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Cops: Woman with gun overreacts to prank

Originally published: January 24, 2012 1:01 AM
Updated: January 24, 2012 5:19 AM
By BILL MASON  bill.mason@newsday.com

A Rockville Centre woman captured and held for police a teenage suspect at gunpoint, but when officers arrived, they arrested her, not the teen, Nassau police said.

Bernadette Greenwald, 47, of 171 N. Forest Ave., was charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and prohibited use of a dangerous weapon, police said, after she apparently overreacted to a prankster repeatedly ringing her doorbell...

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