Crime: Lynbrook, East Rockaway

Home invasion

An unknown suspect entered a residence on Scranton Avenue at 7:52 p.m. on Dec. 13. According to police, the home’s front door was kicked in and the homeowner heard a noise before finding the male suspect in a hallway near the front door. The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 20-30 years old, and wore a blue insulated jacket with a hood and a brown covering over his mouth.

The suspect said “stay where you are” to the homeowner and then fled westbound on Scranton Avenue toward Peninsula Boulevard.

Nothing was taken and there were no injuries, police said. Nassau County Fifth Precinct is investigating the case.

B’klyn man convicted of robbing Lynbrook teens
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that a Brooklyn man has been convicted of robbing two Lynbrook teenagers of their cash and cell phones at gunpoint last New Year’s Day as the teens were walking to a nearby deli.

  Nassau County Judge George Peck convicted Kyare Starks, 20, of two counts of Robbery in the Second Degree and one count of Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree after a bench trial. Starks faces up to 15 years in prison at his December 14 sentence date.

  As reported in the Herald in January, Rice said that at 7:30 p.m. last January, two 16-year-old males were walking south on Neimann Avenue in Lynbrook when three men, including Starks, got out of a parked vehicle and approached them. Starks pointed a BB gun at one of the teens and demanded his cash and cell phone while one of the other perpetrators demanded the other teen’s personal property.

After stealing a small amount of cash, a hat, a jacket, and both teens’ Blackberrys, the three men fled the scene, Rice said. Members of the Nassau County Police Department’s Fifth Precinct, working in conjunction with the department’s Electronics Squad, were able to trace the Blackberry Starks had stolen to an apartment in the East New York section of Brooklyn. When police entered the apartment, one of the officers dialed the Blackberry’s number. Starks, who was sitting on a couch in the apartment, was holding the Blackberry when it began to ring. The two other men have yet to be identified. Starks was found not guilty of robbery in the First Degree.