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Ridgewood school
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BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
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a milestone
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wo people face weapons possession
charges aft er police discovered a pair
of high-powered assault rifl es and
more than a thousand rounds of ammunition
during a court-ordered raid of a Middle Vil-
Law enforcement sources said cops visited
the home of Naquan Calderon, 23, on 65th
Street between Metropolitan and Admiral avenues
at 6:26 p.m. on March 25. He was home
at the time along with Donna Sanderson, 21,
Police sources said the search was the result
of an ongoing NYPD investigation, although
the specifi cs about the probe were
During their search, authorities said, the
offi cers recovered two assault rifl es, both
of which had their serial numbers defaced.
Th ey also discovered 1,100 bullets and an
Calderon and Sanderson were taken into
custody by the 104th Precinct. Th ey were
charged the following day with criminal possession
of a weapon, criminal possession of a
machine gun and defacing a weapon.
Th ey were scheduled to be arraigned on
Monday aft ernoon, March 27, according to
the Queens District Attorney’s offi ce.
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high-powered weaponry inside a
Maspeth man’s home on Saturday
aft ernoon aft er responding to a domestic
dispute at the location, prosecutors said.
Law enforcement sources said Ivan
Valle, 53, allegedly got into a fi ght with
his son inside a home on 60th Street near
59th Drive at about 11:30 p.m. on April
21, prompting a 911 call and a visit from
104th Precinct offi cers.
Upon arrival, according to information
provided by the Queens District Attorney’s
offi ce, the offi cers learned that
Valle allegedly swung a wooden stick
at his son several times. Th e elder Valle
was subsequently taken into custody on
charges including menacing, harassment
and criminal possession of a weapon.
While he was being processed, prosecutors
said, Valle allegedly told police
that he kept guns for a friend inside a
safe inside the 60th Street home. Police
secured written consent from Valle to
search the safe on Saturday aft ernoon,
April 22.
Upon opening the safe, authorities
said, police found inside a black
.223-caliber Bushmaster assault rifle
along with 294 cartridges and three
large-capacity magazines.
A dozen additional weapons were recovered
from the safe, including various
rifl es and shotguns. Each weapon had
valid serial numbers, but prosecutors
said that Valle did not have proper permits
to own the assault rifl es recovered
from the scene.
Valle was additionally booked on
multiple counts of second-, third- and
fourth-degree criminal possession of a
weapon and 12 counts of lacking permits
for possession and purchase of
rifl es and shotguns.
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for robbery
in Glendale
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
GIUDICEREPORT
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for their alleged roles
robbing people at a
Glendale residence on June 8, while armed with an array
of household tools, police said.
According to the criminal complaint
provided by the Queens District
Attorney’s office, Alexander
Padilla, 18, along with Anthony
Aris, Amanda Dreger and an unapprehended
fourth suspect used a
metal shovel, a pipe and a blow torch
during the June 8 robbery that occurred
in the vicinity of 71st Street
and Cooper Avenue at about 7 p.m.
According to information from the
Queens District Attorney’s office,
Aris invited the victim and the other
individual to the Glendale home near
71st Street and Cooper Avenue. Padilla,
Dreger, and the unapprehended
suspect allegedly showed up later
with the arsenal of equipment.
As Dreger entered the location,
Aris allegedly put the victim in a
chokehold, law enforcement agents
said. The criminal complaint noted
that Dreger allegedly struck the
victim repeatedly with the shovel.
Padilla allegedly pressed the metal
pipe removed
chest and into the victim’s 6s and sneakers.
his iPhone The unapprehended thief allegedly
held a lit blow torch to the other
individual and removed a gold chain
and a sum of cash from that person,
the criminal complaint noted.
Padilla has been charged with
first- and second-degree robbery
for the crime. Dreger and Aris were
both charged with two counts of
first-degree robbery and one count
of second-degree robbery.
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Three sought for
Ridgewood slashing
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@A_GIUDICEREPORT
Detectives continue to look for
three individuals responsible
for slashing a pair of men
during an argument outside of a
Ridgewood home last month.
According to police, the three
men in question drove up to the
21-year-old and 19-year-old victims
near the intersection of Wyckoff
Avenue and Schaefer Street at
approximately 9:37 p.m. on July 15
when a verbal dispute broke out.
The fi ght turned violent when
the trio began punching the victims
about the face and body, cops said.
In addition to the beating, the individuals
also cut their victims with
sharp objects during the brawl.
Law enforcement agents reported
that the victims suff ered lacerations
to their faces and heads. When
offi cers from the 104th Precinct and
EMS arrived on scene, the victims
were transported to Jamaica Hospital
in serious but stable condition.
The individuals fl ed the scene heading
eastbound on Norman Street inside
of a dark-colored four-door sedan.
Police described the three suspects
as Hispanic males. One wore a
white shirt and dark-colored pants;
the second wore red pants; and the
third was last seen wearing a white
shirt, a dark-colored baseball cap,
and dark-colored pants.
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). All calls are kept confidential.
