Islip Terrace, NY

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• 4 teens charged in a beating at party

  asked to leave and take their alcohol with them, police said.James Gisonna, 17, and Gerald Turnier, 16, both of Islip Terrace , and Christopher Haine, 16, and Justin Ferrara, 16, both of East Islip, were each charged with second-degree gang assault, a felony.Haine,   Read more »

• Fire destroys Islip Terrace stores

  the cause of a suspicious early morning fire that destroyed a commercial storefront building on Carleton Avenue in Islip Terrace Monday. Suffolk County fire officials said arson investigators and a canine unit used to detect accelerants were on scene.No one   Read more »

• Police step up patrol of Islip Terrace stop signs

  police patrols. We are lucky there hasn't been an accident. If we wait any longer, I fear it may be too late. -- Zach deVries, Islip Terrace Police agree there is a problem at the intersection and say they stepped up patrols there after receiving your correspondence.   Read more »

• Cops: Driver, high on drugs, gets pinned between her car and bus

  Islip Terrace driver rear ended a Suffolk County transit bus Wednesday on the Southern State Parkway and ended up being pinned between the two vehicles after she got out and left her car in "drive," State Police said.Margaret M. Dopfel, 46, was not hurt and   Read more »

• Police: Islip Terrace woman stole grandmother's ID to buy drugs

  a prescription drug habit, police said. Suffolk County police arrested Elise Sandberg, 33, at 3:30 p.m. at her home at 255 Islip Blvd., police said. Sandberg used her grandmother's identity to open a credit card account to pay for Oxycodone prescriptions,   Read more »

Around the web

• Evidence in Long Island Houses of 7-Eleven ‘Plantation’

  Virginia and on Long Island, and it is also focusing on 40 other 7-Eleven franchises in New York City and elsewhere. In Islip Terrace, two brothers — Azhar Zia, a United States and Pakistani citizen, and Ummar Uppal, who officials said was an illegal Pakistani 6/18/13 from The New York Times Read more »

• Police: Long Island woman stole grandmother's identity to buy drugs

  a credit card account. They say her purchases included Oxycodone. Sandberg was arrested Monday afternoon at her home in Islip Terrace. She was awaiting arraignment Tuesday on charges of grand larceny and identity theft. The name of her attorney was not immediately   from WABC Read more »