Mastic Beach man arrested again on charges of making false 911 calls

A Mastic Beach man arrested last year and charged with making hundreds of false 911 emergency calls, was arrested again Thursday and charged with doing more of the same.

Michael Salino, 38, of Huguenot Dr., was charged Thursday with three counts of falsely reporting an incident for making several phony emergency calls Sunday, police said.

Sgt. Patrick Mahan of Suffolk's Seventh Precinct said, "He definitely was responsible for those three at least and there are others he's suspected of doing. . . . We had some prior dealings with him."

Salino was arrested in September 2009, and charged with making false 911 calls for everything from car crashes to major explosions. Court records indicate those charges are still pending, but Salino was released from custody on his own recognizance while those charges are being resolved.

Mahan said police believe Salino made at least three new false 911 emergency calls Sunday from a cell phone, reporting a fight, a motor vehicle accident and a fire in South Haven Park in Shirley.

Salino was previously charged with making about 300 calls claiming domestic fights, fires, armed robberies, explosions, car crashes and hit-and-runs, police said. At times, authorities said, he spoke quietly and gave a female name, and once identified himself as Christopher Columbus.

Salino was to be arraigned Friday on these new charges in First District Court, Central Islip.