Archive for October 2023
LONG ISLAND WOMAN CONVICTED OF AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER IN HIT AND RUN THAT KILLED NYPD DETECTIVE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jessica Beauvais was convicted today of aggravated manslaughter for driving drunk and slamming into an NYPD detective stationed at a highway roadbl...
MAN CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER AS HATE CRIME IN DEADLY ASSAULT AFTER FENDER BENDER
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Gilbert Augustin was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with manslaughter and assault as hate crimes in the death of 66-year-old Jasmer ...
Your Weekly Update - October 27, 2023
Freedom of religion and expression are foundational principles of our democracy. That is most true here in Queens, the World’s Borough, the most diverse county in the United States.
I announced felon...
BRONX MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR SHOOTING AT OFF-DUTY POLICE DETECTIVE IN FIT OF ROAD RAGE
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Alexis Morillo was charged today with attempted murder, accused of shooting while driving on the Long Island Expressway at another motorist, an off...
MAN SENTENCED IN RUFUS KING PARK SHOOTING DEATH
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Torren King was sentenced today to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in Rufus Kin...
MANHATTAN MAN CHARGED WITH FELONY HATE CRIME AFTER TARGETING SIKH ON MTA BUS
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Christopher Philippeaux was arraigned last night, accused of taunting, punching and trying to knock off the traditional Sikh turban of a fellow bus...
WOMAN SENTENCED ON SEX TRAFFICKING, KIDNAPPING, ASSAULT AND ROBBERY CHARGES
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Destiny Lebron was sentenced to 13 years in prison on sex trafficking, kidnapping, assault and robbery charges for three incidents in which she lur...
Your Weekly Update - October 20, 2023
My office works hard every day to get guns and drugs off the street and hold traffickers accountable.
Our work is far from over, but we have made important progress, with Queens experiencing signific...
LONG ISLAND MAN CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING, UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT OF GIRLFRIEND
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Herman Brightman was charged today with threatening to kill his girlfriend with a knife, binding her wrists and taping her mouth shut. The investig...
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER IN FAR ROCKAWAY SHOOTING
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Marvin Mitchell was sentenced to 17 years in prison for a shoot-out on a Far Rockaway street in a territorial dispute among drug dealers in March 2...
Your Weekly Update - October 13, 2023
In one of the most brutal cases we have prosecuted, a husband plead guilty to attempted murder and was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for plowing into his estranged wife with his SUV, climbi...
QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER AFTER FRACTURING A 6-YEAR-OLD'S SKULL IN RANDOM ATTACK
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Laurence Gendreau was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for attempted murder in connection with the random assault of a 6-year-old boy he lifte...
QUEENS MAN CHARGED WITH CREATING BOGUS COMPANIES TO COLLECT MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN PANDEMIC RELIEF
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Papa Diakhate was charged with grand larceny, accused of creating bogus companies to secure more than a $1 million in federal pandemic relief funds...
MAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT FOR BITING OFF POLICE OFFICER'S FINGERTIP
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Lenni Rodriguez Cruz was arraigned today, accused of leading police on an extended high-speed car chase through a public park and 20 red lights, as...
HUSBAND SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS FOR HITTING WIFE WITH SUV, STABBING HER IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Stephen Giraldo was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for the attempted murder of his estranged wife, who has been unconscious since he deliber...
Your Weekly Update - October 6, 2023
The fentanyl crisis afflicting our city and our country demands that those of us in law enforcement do all in our power to shut down illegal narcotics manufacturers and suppliers and hold the traffick...