8 MAY 25, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM Donations fl ooding in for teen hit by car in Middle Village BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GIUDICEREPORT A parent’s worst nightmare became reality for one Middle Village family on Monday, May 15, when Nicholas Naumann, a freshman at Christ the King High School, was hit by a car and sent to the hospital with serious brain and bodily injuries. Naumann was crossing the street near his school at the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and 69th Street around 4:30 p.m. on Monday aft ernoon, police said, when Csaba Erdohati, a 33-year-old male, hit the 14-yearold student with his car. EMS units transported Naumann to Elmhurst Hospital in serious but stable condition, cops added. Erdohati remained at the scene and was taken into custody and charged with operating a vehicle without a license. Now, a GoFundMe page has been set up to help Naumann’s family pay for the mounting medical bills. According to the GoFundMe page, Naumann was later “transferred to Cohen’s Children’s Hospital where he has undergone brain surgery for a severe brain bleed and hematoma. Nicholas also sustained a broken shoulder, broken clavicle, a broken nose as well as a bruised lung and fractured ribs. As of right now the neurological extent of his injuries are still unknown.” “What we do know is that Nicholas and his family need our help and prayers during this diffi cult time,” the GoFundMe page reads. “His road to recovery will be a long one and as we all know medical bills will quickly start to add up. Let’s help ease that burden so that they can focus all of their energy and attention on caring for Nicholas.” If you would like to donate to Naumann’s medical fund, visit the GoFundMe page at https://www.gofundme.com/ nicholas-naumann-medical-fund Cops used GPS to catch a burglar in Ridgewood Photo: Robert Pozarycki/RIDGEWOOD TIMES Police Offi cer Michael Cappellano (second from right) received the Cop of the Month award at the 104th Precinct Community Council meeting on May 16. They’re sitting in the Hall of Fame in M.V. Christ the King installed its newest members of the Christ the King Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 20. More than 200 people attended the event to celebrate and honor the nominees. This year’s inductees were: Thomas V. Ognibene (posthumously), vice chairman of CK Board of Trustees; Maureen Murphy Blaine, Class of 1967; Dr. Sharon Manning Beverly, Class of 1972; Charles D’Ambra (posthumously), Class of 1994; former faculty member Kathleen Travers Norman (posthumously), and Gary Giordano, district manager of Queens Community Board 5, who received the Community Award. BY ROBERT POZARYCKI [email protected]/@ROBBPOZ The 104th Precinct took a truly high-tech approach in cracking a major burglary pattern across Ridgewood. Captain John Mastronardi, the precinct’s commander, spoke about the case during the May 16 104th Precinct Community Council meeting in Middle Village, during which he honored two of the investigating offi cers as Cops of the Month. Beginning last November and continuing into the fi rst few months of 2017, Mastronardi recalled, Ridgewood had been getting hammered with burglaries. Detectives were able to link 31 of the break-ins together as part of a burglary pattern, and had obtained a security camera image of a possible suspect. As QNS previously reported, the perpetrator climbed up the fire escapes and entered each apartment through a window. He would then ransack each residence and steal varying amounts of property, including cash, jewelry and even security boxes containing valuable items. According to Mastronardi, police caught a break when the received an anonymous tip of a possible suspect, who was identifi ed as Paul Rodriguez, 38, of Brooklyn. Police Offi cers Michael Cappellano and Jack Dagnese of the 104th Precinct ran Rodriguez’s name through the NYPD database, and subsequently learned that he was involved in a fatal auto accident in the Bronx. “They had enough information to garner a search warrant from the court, and police were able to get a GPS search warrant on the perpetrator’s vehicle,” Mastronardi said. Police were able to place a locator on Rodriguez’s vehicle and tracked him to Sunnyside on April 5, where they observed him allegedly committing a burglary. He was arrested later that day in Bushwick as he allegedly attempted to steal purportedly stolen items at a pawn shop. “We were able to put everything into place, creating one giant burglary case against one individual, who we have currently in jail,” Mastronardi said. Rodriguez remains locked up without bail on three separate criminal complaints charging him with burglary, attempted burglary, criminal possession of stolen property, possession of burglar’s tools, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal mischief and petit larceny. For their eff orts, Mastronardi and 104th Precinct Council President Len Santoro presented Cappellano with a plaque donated by the Times Newsweekly, a sister publication of QNS. Cappellano also accepted a second plaque on behalf of Dagnese, who was recently transferred to a precinct on Staten Island. Even with one major property crime pattern now solved, Mastronardi noted that the precinct is battling a spike in vehicle break-ins over the last few weeks. He reminded drivers to properly safeguard their vehicles and never leave any valuable property inside them unattended. Photo courtesy of Christ the King Regional High School Photo via GoFundMe
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