Crime briefs

UNIONDALE/Three hospitalized after shooting

Nassau police are looking for two men who shot three people outside a Uniondale bar early yesterday.

Police said a woman, 25, and two men, ages 29 and 34, were outside the Classico Bar on Jerusalem Avenue around 3:40 a.m. when the other men, bandannas over their faces, approached and began firing.

The woman was taken by a private car to a Queens hospital and admitted with a wound to the leg, police said. The 29-year-old man was shot in the groin and taken in a private vehicle to a hospital. The 34-year-old was taken by ambulance to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. The two male victims are in stable condition.

The suspects ran east on Jerusalem Avenue toward Clinton Place. Police ask anyone with information to call 800-244-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.

-- Will Van Sant

MERRICK/Bay Shore men charged in robbery

Two Bay Shore men were charged in the gunpoint robbery of a Merrick electronics store during which an employee and a customer were held captive briefly in a backroom.

Nassau County police said officers arrested Samuel Johnson, 19, and Jody Odonoghue, 21, shortly after the 9:15 a.m. Saturday robbery of the Radio Shack at 1690 Sunrise Hwy. During the robbery, the two forced an employee and a customer to a back room in the store but were interrupted when a second employee entered the store, police said. Johnson and Odonoghue fled with an unknown amount of merchandise, speeding south on Babylon Turnpike in a 1996 Ford Explorer, police said.

The vehicle hit a traffic-control box at Babylon Turnpike and Merrick Road, and officers investigating the robbery arrested the two as they tried to run from the vehicle, police said.

Johnson and Odonoghue are each charged with two counts of second-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery, first-degree criminal use of a firearm and second-degree robbery. The two were remanded without bail at their arraignments yesterday at First District Court in Hempstead. They are due back in court Wednesday.

-- Jennifer Barrios

EAST HAMPTON/Man seriously injured in motorcycle crash

An East Hampton man has serious injuries after his motorcycle crashed into a utility pole early yesterday morning, East Hampton Town Police said.

Kent F. Gaugler, 49, was riding a 2012 Harley-Davidson motorcycle south on Three Mile Harbor Road near Gann Road in East Hampton at 1:35 a.m. when the motorcycle left the road and hit a utility pole, police said.

Gaugler, who sustained serious injuries, was taken to Southampton Hospital, and was later transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center.

Police impounded the motorcycle for a safety inspection, and ask anyone with information to contact them at 631-537-7575.

-- Jennifer Barrios