Queens Street Take Over

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Hi, I'm retired NYPD detective Vic Ferrari, and welcome to NYPD through the Looking Glass podcast, where you'll get unique insight into the New York City Police Department. Before we get started, I encourage you to check out my Amazon author page where you'll find my series of behind-the-scenes NYPD books. They're$10 payback or$2.99 ebook download, including my latest NYPD behind the blue wall of silence. So this today is Tuesday. If all goes well on Thursday night, I'm going to be interviewing retired FBI agent Rich Tihan and a news reporter by the name of Bob Ward. They've written a great book. It's called Face to Face with Whitey Bulger. I encourage you to, if you're, if you're into Whitey Bulger or the Boston mob, it's a fascinating read. This guy, Rich Tihan, he was part of the Whitey Bulger Fugitive Task Force after Whitey went on the run for 16 years. After Whitey got captured on a tip, this guy Tian was flown out there, and his job was to debrief Whitey Bulger on the on the FBI's private plane, bringing him back to Boston to stand trial. And it's really interesting about Whitey's mindset, how he was able to evade law enforcement for 16 years on the run. There's some backstory with Whitey and his girlfriend, Catherine Gregg, Whitey's brother Billy, who was a big shot politician up in Boston, who may or may not have aided and abetted Whitey. That's kind of up for debate, but it's a really good book. Whitey sounds like an ornery. You know, it just sounds like a nasty son of a bitch, but so far so good. It's a really good book. I'm almost finished with it, and I'm looking forward to do that interview because I've always been fascinated with Whitey Bulgium. Let's get to the news from the New York Post. Four goons stole a car from two women in Brooklyn and then sent victims flying as they sped away, including a 72-year-old who was using a walker. A 72-year-old and a 48-year-old were loading up their Toyota Corolla around 4 20 p.m. Wednesday outside a Mills Basin's Lowe's when a group of four young men approached their car, cops said. One of the group jumped into the driver's seat and sped away, bumping into the woman sitting in her walker and knocking the other woman to the ground. Three of the four sped off in the stolen vehicle while the last man fled in the group in a black Nissan's uh Nissan. Both women suffered minor injuries from the bang up but refused medical attention. The cops are looking for four young men. The photos are here, believed to be between the ages of 18 and 20 in connection with the boost. Anyone with information is encouraged to call NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or 8477. I, you know, I'm out of the game with stolen cars and what cars have and what they don't. What I do know is I don't think a Toyota Corolla is that difficult to steal even nowadays. But if it is a key fob, then yeah, it would be more difficult. And unfortunately, it's a catch-22. The more difficult they make a vehicle to steal, the less sophisticated car thieves that don't have the technology or don't r really aren't good at stealing cars are gonna either A, pull an old person out of the car or B, point a gun in someone's face. And that's where you saw the uptick in um carjacking, which actually originated really in Washington, D.C. in like the late 80s, early 90s. So thank God these two people are okay. Car's gonna turn up somewhere. If they did that, if they did this shit, the car's not going to a chop shop. This was just done for a joyride. They'll recover the car and they'll probably get DNA or fingerprints. Speaking of cars, lawless mob wreaked havoc on a Queens intersection during a late night takeover as local lawmakers demanded a crackdown on these in unhinged meetups. Shocking video shows reckless drivers whipping around the intersection at 69th Street and Elliott Place in Queens early Saturday morning. Over a hundred vehicles clogged up the roads along the Maspith Middle Village border. A man appeared to wave a Palestinian flag as he burned rubber, just narrowly missing those standing around the car while it means uh donuts around a massive street blaze. Flames arose from the street as hordes of brazen participants filmed the dangerous drivers who sped off when the cops arrived. Last night was a zoo one neighbor said who didn't want to share her name. When that ring of fire came out, it scared the hell out of me. Councilman Philip Wong, Democrat from Queens, slammed the incident as disgusting. At least one of the drivers was issued a citation for blocking crosswalk and the case is under investigation. Cops responded to the incident about 1 50 a.m., about one minute after being notified. Councilman Wong has demanded a meeting with cops and the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch about the ongoing issue plaguing Queen's communities. I have to question what a NYPD Intel is doing. How do a hundred cars come to a sleeping neighborhood Millage Village? The chaos needs to end. Wong told the police. Well, Councilman Wong, you're probably one of the idiots in the New York City Council that's been humiliating the police and defanging the police and don't let the cops do their jobs. Cops aren't allowed to chase stolen cars anymore, so you think they're gonna chase cars that do a street takeover? I I watched the video, it's disgusting. They've got a some kind of flammable liquid that burned a ring of fire. You did have a guy with a Palestinian flag hanging out of the car. It looked like something out of Mad Max. Look, they said 100 cars, it looked like there could have been a thousand people out there. Someone's gonna get killed, and then it's gonna be the cops' fault. They could shut the if they really wanted to, you could have the precinct and you could have the borough task force and then specialized units like autocrime and stuff to pick because a lot of these cars have stolen motors in it and stolen parts. These kids, when they crash a car or they fuck up an engine or a transmission, they're not going to Amco or getting a crate motor. They're gonna go steal another car and swap an engine in it. You you could take care of this one, two, three. But you know, I had that guy on Charlie Tus's from Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and a lot of what he said made sense in a lot of these democratic cities. Chaos, mass corruption. So they could they could have ended, this could be ended so easily, but I I I love how this guy, Wong, is blaming the cops. You humiliate the cops, you don't let them do their jobs, then when