Riverhead Police

RiverheadLOCAL spends an evening inside the town police department's radio room watching a crew of public safety dispatchers answer 9-1-1 calls, dispatching police and EMS: an inside look.

The Riverhead man charged with slashing the face of a man on Railroad Avenue Thursday night had been freed without bail on a felony weapons possession charge in May and is currently facing more than a dozen other criminal charges, including prior weapons and menacing charges in Riverhead Justice Court dating back to 2008.

Anthony Wayne Smith, 56, of Riverhead, an ex-con with a history of weapons and assault convictions is charged in a knife attack on a Hispanic man at a Railroad Avenue market last night.

Riverhead Police arrested a 19-year-old Flanders man who they said intentionally shot a 19-year-old woman with a pellet rifle yesterday in the Target parking lot.