Meehan is 'Cop of the Month'

Detective Michael Meehan was named "Cop of the Month" for June by the Rockville Centre Police Department for alert police work that led to the arrest of a suspect for an armed robbery in Oceanside.

Detective Meehan, responding to a Nassau County Police transmission at about 1 p.m. on June 3, stopped a vehicle on North Long Beach Road that matched the description of one that had been used in a robbery moments before.

During the robbery, a man entered the Dairy Barn on Oceanside Road, used a knife to threaten an employee and took $125 from a cash register before fleeing northbound on Oceanside Road.

During the stop, Detective Meehan observed the subject throwing something under the front passenger seat. Upon searching, he recovered a knife and a baseball cap matching those used in the robbery. A short time later, the victim positively identified the subject.

The suspect was arrested for first degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.

In naming him Cop of the Month for June, Police Commissioner Charles Gennario praised Detective Meehan for his "diligence, dedication to duty and highly professional conduct" in apprehending the suspect.