Police chase car through Lynbrook

The Major Case Bureau and the Lynbrook Police Department reported that two arrests were made after a car chase through Lynbrook.

According to Narcotics/Vice Squad detectives, on May 5, after an investigation in Lynbrook and in conjunction with the Long Island Heroin Initiative and the Lynbrook Police Department, Earl Larkin, 29, of North Emerald Lane in Amityville possessed and agreed to sell a quantity of heroin. Police said that he was seen sitting in a 1998 Honda Accord on Freer Street when police officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop.  The defendant then put the vehicle in reverse and, at a high rate of speed, struck a Lynbrook police car. Larkin then struck the front driver’s side door of another police vehicle as he fled the scene, causing that officer and injury to his back and left knee.

Larkin then continued driving fast with his headlights off through the streets of Lynbrook. He was stopped on Scranton Avenue and Broadway, where he was placed under arrest. 

A five-year-old boy was found in the rear seat of the car. A front seat passenger and mother of the five-year-old, Dashayia Footman, 25, of Princeton Street, Hempstead was also placed under arrest. The child was unharmed and released to his grandmother.

Larkin is being charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the 3rd degree, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the 3rd degree, assault in the 2nd degree, criminal mischief in the 2nd degree, unlawful fleeing of a police officer, and unlawful dealing with a child. 

Footman is being charged with unlawful dealing with a child. 

They were arraigned on May 6 at First District Court in Hempstead.