East Meadowites flocked to a Fire Department stationhouse last week to ask Nassau County Police Department leaders about crime trends in their community at a public safety forum and prescription drug …
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By Julie Mansmann
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4/27/16
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Problem-oriented police are back, and the Nassau County Police Department and Nassau County Legislator Norma Gonsalves want everyone to know it. Gonsalves, an East Meadowite and the presiding …
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By Adrienne Lyons
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2/3/16
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POP cops are back and the Nassau County Police Department and Norma Gonsalves want everyone to know it.
Gonsalves, presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, hosted a forum last …
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By Adrienne Lyons
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2/3/16
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Homelessness and vandalism were two of the issues that were discussed at an inaugural police precinct-community council meeting last week in Baldwin, according to those who attended. The meeting, …
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By Adrienne Lyons and Julie Mansmann
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1/29/16
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Police officers from Nassau County’s 1st Precinct saved two women, both in their 50s, who were found in a car on Horatio Avenue in Merrick on Sept. 1, unconscious and unresponsive, suffering from heroin overdoses. The officers administered the life-saving drug Narcan, which revives a heroin user suffering from an overdose.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/2/15
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Nassau County Police officers told a handful of residents that they can be a major crime deterrent at a community policing forum on July 8 at the Wantagh Public Library.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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7/15/15
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A notification that Parents for Megan’s Law, a Long Island not-for-profit organization, distributed on Feb. 2 falsely stated that a sex offender was living near Camp Avenue School in North Merrick, according to David Feller, superintendent of the North Merrick School District. The individual named in the notification is actually in prison, Feller reported.
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2/10/15
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After a presumed drug deal followed by a car chase from East Meadow to Bellmore, 1st Precinct detectives apprehended a Merokean and Bellmorite last Tuesday, according to police.
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/30/14
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Police officers nabbed Matt Delucia, 17, and Kevin Hassan, 16, both of Merrick, while they were burglarizing Calhoun High School on Sunday night, according to the Nassau County Police Department’s 1st Precinct. Delucia and Hassan reportedly ran as the officers approached, but they were stopped and arrested after police corralled them just feet off campus, at Relyea Drive and Charlson Court.
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1/21/14
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Nassau County officials held a groundbreaking ceremony last Friday for the new 1st Precinct headquarters, at 900 Merrick Road in Baldwin.
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By Chris Connolly
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11/6/13
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