Crime briefs
NASSAU COUNTY
Guilty plea in $10,000 theft
A Springfield Gardens woman who pleaded guilty to falsifying business records to steal nearly $10,000 from group homes for the developmentally disabled was sentenced yesterday to restitution and a conditional discharge, Nassau County prosecutors said.
Denessa Yearwood, 38, was ordered to repay $9,917.54 by Nassau County District Court Judge Erica Prager.
Yearwood scammed the money by falsifying documents related to her work as a resident manager for two group homes, District Attorney Kathleen Rice's office said.
Yearwood pleaded guilty to first-degree falsifying business records, a felony, in May.
When arrested in June 2012, investigators said Yearwood altered or reused existing receipts for resident expenses for the group homes in Lynbrook and East Rockaway.
The theft was uncovered in an audit in May 2011 by a compliance analyst with Adults and Children with Learning and Developmental Disabilities Inc.
OYSTER BAY
Traffic stop turns to bust
A Wheatley Heights man who fled a traffic stop in Oyster Bay on Sunday night was arrested a short time later and charged with drug possession, Nassau County police said.
James M. Carter, 30, of 106 North 16th St., was arrested by Second Precinct officers on Shore Avenue at 8:45 p.m. and charged with third-degree and fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, as well as possession of marijuana and vehicle and traffic law violations, police said.
At his arraignment yesterday in First District Court in Hempstead, Carter was ordered held on $50,000 bond, online court records show. He is due back in court tomorrow.
Police said Carter was the subject of a traffic stop on Spring Street on Sunday, but said that as officers approached his 1997 Dodge Dakota he instead "sped away." The vehicle was found a short time later on Shore Avenue.
Police said Carter was located on Spring Street, where he was found with "a clear knotted piece of plastic containing marijuana" in a pants pocket. Police said crack was found in the Dodge.
'His sacrifice made a difference': Gold Star mother honors son's memory Army Pfc. Raheen Tyson Heighter, 22, of Bay Shore, was the first serviceman from Long Island killed in the Iraq War.
'His sacrifice made a difference': Gold Star mother honors son's memory Army Pfc. Raheen Tyson Heighter, 22, of Bay Shore, was the first serviceman from Long Island killed in the Iraq War.
