Crime & Safety
WATCH: Bellport Man Accuses South Country Ambulance Chief Of Assault
An altercation involving two school board candidates and a Bellport resident spread across social media, with conflicting accounts.

BELLPORT, NY — Last week, a routine weeknight in Bellport, with parents dropping kids off at sports practices, turned into an altercation that's spread across social media and now involves two different residents accusing the other of assault and harassment.
Bellport resident Thomas Schultz claims he was struck in the face by South Country ambulance chief Greg Miglino, who is also running for South Country school board, after a verbal dispute with another school board candidate, Amy Price Thomas, on May 11.
Schultz posted in his account that he saw Thomas, who also works for the ambulance company, driving unsafely near the Martha Avenue fields, and that after he stopped to confront her, other vehicles blocked his path, leading to a fender bender and then an assault by Miglino. The assault can be seen in a video taken by Schultz. Schultz says he was filming during the entire incident and posted one video to Facebook.
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The South Country Ambulance Company posted a conflicting version of what happened on its Facebook page.
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"Part of Chief Price Thomas statement given to the police that has Mr. Thomas Schultz being additionally charged for this incident:
'On May 11th though it escalated to a point where I was terrified and concerned for not only my physical safety but that of my son Hunter. I had pulled into Martha Ave Soccer fields to drop my son off, when without warning Tom Schultz pulled his vehicle into a position where he was next to me. He began screaming and saying he had been following me and acting crazy, I couldn’t even understand everything he was saying. I immediately told my son to get out and run to his coach on the field. I then pulled forward to get away, but he chased me into a corner of the parking lot and blocked me in.
I then picked up my radio to call for help from my department when I saw his minivan come around the corner, go into the opposite lane of traffic and collided head on with another vehicle of a parent bringing his kids to practice. He then got out of his vehicle and screaming started at the other parent. Around then other people at the fields and then EMS units from my department arrived.”
We have put our radio transmissions over the first video so the public can hear the unedited radio traffic, and get a sense of the location. The second video is the unedited video placed on Thomas Schultz social media. The second video does contain offensive language and shows the point where Mr. Schultz physically engaged Chief Miglino when confronted about his unprovoked attack on Chief Price Thomas.'"
The Suffolk County Police Department would not comment on the incident. Schultz claims that he has filed a complaint with the police department, saying responding officers refused to view his video evidence.
The South Country Ambulance company says that Schultz was arrested for intentionally ramming his vehicle into another car.
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