Crimes Nearby: Police Helicopter and K9 Unit Search for Trespassers

Three Village
Suffolk County police called in a helicopter and K-9 unit late Tuesday night to search for a pair of individuals in Lake Grove suspected of trespassing onto the property of an abandoned house, though the suspects were able to avoid police.

According to police, two 911 calls were received around 11:10 p.m. on Tuesday. One reported a suspicious vehicle and another reportedly spotted a man on the property of an abandoned house on Angela Lane – behind Raymour & Flanigan, just east of the Smith Haven Mall.

Police approached the car shortly after, they said, and upon trying to search the car the driver sped off.

Commack
Dimitris Lynum, 29, of North Babylon, was arrested in Commack April 20 on a charge of burglary in the third degree, a felony. According to police, Lynum allegedly burglarized a home April 8 on Church Street in Bayport and damaged a vehicle in a packed garage. He also allegedly burglarized a home on the same street on Feb. 26, taking a scanner and damaging three vehicles.  

Brian Healy, 29, of Smithtown, was arrested in Commack April 19 on a charge of robbery in the second degree, a felony. According to police, Healy was attempting to steal goods from Walmart in Commack and then cut and injured the hand of a security officer who attempted to stop him.  

Islam Eltahlawy, 17, of Commack, was arrested in Commack on Map Lane on April 18 on a charge of robbery in the second degree, a felony. Police said Eltahlawy punched a man in the head and then took his wallet and prescription medications.

Smithtown
Michael Lombardo, 22, of Commack, was arrested on April 17 in Smithtown and charged with criminal mischief.  Police said Lombardo threw an empty nitrous oxide canister in an incident of road rage. According to police no one was hurt in the incident. Police did not specify the degree of the charge.

Lombardo was also arrested on April 16, according to police, and charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor. Police said Lombardo was swerving from lane to lane while driving a 2003 Nissan west on Sunrise Highway.

Port Jefferson
Catherine Mann, 45, of Port Jefferson Station, was arrested April 19 and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny: property value greater than $1,000, a felony. Mann allegedly took $2,450 worth of cash and jewelry from another person’s house.   

Ray Pena, 18, of Port Jefferson Station, and Stanislav Vidal, 18, of Selden, were arrested April 19 and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. According to police, the two were arrested in the parking lot of the Sunoco gas station on Old Town Road in a 1997 BMW and found to be in possession of heroin.   

Michael Paolucci, 49, of Port Jefferson Station, was arrested April 17 in Patchogue and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. Paolucci allegedly took a T-Mobile cellphone valued at $70 from the Best Buy in Patchogue.