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Long Island Duo Forced Women Into Prostitution, DA Says Long Island Duo Forced Women Into Prostitution, DA Says
Long Island Duo Forced Women Into Prostitution, DA Says A man who allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl is among two Long Island defendants accused of forcing women into prostitution. Danny St. Louis, age 43, of Bay Shore, and Samantha Wimmer, age 37, of Central Islip, were arraigned on a total of 33 criminal charges in Suffolk County Court on Thursday, April 11. Prosecutors said St. Louis advertised and sold women for sex several times to various buyers between March 2023 and March 2024, with Wimmer serving as photographer for pictures that were used in his ads. After taking one victim’s ID and cell phone to prevent her from leaving, St. Louis ma…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Drive-By Shooting Injures 28-Year-Old Woman At Long Island Home Drive-By Shooting Injures 28-Year-Old Woman At Long Island Home
Drive-By Shooting Injures 28-Year-Old Woman At Long Island Home A woman is recovering after being shot in a drive-by shooting at a Long Island home. The incident happened at around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in Mastic Beach at a residence on Woodside Drive near Gooseberry Road. Suffolk County Police said multiple shots were fired into the home, striking a 28-year-old woman in the arm. The victim was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Nobody else inside the home was injured. Detectives believe the house was targeted, police said. No suspects had been named as of Friday afternoon, April 12. Anyone with information is asked to c…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Tacos With Side Of Cocaine? Long Island Restaurant Permitted Illegal Drug Sales, Police Say Tacos With Side Of Cocaine? Long Island Restaurant Permitted Illegal Drug Sales, Police Say
Tacos With Side Of Cocaine? Long Island Restaurant Permitted Illegal Drug Sales, Police Say A manager and two others are facing charges following an investigation into illegal drug sales at a Long Island restaurant. The Riverhead Town Police Department, together with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s East End Drug Task Force, executed a search warrant at the La Perla Restaurant and Bar on East Main Street on Thursday, Feb. 29. It followed a six-month investigation by undercover detectives sparked by community complaints of illegal drug activity inside the business, police said. Investigators determined that not only was cocaine regularly being sold at the restaurant, but a …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Garden City Attorney Embezzles $700K From Client's Escrow Funds: DA Garden City Attorney Embezzles $700K From Client's Escrow Funds: DA
Garden City Attorney Embezzles $700K From Client's Escrow Funds: DA A Long Island attorney who specialized in real estate is said to have deceived multiple clients, stealing their property sale proceeds to the tune of over $700,000, according to officials. Daniel Boldi, age 49, of Garden City, faced his arraignment on Wednesday, April 10. The Nassau County District Attorney alleged that Boldi, who owned and operated the Boldi Law Group, PC, used his expertise in real estate transactions to embezzle his clients’ money on multiple occasions. In October 2023, the DA’s Office said, Boldi worked with a couple on the closing of the sale of their East Meadow h…

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by Sophie Grieser
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Long Island Man Masturbates In View Of Preschoolers, DA Says Long Island Man Masturbates In View Of Preschoolers, DA Says
Long Island Man Masturbates In View Of Preschoolers, DA Says A Long Island man accused of exposing himself and masturbating in front of preschool children will avoid jail while his case proceeds. Lawrence Gartner, age 68, of Patchogue, was arraigned on public lewdness charges in Suffolk County Court on Monday, April 8. Prosecutors allege that Gartner exposed his genitals and masturbated in front of his apartment window as children were being dismissed from a preschool directly across the street on Monday, March 18. Kids who attend the school range in age from 3 to 5 years old. Suffolk County Police arrested Gartner the following day, but the judge…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Daycare Commercial Casting Paid Roles Across Northeast Daycare Commercial Casting Paid Roles Across Northeast
Daycare Commercial Casting Paid Roles Across Northeast Do you want to be in a commercial about daycare? A commercial for highlighting the benefits of a daycare communication technology for parents and teachers is seeking talent for four roles, according to a casting notice.  The commercial is looking for people from Baltimore, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York City, Jersey City and Virginia Beach. The roles include: A female daycare owner between the ages of 30 and 50, a female daycare director between the ages of 25 and 50, a daycare teacher between the ages of 18 and 40, and the parent of a daycare child between the ages of 18 and…

