Crime & Safety
The Worst Crime/Fire Stories from Long Beach
Here are some of the most talked about police and fire stories Patch covered in the city since our late-August launch.
- Four tenants at a Clark Street home escaped harm when flames from a wood fireplace spread to the attic on Dec. 3.
- A Manorivelle father and son, Ezekiel Ramasir, 57, and Elviston, 27, were arrested and charged in November with by taking rent money on a Long Beach home that did not belong to them.
- Antonio Webb, 18, of Long Beach, was arrested on Nov. 20 at a local convenience store and charged in connection with the robbery of a Chinese food deliveryman who was repeatedly pistol-whipped on a Long Beach street in October.
- Ross Tanner, 34, a Long Beach resident and a substitute teacher in a Queens elementary school, was arrested on Dec. 14 and charged with promoting child pornography.
- Joseph Moss, 40, an Indiana Avenue resident, was arrested on Oct. 27 and charged with a spree of residential burglaries in the West End in September.
- Hours after he was re-convicted on Oct. 26 for murdering Robert Calabrese of Long Beach over a gambling debt in 2004, Herve Jeannot, 29, of Deer Park, committed suicide in the Nassau County Correctional facility.
- Witnesses said that Fidias Amaya, 67, of Long Beach ran headfirst into the side of a Long Beach Fire Department pumper truck that was responding to a fire call at West Park Avenue and National Boulevard on Nov. 3.
- Five Long Beach men — Bruce Rodgers, 19, Derrick Pattern, 18, Devante Pattern, 16, Laquann Hodge, 21, and Charles Evan, 39 — were arrested on Nov. 9 and charged with first-degree riot after a confrontation and wild melee with Long Beach police in the North Park neighborhood.
- Three former female employees filed a sexual harassment complaint against a Long Beach doctor, Dr. Edward Kleiner, 51, on Dec. 17, alleging that he fired them after they had endured ongoing sexual-related misbehavior.
- A West Park Avenue man, Mitchell Marsicano, 55, was arrested on Oct. 22 and charged with having sex with his dog in his tenants' apartment. The dog, a 4-year-old male Shiba Inu, a Japanese-type Husky named Snowball, was release to a local animal shelter for care.
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