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VOL. 16, ISSUE 50
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015 MELVILLE/WHEATLEY HEIGHTS
By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandergroup.com
The Paramount Spotlight Comedian Demetri Martin will be taking The Paramount’s stage on Jan. 30.
‘Building’ Comedy With Demetri Martin By Andrew Wroblewski awroblewski@longislandergroup.com
For Demetri Martin, a comedian and native of New York, when he’s up on stage performing, he views his jokes as building blocks. Separated into different categories, the jokes are built up – usually with the use of Martin’s props and instruments, which he incorporates in his act – and topped off with a punchline. “With my act, I mostly tell one-liners, (Continued on page A19)
While families paid their respects to deceased loved ones, three thieves paid themselves out of purses they stole from cars parked at a graveyard, Suffolk County police allege. A Wheatley Heights man and a Huntington Station woman were among three people arraigned Friday in connection with nearly three dozen car break-ins during a six-week span, in which they allegedly stole from cars in graveyard, church and gym parking lots as well as library and post office lots across Suffolk County. The alleged spree, which included incidents at three Melville gyms, came to an end on Jan. 15,
Long Islander News photo/Danny Schrafel
PD: Trio Broke Into 3 Dozen Cars
Steven Glover, Sierra Green and Inesha Stephan are accused of breaking into cars parked at St. Charles Cemetery, churches, and three Melville gyms. when cops charged 23-year-old Inesha Stephan, of Huntington Station, with five counts of fourthdegree grand larceny in connec-
tion with five alleged break-ins at St. Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale. Wheatley Heights’ (Continued on page A16)
HALF HOLLOW HILLS
School District: Threat Investigation Closed By Arielle Dollinger adollinger@longislandergroup.com
Just over two months after receiving the first of four anonymous messages threatening Half Hollow Hills High School East, the school district declared its investigation over in an email to district parents on Tuesday. Several students have been disciplined in relation to the November and December 2014 threats, according to the email, and the district has closed its own investigation. The Suffolk County Police Department will continue its criminal investigation, police confirmed. “At this point, the district is sat-
isfied that it has identified all of the students involved in these incidents and has administered disciplinary consequences to several students that are appropriate for their individual actions,” the email reads. The unsigned district email mentions no student names and gives no specifics about student actions – according to the text, the district will release no further information because the investigation now belongs exclusively to police. According to police, no one had been arrested for making the threats as of Tuesday and the investigation is ongoing. The first threatening emails that are part of this investigation arrived
on Nov. 6, when the school district and the Suffolk County Police Department each received emails mentioning a bomb from an anonymous sender. On Dec. 3, the district received another threatening message and sent students home early. Police said that day that they found “nothing suspicious” after searching the school. Police arrested a Hills East student on a charge of computer trespass as a result of the threat investigation on Dec. 15, but the 16year-old was not charged in relation to the threat, police said at the time. Less than 24 hours after the student’s arrest, the district received a fourth threat targeting the high school.
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