Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Joanne Watters sentenced three men to 12–15 years each for a masked, armed home invasion in Douglaston on Aug. 17, 2024. A fourth defendant — the apparent ringleader, Jone Smith — is due to be sentenced July 20 and faces potentially more than a century in consecutive prison terms.

Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Joanne Watters sentenced three Cambria Heights men to prison this summer for their roles in a 2024 Douglaston home invasion — with the apparent ringleader set to be sentenced Monday.

Brandon Dash, 41, and his brother Ryan Dash, 36, each received 15 years after pleading guilty in March to kidnapping in the second degree. Oneil Thompson, 46, who pleaded guilty to the same charge, was sentenced by Justice Watters on June 16 to 12 years. All three carry five years of post-release supervision.

According to the Queens DA's office, Thompson drove the Dash brothers and a fourth man — Jone Smith, also known as Conrad Harrigan, 47, also of Cambria Heights — to a home on 247th Street in Douglaston at about 2:15 a.m. on Aug. 17, 2024. Three defendants, all masked, entered through a broken front window, woke the husband, wife, and their 1-year-old daughter at gunpoint, and struck the husband with a hammer when he refused to give up his cash. The wife slipped out a bathroom window with the toddler and called 911. Four other family members were subsequently brought to the basement; three were bound with belts. A 72-year-old woman in the house was punched in the eye.

Officers from the 111th Precinct in Bayside and the 109th in Flushing responded. With aviation grounded by weather, NYPD Emergency Services Unit tracked the fleeing defendants via drone. Smith was caught with a backpack containing more than $20,000 in cash and a hammer; a 45-caliber semi-automatic firearm loaded with nine rounds was recovered from a pantry inside the home. Thompson tried to file a stolen-vehicle claim on the van — registered in his own name — three days after the invasion.

Smith pleaded guilty in April to seven counts of kidnapping and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He faces seven consecutive 17-year sentences plus an additional 15 years when he appears in Queens Supreme Court on July 20.

"These defendants thought they could violate the tranquility of a family's home, take their money and evade accountability," Queens DA Melinda Katz said in a statement.