Mount Vernon Argus Gannett Suburban Newspapers By Will David A Mount Vernon High School student charged in the stabbing death of another student acted in self-defense, his lawyer said yesterday. Queens lawyer Todd Greenberg said [Defendant], 17, feared for his life when [Deceased], 17, was stabbed in a school hallway on Monday morning because moments before he had been attacked by five…[...]
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By Jacques Steinberg MOUNT VERNON, N.Y., Oct. 25 – A lawyer for the 17-year-old student charged with fatally stabbing another student at Mount Vernon High School on Monday said today that his client had acted in self-defense after being attacked by the victim and several other students in a hallway. But the Mount Vernon Police Chief, Michael J. Craparo, said…[...]
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January 30, 1994By Bruce Lambert The Maze — and shock over a killing there more than a year ago — refuse to go away. For years the zigzag passageway between warehouses on 74th Street near 52d Court in Maspeth has had an exciting, forbidden appeal to youngsters, who used it as a hangout, a hideaway and private graffiti gallery. On…[...]
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New York NewsdayBy Graham Rayman A Queens jury has acquitted the Maspeth teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a graffiti-covered warren of alleys in Elmhurst called “the Maze.” After a five-week trial, the jury Wednesday evening found [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth not guilty in the Dec. 6, 1992, slaying of [Deceased] in the Maze, which is…[...]
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By Blanca M. Quintanilla A Queens teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in an Elmhurst hangout known as “The Maze” was acquitted of murder charges last night. [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth, lowered his head and cried softly when the jury’s verdict was announced. His family and friends in the courtroom embraced and many also cried. The verdict…[...]
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By Janet Tarpey The fate of the Queens College student accused for stabbing 16-year-old [Deceased] to death in “the Maze,” now lies in the hands of six men and six women. Jury deliberations began last Monday night, bringing the two-month long trial nearer to an end. At press time, the jury was still out. In his closing arguments in a…[...]
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By Blanca M. Quintanilla The attorney for a teenager charged with brutally stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in an Elmhurst teen hangout told a jury during closing arguments yesterday that his client was charged with a crime he did not commit. Todd Greenberg, a Forest Hills attorney representing [Defendant], 17, also said that the victim, [Deceased], may have already…[...]
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By Susan Forrest, Staff Writer A Queens man, described by Nassau police as a “primary player” in the smuggling of Guyanese people into the United States, surrendered to detectives in Elmont yesterday and was charged in connection with the kidnapping of a Guyanese woman, authorities said. Taxi driver [Defendant], 44, of 111-43 127 th St., South Ozone Park, became the third suspect…[...]
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Timothy Grimes, one of three black victims in the Howard Beach racial attack, exploded in anger yesterday while testifying against five white teenagers in the case, just as he did in another trial last fall. Grimes, testifying despite concerns over his emotional stability, spat at defense attorney Todd Greenberg, muttered an obscenity and swatted a court microphone out of the…[...]
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By Wendy Lin Howard Beach attack victim Cedric Sandiford returned to the witness stand yesterday and admitted he had mainlined heroin and cocaine, and that he was too ashamed to admit it under oath last week. “I lied,” Sandiford told jurors in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens, Queens. “I lied because I was ashamed. I lied to protect my…[...]
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By Wendy Lin The December, 1986, attack on three black men in Howard Beach was “a race riot in every ugly sense of the word,” a prosecutor charged yesterday in opening statements at the second trial in the case. Five Howard Beach residents are on trial in State Supreme Court in Queens on charges of rioting that night. One defendant,…[...]
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By Wendy Lin One of the young men charged with riot in the second Howard Beach case pleaded guilty yesterday and the court record of another defendant’s secret guilty plea was unsealed, leaving only five defendants in the trial that opened this week. [Defendant], 20, flanked by his attorney and his parents, pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court in Kew…[...]
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By Paul Moses City and state investigators have recovered more than $100,000 in jewelry, coins and other goods that were stolen from estates overseen by the Queens County public administrator, officials said yesterday. State Attorney General Robert Abrams said the goods were recovered during an undercover probe of the public administrator’s office, which is responsible for settling the estates of…[...]
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By Mike McAlary and Marianne Arneberg. Wendy Lin also contributed to this story. It was a Saturday, Jan. 17, when special state prosecutor Charles J. Hynes received two telephone calls. Two youths suspected of wrongdoing in the racially motivated killing of a black man in Howard Beach wanted to talk. That afternoon, 17-year-old [Defendant] limped into Hynes’ office in lower…[...]Continue Reading
By Gerald McKelvey Jamaica — An Arverne man was acquitted yesterday of all homicide charges in the death of his 2-year-old son who, police said, had died of beatings, scalding and starvation. After two days of deliberation, a jury in State Supreme Court convicted [Defendant], 30, of Edgemere Houses, of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. The jury…[...]
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