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Friday, April 15, 2022
Vol. 97, No. 15
HOME DESIGN, LAWN & GARDEN
DEMS, BLAKEMAN CLASH ON COUNTY GAS TAX
SUOZZI SLAMS HOCHUL ON BUDGET, BENJAMIN
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Manhasset man arrested for weapons cache
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Police say Matthew Spigner illegally possessed 18 handguns BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
according to officials. The most recent investigation A Manhasset man who possessed by police resulted in Spigner being a cache of unregistered weapons at his charged with four counts of criminal house was arrested by Nassau County possession of a weapon, one in the first police last week, law enforcement of- degree, one in the second degree and two in the third degree, according to ficials said. Matthew Spigner, 69, was expect- officials. ed to be sentenced to probation this week for illegally possessing a cache of guns in a previous case. Then police IOLENT CRIME CONTINUES uncovered another group of weapons, including 12 pistols and six revolvers, TO ADVERSELY IMPACT at his Circle Drive residence, officials COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS said. Spigner’s cache of weapons also included silencers, gun parts, assorted NATION AND LONG ISLAND knives, ammunition, a cane sword and IS NOT IMMUNE TO THIS ammunition feeding devices, according to Nassau County Police Commissioner THREAT. Patrick Ryder. Manuel DeCastro Ryder said officials will work to obtain a warrant to determine if the SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT. weapons were for personal use or if DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Spigner was attempting to sell them. Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said Spigner was ex“Violent crime continues to adpected to be sentenced to five years probation on Tuesday after police pre- versely impact communities across this viously found pistols, revolvers, assault nation and Long Island is not immune rifles, high capacity magazines, silenc- to this threat,” Manuel DeCastro, suers, a bulletproof vest and various gun pervisory special agent from the Deparaphernalia stemming from a May partment of Homeland Security, said. “There are too many guns out on 2021 arrest. Spigner was previously charged with one count of second-de- our streets and too many people that gree criminal possession of a weapon, Continued on Page 37
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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Members of the Saddle Rock fifth-grade drama club put on a production of ‘Thwacked!” last week.
G.N. student fundraising for baseball team for blind BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
project. Now a junior at Great Neck North High School, Schulman has Ethan Schulman first got in- helped raise more than $10,000 for volved with serving as a volunteer the organization, which provides for the Long Island Bombers Beep blind people with the opportunity to Baseball team as a bar mitzvah play baseball.
In a phone interview, Schulman reflected on how rewarding the experience to work with New York’s only team in the National Beep Baseball Association has been since Continued on Page 37
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