In the continued push to make public facilities safer, a new emergency alert system is coming to Nassau County libraries. The Rave Panic Button, an application that provides a fast response in emergency situations, will be available for implementation in all 54 county public libraries.
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By Andrew Garcia and Mike Smollins
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8/16/18
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Patrick Ryder, Nassau County’s recently installed police commissioner, can still remember the moment that he decided he wanted to become a police officer.
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By Mike Smollins
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3/29/18
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Nassau County police arrested a Florida man on Aug. 3 in connection with breaking into a home on South Williams Street in Lynbrook and for a similar crime in Hewlett.
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7/31/17
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Three East Rockaway residents and one from Oceanside were arrested for the brutal attack of two males that took place on Majorie Lane in Bay Park on May 28.
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5/30/17
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New York Elks Lodge No. 1 in Lynbrook hosted its annual Police Officers of the Year ceremony on May 17, and an officer from the Lynbrook Police Department was honored along with a fourth precinct policeman who patrols East Rockaway.
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By Mike Smollins
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5/25/17
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Three members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced today for brutally stabbing, beating and kidnapping a member of the Bloods street gang who had entered the window of a Valley Stream home to collect his girlfriend’s belongings in March 2016.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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5/10/17
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Fourteen people, including an Elmont man, have been indicted for their alleged roles in running a “large-scale” heroin ring in Nassau, Queens and Brooklyn, according to District Attorney Madeline Singas.
Much of the heroin was sold in Long Beach, Hicksville and Levittown. The Rockville Centre Police Department was among the units that helped bust the ring, Singas said.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/6/17
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In an effort to join a movement to provide safer and stronger communication between all police departments across Nassau County, the Lynbrook Police Department switched its radios over to a countywide system, which is encrypted to ensure that other people cannot hear their communications.
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By Mike Smollins
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5/4/17
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Nassau County police are searching for a man who illegally entered a women’s car on April 3 at 11:28 a.m.
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4/4/17
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After a bomb threat called in to the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center in Plainview on Feb. 27 — the second to centers of its kind in Nassau County this year — police announced heightened patrols around the county’s religious institutions and have launched a full investigation.
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By Ben Strack and Mike Smollins
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3/8/17
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