SUFFOLK COUNTY SPCA OFFERS REWARD FOR PERSON(S) WHO TORTURED DOG

The Suffolk County SPCA is offering a $2,500.00 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) who tortured and abandoned a female pit bull. Roy Gross, Chief of the Suffolk County SPCA said that on Sunday August 15th, a resident of Brown Ave., Amityville was walking in a wooded area on Brown Ave. and spotted the dog inside of a closed storage container. The emaciated dog appeared to have recently given birth and had wounds on its body indicating that it had been tortured. The resident took the dog to a Veterinarian where it was found to be lactating. Gross said that anyone with information on the dog should call the Suffolk County SPCA at 631-382-7722. All calls will be kept confidential.

“TEACHING A CHILD NOT TO STEP ON A CATERPILLAR IS AS VALUABLE TO THE CHILD AS IT IS TO THE CATERPILLAR.” Bradley Miller

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Update on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 10:20PM by .

THE REWARD HAS BEEN INCREASED TO $5,000.00 WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES  

Sentencing for Darnell Festus adjourned to August 27

Sentencing for contract murder of L.I. Attorney adjourned to August 27   The sentencing of a Queens man convicted of first degree murder in the 2008 shooting of a Long Island real estate attorney was adjourned today to August 27.   Darnell Festus, 25, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole for shooting 44 year old James DiMartino to death in a Commack restaurant parking lot.  Jurors deliberated for four days, convicting Festus last month of first degree murder, second degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder   State Supreme Court Justice C. Randall Hinrichs explained that the court had received an anonymous letter alleging another person shot DiMartino to death.  The court granted a short adjournment to allow defense counsel to investigate.   Four months ago, Festus’s codefendant, Ronald Thornton, 39, of Nesconset, was convicted of concocting the murder plot to prevent DiMartino, his business partner, from connecting him to a series of fraudulent mortgage deals.   Thornton is serving a sentence of life without parole in the Five Points Maximum Security Correctional Facility in upstate New York.  

SCPD Arrest Woman For Robbery At Bank Of Smithtown - Kings Park Branch

Suffolk County Police today arrested a Huntington Station woman for robbing the Bank of Smithtown branch in Kings Park.

Dashona Minor, 26, entered the bank, located at 14 Park Drive, at 3:45 p.m., reached over the counter and grabbed money from behind the counter. She then fled northbound on Indian Head road on foot.

Employees of the bank notified police of Minor’s description, a black female with a medium build, wearing a dark top, blue jeans and a red Yankees baseball cap. One of the employees followed Minor outside and into the Sunlee Nails Boutique, at 23 Indian Head Road, and informed police of Minor’s location. A responding officer arrived at the scene and arrested Minor.

Following an investigation by Suffolk County Police Major Case detectives, Minor, of 21 Tower St., Huntington Station, was charged with Grand Larceny 4th Degree.

Minor will be held overnight and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on August 19.

A criminal charge is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

Joe and Kristen Farrell and Former Mayor Giuliani and Judith Giuliani Open Their Home and Hearts to SB Long Island Children's Hospital

A SUMMER NIGHT AT ‘SANDCASTLE’ THE $52 MILLION BRIDGEHAMPTON ESTATE DRAWS OVER 400; APPEARANCE BY “THE MAYOR”
 
First Fundraiser for Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital raises more than $200,000 
 
STONY BROOK, N.Y., August 17, 2010 – Rudy and Judith Giuliani were special guests and co-hosts with Joe and Kristen Farrell at “A Summer Night at Sandcastle,” a soiree attended by more than 400 benefiting the new Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital at Stony Brook University. Sandcastle, the $52 million Bridgehampton estate of real estate developer Joe Farrell and his wife Kristen, has the distinction of netting the highest two-week rental in the Hamptons, listing for $500,000 for two weeks. The Farrells donated the use of their estate as the fund-raiser venue as a token of support for the new Children’s Hospital and as an expression of gratitude to the NICU at Stony Brook where their child was cared for five years ago following complications at birth.

