Crime & Safety

Crimes Nearby: Pair Allegedly Stole Clothes From Smithaven Mall

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Hauppauge

Police charged Nicole Notaroberta, 29, and Franklin Orlando, 43, both of Lake Grove with three counts of petit larceny on June 22. Police said Notaroberta and Orlando together stole assorted clothing on June 22 from JCPenney department store at the Smithaven Mall in Lake Grove. Police also charged the pair with two counts of petit larceny for a theft that occurred at the Target in Medford on October 6 and 8.

Daren Betner, 48, of East Northport was charged on June 21 with driving while intoxicated. Police said Betner was driving at a high rate of speed on Veterans Highway in Smithtown at 12:45 a.m. when police charged him with DWI.

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Andrew Samboy, 31, of Bayshore was charged on June 19 with driving while intoxicated. Police said Samboy was driving a 2000 Ford on Route 111 in Hauppauge when he drove off the road and struck a guardrail. He was then found to be under the influence and was charged with DWI.

Smithtown

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Leonardo Luisi, 23, of Medford, was arrested on June 22 in Smithtown at 12:48 a.m. on first offense DWI charges. Reports state Luisi was arrested on Miller Road while driving a 2001 Saturn for driving at an unsafe speed through a parking lot, made a left turn against a posted sign, and drove through a steady red traffic light.

George Corona Luna, 42, of Selden, was arrested on June 21 in Village of the Branch at 3:12 a.m. on first offense DWI charges. Reports state Luna failed to maintain his designated traffic lane eastbound on Route 25 while operating a 2002 Chrysler minivan.

Jessica Guilfoyle, 21, of Smithtown, was arrested on June 21 in Smithtown at 6 p.m. on fifth degree criminal possession of stolen property charges. Reports state Guilfoyle was arrested on Maple Avenue while in possession of a Magellan Roadmate GPS unit that was reported stolen by its owner.

Mervin Sanchez, 47, of Medford, was arrested on June 21 in Smithtown on second degree coercion of physical injury charges. Reports state Sanchez was arrested for an incident that occured on or about May 9 on Amsterdam Avenue at 6 p.m. where he threatened another person.

Michael Ringle, 31, of Brentwood, was arrested on June 20 in Smithtown at 2:55 a.m. on first offense DWI charges. Reports state Ringle failed to maintain his lane while driving a 2011 Hyundai westbound on Route 25.

Sound Beach

Jennifer Jorgensen, of Sound Beach, was sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison for the death of her baby born prematurely in an accident in Ridge that also killed two others in 2008. Jorgensen was sentenced Friday after being convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the crash back in March.

Shoreham

Tracey Nicosia, 40, of Shoreham, was arrested June 18 in East Shoreham and charged with grand larceny. Nicosia allegedly took items from a TJ Maxx in Commack with a value of more than $1,000 without paying for them.

Rocky Point

Melanie Goldstein, 35, of Rocky Point, was arrested June 14 in Rocky Point and charged with third degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident. Goldstein was arrested after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident and not reporting it after her vehicle struck another vehicle, injuring the driver and causing him to seek medical treatment at a nearby hospital. Goldstein was driving with a revoked/suspended license at the time, according to police.

Riverhead

Riverhead resident Christopher A. Dean, 41, was charged with DWI after police allege he struck and killed a pedestrian, identified as Efren Ramirez-Gomez, 32, in a Riverside accident Monday morning. Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson said Dean is employed as a Suffolk County corrections officer. Dean posted $10,000 bail and was released. He is expected back in Southampton Town Justice Court on July 25 at 9 a.m.

Flanders

A Flanders brawl got ugly on June 19 when a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. tried to break up the fight. According to Southampton Town police, a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. reported that while on duty at the station house he heard a knock at the door. When he went to answer, he was approached by a man who had come to get help because he and his friends, who are hispanic, were being beaten by a group of white males. When the complainant went outside to investigate, he said he saw the white males engaged in a physical altercation with the hispanic males. And, when he tried to intercede, one of the suspects allegedly hit him in the leg with a metal pipe and fled westbound on New York State Route 24, police said.

An Islip Terrace taxi driver told Southampton Town police June 17 that he was held up with a gun in Flanders, by a black male, approximately 5 feet and 8 inches tall, 200 pounds and in his 30s. According to an incident report, the taxi driver picked up a fare at Stony Brook University Medical Center who requested to be dropped off on Flanders Road. When the man was being dropped off, instead of paying he pulled a small handgun from his waist and demanded money. The man then fled on foot.


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