Jan. 10 Crimes Nearby: Jewelry Theft, Break-Ins

Crimes reported in nearby communities.

Cold Spring Harbor

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and the Second Precinct Detective Squad are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the two people who stole merchandise valued, in excess of $2,000, from a jewelry store located at 129 Main Street in Cold Spring Harbor.

Police said a white man and a white woman entered the Huntington Antiques Center and asked the proprietor of Rachel Ahdoot Jewelry to see some merchandise that was on the lower shelf of a display case. As the proprietor and the female bent down to look, the male reached over the counter and took two pieces of jewelry from an upper shelf.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-220-TIPS.  All calls will be kept confidential.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest.

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.

Kings Park

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.

Syosset

A Syosset man is charged with petit and grand larceny after being caught stealing electronics and credit cards from cars, Nassau County police said.

A woman called the police after she witnessed a man breaking into her 80-year-old neighbor's 2004 Honda Sunday morning, police said. She notified the owner of the car, who looked out his window and witnessed Steven Kurnicki, 19 of Syosset, rummaging through the Honda, according to police. Kurnicki fled the scene but was found later by responding officers and arrested in Carle Place, said third squad detectives. 

Police reported that Kurnicki was found in possession of several GPS units, a radar detector, and credit and check cards which were stolen from a Syosset vehicle on Saturday. A search of Kurnicki's home yielded more GPS units which had been stolen from a car on Friday, said police.

Kurnicki is charged with four counts of fourth degree grand larceny and three counts of petit larceny. He will be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Monday.

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. 

Hicksville

Two women were confronted and robbed in a church during Christmas week by a man who fled with cash.

detectives said the robbery occurred in Hicksville on Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 9:15 p.m.

Two women, ages 47 and 26, were at the United Methodist Church at 130 W. Old Country Road, working in the church office.

A white man, described in detail as in his late 40’s, with gray/white beard, average build, wearing a black knit ski cap, dark gray waist length jacket and faded blue or gray pants, entered the church, pulled a knife and demanded money.

He took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled in an unknown direction, detectives said.  

Massapequa

A man driving with his 8-year-daughter in the car was arrested for drug possession in Massapequa Park on Sunday, Nassau police said.

David Kruger, 41, was driving on Violet Street at 2:38 a.m. when an officer stopped him because his brake light wasn't working.

During the traffic stop the officer saw a clear plastic bag containing crack cocaine sticking out of a pack of cigarettes on the passenger seat, cops said.

Kruger's daughter daughter was sitting in the back seat. She was unharmed and released to her mother.

Kruger was not driving under the influence of drugs, police said.

He was charged with possession of a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of a child, and operating a vehicle with defective brake lights.

North Amityville

On Jan. 4, police arrested two men for a shooting that injured two teens, including one from Huntington Station, at a house party in North Amityville on Dec. 31. First squad detectives charged Nnamdi Ukasoanya, 19, and Rodney Wood, 19, both of Amityville with assault and criminal use of a firearm for allegedly driving past a house party at 38 Ronald Drive East in North Amityville and firing five or six shots into a group of people standing outside the home at approximately 12:15 a.m.