CRIME & SAFETY
Desperate Search Underway for Missing Teen: Nassau County Police Appeal for Information on Disappearance of Robert Eley
The Missing Persons Squad is investigating a Missing Juvenile that occurred on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. in Freeport and was reported to police on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 10:40 p.m. According to detectives, Robert Eley, 15, was last seen at his Rutland Road residence. He is...
DWI Suspect Dies In Custody At Bay Shore Police Precinct
Suffolk County Police said Joseph Leonard, age 58, of West Islip, was found dead in his holding cell at the agency’s 3rd Precinct in Bay Shore at around 9 a.m. Friday, April 26. It came hours after he was arrested in Brentwood Thursday evening, April 25, following a suspected...
Man shot to death on Queens street
A man was shot to death on a Queens street early Monday, police said. NYPD cops on patrol came upon the victim near 117th St. and Rockaway Blvd. in South Ozone Park just after 1 a.m. He had been shot multiple times all over his body. Medics rushed the victim to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved. He was carrying no ID, and cops are still working to determine his identity. Two men were ...
DWI Crash Horror: Bay Shore Man Arrested After Collision Leaves Motorcyclist Seriously Injured
Suffolk County Police last night arrested a man for DWI after a crash that seriously injured a female motorcyclist in Bay Shore last night. John Hernandez-Hernandez was driving a 2014 Chrysler 300 northbound on Fifth Avenue when he attempted to turn left onto Fairtown Road, causing a southbound 2020 Kawasaki motorcycle to crash into his vehicle at approximately 8:20 p.m.
Mother and daughter from Mount Vernon sentenced in pandemic-relief fraud scheme
Andrea and Alicia Ayers previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements for submitting 315 fake grant applications to the U.S. Small Business Association's Economic Injury Disaster Loans in the summer of 2020.
Alleged Bloods gang member faces conspiracy charges for ordering violence across LI while already in prison
Prosecutors say Latique Johnson ordered "Bloodhound Brims" members to carry out armed robberies, shootings and other crimes in Nassau and Suffolk counties while he was in a California federal prison.
Long Island search is not connected to suspected Gilgo Beach case – but another suspected serial killer
A new search recently launched on Long Island is not connected to suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann – but instead is believed to be linked to another serial killer suspect.Investigators are looking for evidence in the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla, which they hope to tie to convicted murderer John Bittrolff, 57, police sources with knowledge of the Suffolk County case told The New York Post.Officers descended on an area of Long Island’s Manorville on Wednesday, but the extensive search has since shifted to North Sea, a hamlet within Southampton Town, where 28-year-old Sandra Costilla, 28, of...
Woman mourns death of pet dog hit by stray bullet from neighbor's house in Howard Beach, Queens
36-year-old Lisa Murena says her spunky 6-year-old Pomeranian-Husky mix named Arya loved the snow. People in her neighborhood of Howard Beach are rallying behind her after her dog died Friday.
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