July 15, 2021. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Jovan Young, 29, has been indicted by a Queens grand jury on murder and other charges for the shooting death of a 10-year-old boy and the non-fatal shooting of another man. The shootings took place on June 5, 2021, in Far Rockaway, Queens.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Shakera Small, a United States Postal Service mail carrier , has been charged with identity theft, grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly using a credit card stolen from her postal route. The woman is accused of using that charge card to pay for an $8,000 surgical procedure…
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Shakera Small, a United States Postal Service mail carrier, has been charged with identity theft, grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly using a credit card stolen from her postal route.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Danezja Kilpatrick, 23, has been charged with murder in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon and other crimes for allegedly killing her son and daughter. The 46-day-old babies were found dead in the mother’s apartment in Woodside, Queens, Thursday afternoon.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Patrick Mateo, 47, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury on a hate crime, aggravated harassment, and other charges for allegedly attacking a 52-year-old woman outside a bakery on February 16, 2021. The victim was shoved so hard she needed nearly a dozen stitches to…
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that Danny Stewart, 58, has been indicted by a grand jury and arraigned in Queens Supreme Court for the 1996 rape of a female passenger. The defendant – a livery driver at the time – picked up the victim from her workplace in Jamaica and allegedly sexually assaulted….
The Queens Mental Health Court (QMHC) is designed to address the mental health issues that affect a disproportionate number of defendants who are facing criminal charges in Queens County. The focus of the new court is treatment as an alternative to incarceration. In pursuit of this objective, public safety is paramount.
To be eligible to participate in QMHC, defendants must be 18 years of age or older at the time of referral and either a U.S. citizen or a resident alien. Defendants must be diagnosed with a serious mental illness i.e. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, etc.
Participation in the Queens Mental Health Court is voluntary. The Queens District Attorney’s Office will screen all referrals first for criminal eligibility to determine whether the defendant is an appropriate candidate for a non-jail alternative sentence.
Any defendant who desires to participate in the Queens Mental Health Court will be required to undergo a mental health evaluation. In most cases, this evaluation will have been conducted prior to referring the case to the Queens District Attorney’s office.
Every eligible participant will be assigned a court case manager who will work with the defendant to develop a proposed treatment plan. The plan will be formulated from the information in the mental health evaluation and any supplemental evaluations.
All QMHC pleas will be conditional. Participants will be required to sign a plea agreement as a condition of participating in the Queens Mental Health Court.
The QMHC program will run a minimum of 12 months. The duration of the program will depend on the participant’s progress with their treatment plan.