Also seen at A Summer Night at Sandcastle were Fox 5’s Bill Hemmer, co-host of “America’s Newsroom,” who conducted the live auction, Jackie “The Jokeman” Martling, former Duke standout and ex-Chicago Bull point guard, Jay Williams, and former New York Jets linebacker, Greg Buttle.
 
Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital, an $80 million project, is the only children’s hospital east of the Queens border and the only University-based children’s hospital on all of Long Island

Launched on June 30, 2010, Stony Brook Children’s is the only dedicated children’s hospital east of the Nassau/Queens border, providing patients with state-of-the-art technology and world-class specialty physicians, nurses and researchers, all contained in the only university-based children’s hospital on Long Island. Stony Brook Children’s represents a forceful response by the medical center to an increasing national trend within pediatric medicine in the severity of childhood illness, prevalence of chronic conditions and survivorship of care. Stony Brook Children’s serves the needs of the children of Suffolk County as a community hospital for local residents, a tertiary hospital for complex, chronic or congenital conditions and a safety net hospital for those who are underinsured or uninsured.

An associate membership status in the prestigious National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), which promotes the health and well-being of all children and their families through support of children’s hospitals and health systems that are committed to excellence in providing health care to children, Stony Brook Children’s currently operates 100 pediatric beds with a faculty of more than 100 pediatric providers in 30 different specialties and more than 200 voluntary pediatric faculty members. More than 7,000 children and adolescents are admitted to Stony Brook each year and in 2009 the Stony Brook provided primary pediatric care services to more than 50,000 children with Medicaid coverage. In 2011, Stony Brook will complete the construction of the most advanced Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in New York State, adding to its existing specialized children’s services, including the Regional Perinatal Center, the National Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program, the Pediatric Cardiology Program, Pediatric HIV and AIDS Center, Cystic Fibrosis Center and the Cody Center for Autism and Development Disabilities.

    

“A Summer Night at Sandcastle”

Buttle Group ShotGroup with Rudi and Judith Guiliani

Jackie the Jokerman Martling and Dr. Steven Strongwater Joe and Kristen Farrell with President Stanley President Stanely, Bill Hemmer and Guest University Leadership with John Tsunis 

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy Announces Favorable PERB Decision on Highway Patrol Issue

Labor Board Upholds 2008 Cost-Savings Move to Put Deputy Sheriffs on State Highways, and Redeploy Police Officers to Local Sectors

Hauppauge, NY – Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy this afternoon in what he called ‘a huge victory for the taxpayers’ announced a New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) decision to dismiss entirely charges filed by the Suffolk PBA and Superior Officers Association over the county executive’s 2008 move to assign patrol of the Long Island Expressway and Sunrise Highway to Deputy Sheriffs.

The decision, which is not subject to appeal under an agreement the county negotiated last year with the PBA, upholds Levy’s redeployment of approximately 55 officers off the state-owned roads into local precinct sectors.

“Shifting the sheriffs to patrol our state roads helped me submit a tax freeze budget in 2009 and 2010, and this decision upholding that move will help me freeze taxes next year,” Levy said.

The August 12 decision by Administrative Law Judge Philip L. Maier dismissed all charges filed by the PBA and SOA.

Levy began talks with New York State in early 2008 to have state troopers take responsibility for patrolling state roads, as is the case in nearly every other county in the state. After months of fruitless talks with high-level state representatives in which Suffolk sought either financial or manpower assistance for patrolling the LIE and Sunrise Highway, Levy gave the order to move the Suffolk Police Department’s Highway Patrol Unit off those two roads at 10 a.m. on September 15, 2008, with patrol functions taken over by Sheriff Vincent Demarco

According to the county executive, the annual police cost of patrolling two state roads was approximately $12 million. Deputy Sheriffs, who receive the same academy training and are assigned the same equipment to patrol, are paid an average of $42,000 less than police officers. Through the 2008 shift, Levy attained a cost avoidance of approximately $20 million, since 55 officers became available to local precincts, negating the need for a recruit class in 2009.