Crime news

A vehicle parked at a gas station on Route 58 was stolen by two men yesterday at about 6:30 p.m., Riverhead Police said in a press release last night.

A member of a Riverhead-based street gang was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison for racketeering, including conspiring to distribute narcotics and participating in the murder of a man in Riverside in November 2015.

A Manorville man has been charged with murder in the strangulation death of a woman whose body was found in a wooded area east of Winding Path in Manorville on July 30.

Three suspects fled in a van, which then crashed into a building in Aquebogue. Police arrested two suspects at the scene of the crash. A third remains at large, police said.

Southampton Town Police are investigating a stabbing in Flanders early this morning. They ask anyone with information to call detectives at 631-702-2230.

A Riverside man is facing burglary and resisting arrest charges following his arrest in Southampton Town yesterday.

Riverhead Police detectives are investigating a shooting that injured two males on Ostrander Avenue near Middle Road shortly before 9 p.m. last night. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 631-727-4500 Ext.328.

A vehicle stolen from a parking lot on East Main Street was involved in a single-car crash on Northville Turnpike near Oliver Street around 2:30 this morning, Riverhead Town Police said.

Riverhead police said a dispute over a bicycle near the train station on Railroad Avenue developed into a fight involving a large group of males, resulting in one man being taken to the hospital with for treatment of a cut to his leg. Police are asking anyone with information to call them at 631-727-4500.

Riverhead Police charged a man with aggravated driving while intoxicated after a crash with a marked police car on West Main Street last night.