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Crime Nearby: Jason Kidd Gets DWI Plea Deal

Notable arrests and convictions on Long Island.

It’s been the summer of second chances for Jason Kidd.

The former NBA star traded in his New York Knicks jersey in June, then jumped to the Brooklyn Nets to become its latest head coach. 

Kidd, 40, made another soft landing in Southampton Justice Court last Tuesday, where pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWIand received interim probation stemming from a one-car crash on July 15, 2012.

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Kidd admitted to having "three or four" tequilas before he got behind the wheel and crashed in Water Mill last July. Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Kidd did get a favorable deal, but part of it included two mandated speaking engagements at local high schools.

Kidd also paid $8,100 in restitution to the Long Island Power Authority and his license, which was suspended after the accident, will remain suspended for 90 days after he is officially sentenced Sept. 30.

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$3 Million Found in Walls

A Huntington Station man was arrested and accused of stashing 24 pounds of cocaine and $3 million in cash in his apartment, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

A federal affidavit said that Adrian Bonilla, 34, was arrested Monday night after he left his Shelley Place apartment.

DEA agents searched his second-floor apartment and found the $3 million in six lockboxes hidden behind new drywall, along with the cocaine and cocaine base in various places.

DA: Art Dealer Sold Fakes 

The Sands Point art dealer arrested in May for her role in analleged $30 million art fraud was indicted Thursday, according to U.S. District Attorney Preet Bharara. 

The seven-count indictment charges that Glafira Rosales, 56, sold more than 60 previously-unknown works of some art giants – from Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko – over a 15-year period.

But Bharara alleges the artworks were all fakes. 

A joint investigation by the IRS and FBI uncovered a scheme they say Rosales began in 1994. She faces up to 70 years in jail on multiple charges.

Man Charged in Dog Attack 

A Bellmore man was arrested Sunday morning after he allegedly had his pit bull attack a woman, Nassau County Police said.

A 32-year-old female victim was arguing with another woman around 1:55 a.m. in a home on Bellmore Ave. when Luis Linares, 18, became involved, police said. 

Detectives said Linares chased the victim up the stairs to her apartment, yelling for his pit bull to attack. The woman was bitten in the leg as she tried to enter her apartment.

Linares faces assault and weapons charges.


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