Crime news

The Southampton Town Police Department today announced the arrests of two Farmingville residents in connection with an armed robbery in Flanders in September. Police charged Demario L. Weston Jr., 22, and Tiana MacDonald, 24, in the robbery of El Quetzal Deli, located at 790 Flanders Road in Flanders Sept. 23.

Riverhead Police are seeking information about a robbery that occurred last night in the parking lot outside Marshalls on Route 58.

Riverhead Town Police reported 206 criminal offenses and arrested 83 people on 94 criminal charges in November, according to a monthly crime report released by Police Chief Ed Frost this month. Here are the details.

Robert Terry, of Southampton, and Terry Contracting and Materials, of Riverhead, falsified payroll records and shorted workers more than $83,000 on a 2018 public works job in Brookhaven, according to an indictment, the Suffolk District Attorney said in a press release Monday.

A Riverhead family physician is facing a federal felony charge in connection with a scheme to receive kickbacks for ordering hundreds of medically unnecessary brain scans.

Riverhead Police have charged a 26-year-old Patchogue man in the recent burglaries at Star Confectionery and Mugs on Main on East Main Street.

Two men  have been charged with illegal dumping in the Pine Barrens in Manorville last month in violation of Suffolk County’s new Evergreen Law, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney announced Monday afternoon.

Avondale, Arizona police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting death of Frank Vitale of Baiting Hollow Monday afternoon. The suspect has been charged with murder, and the incident remains under investigation, police said.

A 19-year-old Mastic Beach man and street gang member involved in an armed robbery and carjacking of a Lyft driver in Wading River in April 2022 pleaded guilty today to multiple violent felony charges.

A former auto shop business owner who operated two businesses on East Main Street in Riverhead, as well as businesses in Medford and Coram pleaded guilty to first-degree grand larceny charges yesterday in Suffolk County Criminal Court, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney announced.