Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Northport Teen Accused of Stealing Kings Park Statue

Patch reports on crime in the towns surrounding Northport.

 

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

Kings Park

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Michael McAssey, 19, of Northport was arrested Jan. 5 in Kings Park and charged with petit larceny. He is accused of stealing a statue from in front of the Kings Park Fire Department at 12:35 a.m.

Huntington

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Two girls attending were accosted on their way home from school Thursday, according to a letter sent home to all parents in the South Huntington district.

The students reported that they were walking when a car pulled in front of them and stopped near Craven Street and Foxwood Drive. The driver made several comments toward the girls. They reported that he was engaged in a lewd act.

Commack

A Commack man has been charged with conspiracy to traffic contraband cigarettes in federal court, according to a report on Live5news.com

William Helton, 41, was charged in a 23 count indictment with conpsiracy to traffic contraband cigarettes and money laundering along with Nathaniel Elmore, 48, and Charley Antonio David Jr., 41, both of South Carolina.

According to the report, prosecutors allege the men were involved in a scheme to purchase millions of dollars in cigarettes in South Carolina and then resell them in other states without paying applicable taxes.

Read the full report here.

Islandia

Alexander Geiger, 32, of Holtzville and Mark Allen, 39, of Brentwood were arrested and charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana. The men are accused of possessing more than a pound of marijuana in a 2001 Honda on Express Drive North in Islandia. 

Babylon

Suffolk Police have released a sketch of one of the five yet-to-be-identified victims in the Gilgo serial killing case that involves eight women, a male and a toddler.

The composite drawing is of a female whose partial remains were found along Ocean Parkway in Nassau in April 2011, and on Blue Point Beach, near Davis Park on Fire Island in April 1996.

In late police released : one of an Asian male estimated to have been between 17 and 23 years old and a white female guessed to have been between 18 and 35 years old at the time of death.


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