Five Towns Crime Watch

Arrests

INWOOD - Nassau County Police officers responded to a larceny in progress on Rugby Road in Cedarhurst on Saturday, Dec. 31 at 9:50 p.m.

David Molina, 16, of Court Avenue in Cedarhurst was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration-second degree and Michael Davidson, 17, of Oliver Avenue in Valley Stream was charged with two counts of assault-second degree and grand larceny-fourth degree.

Davidson was belligerent with the responding officers and both Molina and Davidson were physically combative when officers attempted to restrain and arrest the pair, police said. One officer suffered a fracture to his right hand and another officer sustained a laceration and a sprain to his right knee during the incident. Both officers were treated for their injuries.

During the course of the investigation, it was discovered that Davidson was in possession of a wallet belonging to a Starbucks employee at the Cedarhurst location on 316 Rockaway Turnpike.

Both Molina and Davidson were arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Jan. 1.

LAWRENCE - Three 4th Precinct police officers were injured when arresting a Far Rockaway man who allegedly shoplifted several items from the Radio Shack at 25301 Rockaway Turnpike in Lawrence on Dec. 28, police said.

The officers responded to the store at 6:31 p.m., and as they approached Walter Howard, 30, of Beach Channel Drive, to arrest him, Howard hit one officer multiple times about the face and head and threw him to the ground.

When another officer attempted to intervene, Howard fled on foot and the officers chased him on Rockaway Turnpike. That officer fell and injured his right hand. Another struggle ensued and another officer also hurt his hand. All three were taken to a local hospital where they were treated and released.

Howard was charged with three counts of assault-second degree, petit larceny and resisting arrest. He was arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Dec. 29.

INWOOD – Jesse J. Melville, 27, of 49 Arlo Road on Staten Island, was arrested on Dec. 23 for allegedly robbing a woman at a bus stop earlier in the day.

At 2:28 p.m., Melville approached a 67-year-old woman who was waiting for the bus at the intersection of Henry Street and Wanser Avenue. He lifted his shirt to reveal a handgun and demanded money from her, police said.

Melville then grabbed her pocketbook, which contained money and other personal items, and fled east on Wanser Avenue. She called the police and a patrol officer apprehended Melville at the intersection of Doughty Boulevard and Redfern Avenue. The officer also recovered the handgun. No one was injured during the incident.

Arraigned on Dec. 24, at First District Court in Hempstead, Melville was charged with robbery-first degree and criminal possession of a weapon-third degree.

INWOOD – Luis E. Pineda, 35, an Inwood resident, was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Solomon Avenue at 5:45 a.m. on Dec. 22.

WOODMERE – Subodh Sinha, 58, of Woodmere, was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Franklin Place at noon on Dec. 22.

WOODMERE – Victor Urias, 33, of Hempstead, was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Peninsula Boulevard on Dec. 24 at 5 a.m.

Robbery

INWOOD - Acting as if he had a gun, a man allegedly robbed an Inwood business of an unspecified amount of money and struck the cashier in the face before fleeing the scene on Dec. 23, police said.

At 11:20 a.m., the man entered Jeymar USA Corporation at 131 Doughty Blvd. with a black plastic bag in his right hand suggesting he had a gun, according to police. He then jumped through the cashier window and took an unknown amount of cash.

Before leaving, the man allegedly hit the 53-year-old woman cashier. She suffered a cut to her right cheek and was treated at the scene. The man fled on foot and headed west on Morris Avenue.

He is described as a black man in his 30s, approximately 5-feet-10-inches tall, 200 pounds, wearing a black mouton hat, a black mask, a black canvass jacket, black pants and tan work boots.

Police ask anyone with information about this incident to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-8477. All calls are kept confidential.

Larceny

NORTH WOODMERE – The glass from a vehicle’s side view was mirror was removed between 9:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Dec. 15 in the Five Towns Shopping Center, police said.

LAWRENCE – Five dollars in change was taken from an unlocked vehicle on Laurel Lane between 9 p.m. on Dec. 16 and 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 17, according to police.

INWOOD- A GPS was stolen from a vehicle parked on Craft Avenue between 9 a.m. on Dec. 17 and 9 a.m. on Dec. 18, authorities said.

Criminal mischief

ATLANTIC BEACH – Two tires on a vehicle in a Park Street parking lot were damaged between 7 and 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 15, officials said.

CEDARHURST – A resident of Leroy Avenue reported that a lamp in front of their house was damaged between midnight and 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 18, police said.

INWOOD – Between 11 p.m. on Dec. 20 and 9 a.m. on Dec. 21, a vehicle parked on Bayswater Boulevard was damaged, according to police.

NORTH WOODMERE – A beer bottle was thrown at the rear window of a vehicle parked on Longview Avenue between 10 p.m. on Dec. 23 and 9:45 a.m. on Dec. 24, authorities said.