Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Domestic Incident, Grand Larceny, DWI

Patch reports on crimes from nearby communities.

The following arrest information was supplied by the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments. It does not indicate a conviction.

Port Washington

1. After being involved in a domestic incident, a Port Washington woman was placed under arrest on Oakland Avenue on Sept. 26 at 7:50 p.m.

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2. A Port Washington man was placed under arrest for multiple vehicle and traffic offenses on Port Washington Boulevard on Sept. 27 at 9:34 a.m.

3. After being involved in an auto accident, a Port Washington woman was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated on Radcliff Avenue on Sept. 30 at 5:49 a.m.

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4. A Port Washington man was placed under arrest for a vehicle traffic law offense on Franklin Avenue on Sept. 30 at 11:05 a.m.

5. A New Hyde Park man was placed under arrest for violating an order of protection on Port Washington Boulevard on Oct. 2 at 2:15 p.m.

New Hyde Park

A man driving a white SUV was reported to be following a female high school student on her walk to school Wednesday. A report was filed with the .

Garden City

A Uniondale man was arrested Monday morning in East Garden City after he robbed a 24-year-old male victim of a gold pendant after he exited a Long Island bus on Stewart Avenue, Nassau County Third Squad detectives said.

Police state the victim got off the bus followed by the defendant, Christopher Washington 24, and another unknown man. As the victim approached his place of employment the unknown subject, while wearing a black ski mask, grabbed him from behind as the defendant grabbed the victim’s gold necklace causing it to break.

Washington grabbed a pendant on the chain as both he and the unknown subject fled the scene on foot, police said.

Third Precinct police officers saw the defendant at Commercial Avenue and Oak Street and placed him under arrest. The unknown subject was not apprehended and there is no further description. The pendant was not recovered. No injuries were reported.

The defendant is charged with second-degree robbery.

TOBAY

Nassau County Second Squad detectives reported the arrest of an Oyster Bay man on grand larceny charges. The larcenies began around Sept. 2.

According to detectives, the defendant, James Watt, 51 of Oyster Bay called 911 from Theodore Roosevelt Park and stated that he wished to turn himself in for stealing and selling numerous pieces of art from his landlord, the 58 year old female victim.

The artwork included paintings and statues valued around $100,000. After taking the items, Watt sold them to Coin Galleries of Oyster Bay, for an undisclosed amount of money. The defendant was arrested without incident in the park. 

Watt is charged with second-degree grand larceny.

Massapequa

1. A Jamaica man was charged with two counts of petty larceny at Wal-Mart at the Sunrise Mall on Oct. 1.

2. A Far Rockaway woman was charged with petty larceny at Wal-Mart on Oct. 1.

3. A South Farmingdale woman was charged with petty larceny at Wal-Mart on Oct. 2.

4. An Amityville woman was charged with petty larceny at Wal-Mart on Oct. 3.

Farmingdale

A teenage driver was accused of driving while intoxicated in a two-car crash that injured seven people last week, according to Suffolk County police.

Police said Matthew Ross, 17, of Farmingdale, was driving a 1994 GMC Suburban south on Route 110 in East Farmingdale when he lost control of his vehicle and struck the rear-end of a 2008 Mercury driven by Tatiana Jennings, 23, of Wyandanch, who was stopped and attempting to make a U-turn at the intersection of Route 110 and Allen Boulevard.

Ross was driving four passengers. Passenger Javior Rivera, a 16-year-old Farmingdale resident, was seriously injured in the crash and was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. Ross and passenger Onofrio Cottone, 19, of Farmingdale, were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Nicole Fiordicono, 17, of North Massapequa, and Amanda Horn, 19, of North Massapequa, were treated at Nassau University Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries.

Jennings and her passenger, Joy Robinson, 21, of Far Rockaway, were both transported to Nassau University Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Huntington

Police are searching for a woman who stole credit cards in Huntington for purchases in Farmingdale and the Whitman Mall. 

According to police, the unknown person took two Visa credit cards from a pocketbook that was underneath an employee’s desk at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, located at 120 New York Ave. in Huntington, Sept. 6. 

The credit cards were used the next day at the Apple Store in the Walt Whitman Mall and at

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call 1-800-220-TIPS.  All calls will be kept confidential, according to police. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest.

Syosset

1. Morgan Stivers, 22, was charged with possession of a forged instrument on Eileen Way in Syosset on Sept. 29.

2. Jason Noel, 20, was charged with petty larceny at Dunkin Donuts in Syosset on Sept. 29.

3. Praful Shah, 58, was charged with DWI on the LIE in Syosset on Oct. 1.

4. Jaqueline Marinacci, 22, was charged with DWI on Jericho Turnpike in Woodbury on Oct. 1.

5. In Bae, 57, was arrested and charged with burglary on Comet Drive in Syosset on Oct. 4.

Merrick

1. A 16-year-old North Bellmore girl with a poor mental condition went missing Oct. 3 and was found Oct. 4. Read the story

2. Police are looking for three Hispanic men who allegedly tricked their way into a North Bellmore home and stole $60 on Oct. 2. Read the story .


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