On May 28, state Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were formally indicted on corruption charges that were brought against them by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Skelos, 67, the longtime …
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By Alex Costello
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5/28/15
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Nassau County Police recently charged Zafar Furhad, 44, of Bellmore, with depositing three fraudulent checks into his Capital One Bank account and later withdrawing $26,000 that was not his, according to officials.
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5/28/15
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A North Merrick man has been arrested and charged with performing lewd sexual acts seen via the Internet by children as young as 5 years old.
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4/30/15
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Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg, a Democrat from Merrick, is facing eight counts of mail fraud, a federal crime, after prosecutors allege he overbilled a client at his former law firm by $2.3 million.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/13/14
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Three juveniles were arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with a small fire that was set at the Chatterton Elementary School playground sometime between Wednesday evening, Aug. 20, and Thursday morning, Aug. 21, according to Nassau County Police.
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8/21/14
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A Bellmore man was sentenced to five years in prison recently after federal investigators found child pornography in his home in 2012, officials said.
Alfonso Marino, 65, a former New York City teacher, was sentenced on June 25 by U.S. District Judge Leonard Wexler in federal court in Central Islip. He was apprehended by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and charged with possession of child pornography in September 2012.
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By Julie Mansmann
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6/30/14
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A North Bellmore man was one of five people charged in connection with a recent robbery in Massapequa Park, police said.
Rajiv Singh, 19, was arrested on Feb. 10, according to Nassau County Police Department officials. He and two other local men robbed a 24-year-old from Massapequa Park whom the trio knew, authorities said.
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/19/14
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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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Judge Christopher Quinn dismissed the top charge against five defendants being tried in Nassau County Court for the assault of John Woythaler on Roxen Road in 2012, as the trial wound down on …
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By Alex Costello and John Maher
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1/22/14
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The arrests last week of Malcolm Smith, a leader of the State Senate, and Dan Halloran, a New York City councilman, along with political leaders in Queens and the Bronx, make it tempting to think that corruption dwells west of us; that Nassau County is not tainted by big-city dirty dealings.
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4/11/13
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