Long Island crime briefs

GREAT NECK

Cops seek driver who hit twins

Nassau County police were searching Sunday for a person who struck twin sisters walking along Arrandale Road in Great Neck.

The 54-year-old women from Great Neck were walking north on Arrandale Road about 6:20 p.m. Thursday when a vehicle heading west drove into them and kept driving, police said.

Both were taken to a hospital -- one with nonlife-threatening injuries, the other was listed Thursday in critical condition with head trauma and internal injuries, police said. Authorities didn't have an update on their conditions yesterday.

Police didn't release any information on the car that struck them. Anyone with details is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.

BAY SHORE

Woman's body identified

Suffolk police yesterday identified the female body found in a Bay Shore parking lot on Friday as Saundra Simonee of East Norwich.

Police found the body of Simonee, 59, of 14 Whitney Ave., behind a trash container outside The Birches apartment complex, 91 S. Clinton Ave., after a call from a neighbor at 9:15 a.m..

An autopsy was still being performed, police said yesterday, so they could not say how she died. No arrests have been made.

Attempts to reach Simonee's family yesterday were unsuccessful.

Detectives are asking anyone with information to call the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392 or Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

UNIONDALE

Five robbed at gunpoint

Five people were robbed at gunpoint in Uniondale early yesterday, Nassau County police said. No injuries were reported.

The victims, ages 20 to 22, were walking near Shady and Lawrence streets about 12:45 a.m. when they were approached by three men.

One of the suspects brandished a firearm and demanded personal items from the victims, four men and one woman.