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Cops seeking
burglars who
hit home in
Maspeth
BY RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
P olice need the public’s help in
fi nding a pair of thieves who
stole $30,000 in cash after
breaking into a Maspeth home
earlier this month.
Law enforcement sources said
the incident occurred at 8:40 p.m.
on the night of Sept. 2 at a home on
72nd Street near 52nd Avenue.
According to authorities, the unidentifi
ed crooks climbed up to the
second-fl oor balcony of the dwelling
and entered the location. They
then proceeded to remove $30,000
in cash along with two credit cards
and a debit card before fl eeing the
scene.
The burglary was later reported
to the 104th Precinct.
No arrests have been made in
connection with the caper, and an
investigation by the 104th Precinct
Detective Squad is ongoing.
Anyone with information
about the break-in or the suspect’s
whereabouts is urged to
call Detective Mark Bublin of the
104th Precinct Detective Squad at
718-386-2723 or Detective Borough
Queens North at 718-520-9200. All
calls are kept confi dential.
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Bike-riding creep
fl ashes pre-teen girl
in Ridgewood
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Police released on night Tuesday
video of a man flashed who
his genitals at a
12-year-old girl on a Ridgewood
street earlier this month.
Law enforcement sources said
the incident occurred at 4 p.m.
on Oct. 2 in the vicinity of Seneca
Avenue and Stephen Street.
According to authorities, the
12-year-old victim was walking
through the area when she was approached
by the suspect, who asked
her for a piece of paper. She then
removed a slip of paper from her backpack,
and when she turned around,
she saw that the man had dropped his
pants and exposed his genitals.
Police said the perpetrator took
off in an unknown direction; the
girl ran home and told her mother,
who contacted the 104th Precinct.
The NYPD described the suspect as a
Hispanic male with a light complexion
believed to be between 18 and 25 years
of age, with a muscular build and dark
hair. He was last seen wearing a black
jacket with white stripes down the arms
and blue jeans, and riding a bicycle.
Anyone with information regarding
the creep’s whereabouts
is urged to call Crime Stoppers
at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial
888-57-PISTA), visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.
com or send a text
message to 274637 (CRIMES), then
enter TIP577. All calls and messages
are kept confi dential.
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Armed man
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assaulting driver
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@QNS.COM / @QNS
P olice are looking for who struck his victim in the
head with his gun and fi red a
shot into the ground road in Maspeth.
On Nov. 5 at around 6:30 a.m., a
55-year-old white Neft ali
Queens Midtown Expressway westbound
when they got into a verbal
in the
dispute.Expressway
Aft er they stopped vicinity of Queens Midtown and 58th approached the victim’s car on foot
and displayed a fi rearm.
Law enforcement gun.
the allegedly
head with the barrel of the According to police, the assailant told the and shot a round before fl eeing the scene.
as white-Hispanic man eyes, standing 5 feet, 9 inches tall
and weighing 165 pounds. He is
considered armed and Anyone with information regarding
the incident or Ramirez’s
whereabouts can call Detective
Thomas Hirdt of the Detective Squad at 718-784-5441; all
calls are kept confi dential.
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VOL. 108, NO. 28 FEBRUARY 9 – 15, 2017
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@QNS.COM
@ROBBPOZ Police released security footage
on Monday night of two men
who swiped $3,000 in cash from
a gunpoint
Maspeth grocery store at last month.
The stickup took place at 8:24 p.m. on
Jan. 28 inside the Maspeth Deli and Grocery
located at 59-66 56th Ave. near 60th Street.
The video shows the two male bandits
casually walking into the store, and then
cuts to one of the suspects — a black or
Hispanic male wearing an orange knit cap,
a blue coat, blue jeans and red sneakers —
pulling out a firearm.
Law enforcement sources said the perpetrator
pointed his weapon at a 27-yearold
male clerk and a 9-year-old girl sitting
on the employee’s lap. The gunman told
the man and girl to lie down on the floor;
as they did so, he removed cash from the
registers.
Seconds later, authorities noted, the
gunman removed a cigar box from underneath
the counter and handed it to his accomplice,
a man who was wearing a darkcolored
hooded sweatshirt, a baseball cap, a
blue-and-white jacket, blue jeans and darkcolored
sneakers. Police said the cigar box
contained an additional quantity of cash.
The two crooks then fled the scene
northbound on 56th Avenue. The robbery
was later reported to the 104th Precinct; the
victims were not injured.
Anyone with information regarding
the suspects’ whereabouts is asked to call
Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, visit their
website or send a text message to 274637
(CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and
messages are kept confidential.
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Alleged M.V. drug
dealer accused
of a stabbing
BY ANTHONY GIUDICE
agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com
@A_GiudiceReport
A Middle Village man picked up
last week for allegedly peddling
drugs in the neighborhood was
also charged for stabbing a bus passenger
in Maspeth earlier this year, law
enforcement sources said.
