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D.A.: N.J. man charged with stealing $1.6M from EMS

A New Jersey man is accused of stealing $1.6 million in insurance payments from Bellmore-Merrick Emergency Services, a private volunteer ambulance corps with headquarters on Newbridge Road in Bellmore, just north of Sunrise Highway. Brad Reiter, 50, a former treasurer and president of the EMS unit, was arrested and charged with the theft on Sept. 29, according to acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/29/15

Bellmore-Merrick schools locked out after report of man with rifle

Bellmore-Merrick area schools were locked out Thursday morning after officials received an unconfirmed report that a man was spotted carrying a rifle on Sunrise Highway, near the Merrick train station. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/10/15

Merokean David Denenberg is serving a three-month sentence at a federal prison in New Jersey after pleading guilty to defrauding a law client.

Dave Denenberg, former Nassau County legislator, now in prison

Former Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg began serving a three-month sentence at Fort Dix, a minimum-security prison in Burlington County, N.J., on Aug. 24, according to his attorney, Jason Russo, of Bay Shore. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/2/15

Adam Skelos, left, and his father, Senator Dean Skelos, second from right, are facing additional charges from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stemming from a job that Dean allegedly helped secure for Adam but for which Adam did no work. The two are pictured here at Skelos’s swearing-in ceremony in January with his wife, Gail, and brother, Peter.

More charges added against Senator Skelos and son

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara added more charges to the indictment against Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, late in the day on Tuesday, July 21. Skelos, 67, and his son Adam, 32, were already charged with six counts stemming from what Bharara said was a scheme in which Skelos was trading favors with businesses in exchange for payments made to his son. more

By Alex Costello | 7/21/15

A Calhoun High School student suffered a “severe case of alcohol poisoning” after drinking at a party last Wednesday night in the woods behind Brookside School in North Merrick, according to Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings. The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, which oversees Calhoun, had asked Uniondale company Summit Security Services to keep watch that night at Brookside, said Central District Superintendent John DeTommaso. Above, a Summit SUV was parked that night outside Brookside as emergency vehicles’ lights flashed at the woods’ edge.

EMTs pull drunken teen from ravine

The teenager, a student at Calhoun High School, had a “severe case of alcohol poisoning,” said Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings in an email to parents on June 12. He drank at a “large gathering” of Calhoun seniors in the woods between Brookside School and the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Hollings wrote. more

By Brian Racow | 6/17/15

Dave Denenberg, a former Nassau County legislator from Merrick, offered public apologies after his sentencing for mail fraud on June 5 at the U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip. He will spend three months in jail and three months under house arrest.

Denenberg gets 90-day sentence

A federal judge last Friday sentenced Dave Denenberg, the former Nassau County legislator who pleaded guilty to cheating a law client out of $2.3 million and resigned from office earlier this year, to three months in jail and three months of house arrest. more

By Brian Racow | 6/5/15

Police seek N. Bellmore robbery suspect

Nassau County police are investigating a June 1 robbery at a North Bellmore gas station. more

By Julie Mansmann | 6/4/15

Man is charged with $26K larceny

Nassau County Police recently charged Zafar Furhad, 44, of Bellmore, with depositing three fraudulent checks into his Capital One Bank account and later withdrawing $26,000 that was not his, according to officials. more

5/28/15

Danielle, left, and Denise Burke, of North Merrick, charged with heroin sale and possession.

Mother, daughter charged with heroin sale

Nassau County police have arrested a mother-daughter duo from North Merrick and charged them with the sale and possession of heroin in Freeport on May 25 at 9 p.m. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/27/15

Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos — pictured here being sworn into office in January by his brother, Judge Peter Skelos — and his son, Adam, far left, turned themselves in to the FBI in Manhattan on Monday.

Dean Skelos, son surrender to federal authorities

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, turned themselves over to the FBI in Manhattan on the morning of Monday, May 4 on charges of extortion, fraud and soliciting bribes. It was … more

By Alex Costello | 5/4/15

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