The following arrest information was supplied by several local police departments. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate convictions.
Garden City
On Aug.2, officers responded to Nassau County Parking Field #14 on the south side of the Supreme Court for a report of a suspicious briefcase that was left unattended in the middle of the field. Safeguard procedures were put in place and upon an investigation it was determined that all was in order; the briefcase belonged to a lawyer and it was accidentally left behind.
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Port Washington
The Crime Stoppers are asking the public’s help to identify and locate two males wanted for at least four grand larcenies.
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Between June 20, 2011 and July 30, 2011, two men – one wearing an olive-colored shirt with vertical stripes, khaki shorts and a tan bowler-style hat, the other wearing a yellow reflective vest, light-colored baseball cap and dark shorts – were last seen around the Soundview Marketplace and Delco shopping area, which houses Stop & Shop, in Port Washington. They are wanted in connection with stealing pocketbooks and wallets from shopping carts when shoppers are distracted, according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Alberti of the Port Washington Police, at 516-883-0500, extension 330. All calls will remain anonymous.
A West Babylon man spotted driving more than 100 miles per hour by Exit 36, the Searingtown Road – Port Washington exit, on the Long Island Expressway was arrested Thursday, police say.
The man, Nigel Recass of 412 Herzel Boulevard, tried to prevent drivers from passing him, frequently changing lanes without signaling and causing others to brake suddenly, according to the Nassau County Highway Patrol Bureau.
He also followed other motorists too closely, “almost striking them,” police said in a statement.
Police stopped Recass at Exit 39, the Glen Cove Road exit, where he was arrested.
He was charged with reckless driving, illegal speed contest, fivecounts of failing to signal lane change, five counts of following too closely, four counts of failing to stay in a single lane, driving in excess of 55 miles per hour, inadequate muffler and obstructed registration plates.
Recass is scheduled to appear in First District Court in Hempstead on Aug. 19.
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