LI CRIME BRIEFS

RIVERHEAD/Selden man arraigned on heroin charge

The Selden man accused of causing a fatal accident that claimed two Connetquot High School students' lives was arraigned on a grand jury indictment on an unrelated heroin possession charge Thursday at county court in Riverhead.

David Heise, 28, was arrested Aug. 9 when investigators pulled over the car he was riding in on the Long Island Expressway near Exit 49 and found a hundred bags of heroin stashed in his underwear, and more than 50 Valium pills in the car, prosecutors said. He was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Suffolk County Judge James F.X. Doyle ordered Heise held on bail of $100,000 cash or $200,000 bond. His next court date on the heroin possession charge is Sept. 27.

Heise was arrested while he was out on $25,000 bail following an April 10 fatal crash that killed two teenagers.

- SOPHIA CHANG

HOLTSVILLE/Body of missing Holbrook man found

The body of an elderly Holbrook man was discovered in a crashed and overturned car Thursday, a day after his family reported him missing, Suffolk police said.

Detectives said Gerard Paul, 87, of 418 Furrows Rd. was driving home when he crashed into an overgrown and debris-filled area in Holtsville.

Paul, who lived alone, was last seen on Tuesday.

His adult children were unable to contact him, police said, and reported him missing to authorities Wednesday.

Paul was discovered about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.

- BILL MASON