Crime

Suffolk County detectives recently seized counterfeit pills bearing the marking "30mg oxycodone," police said in a statement Friday.

The odd behavior of a man parked on a Manhasset road led to the discovery of a possible stash of oxycodone pills and — after a chase — about 110 fireworks, police said.

Andre Garry, 49, was walking on Fulton Avenue in Hempstead on June 29 when he was stabbed by a man after a verbal altercation, Nassau police said.

Lawyers were clashing over when to sentence ex-Suffolk DA Thomas Spota and a former top aide in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Prosecutors said Yonathan Sanchez separately shot two people at close range during a killing spree in December 2018.

The district attorney's office says release of the motion threatens witnesses and violates a court stipulation.

The sentencing of Ralph Keppler, of Lynbrook, followed his guilty plea last year to murder and other charges in the killing of Theresa Kiel, a schoolteacher.

"The magnitude of this drug distribution ring is enormous; they were responsible for peddling millions of dollars in narcotics on an almost weekly basis," Suffolk DA Timothy Sini said in a statement.

Bruce Haims killed Pamela Sharon, then 21, in an attack in the summer of 1983 in which he also tried to rape her.

Nassau's police commissioner, Patrick Ryder, says protesters are having a big impact.