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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Jamaica – One of three defendants has been acquitted in the November, 1980, murder of a 24-year-old investigator for the special state prosecutor’s office who was gunned down during a robbery. [Defendant], 22, 91-35 217th St., Queens Village, was found innocent Monday of murder charges. [Defendant’s] brother, Richard, 19, and [Co-Defendant], 16, 91-03 216th St., Queens Village, are accused of…[...]
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