Crime and court briefs

CARLE PLACEEMT finds monoxide at shop

An ambulance medical technician went into a Carle Place Dunkin' Donuts for coffee in the predawn hours yesterday, but it was a carbon monoxide scare that woke him up, Nassau police said.

The Nassau County emergency technician was wearing a personal carbon monoxide detector that alerted him to high levels of the gas when he went into the store on Glen Cove Road just before 4 a.m., police said.

He escorted employees out and called authorities, police said. The Carle Place Fire Department arrived and confirmed that carbon monoxide levels were elevated. Investigators discovered an oven vent that was not working, police said.

No injuries were reported, police said.

GLEN COVE

Guilty in '12 bludgeon death

A jury found a Glen Cove man guilty of bludgeoning to death his childhood friend, hiding the body in a neighbor's backyard and pawning the dead man's jewelry, Nassau County prosecutors said.

Edward Brown, 47, was found guilty Thursday on all counts -- second-degree murder, fourth-degree grand larceny and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property -- in the December 2012 slaying of Nunzio Izzo, 56, also of Glen Cove.

Brown faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison July 16 in Mineola.

According to prosecutors, Brown confessed to police and provided a map to find Izzo's body after it was discovered that bloody rings belonging to the victim were sold by Brown at a pawnshop in Suffolk County on Dec. 21, 2012.

The victim, who on Dec. 17 was last seen visiting someone at the same address where Brown lives, was found to have suffered multiple areas of blunt-force trauma, including four gaping, chopped wounds, consistent with the use of a weapon, to his head, the office of District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a news release.

Brown's attorney, Steven Barnwell of Mineola, said his client and the victim had a disagreement that turned into a physical confrontation. "We felt it was manslaughter, and the jury, obviously, disagreed," Barnwell said.I

COLD SPRING

HARBORHarbor shellfish ban lifted

Shellfish in parts of Cold Spring Harbor are again safe to eat after the accidental release of partially treated sewage last week from the Oyster Bay Sewer District, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced yesterday.

The temporary ban against harvesting was lifted at sunrise today in waters off parts of Oyster Bay and Huntington towns, DEC officials said. Some water samples showed bacteria levels had dropped and other conditions had improved.