Crime & Safety
Crime Watch: Hypodermic Needle Arrests, Boy Shot with BB Gun at Park
Recent police activity as reported by the RVCPD.

The following information was supplied by the Rockville Centre Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation, and does not indicate convictions.
Arrests
- On April 23 at 7:55 p.m., Prince A. Clifford, 22, of Freeport, was arrested for obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct following an investigation by police personnel at Municipal Parking Field No. 7 and Merrick Road in Rockville Centre.
- On April 23 at 6:15 p.m., Laurence Che Watson, 23, of Brooklyn, was arrested for reckless driving, disorderly conduct and vehicle and traffic law violations following an investigation by police personnel at Sunrise Highway and N. Centre Avenue in Rockville Centre.
- On April 24 at 6:04 p.m., Jony Zarate, 43, of Island Park, was arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation in the second degree and vehicle and traffic law violations following an investigation by police personnel in the vicinity of Oceanside Road and Merrick Road in Rockville Centre.
- On April 25 at 11:39 p.m., Hameen Bilal, 58, of Freeport, was arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree, vehicle and traffic law violations, and an open arrest warrant following an investigation by police personnel in the vicinity of Merrick Road and N. Long Beach Road in Rockville Centre.
- On April 26 at 7:35 a.m., Richard P. Rider III, 27, of Oceanside, was arrested for operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, criminal possession of a hypodermic needle and vehicle and traffic law violation following an investigation by police personnel in the vicinity of Municipal Parking Field No. 3 in Rockville Centre.
- On April 26 at 7:35 a.m., Benjamin M Z Maynard, 27, of Merrick, was arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and criminal possession of a hypodermic needle following an investigation by police personnel in the vicinity of Municipal Parking Field No. 3 in Rockville Centre.
- On April 26 at 1:55 p.m., Farah Lamarre, 35, of Rockville Centre was arrested for assault in the second degree, possession of a dangerous weapon in the fourth degree and resisting arrest following an investigation by police personnel in the vicinity of Hempstead Avenue in Rockville Centre.
- On April 27 at 4:11 p.m., Daniel G. Forster, 41, of Oceanside was arrested for assault in the third degree following an investigation by police personnel in the vicinity of Merrick Road in Rockville Centre.
- On April 26 at 12:55 p.m., a complainant from Hempstead reported that sometime between 2 a.m. and 2:10 a.m. on April 20, a patient from Roosevelt assaulted him while working security at Mercy Medical Center, located at 1000 N. Village Ave. in Rockville Centre.
- On April 27 at 7:05 p.m., an 11-year-old complainant from Rockville Centre reported that at approximately 6:40 p.m., an unknown male, approximately 16 years old, approached him at the Morgan Days Field basketball court and shot him with a pellet gun resulting in nine small wounds to his stomach and right arm.
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