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Sex Trafficked Teen Was Drugged Kept On Long Island Yacht For Days, Dad Says After Arrest Made
An arrest has been made days after 14-year-old Emmarae Gervasi was rescued from a Long Island yacht after nearly a month missing, according to her father, who made the rescue, and local police.
Emmarae "Emma" Gervasi was last seen on Terrell Street in Patchogue around 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9. Her father, Frank Gervasi, found her on a boat named The Phoenix on Jan. 3, 26 days after her disappearance, thanks to an anonymous tip, he tells Daily Voice.
“The phone call I received was that she was on a boat in Islip, which I didn’t want to believe at the time,” he said in a video shared to Faceb…
Long Island Man Admits Slashing Ex-Girlfriend's Family With Knife
A Long Island pleaded guilty to pushing, biting, and slashing his ex-girlfriend’s family members while trying to get to her, authorities announced.
On Monday, Aug. 21, the Suffolk County DA announced that 30-year-old Calverton resident Guillermo Ayala Jr. admitted guilt for the attack, which occurred in December 2022.
According to both the court documents and Ayala’s guilty plea, on Dec. 2, 2022, he went shopping and to dinner with his ex-girlfriend, who is also the mother of his children.
After their dinner, he drove around for hours demanding that she show him who she was talking to o…
'Execution-Style Murder': Long Island Man Indicted For Killing Victim Outside Bar, Fleeing
A Long Island man, as well as his brother and a friend, have been indicted for their respective roles in the brutal killing of a man outside of a local bar.
Joseph Scalafani, aged 34 of Mastic Beach, is accused of the shooting death of another Mastic Beach resident, 32-year-old Alex Smith, and then fleeing the state, the Suffolk County DA announced Tuesday, July 11.
Scalafani first violated a restraining order to approach his ex-girlfriend on May 13, 2023, demanding she set up a meeting between him and Smith, according to the investigation.
He went so far as to pull out a black handgun a…
LI Man Gets 23 Years For Sexually Assaulting 10-Year-Old
A Long Island man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child, and who was accused of doing so for months, has been sentenced to over two decades in prison.
Riverhead resident Jose Carabantes Pineda, age 37, of Riverhead, was sentenced to 23 years in prison in Suffolk County Court on Thursday, April 6. It followed his guilty plea to the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, the Suffolk County DA announced.
Earlier Report: Long Island Man Indicted For Alleged Sexual Abuse Of Child
According to his guilty plea and investigation, on March 10, 2021, Carabantes Pineda took the girl to a R…
Long Island Man Sold Fentanyl-Laced Pills To Undercover Cop, Jury Finds
A Long Island man was convicted by a jury of his peers for selling pills laced with fentanyl at an LIRR train station.
Anthony Alexander, age 57, of Deer Park, was found guilty Thursday, March 30, of selling the opioid-laced pills under the guise that they were oxycodone, the Suffolk County DA said.
Alexander sold what he said were oxycodone pills to an undercover investigator two times in January 2022. Subsequent testing of the pills sold to the investigator revealed that they were fentanyl, not oxycodone.
Police arrested Alexander on January 20, 2022, at the Babylon train station. Inves…
