Cops: Suspects flee after car crashes into Wheatley Heights house
Suffolk police at the scene where a driver crashed into a home on Ridge Road in Wheatley Heights before fleeing on foot early Friday, June 30, 2017. Credit: Stringer News Service
Police are searching for two suspects after the car they were in crashed through a fence and into a house early Friday morning in Wheatley Heights before fleeing the scene on foot.
The incident happened at 12:48 a.m. at the home on Ridge Road where it is bordered by Charlestown Place and Little East Neck Road North, Suffolk County police said.
The car was impounded, police said.
A building inspector was called to the scene after the crash and determined damage to the home to be minor, police said. Additional information was not immediately available.
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