Friday, May 18, 2012
Ceremony honored "Nassau's Finest" who made the supreme sacrifice.
Fallen Nassau County Police Department officers were honored during a solemn ceremony Thursday in Mineola. Police and county officials recognized all deceased members of the department, which coincided with Police Week in Nassau County. The event featured a placement of floral tributes for all 32 NCPD members who made the supreme sacrifice. The Nassau County Police Memorial, which was first dedicated on May 12, 1982, features a massive stone monolith that displays two Bronze plaques. "These were the men and women you wanted as your friend, neighbor and most importantly police officers," said Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano during Thursday's memorial service, referring to those officers who were lost in the line of duty. "It is my…
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Nassau County Police Department
1490 Franklin Ave, Mineola, NY
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Teens taken to NUMC for treatment.
Two teens were injured in a Friday morning crash on South Oyster Bay Road near the Long Island Expressway, according to police. A black Honda Civic and a black GMC Denali collided at about 7:05 p.m. on South Oyster Bay Road and the North Service Road near the LIE. Syosset Fire Department and Nassau County Police responded to the call and two lanes were closed on South Oyster Bay Road. One female and one male were transported to Nassau University Medical Center for treatment of injuries.
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S Oyster Bay Rd & N Service Rd, Syosset, NY
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Police arrested a 15-year-old for making bomb threats via text message.
A 15-year-old former Jericho High School student is charged with making a terrorist threat after texting other students about a bomb at the school, according to police. The 15-year-old, who has not been identified, allegedly texted other students several times each beginning Saturday, threatening them and claiming there was a bomb at Jericho High School, said police. Jericho High School and Jericho Middle School were placed on lockdown Monday and Tuesday in response to the messages, reported Newsday. "I can't begin to express our frustration with this ongoing saga," wrote Jericho Superintendent Henry L. Grishman Monday in an email to parents, according to Newsday. Grishman pulled in extra staff to inspect the hallways of the schools and …
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99 Cedar Swamp Rd, Jericho, NY
Jericho High School
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Crimes Nearby from Northport, Glen Cove, Manhasset, and other neighboring Patch towns.
Northport Police responded to the complaint of a loud party on Woodhull Court around 2 a.m. on May 6. The partiers agreed to take it inside. Someone complained of people "playing the bongos for 45 minutes" at a Main Street location around 2 a.m. on May 6. The Northport police officer saw them playing both guitars and bongos at location with an open guitar case soliciting funds for their music and told them to leave. Glen Cove A 15-year-old male student at Glen Cove High School faces charges of forcible touching and unlawful imprisonment in connection with an incident that occurred at the school on May 4, according to the Glen Cove Police Department. Police said the boy appeared to force a girl into a restroom and at approximately 2:50 p.m…
Venditto vows to examine Oyster Bay policies going forward in wake of ex-Yankee's arrest on child molestation charges.
Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto expressed "shock" at the arrest of former Yankee and town employee Rusty Torres, saying he found the sexual abuse charges "deeply disturbing," and vowed to address town hiring policies as the case goes forward. In an exclusive interview with Patch following Tuesday morning's Town Board meeting, Venditto said an extensive background check was done on Torres before he was hired in 2002 by both the Nassau County Civil Service Commission as well as in a separate investigation by the Town of Oyster Bay. Going forward, Venditto said the town will examine its hiring practices and make changes if necessary. "As we learn more (about the case) if there are lessons to be learned from this and things to be done in …
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Town of Oyster Bay
54 Audrey Ave, Oyster Bay, NY
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Parent of school board candidate walks out of district office Monday with absentee ballot paperwork, school alleges. Lafazan said the documents have since been returned to the police.
The father of a Syosset High School student and Board of Education candidate is being accused by the school district of stealing absentee ballot information. Jeffrey Lafazan, father of Josh Lafazan, went to the district's central offices and took a list of names and addresses of absentee voters -- a list he said he believed to be a copy for his own use. The district board of education elections and budget vote are Tuesday. Josh Lafazan is one of five candidates running for three open positions on the school board. "I went to the district to look at the absentee ballots because I expected many college students to send them in," said Jeffrey Lafazan, who went to Syosset's central administrative offices at noon Monday to look at the documents…
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Syosset Central School District
99 Pell Ln, Syosset, NY
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Oyster Bay leaders have not answered key questions about ex-Yankee they've employed for 10 years.
The Oyster Bay Town Board meets in public Tuesday for the first time since Rusty Torres, the town's longtime employee, was charged with molesting an 8-year-old child. Among the lingering questions in the Torres scandal is whether the town did a background check on Torres before hiring him in 2002 as the town's baseball coach. Torres is a convicted felon who served five years probation for a cocaine-related conviction dating to 1985. The town has also not clarified its hiring practices regarding other potential convicted felons. In his decade-long role as the town's baseball coach, Torres was in contact with thousands of children, town and police officials said. The former major leaguer served as a hitting coach for numerous youth baseball …
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Town of Oyster Bay
54 Audrey Ave, Oyster Bay, NY
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Patch reports on recent crimes in the area; four burglaries, including two on same street.
The following arrest information was supplied by the Second Precinct of the Nassau County Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Four new burglaries were reported in the area in the past week. In Syosset, a Panasonic system was taken from a Fams Court home. In Jericho, a perpetrator entered through a rear door on Knoll Lane and took with them jewelry and cash. In Hicksville, police reported two burglaries on Kraemer Street at the same time. An intruder entered the first home through a rear window but took nothing. Another Kraemer Street home reported assorted jewelry being stolen. The Second Precinct reported the following crimes: The following arrest information was supplied by the …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Felony complaint revealed; police reach out to leaders of athletic leagues and school districts where he coached.
Rusty Torres, accused of molesting an 8-year-old girl in Plainview on two occasions, spent 10 years working in his position for the Town of Oyster Bay and coached thousands of Long Island children, town officials and police said. That chilling fact has Nassau County Police fearful that other children may have been victimized by the former New York Yankee, whose indictment contains specific and disturbing details of the accusations leveled against him. The so-called "felony complaint" describes explicit details of Torres exposing himself to the child and having her touch him inappropriately. (See attached PDF file; Warning: graphic content.) In addition, Torres was hired by the town in May, 2002, despite having served five years probation …
Former Yankee Rusty Torres remains behind closed doors as North Massapequa neighbors defend him.
On a beautiful spring afternoon that would have been idyllic for playing baseball, former Yankee Rusty Torres was holed up behind closed doors Wednesday. Torres, 63, who faces allegations of sexual abuse involving an 8-year-old girl, would not answer the door of his North Massapequa home when a Patch reporter came to ask for comment. But he came to the window and said, "I'm sorry, I have nothing to say at this time." The ex-Yankee, who played parts of two seasons in the Bronx in the 1970s, was released on bail, according to the Nassau County District Attorney's office. He is charged with two counts of first degree sexual abuse. According to court papers, Torres abused the victim on two occasions. On April 30, he allegedly rubbed against …
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N Cedar St & N Park Ave, North Massapequa, NY
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