According to the criminal complaint
provided by the Queens District
Attorney’s offi ce, Joseph Cancemi, 27,
was seen by 104th Precinct offi cers at
about 4 p.m. on April 27 riding a bike
on the sidewalk near the intersection
of 66th Drive and 78th Street when he
stopped and talked to Safet Cucaj —
who was also collared for the incident.
It was then that cops observed Cancemi
allegedly hand three glassine envelopes
each containing a quantity of heroin to
Cucaj, and Cucaj hand Cancemi $30.
envelopes
Police found the three glassine of heroin in Cucaj’s wallet, $30 in
Cancemi’s pocket, an additional $107
from his pants pocket, as well as 33
glassine envelopes of heroin and two
glass pipes with a quantity of cocaine
from his jacket pocket, the complaint
continued.
Cancemi has been charged with criminal
possession of a controlled substance
and fi ft h-degree criminal possession of
stolen property.
Upon further investigation, Cancemi
was also pinched for allegedly slashing
a man with a sharp object while riding
the bus at the intersection of 59th Drive
and 59th Street in Maspeth on March
17. Th e male victim suff ered numerous
lacerations that required treatment at a
local hospital.
For this incident, Cancemi was
charged with fi rst- and second-degree
assault,possession
and fourth-degree criminal of a weapon.
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Cops: Grandma
in Ridgewood
was murdered
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ The death of an 85-year-old woman
whose body was found in her
Ridgewood home fi ve months
aft er her demise has been ruled a homicide,
police announced on Tuesday
night, Jan. 17.
The city’s Medical Examiner’s offi ce
determined that Erika Kraus-Breslin
succumbed in May of 2016 to homicidal
asphyxiation via neck compression,
according to law enforcement sources.
Kraus-Breslin shared her 65th Street
home with her 30-year-old grandson,
Christopher Fuhrer, who was arrested
in October for allegedly hiding his grandmother’s
body inside the residence.
As of press time Wednesday, Jan.
18, Fuhrer had not been charged with
Kraus-Breslin’s death, but the homicide investigation
is ongoing, police sources said.
Offi cers from the 104th Precinct found
Kraus-Breslin’s body on the aft ernoon
of Oct. 5, 2016, while making a wellness
check to her home on 65th Street near
68th Avenue. Aft er she died, Fuhrer allegedly
painted her body, wrapped it in
16 plastic bags and placed air fresheners
throughout the home in order to mask
the stench of death. The New York Daily
News reported that Fuhrer claimed he
didn’t report her death right away out of
fear that he would lose his home.
Following questioning, Fuhrer was
arrested and charged with concealment
of a human corpse, not reporting a
death and burial/body removal without
proper permit; he remains held
on $350,000 bail, according to court
records.
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a killer in
Bushwick
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Detectives are continuing to
look for the alleged gunman
who fatally shot a Bushwick
man last week, police reported.
Law enforcement sources said
the shooting took place sometime
6:m. on June 2 in the area
of Broadway Lawton Street.
Officers from the 83rd Precinct
the location after
NYPD’s Shotspotter program can detect
where bullets were fired across the
activated at the location.
scene,said, they found Terrell Ortiz, of
Wyckoff Avenue inside a Nissan
Altima; he sustained numerous
gunshot torso.
Paramedics arrived at location
Ortiz to Woodhull
Hospital, where he was pronounced
is described as a heavy-set Hispanic
male in his 20s who wearing a red hooded blue jeans and dark Anyone with information regarding
the shooting or whereabouts is urged to call Crime
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windows: cops
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Police need your help in fi nding
a serial burglar who struck in
Ridgewood four times since
late October.
Law enforcement sources said
the crook fi rst struck at 2:22 a.m. on
Oct. 24, when he climbed through
an unlocked window of an apartment
in the area of Fresh Pond Road
and Madison Street.
Though he walked out of the apartment
moments later empty-handed,
authorities said, the bandit would
take advantage of unsecured windows
at three other locations.
At 4 p.m. on Oct. 27, police noted,
the bandit entered a home in the
area of Fresh Pond Road and Myrtle
Avenue. He removed more than
$9,500 in electronics and jewelry.
That same day in the same area, he
managed to enter another apartment
and stole $1,000 in jewelry.
Finally, at 8 a.m. on Nov. 10, the
perpetrator burglarized an apartment
on Palmetto Street near Fresh
Pond Road. He reportedly stole $620
in electronics and purses.
Each incident was reported to the
104th Precinct.
On Dec. 12, police released video
footage of the perpetrator inside one
of the apartments. He’s described as a
white man between 20 and 30 years of
age wearing all black clothing.
Anyone with information regarding
the burglary pattern can
call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS
(for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA).
You can also submit tips to www.
nypdcrimestoppers.com or by
texting 274637 (enter information,
then the code TIP577). All calls and
messages are kept confi dential.
NO. 20
YULETIDE CHEERYULETIDE CHEER
Glendale lightens up for
the holidays at tree lighting
See Holiday Section Page 23
SINCE 1908
M.V. school
expansion
underway
See Page 4
Illegal club
locked up
in Maspeth
See Page 3
The Old Timer answers your questions about local churches: See Pages 38-39
