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MS-13 Member Who Kidnapped, Stabbed 15-Year-Old Boy Extradited To NY: Prosecutors
An alleged MS-13 gang member who had been on the run for more than a year is back on Long Island, accused in a brutal kidnapping and stabbing of a 15-year-old boy.
Josue Zepeda-Padilla, age 28, of Huntington Station, was extradited from North Carolina and arraigned in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday, April 8, stemming from a brutal 2024 gang attack at the abandoned Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood.
The teen victim was lured to the Huntington Train Station on the morning of Jan. 6, 2024, by a group of alleged members and associates of the MS-13 Huntington Criminal Locates Salvatrucha,…
Funeral Home Stabbing: Man Attacked Owner Of Long Island Mortuary During Robbery, Jury Finds
More than a year after a Long Island funeral home owner was brutally stabbed during a robbery outside his business, the man responsible has been convicted.
Jason Funderburke, 38, of Hempstead, was found guilty of robbery and related offenses in Suffolk County Court Wednesday, March 12, in connection with the August 2023 attack.
Funderburke and an unnamed accomplice approached Joseph Slinger outside his Slinger-Hasgill Funeral Home, located in Amityville on Sunrise Highway, at around 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 29, 2023, according to prosecutors.
The pair displayed a photo of Slinger’s family and de…
'Career Criminal' Robbed LI Laundromat At Gunpoint, Jury Finds
An ex-convict could be heading back to prison after being convicted of robbing a Long Island laundromat at gunpoint.
Emilio Hernandez, 54, of Bay Shore, was found guilty of robbery and related charges by a Suffolk County jury on Wednesday, Feb. 5.
Hernandez was armed with a pistol when he entered a laundromat on the Sunrise Highway Service Road in Bay Shore donning a mask, hat, and sunglasses on April 11, 2023, according to prosecutors.
After robbing the business, he was filmed driving away from the scene by a witness. Suffolk County Police stopped him a short time later nearby, where the…
Nassau County Man Goes On Rampage, Attacks 4 People, Steals Car, Injures Officer: Police
A Valley Stream man is facing a slew of charges after an alleged rampage that began with a home invasion and ended with a car crash, police announced on Sunday, Jan. 26.
Jonathan Louissaint, 32, unlawfully entered a home on Forest Avenue at 9:15 a.m. and assaulted a 24-year-old man, punching him in the face and hitting his hand with a metal bar, detectives said.
Louissaint then went to a nearby 7-Eleven at 100 Sunrise Highway and struck a 35-year-old man’s hand with a beer can, police said. He left the store and tried to enter multiple occupied vehicles before entering an unoccupied 2020 Hy…
PA Man Charged In Armed Robbery Of NY Gas Station: Police
An Pennsylvania man is among two suspects arrested for an armed robbery at a gas station in Yaphank, New York, Suffolk County police announced Friday, Jan. 24.
Marion Maupin, 32, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and Raiquan Davis, 27, of Medford, New York, allegedly robbed an employee at gunpoint at the Shell station located at 482 Sills Road at approximately 7:30 a.m., police said.
The suspects were located shortly afterward on Wilson Avenue in Coram, where police recovered the gun used in the robbery, according to the release.
Both Maupin and Davis were charged with robbery, criminal possession…
