Cops nab Hempstead man for attempted burglary in Rockville Centre

After an alert neighbor spotted two suspicious-looking men in the backyard of 212 Seaman Ave. late Tuesday morning, responding Rockville Centre officers arrested one of them following an hour-long chase on foot.

According to police, at 11:28 a.m. on Nov. 29, Nishon Parson, 36, of Fulton Street, Hempstead, was arrested after Rockville Centre officers, joined by Nassau County’s Aviation Unit, found him in the shed of a nearby home after he and his alleged accomplice escaped from the unoccupied Greystone-area home. The other suspect is still at large.

Parson was charged with second-degree burglary and criminal trespass.

Matt Barthel, who lives on Intervale, described a feeling of anxiety, and common purpose, among his neighbors. “It’s a pretty tight group of people in the neighborhood here,” he said, “and we’ve had some incidents over the summer… there have been a couple of occurrences over the summer and into recent months where we’ve noticed cars parked on the street at night with people in them who presumably are not from the area. We notified the police and they did a great job of responding to that, sending cruisers by and issuing summonses to people in the cars.”

Barthel said he is part of an email chain of approximately 20-30 people in his immediate area, and it has been extremely helpful in piecing together what’s been going on and making people aware. He said that after a few people were added to the email group on the day of the attempted burglary, one of them said he had noticed three men in a beat-up-looking blue car on his block recently, and told police. Barthel also said that people in the area with cameras in the front of their houses were working with police to assist in the investigation.