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by Sam Barron
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Garden City Man Swindles $235K From Insurance Company, DA Says Garden City Man Swindles $235K From Insurance Company, DA Says
Garden City Man Swindles $235K From Insurance Company, DA Says An employer from Long Island has been arraigned after he allegedly defrauded an insurance company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by lying about the number of employees he had, authorities said. Sixty-year-old Vassilios Handakas, also known as William or Bill Handakas, faced the charges against him on Thursday, March 28, according to the Nassau County District Attorney. The DA’s Office said that Handakas and Vector Structural Corporation entered a contract for a worker’s compensation policy with an insurance company for coverage between March 2019 and March 2020. In the applicat…

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by Sophie Grieser
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'A Big Undertaking': Rescue Saves, Rehabilitates Animals From Long Island Hoarding Case 'A Big Undertaking': Rescue Saves, Rehabilitates Animals From Long Island Hoarding Case
'A Big Undertaking': Rescue Saves, Rehabilitates Animals From Long Island Hoarding Case A volunteer animal rescue on Long Island, which recently took in animals from an apparent hoarding situation, has reached out to the community for aid so that they can properly care for their recent rescues. “These animals do not have a voice of their own.” Donna Amoscato was on the scene when 49 animals were taken from a Ronkonkoma home on Tuesday, April 2. Original Story: Over 40 Animals Kept In 'Noxious' Conditions In Ronkonkoma She described the grim circumstances as the animals were removed from the scene. “Most of the cages were filled with newspaper, feces, urine, and ha…

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by Sophie Grieser
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Long Beach Nurse, Former Marine Reservist Faked COVID Vax Cards: USAO Long Beach Nurse, Former Marine Reservist Faked COVID Vax Cards: USAO
Long Beach Nurse, Former Marine Reservist Faked COVID Vax Cards: Usao Two people – including a nurse from Long Island – have been given their prison sentences for running a scheme, peddling faked COVID-19 vaccination cards. Queens man Jia Liu, age 28, faced his 21-month sentence for the scheme on Friday, April 5, according to the United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. Alongside Steven Rodriguez, a 29-year-old nurse from Long Beach, the two men conspired to steal, forge, sell, and distribute COVID-19 vaccination cards to hundreds of unvaccinated people between March 2021 and February 2022.  Original Story - COVID-19…

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by Sophie Grieser
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Dozens Of Aftershocks Keep LI Rockin' Days After Rare 4.8 Quake Dozens Of Aftershocks Keep LI Rockin' Days After Rare 4.8 Quake
Dozens Of Aftershocks Keep LI Rockin' Days After Rare 4.8 Quake Call it jealousy over the total solar eclipse? As millions geared up to watch the sun and moon’s rare celestial spectacle, Mother Earth continued to put on a show of her own in the days after a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook much of the Northeast on Friday, April 5. Since then, at least 44 aftershocks have been recorded in Hunterdon and Somerset counties in New Jersey, according to data from the US Geological Survey (USGS). Earlier Report: New York Feels 4.0 Magnitude Earthquake Aftershock The tremors, ranging in magnitude from 1.3 to 2.6, were felt across New Jersey, New York…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Launch Of 3 NASA Rockets Could Be Visible During Total Solar Eclipse Launch Of 3 NASA Rockets Could Be Visible During Total Solar Eclipse
Launch Of 3 NASA Rockets Could Be Visible During Total Solar Eclipse What a day for outer space. NASA will be launching three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, to study how Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet. And they are expected to be visible for between 10 and 40 seconds along the East Coast. The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets will launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study the disturbances in the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun.  The sounding rockets will launch at three differe…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Long Island Doctor On Way To See Eclipse ID'd As Victim In Freak Fatal Trailer Accident Long Island Doctor On Way To See Eclipse ID'd As Victim In Freak Fatal Trailer Accident
Long Island Doctor On Way To See Eclipse ID'd As Victim In Freak Fatal Trailer Accident Colleagues and loved ones are mourning the loss of a beloved pediatrician and wife who was killed in a freak accident on a New York highway while they were traveling to view the total solar eclipse. Long Island resident Dr. Monika Woroniecki, age 58, of Stony Brook, died Saturday, April 6, after falling from a moving Airstream trailer on Route 12E in the Jefferson County town of Brownville, about 60 miles north of Syracuse, according to State Police. Investigators said Woroniecki and other family members had decided to spend the last 20 minutes of the trip riding in the trailer, which was b…

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by Michael Mashburn