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After search, police find and charge man with shotgun

By Vera Chinese

A Wading River man, who police said might have been suicidal, was arrested on a weapons charge Saturday night after he was reported to be carrying a sawed-off shotgun in the Riverhead area.

Riverhead Police said they found Robert Huber, 37, at his home on 15th Street with the shotgun following a lengthy canvass of the town which involved New York State Police, Suffolk County Police, New York State Park Police and the Wading River Fire Department.

Mr. Huber was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead for treatment of a laceration to his left wrist and also later charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He was placed in the custody of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and was expected to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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