Crime Nearby: Teen Assaulted in East Meadow

The following arrest information was supplied by the Nassau County Police Department, Suffolk County Police Department and New York State Police.  It does not indicate a conviction.

East Meadow

A man was arrested last week and accused in the .

According to detectives, Brandon Lee Cruz, 19, whose place of residence was not disclosed, allegedly attacked the victim while she was walking on East Meadow Avenue. Police say that Cruz and an unknown woman got out of their car and repeatedly punched and kicked the victim and then stole her cell phone.

Cruz was  arrested following an investigation by the First Squad with the assistance of the Fugitive Squad and the United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force.

Cruz is charged with two counts of second-degree robbery, resisting arrest, violation of probation and violation of conditional discharge.

Farmingdale

A man attempted unsuccessfully to rob a gas station workerSunday night on Conklin Street, Nassau County police said Monday.

According to detectives, a 50-year-old male employee closed the Valero Gas Station at 545 Conklin St. and entered his vehicle parked in the lot.

A man wearing a plastic bag over his head approached the worker, pulled a handgun, and demanded money. When the worker said he had none, the gunman fled on foot toward Secatogue Avenue. There were no proceeds and no injuries were reported.

New Hyde Park

Nassau County Police arrested a Florda man for  from the  on Hillside Avenue in New Hyde Park. Police allegedly saw marijuana in the car alongside the man’s two children.

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A New Hyde Park woman was one of six persons  which were used to withdraw $5,800 from a Nassau County Police Federal Credit Union account.

Garden City
Nassau County Police are investigating a reckless endangerment incident that occurred in Garden City last week.

Detectives say an unknown person or persons fired shots from an unidentified weapon, perhaps even multiple weapons, around 5:40 p.m. into an office building located at 666 Old Country Road.

The projectiles struck windows located on the seventh floor of the building, shattering one and leaving a hole consistent with a shot in another. There were no injuries reported.

Long Beach
A homeless man from Long Beach was arrested and charged with burglary after .

According to Nassau County Police Department detectives, Ronald Miller, 34, was wanted for burglaries at two locations last year, and was known to have an open New York State Parole Warrant. 

Policed allege that on Oct. 31, 2011, Miller entered Shamrock gas station, at 17 Merrick Rd. in Baldwin, and removed a laptop computer, cigarettes and cash on; and on Nov. 6, 2011, he broke a glass garage door and entered a BP gas station in Oceanside, where no losses were reported. During both burglaries, the defendant left evidence at the scenes that linked him to the crimes, police said.

A Long Beach detective spotted him on East Chester Street on April 20. Miller ran and led Long Beach police on a short foot pursuit but was apprehended behind houses on East Chester Street. No injuries were reported.  

Miller was charged with two counts of third-degree burglary, second-degree and fourth-degree criminal mischief, fourth-degree grand larceny, and possession of burglary tools.

Malverne-West Hempstead

A 49-year-old man was arrested last week in West Hempstead after  in Hempstead. Police said Dennis Sibert went to the residence of a 60-year-old woman on Union Place in Hempstead on Tuesday, April 17. Around 9:50 p.m., Sibert allegedly struck the apartment building with an incendiary device, causing both the building and ground to ignite.

Nassau County Police are investigating two incidents of in West Hempstead. According to detectives, a 53-year-old female noticed a swastika painted on the front window of her Wilson Street home on April 13. A second incident was reported on April 16 by a 35-year-old male, who discovered a swastika, approximately two feet high by two feet wide, painted on the passenger door of his 1999 Volkswagen at his Ivy Street residence, police said. Both incidents are under investigation.

Commack

A former employee at the  in Commack was indicted last week on nearly 50 charges, after authorities say he stole the identity of 56 individuals with brain injuries and used them to file false state and federal tax returns.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota called 30-year-old Benjamin Achampong a "shameless, incorrigible thief and forger.” 

Achampong - a former resident of Port Jefferson Station and Coram - was extradited to Suffolk last week as he sat in a Georgia prison on 16 identity theft charges.

He stands charged on 48 counts in Suffolk, alleging grand larceny in the third degree, identity theft in the second degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and possession of a forged instrument in the second degree.

Authorities said the investigation to find the suspect lasted 14 months, and Achampong ran his scheme during his employment with LIHIA from 2006 to 2007. He reportedly cashed checks ranging in value from $200 to $2,000.

Smithtown
Lisa Macedonio, 34, of Hicksville, was arrested on April 17 in Smithtown at 11:30 p.m. on petit larceny charges. Reports state Macedonio was arrested at the fourth precinct in Smithtown for an incident that took place on Burton Lane in Commack where police say she took a male Chihuahua.

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Lorraine Pepper, 48, of Ronkonkoma, was arrested in Smithtown on April 20 at 6:10 p.m. on assault with intent to cause physical injury with a weapon charges. Reports state Pepper was arrested on Route 25A in Smithtown after an incident that occurred on Peconic Street in Ronkonkoma where police say she struck a male victim with a knife causing lacerations and bleeding, which required medical attention.

Stony Brook

Colleen Dolan, 29, of Stony Brook, was arrested April 14 at Stony Brook University Medical Center and is accused of acting in a manner that causes injury children under age 17. According to reports, Dolan, who was intoxicated at the time she was arrested, was watching two one- and two-year-old children who were not her own at a home in St. James when she left them alone for more than three hours.

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A Stony Brook man was arrested April 12 at the Sixth Precinct and charged with four counts of third-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Police say Jeffrey Anderson, 24, possessed four stolen motorcycles valued at more than $3,000 each, including two 2006 Honda motorcycles, a 2001 Yamaha motorcycle, and a 2007 Honda motorcycle.

The motorcycles were stolen from three different locations in Central Islip and one in Holbrook in September and October of 2008.