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Shoplifter With Ankle Monitoring Bracelet Caught After Carjacking Uber Driver At LI Target Shoplifter With Ankle Monitoring Bracelet Caught After Carjacking Uber Driver At LI Target
Shoplifter With Ankle Monitoring Bracelet Caught After Carjacking Uber Driver At LI Target A scene out of a movie played out in real life on Long Island as a man wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet was busted with drugs after a shoplifting incident and carjacking an Uber driver’s vehicle, police said. East Meadow resident Genri Palacios Acosta, 35, hired an Uber who took him to Target in Westbury at approximately 6:25 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6, Nassau County Police said. While he went inside the store, the driver waited outside. According to police, while inside, Acosta placed several items inside a shopping cart and walked out without paying. He was followed out of the store by …

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by Zak Failla
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Nassau Man Nabbed After Fleeing Traffic Stop, Hitting Cruiser, Police Say Nassau Man Nabbed After Fleeing Traffic Stop, Hitting Cruiser, Police Say
Nassau Man Nabbed After Fleeing Traffic Stop, Hitting Cruiser, Police Say A 35-year-old Long Island man and a Nassau County Police officer were injured during a police pursuit that ended with the man being tased and arrested. Genri Palacios Acosta, of Hempstead, was arrested around 9:10 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 1, in Westbury, said the Nassau County Police. According to police, plainclothes officers were checking on the welfare of a driver of a white 2003 Infinity parked on Broadway. When officers approached the vehicle with their shields displayed and announced themselves. Acosta was allegedly seen holding a clear glass tube containing a substance believed to be cr…

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by Kathy Reakes