12 The Courier SUN • JULY 14, 2016 FOR Breaking news visit www.qns.com police beat Compiled by Alec Posner and Robert Pozarycki Basement Waterproofing Brickwork Exposed “Aggregate Concrete” Pavers • Masonry Photo via Google Maps NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA ADOPT A PET AnimalLeague.org • 516.883.7575 • Port Washington, NY Photo by Ellen Dunn North Shore Animal League America Has Over 300 Unique Mixed breed & Purebred, Puppies, Kittens, Dogs and Cats! Open Daily for Adoptions SUN - THURS 10AM - 9PM FRI - SAT 10AM - 10PM FOLLOW US ON 25 Davis Ave Adoptions 112th Precinct Man wanted for assaulting his girlfriend at a Kew Gardens subway station Police want to talk to the man pictured above who recently beat up his girlfriend at the Union Turnpike subway station on the Forest Hills/ Kew Gardens border. According to authorities, Akeem Murphy, 33, allegedly assaulted and choked the 21-year-old female victim after they departed a Jamaica Center bound E train at the station in the vicinity of Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike at 9:30 p.m. on the night of June 25. Law enforcement sources said Murphy and the woman got into a dispute at the station, which led Murphy to strike her in the face. The woman then ran up the stairs, and Murphy followed her toward the turnstiles. There, police said, Murphy grabbed his girlfriend from behind and began choking her, then fled out of the station on foot northbound. Officers from the 112th Precinct responded to the incident; the woman was not seriously injured. Police describe Murphy as a 33-year-old man standing 5 foot 10 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair and a medium complexion. He was last observed wearing a black doo-rag, blue sneakers, a purple shirt and black jeans. He also has a number of musical notes tattooed on his face and neck, including an eighth-note under his right eye and a treble clef over his Adam’s apple. Anyone with information regarding Murphy’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 confidential. 106 Precinct Off-duty cop arrested for assaulting his girlfriend at her South Ozone Park home An NYPD sergeant found himself in handcuffs on July 6 after he allegedly choked and assaulted his girlfriend at her South Ozone Park residence, police said. Sergeant Sergio Gonzalez was taken into custody just after 3:20 a.m. in the vicinity of Lefferts Boulevard and 135th Avenue, law enforcement sources said. Officers from the 106th Precinct responded to a 911 call about the incident, in which Gonzalez allegedly struck and choked his 28-year-old girlfriend in the middle of an argument. She suffered minor injuries and refused medical attention at the scene. Police sources said Gonzalez is assigned to a precinct in Queens, but declined to identify it. He was charged with criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing and harassment; departmental disciplinary charges are also pending. Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Inset courtesy of NYPD CONVICTED RAPIST GETS 23 YEARS FOR 2004 RAPE OF GIRL A convicted rapist from Springfield Gardens will spend the next 23 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 12-yearold girl in Cambria Heights 12 years ago. The Queens District Attorney’s office announced on July 6 that John King, 32, was sentenced for the crime that occurred in 2004 in the vicinity of 116th Avenue. The case went unsolved for the next 10 years until King’s DNA profile in the New York DNA Databank was positively matched to the sample obtained from the victim’s rape kit. King’s DNA was in the databank because of a similar crime he committed. He was nearly finished serving his oneyear sentence for the 2009 rape of a 16-year-old girl when, just a few days away from being released from prison, he was arrested for the 2004 rape. District Attorney Richard A. Brown praised modern technology’s benefits in cases like this one. “DNA evidence that was collected from the rape victim at the time of the 2004 incident and stored in a database was able to convict this defendant. This case underscores the crucial importance of DNA evidence which is irrefutable proof of guilt or innocent,” he said. The use of DNA may be making rapists think twice before committing such heinous crimes. According to Forensic Magaizne, the federal DNA Identification Act of 1994 lead to great DNA advances including increased review of laboratory methodology and validation processes, and the introduction of the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) forensic DNA database. These technological advances may be a big factor in the major decrease of Queens rape cases since 1993, the year before the Act went into effect. According to the NYPD, the amount of reported Queens rapes have been cut in half since then; with 347 in 1993 and 148 in 2015.
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