Phil in Paris
01-19-2005, 09:10 AM
Police: Recent parolee raped woman, hit nun in the face with gun and robbed bank of $2,300
BY DARYL KHAN
STAFF WRITER
January 19, 2005
Roy Williams was released from prison on parole less than a month ago, and in that time, police said, he has committed a rape, beaten a nun and robbed at least one bank.
It didn't take long for Williams, who was released Dec. 20 from Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City, to be considered armed and dangerous.
Detectives arrested Williams, 32, yesterday at his girlfriend's house in the Soundview section of the Bronx hours after he robbed a North Fork Bank in Queens Village, a police source said.
Police gave this account: Williams began his crime spree Jan. 12 when he accosted a 34-year-old Queens woman at 7 a.m. at the corner of Avon Road and Kruger Street in Jamaica Estates. He forced the woman to drive him around the corner to Dalny Road and Randor Street, where he raped her.
The following morning, Sister Margaret Faherty, a librarian at Msgr. McClancy Memorial High School and a resident of the Immaculate Conception convent, was in a small parking lot not far from where the rape occurred cleaning the windshield of her car when Williams approached.
He demanded her car, but the 69-year-old nun refused. He then hit her in the face with a silver pistol, breaking her nose and leaving a gash on her cheek that required nine stitches.
Yesterday, he robbed the North Fork bank branch at Hillside Avenue and 233rd Street, making off with $2,300.
Detectives were holding Williams at the Special Victims Unit in the 112th Precinct last night as they continued to compile charges.
Police placed Williams in three lineups for the three crimes, and a police source said he was being investigated for at least one other robbery.
Law enforcement officials said they expected Williams to be arraigned sometime today in Queens Criminal Court.
Williams, who was convicted Oct. 9, 2002, for selling drugs in Queens, served little more than two years of a 4 1/2-to-9-year sentence.
He had been staying in several different locations around the city, including his father's apartment in Queens and the girlfriend's apartment in Soundview.
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BY DARYL KHAN
STAFF WRITER
January 19, 2005
Roy Williams was released from prison on parole less than a month ago, and in that time, police said, he has committed a rape, beaten a nun and robbed at least one bank.
It didn't take long for Williams, who was released Dec. 20 from Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City, to be considered armed and dangerous.
Detectives arrested Williams, 32, yesterday at his girlfriend's house in the Soundview section of the Bronx hours after he robbed a North Fork Bank in Queens Village, a police source said.
Police gave this account: Williams began his crime spree Jan. 12 when he accosted a 34-year-old Queens woman at 7 a.m. at the corner of Avon Road and Kruger Street in Jamaica Estates. He forced the woman to drive him around the corner to Dalny Road and Randor Street, where he raped her.
The following morning, Sister Margaret Faherty, a librarian at Msgr. McClancy Memorial High School and a resident of the Immaculate Conception convent, was in a small parking lot not far from where the rape occurred cleaning the windshield of her car when Williams approached.
He demanded her car, but the 69-year-old nun refused. He then hit her in the face with a silver pistol, breaking her nose and leaving a gash on her cheek that required nine stitches.
Yesterday, he robbed the North Fork bank branch at Hillside Avenue and 233rd Street, making off with $2,300.
Detectives were holding Williams at the Special Victims Unit in the 112th Precinct last night as they continued to compile charges.
Police placed Williams in three lineups for the three crimes, and a police source said he was being investigated for at least one other robbery.
Law enforcement officials said they expected Williams to be arraigned sometime today in Queens Criminal Court.
Williams, who was convicted Oct. 9, 2002, for selling drugs in Queens, served little more than two years of a 4 1/2-to-9-year sentence.
He had been staying in several different locations around the city, including his father's apartment in Queens and the girlfriend's apartment in Soundview.
Copyright © 2005, Newsday, Inc.
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