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Corona man
arrested for
stabbing a man
to death on an
Elmhurst street
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
edavenport@qns.com / @QNS
Police have arrested a Corona man in
connection to the death of a man who
was found on an Elmhurst street with
multiple stab wounds.
At 7:56 p.m. on Feb. 28, offi cers from
the 110th Precinct were on patrol in
the vicinity of 57th Avenue and 92nd
Street when they heard a man yell
out in distress and saw him fall to the
ground.
When the offi cers went over to investigate,
police said, they found 22-yearold
Hakeem Griffi n of 57th Avenue in
Corona with stab wounds to the neck
and torso.
EMS responded to the scene and
transported Griffin to Elmhurst
Hospital, where he was pronounced
dead.
Following an ongoing investigation,
offi cers arrested 23-year-old Ronald
Oneil of Horace Harding Expressway
in Corona. He was charged with murder
and criminal possession of a weapon.
Queens fi refi ghter busted for child pornography
BY RYAN KELLEY
rkelley@qns.com
Twitter @R_Kelley6
An FDNY fi refi ghter was arrested on
March 5 and charged with numerous
felonies for child pornography that he
viewed while inside of the fi re house,
according to court records.
Th e suspect was identifi ed as Michael
Chojnacki, 53, a resident of Nassau
County, Long Island. He was arraigned
in Queens Criminal Court the same day
and charged with six counts of promoting
the sexual performance of a child and
six counts of possessing a sexual performance
by a child, class D and E felonies
respectively.
According to police, the arrest came
as a result of a joint investigation by
the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children and the NYPD
Computer Crimes Squad. Th e court documents
show that Chojnacki’s alleged
off enses took place on four specifi c dates
in 2016 and 2017. All four incidents
involved a cyber tip submitted by an
online service where explicit images were
uploaded.
Th e fi rst cyber tip was received from
the chatroom website Chatstep about an
uploaded fi le depicting child sexual abuse
on June 12, 2016, at approximately 11:46
p.m. According to the criminal complaint,
an investigator determined it was
an explicit image of a nude girl who was
between the ages of 8 and 10.
A second cyber tip was received from
the image sharing platform Imgur. Th e
fl agged image was uploaded on June 26,
2016, at approximately 3:53 p.m., and an
investigator determined the image depicts
a girl between the ages of 9 and 11 who
is partially nude, court documents show.
Th e third cyber tip was submitted by
Yahoo and said that a specifi c email
account had uploaded three explicit
images on Feb. 1 between approximately
No bail for identity thief who tried to kill F.H. woman with cheesecake
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com / @robbpoz
A Brooklyn woman with a notorious
past faces attempted murder charges
for allegedly trying to kill a Forest Hills
woman with a piece of tainted cheesecake
nearly two years ago in order to steal
her identity, prosecutors announced on
Feb. 28.
Victoria Nasyrova, 42, visited the then-
35-year-old woman’s home on Aug. 28,
2016, and brought cheesecake with her as a
gift . According to Queens District Attorney
Richard A. Brown, the two women had
previously met and shared very similar features:
both had dark hair and the same skin
complexion and spoke Russian.
Nasyrova, however, was there not to
bond with her friend — but rather to steal
her life, law enforcement sources said.
During their meeting, law enforcement
sources said, the Forest Hills woman ate
a slice of cheesecake that Nasyrova provided
her, then soon began to feel ill. Th e
last thing she remembered before passing
out, prosecutors said, was Nasyrova sitting
beside her.
Th e day aft er, prosecutors noted, one
of the victim’s friends found her unconscious
on her bed, dressed in lingerie,
with pills scattered around her body.
Authorities said Nasyrova allegedly set
the scene up to make it appear as if the
woman had attempted to kill herself.
Paramedics rushed the victim to a local
hospital for treatment, and she made
a recovery. When she returned home,
Brown said, she realized that her passport,
her employment authorization card,
a gold ring and cash were missing.
During the investigation, law enforcement
agents and the Department of
Homeland Security recovered some of
the cheesecake and tested it. Th ey found
that it had been laced with phenazepam,
a drug developed by the Soviet Union in
1975 and commonly used today in Russia
and other European countries to treat
anxiety and other psychiatric and neurological
disorders.
Th e FBI also determined that the pills
on the victim’s bed were phenazepam
tablets.
In March of 2017, the New York Post
reported, police in Brooklyn arrested
Nasyrova for allegedly scamming two
men out of money and jewelry. She has
been incarcerated ever since, and is also
suspected of committing murder in
Russia.
Nasyrova appeared in Queens Criminal
Court on Feb. 28 for arraignment on a
10-count indictment in the cheesecake
poisoning case, including second-degree
attempted murder, fi rst-degree charges
of burglary, attempted assault, reckless
endangerment and unlawful imprisonment,
second-degree assault, third-degree
grand larceny, petit larceny and fi ft h-degree
criminal possession of stolen property.
Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice
Peter Vallone Jr. ordered Nasyrova held
without bail and to return to court on
May 25. She faces up to 25 years behind
bars if convicted.
Photo via Facebook/Viktoria Nasyrova
Prosecutors say Victoria Nasyrova allegedly
tried to kill a doppleganger in Forest Hills with
a slice of poisoned cheesecake.
2:42 a.m. and 2:47 a.m. Yahoo also
provided a phone number and alternate
Hotmail email address associated with
that account, according to the court documents.
Investigators determined that two of
those images depict partially nude girls,
and one shows two girls having explicit
sexual contact with an adult male. All of
the girls in the photos are believed to be
between ages 9 and 13, according to the
criminal complaint.
Th e Yahoo tip then indicated that the
same user uploaded another image on
Feb. 16, 2017, at approximately 2:32
a.m. An investigator determined that the
image showed a girl between the ages of
7 and 10 having sexual intercourse with
an adult male, the court documents show.
Aft er further investigation into the
cyber tips, the two IP addresses associated
with the explicit images both traced back
to FDNY Engine 266 on Rockaway Beach
Boulevard. Chojnacki is shown to have
been employed at Engine 266, and was
working at the fi rehouse on all the dates
and times listed, the documents show.
Th e documents also note that aft er being
advised of his Miranda rights, Chojnacki
admitted that the email addresses in question
are his, that he brings his laptop to
work, connects to the internet and uses
his laptop in the common areas of the
fi rehouse.
A spokesperson from FDNY said that
Chojnacki has been suspended for 30
days without pay, the maximum penalty
for the department while the investigation
is ongoing.
Chojnacki was released on recognizance
at his arraignment and is due back
in court on April 13.
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