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False impersonation

Ashburn, VA
Police & Fire
Virginia Impostor Oversaw 60 Patients During Fake Nurse Scheme In California, Police Say Virginia Impostor Oversaw 60 Patients During Fake Nurse Scheme In California, Police Say
Virginia Impostor Oversaw 60 Patients During Fake Nurse Scheme In California, Police Say A Virginia woman on federal probation for fraud is back behind bars after allegedly impersonating a nurse and securing jobs at multiple Los Angeles County hospitals, including overseeing dozens of patients without proper credentials, the Burbank Police Department announced. The suspect, 44-year-old Amanda Leeann Porter, was identified after hospital staff at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank discovered she was posing as a licensed nurse from out of state.  Between April 8 and May 8, Porter reportedly cared for approximately 60 patients while fraudulently employed. Port…

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by Zak Failla
Massapequa, NY
Police & Fire
Serial Parking Meter Burglar Caught On Long Island: Police Serial Parking Meter Burglar Caught On Long Island: Police
Serial Parking Meter Burglar Caught On Long Island: Police A man has been arrested in connection to over a dozen thefts across Long Island, police announced. Marvin O Morejon Flores, age 35, was arrested on Wednesday, April 17, according to Nassau County Police. On multiple occasions Morejon Flores, who is from Hempstead, stole from parking meters along Roslyn Road and Jericho Turnpike, an investigation claimed. He reportedly gave police false information; after he was arrested for the alleged larcenies, police found he had warrants out for his arrest for violating probation and criminal possession of a controlled substance. For the thefts, M…

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by Sophie Grieser
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
GOTCHA! Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Paramus Officer At Mall ID'd, Captured, Chief Says GOTCHA! Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Paramus Officer At Mall ID'd, Captured, Chief Says
Gotcha! Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Paramus Officer At Mall ID'd, Captured, Chief Says A suspect who hit a Paramus police officer with his car as he fled a local mall was identified and captured thanks to dogged detective work and crime-fighting teamwork, authorities said. Officers were investigating the use of credit cards stolen from vehicles at the Garden State Plaza when a black Honda CRV sped through the lower-level parking garage just before 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Officer Michael Cleary was clipped by the car, whose driver kept going, Guidetti said. Cleary was treated for a knee injury at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Mea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newburgh, NY
Police & Fire
Hudson Valley Man Charged With Attacking Trooper On Busy Highway Hudson Valley Man Charged With Attacking Trooper On Busy Highway
Hudson Valley Man Charged With Attacking Trooper On Busy Highway A Hudson Valley man has been charged with resisting arrest after he allegedly attacked a New York State Trooper attempting to talk with him. The incident took place in Orange County on Thursday, Feb. 1 on I-84 in the town of Wawayanda. The attack began after a trooper located Jahri Evans, age 24, of the town of Wallkill, walking along I-84, said Trooper Steven Nevel of the New York State Police.  Evans initially gave the trooper a fake name and continued to walk away. When the trooper attempted to stop him, Evans began to resist and fight the trooper, Nevel said. Nevel said during th…

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by Kathy Reakes
Rutherford, NJ
News
Trio With Stolen Checks, IDs Flees Carlstadt Bank, Nabbed By Hasbrouck Heights PD: Police Trio With Stolen Checks, IDs Flees Carlstadt Bank, Nabbed By Hasbrouck Heights PD: Police
Trio With Stolen Checks, IDs Flees Carlstadt Bank, Nabbed By Hasbrouck Heights PD: Police A trio of thieves who’d been burglarizing vehicles parked outside New Jersey gyms had paper and tape covering their license plate when they tried to cash a stolen check at a Carlstadt bank, authorities said. Were they ever in for a surprise. The trio was still at the drive-up window when the manager of Lakeland Bank called police, Acting Police Chief Thomas Cox said. Discovering the holder’s account frozen, the teller refused to cash the $1,300 check and the trio drove off, the chief said. Borough police issued a Be on the Lookout (BOLO) for their blue Altima, which Hasbrouck Heights Poli…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
Long Island Man Nabbed Stealing Pocketbook From Car, Police Say Long Island Man Nabbed Stealing Pocketbook From Car, Police Say
Long Island Man Nabbed Stealing Pocketbook From Car, Police Say A Long Island man has been charged with allegedly stealing a pocketbook out of a vehicle at Dunkin' Donuts. The incident took place in Riverhead around 2:50 p.m., on Monday, April 25. According to Riverhead police, an officer was investigating a car crash when he was told by a passerby that an unknown man was looking into parked vehicles at the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot on Roanoke Avenue. A short time later the investigating officer spotted a man fitting the previously reported description walking with a woman’s pocketbook, police said. The officer stopped the man and beg…

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by Kathy Reakes
Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
Long Island Man Found Slumped Over Wheel Provided False Name, Tried To Bribe Cops, Police Say Long Island Man Found Slumped Over Wheel Provided False Name, Tried To Bribe Cops, Police Say
Long Island Man Found Slumped Over Wheel Provided False Name, Tried To Bribe Cops, Police Say A Long Island man is facing charges after he was found slumped over the steering wheel of his pickup truck and offered officers cash to let him off, police said. Nassau County Police officers responded to a 911 call for a man slumped over a steering wheel in front of a Pearl Street residence in Oceanside at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30. Upon arrival, police said that the officers found a man later identified as East Rockaway resident Kevin Meyer, age 32, in the driver’s seat in a 2003 Ford F-150. Officials said that when the officers made contact with him, Meyer was “confused and inco…

