04.22.2015 Police Woman arrested in Riverhead raid sentenced up to 3 years A Mastic woman with ties to Riverhead has been sentenced to 1 1/2 to 3 years in jail after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from an East...
02.12.2015 News Video surveillance, wire taps: Inside the Lewis Street drug bust Four children were living in the Oakland Drive North home when a team of police, including K-9 units, came looking for Darius Strong last Wednesday and hauled the 35-year-old...
02.12.2015 Editorials Editorial: We can’t arrest our way out of a gang problem Breaking up an open-air drug market might spell relief for the afflicted neighborhood, but it is nothing like ridding a country of an occupying foreign force. The relief is...
01.20.2015 Government Suffolk DA, families calling for harsher hit-and-run penalties Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the families of hit-and-run victims are calling on state lawmakers to increase penalties for those convicted of fleeing the scene of a...
11.21.2014 Police Police chiefs reflect on ‘constructive’ gang meeting with Spota Police chiefs and other top brass from agencies across the East End met this week to share information with one another on local gang activities during a meeting called...
04.02.2014 Police DA: Riverhead woman dealt heroin in Suffolk-wide drug ring A Riverhead woman is one of 14 people accused of dealing heroin in a network of drug rings that pumped about $3.6 million worth of drugs into Suffolk County,...
04.01.2014 News Spota: Holtsville couple sold heroin to Riverhead drug dealers Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota is expected to hold a press conference Wednesday announcing the indictment of a Holtsville couple accused of supplying heroin stamped with the words...
02.19.2014 News DA: Riverhead men sold ‘premium’ heroin along Route 58 A collaboration between police forces has broken up a massive heroin ring that ferried a “pure, strong and very sought-after” brand of the drug to Riverhead from East Harlem,...