🌱 Man With Stolen Gun, Crack Arrested In Woodmere + County Audit

Welcome back, Five Towns! Let's get you all caught up to start this Saturday, December 11 off on an informed note. Here's everything you need to know around town today.

A Queens man was found with a stolen gun and crack cocaine in Woodmere. Nassau County fails to background review up to half of candidates for certain positions. And a teenage girl is missing from Nassau.

First, today's weather:

Downpours early this morning. High: 59 Low: 44.

Here are the top four stories in Five Towns today:

1. Police arrested a Queens man at the Five Towns Shopping Center on Rockaway Boulevard in Woodmere early Friday morning. Tevon Montgomery Crooks, of Jamaica, was arrested and found with crack cocaine hidden in his pants and a stolen gun. (LI Herald)
2. Nassau County skips conducting required background checks on candidates for management positions, a new county audit reveals.Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman reviewed the hiring of a sample of 78 managers from 2004 through 2018 and found half did not undergo the background reviews.(Subscription: Newsday)
3. A 14-year-old Long Island girl has been reported missing from Hempstead. Heimy Rodezno-Flores was last seen leaving her home on Fulton Avenue on foot. (Daily Voice)
4. A $30 million Nassau County road overhaul project will start in the spring of 2023 with expected completion by Dec. 31, 2024. It will improve a 2.15-mile stretch of road along West Broadway from Mill Road in Hewlett to Rockaway Turnpike in Cedarhurst. (LI Herald)

Today in Five Towns:

• Santa's Workshop Escape Room, Rockville Centre, Challenge Escape Rooms

From my notebook:

• Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library: Drop off coupons in the children's room this weekend for active duty military and their families. (Facebook)
• Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library will require masks beginning Monday. (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Hewlett/Woodmere: "In need of snow removal this winter, reliable and reasonable in Hewlett, private residence." (Nextdoor)

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Alrighty, you're all caught up for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Jackie