this shit jumps off and people are calling your office, then it's the cops' fault. It goes a little bit deeper than that. This sounds like something out of an episode of McLeod, those of who remember McLeod. An NYPD cop on horseback chased down a convicted killer, parolee, who swiped a purse on the upper west side in a wild pursuit fit for a western flip flick. Dramatic footage shows. Felicia Field, 44 years old, who robbed and killed a cab driver with her boyfriend in April of 2000, snatched a bag from a woman on 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue around 11 a.m. Wednesday, and tried to hoof it away, according to cops. Field was arraigned and set free on supervised release Thursday morning, less than 24 hours after her arrest. Field was charged with grand larcen and false impersonation for allegedly lying about her name. She has 14 prior arrests on her record. She has been arrested for three other crimes this year, including allegedly threatening someone with scissors and kicking a man and stealing$900 in merchandise. She served 25 years behind bars for the 2000 killing until she was paroled last year. Fields was 18 years old in 2000 when her and her boyfriend Charles Rhodes, then 17, and a friend Tyrak Cross, 17, hailed a cab in East New York and planned to rob the gu uh planned to rob the driver at gunpoint. During the holdup of the cabie, Sarah O Manuel Lopez, a 43-year-old father 5, was fatally shot in the head, marking the ninth killing of a cab driver that year. So you got a woman who's not getting it, okay? She served 25 years for a murder conviction. I know you're saying she didn't pull the trigger. In for a penny, in for a pound. You all get in that cab. You think you're gonna rob the guy? You're all getting charged with felon. Well, she got charged probably with felony murder. She does 25 years old. New York State Parole Board says she served her time, she's rehabilitated. They let her out. She's been arrested already three times this year. They just keep letting her out. And these crimes, so you got says threatening someone with scissors and stealing$900, that's the NYPD downgrading felonies, as well as the district. That sounds like a robbery that got knacked down to a larceny. And she's got and now if that's not enough, now she does a purse snatch, which is a grand larceny, maybe a robbery if the person got injured. And, you know, Manhattan DA's office doesn't give a shit. They just let her out. It's unbelievable. But it's the cops' fault. This now, you gotta I always get a kick out of Florida news because we have the upper echelon of nonsense down here. But I will say this you will go down, you will go to jail in Florida if you fuck around. Anthony Buell, 56 years old, and March Chadwick, 57 years old, are waiting arraignment after being charged in Florida for driving with a dead alligator on the roof of their car. After witnesses and license plate readers tracked them as they drove from central Florida to the Atlantic coast with the carcass in plain view. After learning that possession of an alligator is illegal in Florida, the two tourists came up with a solution. They covered the deceased alligator with a white sheet. A fish and wildlife conservation commission finally caught up with them and pulled them over. The report also offered an explanation. Evidently, the duo admitted to taking the roadkill alligator and wanting to take it to a taxidermy place to have it stuffed. Both were booked in the Brevard County Jail and released after paying a$5,000 bond. Welcome to Florida. And that's the thing about the alligators, man, and I've talked about that. They're all over the place, but they don't want you killing them. And apparently, possession of roadkill is a crime. And those fish and wildlife conservation cops, they got a dangerous job because they work by themselves and they go all over the place. They're kind of like the Florida version of a game warden. Like they go to swamps and I mean they're by themselves and they catch people that are crabbing and I guess illegal fishing in spots and, you know, taking fish that they're not supposed to, and they got a dangerous job. But apparently these two clowns figured that taking an alligator across the street strapped to the roof of their car was a good idea. This story is crazy. The Hillsbok Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest after an after an extensive investigation after human remains were discovered in Lutz in August 8th, 2025. So that's almost going on a year. The remains were initially unidentified, and detectives worked with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in an effort to identify the victim. The results were used to identify the victim as 78-year-old Jacqueline Cerone. Detectives also determined that a family member carrying caring for the victim disposed of her remains in the woods after her death. She never heard of a funeral home or calling the cops. Rebecca Vaughan, 64 years old and old enough to know better, has been charged with the following crimes unlawfully hold or move a dead human body in unapproved conditions, failure to report a death to the medical examiner or law enforcement, and tampering with physical evidence. I'm guessing here, I don't know this to be true. I'm just taking a guess, but I'm guessing the deceased, this 78-year-old woman, was getting Social Security, maybe a pension, some type of health benefits. And it's quite possible that this relative that was looking after her figured, well, she's dead. If I just put her in the woods, I can keep cash in those checks. Again, I don't know it to be true. She hasn't been charged with it yet, but that's kind of the way I'm leaning with this. It's just sad what happens to someone after they die. It's um, you know, and they say it's a relative, so not that a stranger should treat a human body that way, but it's just sad. So again, this is a short episode. I just wanted to record it to give you guys heads up about I'll be talking with these guys face to face with Whitey Bulger coming up on hopefully maybe late Thursday night, early Friday, I'll drop the episode. And as always, I want to thank everyone for tuning in, especially my listeners in Cincinnati, Ohio, Casper, Wyoming, Wells, Nevada, Provo, Utah, and Secaucus, New Jersey, home of Lloyd Lindsay Young. If you worked in law enforcement or had an interesting criminal background, please drop me a note on Twitter or Instagram at VicFerrari50. If you're watching on YouTube, please hit the like and subscribe and hype buttons. I really appreciate that. 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