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106th Precinct
Ozone Park
Ex-banker pays for
fi nancial fraud
A former banker hailing from Ozone
Park is headed for signifi cant jail time
aft er being sentenced for selling his clients’
account information.
Peter Persaud, 28, a former personal
banker at JP Morgan Chase Bank,
received his sentence on Aug. 10 in federal
court and will serve four years in
prison for aggravated identity theft in
connection with access device fraud.
Persaud previously pleaded guilty to
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these charges on March 7, 2017.
According to court documents,
Persaud sold the personal identifying
information and account information
of bank customers to others, or used
it himself, to make unauthorized withdrawals
from the accounts between
2011 and 2015.
Persaud was fi rst exposed in 2014
when he sold account information to
a confi dential informant, and again in
2015 when he sold to an undercover law
enforcement offi cer. Persaud reportedly
told the offi cer that he had to “take it
easy” because Chase might notice that
he had accessed all the bank accounts
that “got hit,” court records show.
Th e client’s bank account from which
Persaud off ered to sell the offi cer personal
identifying information contained
more than $180,000.
107th Precinct
Fresh Meadows
Creep masturbates at
woman, then stalks her
Detectives want the public to help
them fi nd the sleazy man who pleasured
himself in front of a woman on a Fresh
Meadows street, then stalked her as she
tried to get away from him.
Law enforcement sources said the
depraved act occurred at 3:40 a.m. on
Aug. 3 in the vicinity of 65th Avenue
and 174th Street.
According to police, a 47-year-old
woman sat in her car when she was
approached by the male suspect, who
proceeded to masturbate in front of her.
Cops said the woman drove away
from the creep and traveled to a nearby
gas station, where she sought assistance.
She noticed that the perverted perpetrator
followed her to the location.
Th e woman then pulled out her cellphone
and went to take his picture,
which prompted the man to run away;
he was observed heading westbound on
the Horace Harding Expressway.
On Aug. 8, police released images of
the creep, who’s described as a white
man between 20 and 30 years of age,
standing between 5 feet 8 inches and
6 feet tall, with a beard and a tattoo on
his left forearm. He was last seen wearing
a black baseball cap, a blue tank
top, beige shorts and black and gold
sneakers.
Anyone with information regarding
the suspect’s whereabouts can call
Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for
Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). All calls
are kept confi dential.
Floaters in College
Point and Flushing
On back-to-back days, police found
two dead bodies fl oating in waterways
off College Point and Flushing last week.
Police responded to the College Point
Yacht Club, located in the area of Powells
Cove Boulevard and 126th Street, at 9:31
a.m. on Aug. 9 aft er receiving a 911 call
about an unconscious man.
Upon arriving at the scene, the offi -
cers found a man in his 40s fl oating in
Powells Cove, unconscious and unresponsive.
First responders brought the
man to the College Point Yacht Club,
where he was pronounced dead at the
scene.
Police did not disclose the man’s identity.
His body was transported to the
Medical Examiner’s offi ce for an autopsy
to determine the cause of death.
Th en, at 10 a.m. on Aug. 10, offi cers
responded to a 911 call about a body in
the river located adjacent to the intersection
of College Point Boulevard and
34th Avenue. She was located across the
way from a concrete milling plant.
Upon arriving at the scene, the
responding offi cers spotted the woman
unconscious and unresponsive in the
waterway. Members of the NYPD
Harbor Unit recovered the woman and
brought her to shore, where she was
pronounced dead by paramedics.
Police do not know the identity or
the age of the woman, whose body was
transported to the Medical Examiner’s
offi ce for an autopsy to determine the
cause of death.
Investigations into both incidents are
ongoing.
101st Precinct
Far Rockaway
Driver charged for running
over 11-year-old boy
Cops have arrested the driver that
struck a child riding a bicycle and
fled the scene in Far Rockaway.
Pursuant to an ongoing investigation,
officers arrested Agostinho
Sinclair, 41, of Far Rockaway. He was
charged with reckless endangerment,
leaving the scene of an accident and
aggravated unlicensed operator.
According to police, at around 7:40
p.m. on Aug. 13, an 11-year-old
bicyclist was riding at the intersection
of Dickens Street and Healy
Street when he was struck head-on
by a car traveling northbound on
Dickens Street.
Upon being struck, the young bicyclist
flew into the air before landing
on the street several car lengths from
the initial impact location. He is listed
in stable condition at Long Island
Jewish Medical Center.