12 The Courier SUN • JULY 28, 2016 FOR Breaking news visit www.qns.com police beat COMPILED BY ROBERT POZARYCKI AND CHARLIE PERRY 103rd Precinct Jamaica Man shot dead in Jamaica A 23-year-old man was fatally shot in the back on July 25 in Jamaica, authorities announced. According to police, at approximately 9:37 p.m. officers from the 103rd Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding a shooting at 109-31 157 St., just blocks away from P.S. 48 William Wordsworth School and Neo-Elite Village Day School. Upon arrival police found the victim, whose identity was withheld pending family notification, with a gunshot wound to the back. Paramedics transported him to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No arrests have been made and the investigation Wet Basement? Call artie Basement Water Proofing Specialist Serving Queens for 35 Years For more information contact Artie DiBiase Mason Contractor 718.767.0072 Licensed #08097 and Insured is ongoing. 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). The 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 confidential. 113th Precinct South Queens Construction worker botches bank robbery in St. Albans A hard hat bandit is wanted by police after a poorly constructed bank robbery in St. Albans on July 20. The construction crook, who looks like a stand-in for the 1970s disco group “The Village People,” walked into Carver Federal Savings Bank on 115-02 Merrick Blvd. around 3:22 p.m. He approached the bank teller and passed a note demanding money. While the teller walked away from the man, the bandit left the financial institution empty-handed. Police described the man as black, 25 year old, weighing 170 pounds, standing at 6 feet 2 inches tall, with dreadlocks. The thief was last seen wearing a yellow hard hat, an orange vest and blue jeans. Cops are asking anyone with information in regards to this incident to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782). The 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 are strictly confidential. Three arrested after stealing over $4M during a rooftop bank burglary Federal agents have charged three Brooklyn men who allegedly broke into a Rego Park bank in May and stole more than $4 million in cash and valuables from safe deposit boxes, prosecutors announced on July 26. Michael Mazzara, 44, Charles Kerrigan, 40, and Anthony Mascuzzio, 36, allegedly used acetylene torches to cut into the roof of the Maspeth Federal Savings branch at 64-19 Woodhaven Blvd. on the weekend of May 20-22 and gain access to the safe deposit boxes inside the vault. The trio have been under investigation for their alleged roles in an ongoing pattern of bank burglaries across the city dating back “over the past several years,” according to court documents provided by the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In addition to the Rego Park caper, the suspects were also charged for the April burglary of an HSBC bank on 13th Avenue in Brooklyn. The FBI and NYPD Major Case Squad cracked the case through surveillance footage taken from Mazzara’s home, where a courtauthorized recording device captured images of criminal activity prior to and following the burglaries. This included the transportation and preparation of devices, tools and equipment purchased from a Home Depot store in Brooklyn and used in the break-ins. The Maspeth Federal burglary took place between 9:30 p.m. on May 20 and 3 a.m. on May 22. According to court documents, the suspects along with an unidentified co-conspirator brought grinding wheels, oxygen tanks and acetylene tanks onto the roof of the bank. They also erected a plywood structure painted black in order to shield themselves from public view while cutting their way into the bank. Once inside the vault, authorities said, the crooks removed $296,000 in cash and currency, diamonds, jewelry, coins, baseball cards and other valuables totaling $4.34 million from safe deposit boxes that bank customers kept in the vault. According to court records, a security alarm at the branch had been tripped twice during the burglary. It went off at 1 a.m. on May 21 but was reset 20 minutes later; the alarm went off again at 2 a.m. that morning. Police, however, would only be alerted to the bank just after 8:30 a.m. on May 23, after a Maspeth Federal employee discovered the hole in the roof while opening the branch for business. Detectives found the oxygen and acetylene tanks, the plywood structure, other tools used in the burglary and empty safe deposit boxes strewn across the roof of the branch. The branch was shut down for more than a week as law enforcement agents and bank officials conducted investigations. Maspeth Federal reassured customers whose safe deposit boxes were compromised that they would work with them to file claims for the damages. Mazzara, Kerrigan and Mascuzzio were each charged with conspiracy to commit bank burglary and two counts of bank burglary. Additional charges are pending the results of an ongoing investigation. NEWSPAPER IN QUEENS EDITORIAL & WEB [email protected]
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