Arrest

Riverhead Police arrested Alexander Maldonado, 16, in connection with an attempted robbery on Roanoke Avenue Aug. 10. A second suspect remains at large, police said.

A five-year-old boy riding a bicycle was seriously injured when he was struck by a pickup truck Saturday evening. He was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital and is in serious condition. The driver of the pickup was charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.

The male victim told officers that a woman had removed his wallet at the Stop and Go Mini Mart, 55 West Main St. After realizing his wallet was removed, he followed the suspect to the Flanders Road area and identified her to responding patrol units and detectives.

Three people were arrested last night as part of an enforcement action by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s DWI Task Force in Riverhead Town.

Six people were arrested on drug charges following an East End Drug Task Force raid on a Melene Avenue home yesterday, Riverhead Town Police said in a press release this afternoon.

After a 911 call to report a break-in, cops with a K9 unit chased two men into a marsh on the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue.

A 24-year-old Flanders man had cocaine, marijuana, scales, packaging materials and a loaded .38 caliber hand gun in his home when police executed a search warrant there Monday, according to a police report.

Seven people were arrested at holiday weekend sobriety checkpoints last night in Riverhead conducted by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s East End DWI Task Force

Two employees at the Sports Authority store in Riverhead have been arrested on grand larceny charges, according to Riverhead Town Police.

Former Southampton councilman Brad Bender is facing up the two-and-a-half years in state prison for his conviction on a charge of conspiracy to sell narcotics, if a federal district court judge approves a plea arrangement agreed to by prosecutors.