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Crimes Nearby: Mother Indicted on Murder Charges

Patch reports on crimes from nearby communities.

Plainview

A Nassau County grand jury has indicted a Plainview mother on murder charges, alleging she intentionally fed her 8-year-old daughter food she was allergic to on the day she was to serve as a flower girl, authorities said.

, 31, was indicted on second-degree murder charges in the death of her daughter, Julie. Cirella appeared before Judge David Sullivan in Mineola on the charges and was ordered held without bail.

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Cirella is due back in court on May 3, the district attorney's office said.

Garden City

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While investigating a domestic disturbance at a Garden City residence on March 31, officers arrested a female 42-year-old for . The mother had struck the victim several times with a plastic hanger causing the victim to suffer welts and contusions.

A 47-year-old Hempstead man was arrested on from Sears. The subject had cut the cable securing the camera with a channel lock. He was charged with larceny, possession of burglar tools and two outstanding Nassau County larceny warrants.

Melville

A Melville pharmacist has been arrested for his alleged role as a ringleader in a massive scheme to distribute black market prescription HIV drugs and defraud the Medicaid program of $155 million, law enforcement officials said.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this week that an investigation shut down the illegal operation that was distributing HIV prescription drugs obtained on the black market through MOMS pharmacy, a high-volume pharmacy located in Melville.

According to the indictment and forfeiture complaint, beginning in September 2008, Glenn Schabel, of Melville, the supervising pharmacist and compliance officer for MOMS pharmacy, allegedly accepted bribes to purchase in excess of $274 million worth of black market HIV medications from a web of shell companies, controlled by Stephen Manuel Costa, a 27-year-old Florida resident.

Northport

A woman reported to police on March 29 around 10 a.m. that . When the police arrived, the woman was highly intoxicated and unable to give any details about the vehicle but was in possession of both sets of keys. She was advised to contact the police when she sobered up. Her vehicle was eventually located in the parking lot of Happy Wok around 5:30 p.m.

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