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by Zak Failla
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others
Police: Convicted Stalker Targets Same Bergen Victim With Emails To Schools, Towns, Others A convicted stalker from Bergen County sent a series of emails about a victim to several North Jersey school districts, municipalities and individuals, authorities charged. Patrick McMeekin, 53, of Hillsdale had already spent four months in the Bergen County Jail before being released, with conditions, in January for stalking the same victim in 2018, records show. The former Mahwah resident had been a fugitive and was believed to be shuttling between town and another home he maintained in Colorado before police eventually took him into custody that time. This time, Hillsdale Police Chief R…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Massapequa, NY
Police & Fire
Four Charged During State Liquor Authority Inspection At Long Island Club Four Charged During State Liquor Authority Inspection At Long Island Club
Four Charged During State Liquor Authority Inspection At Long Island Club Three men and a woman were charged after a State Liquor Authority inspection at a Long Island club. It happened on Saturday, Feb. 8 after 11:30 p.m. in Deer Park. The four charged by Suffolk County Police First Precinct Crime Section and patrol officers were: William Haverkamp, 69, of Centereach, was charged with one count of failure to maintain security guard records and one count of failure to maintain proprietary security guard license to employ. Robert Hopkins, 30, of West Babylon, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a Class A misdemeanor. Jose Martine…

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by Joe Lombardi
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Freed Driver Who Nearly Ran Down Police At Holland Tunnel Caught With Stolen Car In Edgewater Freed Driver Who Nearly Ran Down Police At Holland Tunnel Caught With Stolen Car In Edgewater
Freed Driver Who Nearly Ran Down Police At Holland Tunnel Caught With Stolen Car In Edgewater A driver who was released after nearly running down several police officers at the Holland Tunnel was arrested in a stolen car in Edgewater, authorities said. Delano Andrew Hutchinson, 23, of Sayreville was taken into custody along with Shemar Malik Rogers, 21, of Corona, Queens after Officer Michael Colon found them stopped in the middle of Undercliff Avenue around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Detective Sgt. Tim Farrell said. Colon ran the Florida license plate on the 2019 Toyota Camry, Farrell said, and discovered it had been reported stolen from a Hertz Car Rental on Norm Avenue in the Westchester h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Couple Caught With Heroin For Sale, Guns Used Fake IDs To Rent Edgewater Apartment Prosecutor: Couple Caught With Heroin For Sale, Guns Used Fake IDs To Rent Edgewater Apartment
Prosecutor: Couple Caught With Heroin For Sale, Guns Used Fake IDs To Rent Edgewater Apartment A couple who used bogus IDs to rent an Edgewater high-rise apartment were dealing heroin while armed with two handguns, authorities said. Alexis Mercedes, 32, also had illegal body vest along with the drugs and guns when he and Katherine Castillo, 24, were busted by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Squad on Tuesday, Acting Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. The pair had been dealing from The Alexander apartment building off River Road, the prosecutor said. Both had “provided fictitious and/or fraudulent identification in order to establish residency,” …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Police & Fire
Couple Driving 91 MPH On PIP Had Counterfeit Credit Cards, Police Say Couple Driving 91 MPH On PIP Had Counterfeit Credit Cards, Police Say
Couple Driving 91 MPH On PIP Had Counterfeit Credit Cards, Police Say A couple is facing a series of charges after being busted by New York State Police troopers while allegedly in possession of multiple fraudulent credit cards and a fake driver’s license in the Hudson Valley. While traveling on the Palisades Parkway in Haverstraw on Friday, May 18, troopers stopped Rosendale resident Kareem Davis, 31, for driving 91 mph in a 55 mph zone. During the subsequent stop, Davis allegedly produced a forged Alabama driver’s license. Police said that further investigation determined that Davis and his passenger, Astoria resident Samantha Irizarry, 32, were in possessi…

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by Zak Failla
Somers, NY
News
Police: Man At Large After Strangling Victim In Somers Domestic Incident Police: Man At Large After Strangling Victim In Somers Domestic Incident
Police: Man At Large After Strangling Victim In Somers Domestic Incident State Police are seeking the public’s assistance as they search for a wanted man accused of strangling his victim before fleeing through a window to evade arrest in Northern Westchester. An alert was reissued on Wednesday, April 11 for Davon Olin, who is wanted by state police and Town of Somers Court for an incident last year at a Somers residence, when he allegedly strangled his victim, provided state police with a false name and fled the scene through a window, according to police. The following day, police said that Olin’s real name was discovered by a New York Probation Office that det…

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by Zak Failla
Somers, NY
News
Police: Man At Large After Strangling Victim In Somers Domestic Incident Police: Man At Large After Strangling Victim In Somers Domestic Incident
Police: Man At Large After Strangling Victim In Somers Domestic Incident State Police are seeking the public’s assistance as they search for a wanted man accused of strangling his victim before fleeing through a window to evade arrest in Northern Westchester. An alert was issued for Davon Olin, who is wanted by state police and Town of Somers Court for an incident last year at a Somers residence, when he allegedly strangled his victim, provided state police with a false name and fled the scene through a window, according to police. The following day, police said that Olin’s real name was discovered through a New York Probation Office that determined he had ties …

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by Zak Failla