By The Times/Ledger
FLUSHING – An 18-year-old male was slashed at the Shea Stadium stop on the No. 7 subway line on Friday, police said. The victim was approached by two men on the platform at approximately 12 p.m., said Detective Madelyne Galindo.
A dispute then ensued and the victim was slashed in the neck. When police arrived, the victim told them the suspects, wearing gray and beige jackets, headed in the direction of 111th Street.
The victim was taken to New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens in serious but stable condition.
There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
Wire-chewing squirrel knocks out St. John's power
JAMAICA – St. Johns University students whose classes were canceled Friday have a dead squirrel to thank.
A spokesman for the university said the rodent chewed through some wires on a transformer at the intersection of Utopia Parkway and 82nd Road, knocking out the power in two campus buildings and suspending classes for about four hours.
The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, Con Edison, firefighters and police officers responded to the scene.
The squirrel, whose body was found nearby, was apparently electrocuted.
Jacket stolen in College Pt. robbery
FLUSHING – A robbery at a College Point Boulevard gas station Saturday afternoon netted the shotgun-wielding thief only the attendant's jacket, police said.
Officer Joseph Cavitolo said a man carrying a sawed-off shotgun entered the station at 26-27 College Point Blvd. He struggled with the victim and ran off with his jacket, he said.
There have been no arrests and police are investigating the incident.
Woman raped in Flushing after calling car service
FLUSHING – A 23-year-old woman was raped inside a taxi cab Saturday night, police said.
The incident occurred outside a residence on Booth Memorial Ave., after the victim had called a car service, said Officer Joseph Cavitolo.
The victim was taken to Flushing Hospital for observation. Police have made no arrests, but the investigation is ongoing.
Ex-Whitestone minister guilty of raping niece: Jury
WHITESTONE – A former Whitestone resident and Flushing minister was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting his niece in 1998, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Brown said Jung Woo Lee, 52, formerly of 150-51 9th Ave. in Whitestone was found guilty on charges of sodomy, rape, attempted rape and sexual abuse following a seven-day jury trial.
Brown said the victim, Lee's 21-year-old niece, came to the United States in May 1998 to study English as a second language at Fordham University.
The DA said the woman fled back to her family in Korea in July 1998 following Lee's advances but was encouraged by her relatives to return to America and seek justice.
Lee, a former assistant pastor at the San Jong Hyun Church in Flushing, will be sentenced March 2 and faces up to 31 years in prison, Brown said.
Officer leaps to death off Throgs Neck
ASTORIA-An off-duty lieutenant in the 108th Precinct leapt to his death Monday morning, police said. Shortly after 9 a.m., Paul Swirsky, 35, was driving his Mazda on the Bronx-bound side of the Throgs Neck Bridge when he stopped his vehicle before the first tower, said Detective Madelyne Galindo.
Witnesses said they saw the officer climb through the side window of the vehicle and then jump off the side, Galindo said. About an hour later police recovered the body
