🌱 Sexual Assault At College + 4 Arrested For Drugs, Prostitution

Good day, people of Five Towns! I'm here with today's copy of the Five Towns Daily.

First, today's weather:

Winds becoming strong. High: 54 Low: 43.

Here are the top three stories today in Five Towns:

1. Four men were arrested on April 14 during an investigation into drugs and prostitution in Nassau. A home on Baldwin Road in Hempstead was searched around 3 p.m. on April 14 and Walter Reyes, 39, of Hempstead; Jose Cortez, 50, of Queens; Marlon Mendoza, 53, of Hempstead; and Noe Mendez, 42, of Hempstead were arrested. (Patch)
2. There was an arrest this weekend on the campus of Adelphi University in Garden City after a reported sexual assault in Earle Hall. Police are investigating. (News 12)
3. A pair of teenagers were arrested for criminal possession of a weapon in East Rockaway for shooting a water bead blaster gun at a pedestrian from a car. The 33-year-old male victim was walking near the intersection of Althouse Avenue and Front Street on Sunday at approximately 10 p.m. (Patch)

Today in Five Towns:

• CSTL's Dinosaurs! and Live Animals Egg Hunt, in celebration of Kid's Week at The Center for Science Teaching and Learning, 1 Tanglewood Road Rockville Centre, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., $12.

From my notebook:

• Tuesday at UBS Arena the Islanders will play the Panthers, the first game since Islanders’ Hall of Famer Mike Bossy died on Friday from lung cancer at age 65. (Subscription: Newsday)
• See the statistics on home sales in Woodmere from Feb. 28 to March 31. There were 132 home sales with a median sale price of $853,000, with homes ranging from $400,000 to $2.5 million. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar will perform at UBS Arena. Kakkar is famous as an Indian Idol season 2 participant and season 10 judge of the show. (Patch)

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— Jackie