Long Island Authorities Bust Major Heroin Ring, Dozens Arrested
Nassau County prosecutors are calling it the largest narcotics takedown in Long Island history. They say the heroin ring operated along Route 110 in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
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Nassau County prosecutors are calling it the largest narcotics takedown in Long Island history. They say the heroin ring operated along Route 110 in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Noisy trucks are barreling through residential Long Island neighborhoods, even though they're banned.
There have been many calls from Democrats for Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to stop down after his arrest on corruption charges.
Police say the crash happened around 8:30 p.m. near the intersection of North Park Avenue and Sunrise Highway.
It happened around 1:30 p.m. Sunday as the victim was getting into her car in a parking lot of a Walmart on Old Country Road.
Police say the unsolved crimes began more than six weeks ago. But is the latest incident a copycat or part of a continuing, disturbing pattern?
School officials say the man has struck in the blocks surrounding the Hempstead campus. Students say they're disturbed by the potential threat.
Police said the suspect, believed to be responsible for multiple robberies in Nassau County, demanded money from the register and then fled with an unknown about of cash.
Nassau County Police say the latest incident is the fourth of its kind just in the last month.
Tommy Vladim Alvarado-Ventura, 31, was charged with predatory sexual assault of a child, attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police say the man entered the ice cream store on Hicksville Road in Bethpage just before 10 p.m., pulled out the knife and demanded cash from a 19-year-old behind the counter.
Erblin Sllamniku speaks no English, but it didn't require an interpreter to read his smiles and hugs as doctors, students, and volunteers from Gift of Life brought him and his father to Long Island.
Police say they later found the man at a nearby 7-Eleven. Investigators say he admitted to taking the ambulance.
A man charged last week is now believed to also be responsible for a rape late last year, and his line of work has police sounding a warning to the community.
Town officials say the garage is safe, but workers have quickly started shoring up some of the cracks.
Just after 9:30 a.m. in Nassau County, the vehicle of a suspect being pursued by State Police went flying into the air, smashing upside down into trees and a fence protecting several neighborhood homes.
30-year-old Brittany Schmidt and her 29-year-old husband Vincent Fina of Brooklyn turned themselves in two weeks after they were first arrested for using a five-year-old cancer patient's photo to collect money for a fake funeral.
Authorities say the victims, including a 5-year-old boy, were exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide at a home on Elmont Road in North Valley Stream at around 7:30 p.m.
Workers swept up giant shards of glass outside the Verizon store in Jericho as dazed employees stood by, stunned by the wild noon-time accident.
Whipping winds and snowfall are causing dangerous conditions on the roads in Nassau County as a powerful winter storm slams the Tri-State Tuesday.
Police say 26-year-old Rony Fernando Inestroza, of Great Neck, approached the 43-year-old victim in the rear of 647 Middle Neck Road and punched him in the stomach.
Identical twins have scored the school's highest grade point average and will now give the two top graduation speeches.
One of the men, wearing a red jacket, threatened the homeowner, while another held her down and ripped a gold chain from her neck, police said.
Nassau County police said a skimmer that was found in Seaford was just tip of the iceberg, and officers are now looking into more than 100 7-Eleven locations.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has issued a warning that Carfentanil could be coming to Long Island.
