106th Precinct Community Council - Cop of the Month - October 8th...

Cop of the Month - Sgt Maryann Connolly with Council President Frank Dardani and Commanding Officer Capt. Joseph Courtesis

106th Pct Commanding Officer Captain Courtesis praised Sgt Maryann Connolly on using her many years of service and experience in the apprehension of a man at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan...

Sgt Maryann Connolly with her family and Captain Courtesis

The man was in a car traveling on Crossbay Boulevard in Howard Beach on September 22 at approximately 4 am with 3 other men...

Council Board members Donna Gilmartin and Joy Patron

A fight had broken out in the car and an unidentified man was stabbed numerous times...

Lt. Joseph Salvato and Capt. Joseph Courtesis

He was losing an incredible amount of blood when Sgt Connolly arrived at the crime scene...

Sgt. Nugent - Community Affairs

The officer was able to obtain just the first name of the perpetrator who had fled and that he lived in Staten Island from his acquaintances at the scene...

Sgt Ken Zorn, Sgt Nugent, Frank Dardani, Donna Gilmartin and Joy Patron. Community Board 10 District Manager Karyn Petersen with back to camera.

Using this limited information and her quick judgement, Sgt Connolly figured that the "perp" would try to get home to Staten Island so she contacted the 1st Pct in downtown Manhattan with the "tip"...

Captain Joseph Courtesis

In due course the police at the ferry depot spotted a man covered with blood fitting the description and answering to the first name given by Sgt Connolly...he was promptly arrested and taken into custody...

Lt. Joseph Salvato with Queens County Assistant District Attorney Tim Regan with back to camera...