Hammer-armed rapist arrested: cops – New York Daily News – ”A Queens teenager has been arrested for attacking two women in Brooklyn in which he used a hammer to threaten them, police said Friday.Anthony Moore, 19, of Queens Village, allegedly raped an 18-year-old after threatening her with a hammer and forcing her to a desolate spot in Brownsville about 12:40 a.m. on April 9, cops said.”

And more in Queens crime news this morning…

For 2 Decades, Airport Worker Used Murder Victim’s ID, Officials Say – NYTimes.com – ”On a July morning in 1992, a man named Jerry Thomas was shot to death in front of the Y.M.C.A. on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens. According to the Queen’s district attorney’s office, no one was arrested for his murder. Almost 20 years later, a security supervisor at Newark Liberty International Airport was arrested on Monday at his home in Elizabeth, N.J., and charged with stealing Mr. Thomas’s identity. Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, a 54-year-old illegal immigrant from Nigeria, had been using a birth certificate, Social Security card and other documents indicating that he was Mr. Thomas, said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.”

Astoria man indicted on 15 felony counts for house painter scam | OregonLive.com – ”According to Deputy Chief of Police, Brad Johnston, the indictments are a result of a lengthy investigation into numerous complaints that the Astoria Police Department received about Mr. Edwards’ Astoria area business dealings over the past several years. “

NY mom gets 10 years in prison for baby death – WSJ.com – ” A 24-year-old New York City woman accused of discarding her newborn baby in a hospital trash can has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Queens District Attorney’s Office said Dawa Lama was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Police say the Queens woman was arrested in May of last year after her daughter was discovered in critical condition in the trash can of a bathroom at Elmhurst Hospital Center. She died a week later.”