Police & Fire – The Rockaways News – Page 3 of 4 – QNS

POLICE LIGHT

Jamaica man charged for fatally striking a Rockaway woman with his car

By Emily Davenport

Health

Queens doctors and pharmacists slapped with federal charges in nationwide $163M health care fraud scheme

By Robert Pozarycki

Three busted for stealing vans off the streets of Queens and stripping their parts for cash

By Robert Pozarycki

A police helicopter used a rescue basket to pull two kayakers out of Jamaica Bay on Saturday afternoon.

Watch these cops rescue two people who fell out of their kayaks in Jamaica Bay

By Robert Pozarycki

handcuffs 3 -shutterstock

Brooklyn man serving time for a weapons charge arrested for murdering a Queens man nearly one year ago

By Emily Davenport

Brooklyn man gets 150 years in prison for raping his teenage stepdaughters in Queens

By Emily Davenport

Report says 48 priests accused of child sex abuse worked in Queens, but diocese questions its accuracy

By Robert Pozarycki

NYPD

Police precincts in Astoria and south Queens neighborhoods among those with most complaints in borough

By Angela Matua

Far Rockaway man sentenced for stealing $5M in funding that was meant for children with special needs

By Emily Davenport

Workers wait outside a construction site in Manhattan after a Queens man shot a foreman there on Oct. 5.

Disgruntled worker who killed foreman at Manhattan construction site lived in Queens

By QNS News Team

NC robberies

Three Queens men arrested for series of armed robberies on Long Island: police

By Suzanne Monteverdi

chopper rescue

See these cops save an injured man on a commercial boat off the coast of Queens

By Emily Davenport

Khalif House is spending the next 10 years behind bars for committing 40 robbery attempts in Queens and Long Island.

Serial store robber gets 10 years in federal prison for 40 armed holdups in Queens & Long Island

By Robert Pozarycki

Photos3 043

Firemen rescue women and babies during a Rockaway Beach blaze

By Emily Davenport

Military-grade assault weapons, like the one seen here, were purchased by a Rockaway man on the internet, according to prosecutors.

Rockaway man will pay the price for buying an arsenal of assault weapons on the internet

By Robert Pozarycki

fire challenge

12-year-old from Far Rockaway sets himself on fire as part of YouTube ‘fire challenge’

By Katarina Hybenova

coastal guard

Coast Guard boat capsizes off Rockaway while rescuing fishing boat crew

By Alina Suriel

Tyquan Long, 29, is wanted as a suspect in the crime.

Suspect wanted in connection to fatal Far Rockaway shooting

By Alina Suriel

Far Rockaway man charged after crash that left pedestrian seriously injured

By QNS News Team

Rockaway man sentenced for cocaine possession: DA

By QNS News Team

The NYPD Special Operations Division tweeted photos of the wreckage, including parts of a tail, found after a small plane crashed off Breezy Point.

Small plane crashes in water off Breezy Point, one body found: reports

By

P.O. Randolph Holder, who emigrated to Far Rockaway from Guyana, was shot to death while on duty in Harlem Tuesday night.

Cop murdered in Harlem has family roots in Far Rockaway

By Robert Pozarycki

Elderly man falls to death from 12th-floor Far Rockaway balcony

By QNS News Team

The Far Rockaway house where a woman allegedly rented a basement apartment to perform illegal cosmetic procedures.

Death of woman who got butt injections in Far Rockaway ruled a homicide

By QNS News Team

More from Around New York

Multiple monitors and big digital screen showing surveillance video footage. Female dispatch or CCTV operator works on computer in monitoring center with security cameras, talks by walkie talkie.

Privacy group details extensive city-run surveillance in new report

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's offices in Long Island City, Queens.

New York City sees seasonal increase in mpox cases

Untitled design (6)

Schneps Podcasts

Paul S. Ryan, Executive Director of the New York City Campaign Finance Board Talks Transparency and Voting in NYC

pexels-momentos-reales-931333-2181192 (1)

New York Family

Festivals, Parades, Carnivals, and Fairs in Westchester, Rockland County, and Bergen County: August 2025