Brookhaven Town Police Blotter: Sept. 15 to Sept. 22, 2024

BROOKHAVEN TOWN, NY — Suffolk police responded to a range of incidents with at least two involving guns in the past two weeks, according to the department's logs.

Here's a snapshot from Sept. 16 to Sept. 22:

• A woman was pushed and her backpack swiped on Sipp Avenue in Medford on Friday afternoon, police said.

It is not clear if she was hurt.

Anthony Febbraro, 56, of Medford, was arrested and charged with second-degree robbery, police said.

• A robber wielding a hammer hatchet made off with some cash from 7-Eleven in Miller Place early Sunday morning, police said.

He went inside the Route 25A convenance store at around 2:40 a.m. and demanded cash and lottery tickets, according to police.

No one was injured, and no arrests have been made, police said.

• A 21-year-old Centereach man was charged with second-degree gang assault on Thursday in connection with beating a man in Port Jefferson Station, police said.

Jorel Thompson, along with others kicked and punched an 18-year-old man in a parking lot on Main Street at around 8:40 p.m., according to police. The man was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

No other arrests have been made.

• A man was charged with first-degree robbery in connection with a robbery at BP Gas in Miller Place on Sept. 18, police said.

Thomas Nelson, 28, told a clerk at the Route 25A business that he had a gun and then made off with some cash at around 8:30 p.m., according to police. No one was injured, police said.

Nelson was additionally charged with second-degree obstructing governmental administration and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

• A male was taken to Long Island Community Hospital after police say he was cut on the thigh in a robbery in Farmingvile on Sept. 17.

He told police that on Ocean Avenue at around 7:20 p.m., a robber used some kind of an "edged weapon," which caused a laceration, according to police.

Matthew Dozier, 32, of Rocky Point was charged with first-degree robbery, police said.

• A Coram man was charged with three counts of third-degree burglary in connection with three early morning break-ins on Sept. 14 in Selden, police said.

Richard Wombley, 64, used a brick to break the window of Selden Wine and Liquor, broke another window at Finesse Cleaners, and stole cash from an ATM at another nearby business, according to police.