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	Angela Pollina on Friday was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva. Pollina forced Thomas and his brother to sleep on the concrete floor of an unheated garage in the dead of winter. Thomas died of hypothermia. NewsdayTV&rsquo;s Cecilia Dowd reports.
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NCPD homicide captain Stephen Fitzpatrick on Friday said Jacob Alvarenga Mejia, 28, was arrested and charged for allegedly stabbing to death one of three men attempting to steal the rims from his SUV at his Bellerose home on May 13.

NCPD homicide captain provides details on fatal stabbing in Bellerose

Janell Funderburke, 20, who is accused of shooting Suffolk County Police Officer Michael Lafauci in Coram, appeared in court Thursday in Riverhead to be arraigned on a 13-count indictment. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

Attorney: Defendant 'did not intend to kill' SCPD officer

A federal judge on Wednesday in Central Islip sentenced hip-hop artist Willie Junior Maxwell II, better known as Fetty Wap, to 6 years in prison at his drug trafficking sentencing. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

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Former FDNY firefighter Joseph Norris pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving drunk in the wrong direction on the Sunken Meadow Parkway in 2020 before crashing into a car driven by Anthony Mariano, a Queens teacher, killing him instantly. 

Former FDNY firefighter pleads guilty to DWI killing of Queens teacher

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Friends, family and supporters of the teens lined up at the Brooklyn courthouse for the hearing on Amandeep Singh's bail request Friday. A smaller contingent of Singh's also came.

Man accused in wrong-way crash that killed 2 Roslyn teens seeks bail in court today

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Alif Chowdhury, 33, of Garden City Park, is charged with third-degree robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer, the department wrote in a news release.

Cops: Man impersonated cop in Garden City Park, tried to restrain woman

Steven McCune, who was seeking up to $40 million in damages, said that officers beat him after he refused to get out of the car he had been sleeping in.

Suffolk County agrees to settle civil rights lawsuit alleging police brutality, records show

The Westbury woman was convinced to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gold bars, which thieves would then pick up for "safe keeping," police said.

2 arrested for scamming elderly victim into buying $200G in gold bars, police say

Chavarria-Argueta admitted at his April 20 change of plea hearing that he drank beer and alcohol-infused tea and seltzer the night of the crash.

Man sentenced to prison time in high-speed crash that killed passenger

"You don't have a clue. You voluntarily pled guilty. That was your decision," Justice Timothy Mazzei told Kason Parker, when Parker complained about the plea in his girlfriend's killing.

Judge calls murder defendant's complaints about guilty plea 'disgusting'

Burglars threw large rocks through the windows of two stores in Hicksville and stole thousands of dollars' worth of scratch-off tickets, police said.

Cops: 2 arrested in smash-and-grab thefts of lottery tickets in Nassau

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Nicholas D'Agostino, 20, plead not guilty to charges related to a fatal shooting on a LIRR train in Ronkonkoma in 2022. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports. 

Yonkers man charged in fatal LIRR shooting

Suffolk County police officer Michael LaFauci, who was shot by suspect Janell Funderburke in Coram on May 11, left Stony Brook University Hospital on Thursday, NewsdayTV Cecilia Dowd reports.

A grateful day for wounded SCPD officer

Janell Funderburke is accused of shooting Suffolk County Police Officer Michael Lafauci in Coram Thursday. In court Friday prosecutors said the shooting was caught on the officer's body camera and said the defendant's face is identifiable on that footage. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports. 

'I'm sorry': Cop shooting suspect in court

Suffolk police commissioner Rodney Harrison said officers were conducting surveillance outside a home on Norfleet Lane related to a prior robbery, when the cop was shot by an alleged Bloods gang member. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

Suffolk County police officer shot in Coram is in stable condition

The Holbrook man convicted of driving drunk into a group of Boy Scouts and killing a seventh-grader is seeking to overturn his conviction. Andrew McMorris' parents and Thomas Murphy's attorney spoke outside of the Brooklyn Appellate Courthouse on Thursday. 

Conviction appeal: 'We have 100% confidence in the DA's office'

The lawmaker pleaded not guilty to fraud, money laundering, theft charges in Central Islip Federal Court on Wednesday. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports. 

Mad scene at court as Santos pleads not guilty

An ex-employee of Stop & Shop was found guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the April 2021 shooting spree at a West Hempstead store that killed a manager and left two other employees severely injured.

'What a relief:' Guilty verdict in Stop & Shop shootings

The trial of accused Stop & Shop shooter Gabriel Wilson is in the hands of the jury after Tuesday's closing arguments in Mineola. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

Stop & Shop shooting case goes to the jury

Nassau police said Sunday that a dead body was found in the detached garage of a Hempstead home Saturday night after firefighters put out a fire in the structure.

Body found in garage after fire, police say

Suffolk County residents can now report bias incidents to a new hate crime hotline, 631-852-HATE, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced at a news conference Tuesday.

Bellone announces new hate crime hotline for Suffolk County

The store manager testified Tuesday in Mineola in the trial of Gabriel Wilson, the alleged gunman in the deadly 2021 West Hempstead Stop & Shop store shooting. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

Stop & Shop trial testimony: 'I remember a flash and a bang'

Bouncer David Cruz was convicted Monday in the death of a bar patron, Jake Scott, who he beat with his fists after using his shirt to cover up a security camera outside a bar in Holbrook last August.

Bouncer manslaughter verdict: 'I think it's just a tragedy for everyone'

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