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Friday, March 20, 2015
vol. 3, no. 12
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North Shore burglars are pros: Police
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3rd Precinct officers update crime wave during NHP forum BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO A series of burglaries that have taken place throughout the North Shore in the last year were likely conducted by an “organized, professional, meticulous” group of career criminals, said Sean McCarthy, inspector of the Nassau County Police Department’s 3rd Precinct, last Wednesday. McCarthy told a forum of about 200 people at Clinton G. Martin Park that the department is investigating several possible suspects, but said he could not disclose how many people are being investigated, or detail how police have narrowed their search, due to the ongoing investigation. He said two arrests were made in June and November 2014 that led to brief lulls in the frequency of burglaries, which began in New Hyde Park and Williston Park early last year but picked up again in
the Munsey Park and Flower Hill once police increased patrols in the southern portions of the precinct. Since the start of the year, there have been 19 burglaries - 15 in January, three in February and one through March 11 - that McCarthy said fit the pattern of incidents being investigated, through which burglars dressed as utility workers patrol a neighborhood and enter unoccupied homes. “It has slowed down a great deal, but it hasn’t gone away completely,” McCarthy said, attributing the slowdown to heavy snowfall during the winter. “... Sometimes, mother nature is our greatest ally.” The community forum was organized by the Town of North Hempstead and attended by members of the Port Washington Police Department, among 10 local departments that assist the 3rd Continued on Page 57
Manhasset-Lakeville firefighters put out a car fire along Aldershot Lane in the South Strathmore neighborhood on Friday just after 9 p.m.
Man sues county over ‘Flush the Johns’ arrest BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO
lawsuit against Nassau County, alleging he was wrongfully arrested and that his apprehenA Manhasset man whose sion ended his marriage. Louis DiMaria, 40, seeks charges from the 2013 “Flush the Johns” prostitution sting undisclosed damages in state were later dropped has filed a Supreme Court for what he
considers his false arrest and false imprisonment, among other allegations, according to a Newsday report. Efforts to reach DiMaria or his attorney, Salvatore MariContinued on Page 53
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