Crime & Safety

Top Police Stories of the Year

Ten important Police stories from 2011.

The most read story on Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch in 2011, the trouble Oxygen Bar in Rocky Point was shut down after a shooting that resulted in four suffering gunshot wound. 

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Jackeline Vilori, 9, of Rocky Point was pronounced dead at two days after tragically being struck by a car while ridin her bike on Roosevelt Street in Rocky Point.

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The Capital One Bank at 75 Route 25A in Rocky Point was robbed on Sept. 14 and Suffolk Police arrested Justin Collier, 23, of Mt. Sinai days later.

Four people were arrested for setting a vehicle on fire and vandalizing a home at 8 Xylo Rd. in Rocky Point in late April.

Ryan Gorman, 30, from Miller Place, was arrested on Nov. 22 and charged with eight counts of second degree burglary and one count of second degree forgery.

Multiple arrests were made on one road over an October weekend.

From Oct. 19 to 26, four different thefts occured on or inside private property in Miller Place, Suffolk Police said.

Over a year after hitting and killing a bicyclist on 25A in Miller Place, a Lake Grove woman pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, among other charges in November, and admitted she was high during the incident.

The shirt this man, charged with DWI after crashing into a patrol car, tells the story all too well.

A Miller Place man was stopped on the Northern State Parkway near Glen Cove Road Thursday morning for moving unsafely from lane to lane and in the end was charged for DWI Drugs, seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance (a misdemeanor), disorderly conduct and traffic violations.



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