NYPD: Arrest made in attempted rape foiled by Marine in Queens

NYPD: Arrest made in attempted rape foiled by Marine in Queens

BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF
Police have arrested a man they say is the pervert who tried to sexually assault a woman alongside a Queens highway before he was scared away by a former Marine.

Kenneth King, 41, was charged with attempted rape, police said Friday afternoon.

Three people recognized King from an artist's sketch of the suspect that the NYPD released to the media after the attack Wednesday morning, police sources said.

All three called the tip in to the 109th Precinct in Flushing, and each provided King's name, the sources said.

The suspect dragged the woman - who had been waiting for a ride when she was accosted - into a wooded area near the highway, pinned her down and started to rip her clothes off.

But ex-Marine Bryan Teichman, 31, of Fresh Meadows, Queens, who was in the area, dropping his daughter off at a babysitter's home, saw the suspect toss the woman over a highway guardrail.

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Marine’s scream halts rape in New York

Marine’s scream halts rape
By JOE MOLLICA and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
September 29, 2011

A Marine vet who served five years in Iraq and Afghanistan saved a woman from a would-be rapist in Queens yesterday morning -- scaring him off with a jarhead scream.

Brian Teichman was dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at her babysitter near the Cross Island Parkway and 148th Street in Whitestone at around 9 a.m. when he spotted the hulking man force his victim over a guardrail and into a deserted, wooded area.

“It was 100 percent instinct as a Marine that the situation didn’t look right,” said Teichman. “I looked down and I saw him straddling her and he had his hand over her mouth and he was trying to rip her shirt off.

“My thought was scream first. If he runs, you don’t need to worry if he has a gun or a knife.
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16 Year old girl stops bus after driver dies

Teen stops bus after driver dies
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:53 PM

By Nina Pineda
QUEENS (WABC) -- A 16-year-old girl in Queens is being hailed a hero Wednesday. She was on a bus filled with kids when the driver collapsed and died. And she jumped in to help stop the bus before there was an accident.
Rachel Guzy could have froze or panicked, but the camp counselor took action and stopped the moving bus on a busy Elmhurst street when the driver fell out the door.
She slammed the foot brake and yanked the emergency brake, saving nine kids on board coming home from the Magic Carpet Summer Camp.
"The bus driver, he fell over," camper Sabrina Consigilia said. "And our bus counselor just stopped the bus and everybody started screaming."
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New York City to Pay $3.5 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Queens Man

City to Pay $3.5 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Queens Man



By COREY KILGANNON
Published: October 17, 2008

In one of the largest wrongful-conviction payouts in state history, New York City has agreed to pay $3.5 million to a Queens man imprisoned for 12 years after being found guilty of attempted murder.

The man, Shih-Wei Su, was convicted by a jury in 1992 after Queens prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony from the star witness, according to a ruling in 2003 by the United States Court of Appeals, which overturned Mr. Su’s conviction and condemned the Queens district attorney’s office.

But even after the settlement was finalized in federal court on Thursday, Mr. Su said he was still angry.

“The settlement doesn’t buy back the time I lost and doesn’t do real justice, but the amount shows the public something is very wrong here,” said Mr. Su, now 35 and a financial consultant in Manhattan. “I did 12 years on a wrongful conviction, and no one was punished for it.”

In a statement, a spokeswoman for the city’s corporation counsel called the settlement “in the best interest of all parties.”

Joel B. Rudin, Mr. Su’s lawyer, said that his research showed that about 80 Queens convictions over a 15-year period ending in 2003 had been reversed because of prosecutorial wrongdoing, but that those prosecutors had never been disciplined.
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A Saddened Corona Receives Its Soldier, Home From Iraq

The funeral procession for Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez made its way from Hinton Park the few blocks to the funeral home, and church.

A Saddened Corona Receives Its Soldier, Home From Iraq

By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
Published: August 1, 2008
For 14 months, they waited for him. They hung the midnight-black missing-in-action banner at his home in Queens, offsetting its grimness with the bright hues of the Dominican and American flags. They dreaded another knock at the door from soldiers in uniform, but as the months dragged on, some came to crave closure most of all.

On Thursday, he came back. The police cars with flashing lights guided Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez’s coffin past the laundry, the travel agency and the minimart to 104-35 37th Drive in Corona. The procession paused in front of the bouquet of yellow and white flowers.

“You’re home, you’re home,” his friends and relatives cried as they surrounded the car holding his coffin, holding each other up for support.
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