Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Grand Larceny and Vandalism

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.

Garden City
Two women were arrested Thursday and charged with grand larceny after allegedly stealing a $10,000 winning lottery ticket and claiming it at the New York State Lottery office in Garden City.
 
According to New York State Police, Robert Collins, 57, of Ronkonkoma, was at Richie B's Bar in Holbrook when he reported his $10,000 winning ticket missing/stolen from the establishment to New York State Lottery Officials, who then contacted state police.
 
Police said Nichol Anderson, 33, of Holbrook, a bartender at Richie B's, took the ticket from the bar and gave it to Roseanne T. Alicea, 39, of Lake Grove.
 
According to police, Alicea claimed the ticket at the lottery office in Garden City and cashed it at a Key Bank in Manhattan.
 
Both women were processed on third-degree grand larceny.
 
A Suffolk County Transportation School Bus carrying two adults and two children struck the Chestnut Street Overpass. There were no reported injuries. The operator, a 32-year-old female from Glen Head, was issued a traffic ticket for disregarding bridge height clearance signs.

Syosset

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from the Coach store in Woodbury. The incident occurred on Aug. 4, and police gave the update with the total amount of bags stolen on Wednesday.

A woman's pocketbook was stolen from her cart at the in Syosset on Aug. 4.

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On Aug. 3, a woman's handbag and merchandise was stolen from her shopping cart she was loading her child into her car outside the Marshall's shopping center in Jericho.

Police arrested Gladys Smith-Pinto, 58, and Gladys Smith, 38, both of Oyster Bay, and charged them with with Grand Larceny in the fourth degree.

Hicksville

The Eighth Squad reported the details of the arrests of two men for grand larceny that occurred on Wednesday at 12:35 p.m. in Hicksville.

According to detectives the two defendants, Jonathan Dixon 27, of 236 Parkway Boulevard, Wyandanch and Michael Hayden 21, of Andrews Avenue, Roosevelt entered the Verizon Wireless store at 756 South Broadway where they requested information about iPhones. When the employee stepped away from the counter, the defendants broke the glass display case and removed two Iphones.

The defendants fled the store and were stopped a short time later by a Second Precinct police officer on the entrance ramp of the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway and arrested.

The defendants were both charged with grand larceny fourth-degree and criminal mischief third-degree.

Malverne-West Hempstead
Numerous cars were stolen between August 1-4, including from the driveways of several homes and the parking lots of the Green Acres Mall.

Bellmore

A Mae Court resident saw a man in his driveway early in the morning of  Aug.9. When the complainant went outside, the man fled in a silver vehicle. The complainant discovered his 2007 black Pontiac scratched on all sides. He also found that the side mirrors were broken and front tire was flat.


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