Police investigating report of shots fired in Calverton
Riverhead Town police are investigating a report of gunshots fired at a Calverton home Monday evening. Officers were called to a home along Sound Avenue after a resident reported a disturbance...
View ArticlePolice: Man arrested for gas station burglary
A 27-year-old man accused of burglarizing a gas station along Route 58 early Tuesday was arrested, according to Riverhead Town police. Officers responded to a report of a burglary in progress at the...
View ArticleBlotters: Driver spotted slumped over steering wheel at light, arrested for DWI
Southampton police arrested Miguel Gonzalez Flores, 23, for driving while intoxicated in Riverside on Sunday. Responding officers observed the Hampton Bays resident slumped over his wheel after...
View ArticlePolice seek public’s help to locate missing 17-year-old girl
Riverhead Town police are seeking the public’s help to locate a 17-year-old girl who has been reported missing. Blanca Martinez-Geronimo left her home in Riverhead at about 9 p.m. Saturday. She left...
View ArticleRiverhead man arrested in connection to deli burglary
Riverhead police arrested a 30-year-old town resident on a charge of burglarizing the Maple Tree Deli on West Main Street last August, the department announced Thursday. A department release said that...
View ArticleBlotters: Riverhead man arrested for stabbing incident
Southampton police arrested Robert Miller, 32, for slashing someone with a knife in Riverside last Wednesday, causing a major injury. The Riverhead resident fled the scene, according to an incident...
View ArticleCops: Arrest made in arson incident
A Manorville man has been arrested in connection to a suspicious explosion in Aquebogue last month, police announced Tuesday. Bryan Henry, 44, is charged with fourth-degree arson, third-degree...
View ArticlePolice: Riverhead man charged with assault and reckless endangerment
A 19-year-old Riverhead man was arrested Friday by town police in connection with an incident that took place Oct. 4 when gunshots were fired at a Sound Avenue residence in Calverton. On that day,...
View ArticleCops: Two men robbed of cash Sunday night
Two people were reportedly robbed of cash in Grangebel Park Sunday night, according to Riverhead Town police. A patrol officer on East Main Street was flagged down by two men at 9:39 p.m. and reported...
View ArticleRiverhead officer makes history by becoming first female lieutenant in...
Danielle Willsey always wanted to be a police officer. And now she’s made history as a member of the Riverhead Town Police Department. The 15-year veteran of the department became the first female...
View ArticleCops: Driver trapped in overturned vehicle dies in fiery crash on Sound Avenue
A pickup driver died Monday morning in a fiery crash on Sound Avenue when the vehicle towing an enclosed trailer overturned, trapping the driver, according to Riverhead Town police. A passenger...
View ArticleCops: Woman injured in box cutter attack at motel
A Wading River woman allegedly used box cutters to cut another woman across the face and neck Tuesday morning and had to be subdued with a stun gun by a responding Riverhead Town police officer....
View ArticleCops: Parking lot fight leads to stabbing; woman suffers ‘extensive stab wounds’
A fight between two women in the 7-Eleven parking lot on West Main Street Wednesday escalated to a stabbing that left a victim with lacerations to her lung and spleen, according to Riverhead Town...
View ArticlePolice investigating series of paintball gun incidents after young bicyclist...
Riverhead Town police are investigating a series of incidents involving a group of four or five likely teenagers firing paintball guns at homes, vehicles and even young bicyclists. One boy on a...
View Article‘Uncooperative’ ATV, dirt bike riders create dangerous situation on roadways...
Scores of ATVs and dirt bikes sped through parts of Riverhead and Brookhaven towns Sunday afternoon, some doing wheelies and some coming dangerously close to oncoming traffic, while others blocked...
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‘They were a beautiful family’; Investigation underway into fire that killed...
Five people died in a massive fire that ripped through an East 2nd Street home in Riverhead Tuesday night, Suffolk County police said. All five victims were found on the third floor of the...
View ArticleCops: Shoplifter points gun at store manager who tried to prevent theft
A shoplifter pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it toward a Big Lots manager who was attempting to block the thief from leaving the store with a shopping cart full of unpaid merchandise late...
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After suffering serious injuries in 2020 crash, Riverhead officer faced long,...
About 20 months after a horrific accident while on duty, Riverhead police officer Rob Sproston is back: back on the police force, back in the fire department, even back in the U.S. Marines. But it...
View ArticleCops: Riverhead man charged with burglary after breaking into Lowes
A Riverhead man who allegedly broke into the Riverhead Lowes late Thursday night and stole assorted tools was arrested Friday at the Greenview Motel, according to Riverhead Town police. Terry Smith,...
View ArticleCops: Second teen charged in October shooting at Calverton home
An investigation into gunshots fired on the property of a Sound Avenue residence in Calverton last month resulted in a second arrest. Riverhead detectives in conjunction with the United States...
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