Updated: 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Police have arrested a North Merrick School District custodian, Joseph Latona, 27, and charged him with sale and possession of heroin.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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3/17/10
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Two Nassau County police officers helped save an Atlantic Beach Estates woman's life last week, driving her to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx in the midst of the nor'easter for a liver transplant.
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Andrew Coen
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3/3/10
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Nassau County’s latest gun buy back program, held at Shiloh Baptist Church on N. Centre Avenue last Saturday morning, got 173 illegal operable guns off the street. The five buy back events in different Nassau County communities have so far collected over 1,470 weapons. Law enforcement pays $200 for each gun, and $14,600 has been distributed to date — money that has been seized from criminals.
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2/3/10
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In a bid to get illegal guns off the street, this Saturday, Jan. 30, between 9 a.m. and noon, the Nassau County DA’s office and county police department, in conjunction with the Village of Rockville Centre and its police department, will hold a gun buyback program at Shiloh Baptist Church, 96 N. Centre Ave. Gun owners who want to surrender their illegal, operable handguns will be able to, anonymously and with no questions asked, and will receive $200.
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1/27/10
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In the past six weeks, there have been a number of home burglaries and street robberies in Lynbrook, and police say they have stepped up their efforts to catch the culprits.
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Anthony Bottan
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1/14/10
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An East Meadow man was arrested on Thursday and accused of making "immoral" and "unhealthy" comments to a former student through a journal he kept with the 13-year-old boy, police said. …
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Mike Caputo
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1/7/10
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Nassau County fire and police officials say they are actively investigating the cause of a Wednesday morning fire at a home on Coventry Road in Lakeview.
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1/6/10
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A recent string of fires at Calhoun High School in North Merrick has prompted an arson investigation, officials say.
According to Vincent McManus, division supervisor at the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office, there have been six suspicious fires at the school since Nov. 19, three of which the North Merrick Fire Department responded to.
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Sari Zeidler
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12/10/09
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Rockville Centre and Nassau County police are hoping to connect two teens arrested early Monday morning to a string of burglaries of occupied homes that had village residents on edge throughout November.
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Judy Rattner
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12/2/09
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Rockville Centre and Nassau County police are investigating a cluster of burglaries that took place in occupied homes within an eighth of a mile of each other between the early hours of Nov. 12 and the previous evening.
Although residents were at home during each of the entries —which police said were made through unlocked doors and windows — no confrontations between burglars and homeowners were reported.
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Judy Rattner
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11/19/09
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