
with our partners at DEP to implement
the largest systematic street restoration
program in the fi ve boroughs, in southeast
Queens.”
Funded by the DEP, the project will
install more than 1,550 feet of new storm
sewers and 6,600 feet of existing storm
sewers will be replace with larger new
pipes. Up to 11,000 feet of old sanitary
sewers will be replaced and to improve
street drainage, 44 new catch basins will
be installed and 87 existing ones will be
replaced.
Additionally, 32 existing fi re hydrants
will be replaced by new ones and 16 new
hydrants will be installed. Th e Jamaica
Water Supply Company will be replacing
18,000 feet of old cast-iron water mains,
some of which date back to the 1920s.
Th e project is scheduled to be completed
by the summer of 2020.
Th is project is a part of New York City’s
$1.9 billion investment to improve fl ooding
and street conditions in southeast
Queens. Th e program consists of 45 projects
that are expected to be completed
over the next 10 years.
“Mayor de Blasio has made a historic
investment in the infrastructure of
southeast Queens and these shovels in the
ground are a sign that fl ooding relief is on
the way for residents and businesses,” said
DEP Commissioner Vincent Sapienza.
“I thank our partners at DDC for managing
this important work and look forward
to building out a full drainage system
for the area.”
Photo via Google Maps
Nonna Delia’s on College Point Boulevard.
Photo courtesy of the NYC DDC
Photo via Google Maps/Inset courtesy of NYPD
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