Thursday, October 1, 2026
The Major Case Squad reports the arrest of three men for a residential burglary that occurred on April 11 at 10:30 p.m. in North Valley Stream.
According to Detectives, a 42-year-old man left his Wyngate Drive East residence on April 10 for a vacation. April 12, he remotely checked his surveillance cameras and saw they were not working properly. He asked a family member to go to the residence to check the cameras.
The family member reported the side entrance door was broken and the framing of the door was ripped off. The cameras had also been repositioned and the lenses were covered with tape. When officers arrived, they discovered the internet wiring to the home had been cut and located a signal jammer.
After searching the inside of the home, officers found the bedroom closet to be ransacked, with damage to the flooring where a safe containing $460,000 and $500,000.00 worth of jewelry, had been affixed.
After an investigation conducted by Major Case Squad and other Nassau County Police Department units, three men were placed under arrest at their Suffolk County residences: Vincent Repka, 58, of Port Jefferson, Nikitas Margiellos, 53, of West Babylon and Leonard Repka, 63, of Port Jefferson.
All three men are charged with burglary. They will be arraigned on May 13 at First District Court in Hempstead.
