Crimes Nearby: Commack Strip Club Raided During Mob Bust

The following information was supplied by the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments. Where an arrest is mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Commack

The Scene, located at 70 Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, Commack, was raided by police Wednesday as part of an investigation into an alleged mob ring that smuggled Eastern European women into America and .

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent-in-Charge James T. Hayes, Jr., said in a press statement, “Today’s arrests bring to an end a long-standing criminal enterprise operated by colluding organized crime entities that profited wildly through a combination of extortion and fraud. As alleged, the defendants controlled their business and protected their turf through intimidation and threats of physical and economic harm. Today, that business model has been extinguished.”

Huntington

Suffolk County police have confirmed the arrest of three individuals in connection to which occurred in Huntington Station last week.

Three people sitting in a car were surrounded by a large group of men and shot on Nov. 27. Police said the shootings were gang-related.

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Three men committed petit larceny at a Lord and Taylor store in the Walt Whitman Mall on Nov. 12, police say.

The suspects were captured on store surveillance video placing two winter jackets into a shopping bag at about 5 p.m. Two of the subjects fled the store with the merchandise and were chased in the parking lot where they dropped the property and fled north on foot, according to police.

Smithtown

Suffolk County police have arrested a Smithtown man and accused him of doing more than $100,000 in damages to a cell tower being built in Nesconset.

Ronald Derisi, 68, was arrested on Dec. 1 and charged with second-degree criminal mischief and first-degree tampering. He was issued a ticket and will be arraigned in Central Islip Courts on a future date.

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Brian Nenos, Jr., 24, of Smithtown, was arrested Nov. 28 at his home and charged with third degree grand larceny. He is accused of stealing a Cartier ring from a home in Commack.

Babylon

No new evidence or clues were discovered during Monday’s six-hour beach search along Ocean Parkway in the ongoing Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation and the missing person case of Shannan Gilbert, according to Suffolk Police.

Further searches are expected, though no specific dates have been set, police said.

Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer told Patch last week that the theory now is that one Long Island male killed eight women, a male and toddler and that Gilbert's disappearance is likely not related. Police say it's possible Gilbert is dead and that her body could be somewhere in the beach brush along the parkway. The killer likely began his deadly spree 15 years ago, is a Long Island man knowledgeable about remote terrain in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and likely had nothing to do with the missing person case of Shannan Gilbert, Dormer said.