Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Felony DUI; Bomb Threat

Patch reports on crime in the Long Island community.

Northport

An 80-year-old man was unharmed last week after losing control of his car in the  parking lot on Laurel Avenue.

The man was waiting for a parking spot around 10 a.m., said , when he put his gold SUV into reverse and backed up into a parked red car at high speed, pushing it over a divider and onto Scudder Avenue. Once on Scudder Avenue, the man then shifted into forward and reentered the parking lot, crashing into four other parked cars.

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Police said the man was coherent when they arrived and maintained that the accelerator pedal was stuck. No one was hurt in the accident as the cars were unoccupied. Damage to the cars, however, was substantial.

Joseph Papik was arrested in East Northport for second-degree criminal contempt, disobeying a court order, and possession of a hypodermic needle.

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Half Hollow Hills

A Queens woman told a trooper she had a "fish bowl" sized glass of wine before she fell asleep behind the wheel and crashed her car on the Northern State Parkway in Melville Sunday afternoon, state police said.

A trooper responding to a report of a one-car crash on the eastbound side of the Northern State near Route 110 shortly after 3 p.m. found Catherine Loftus, 51, asleep at the wheel.

Loftus' Nissan Altima had struck a cement barrier on the right shoulder and become disabled in the traffic lanes, police said.

Loftus told the trooper that she had just one glass of wine before driving, but that it was the size of "a fish bowl," police said.

Loftus faces a felony DWI charge as she has a prior DWI conviction in the last 10 years, police said

Lindenhurst

A Lindenhurst student was arrested Monday afternoon for allegedly making a  to , police said.

Last Thursday, police received a report that a  dated for this Tuesday had been typed onto a classroom calculator inside of the school.

Following an investigation by detectives, the girl, 16, was arrested Monday at approximately 3 p.m., police said.

She was charged with first-degree falsely reporting an incident, a felony, police said.

Babylon

A Copiague man was arrested on a felony DWI charge Saturday afternoon after police say he drove high on drugs with children in his car and caused a minor three-car crash in Babylon.

Reynaldo Jackson, 46, was driving a 1996 Nissan Maxima southbound on Deer Park Avenue at the intersection of Simon Street just before 4 p.m. when he rear-ended a 2011 Mazda that was stopped at a light, police said. 

The impact of the crash caused the Mazda to then strike a 1997 Jeep, police said.

Jackson’s 12-year-old son and 2-year-old grandson were in the Nissan and taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip "to be checked out" after the accident, police said. No one else was injured.

Jackson was determined to be impaired by drugs at the scene, leading to his arrest, police said.

Jackson is charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child--a felony under Leandra’s Law--driving while ability impaired by drugs and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Hauppauge

Suffolk County police reported supplies and equipment have been taken from two businesses in the Hauppauge industrial park between Oct. 3 and Oct. 6. 

Police said an unidentified person broke into a 2000 GMC business truck parked outside Hydro Tech Environmental on Arkay Drive Oct. 3 at approximately 6:30 p.m. A generator, a hammer and a blower mower were stolen from the truck, according to police reports.

On Oct. 6, an unidentified person kicked in a lower window panel at Rodale Electronics at approximately 4:30 p.m. The burglar was able to steal two large rolls of copper wire from the building worth $1,000, according to police reports. The section of Rodale's building broken into is unalarmed.

Suffolk police said it is not clear if the two crimes have any connection as their investigations are ongoing.


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