Biggest Police and Fire Stories of the Year

after boaters discovered a 5-year-old boy drifting along the shores of Kings Park Bluff.

Follwing the 24-hour search, . Luca was 41 years old.

Seamus Byrne, an Smithtown resident and army veteran who received the Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan, .

Melody and Mabel Burgos, nine-years old and 13-years old respectively, . Melody was airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center, while Mabel was transported via ambulance.

United Cesspool Service worker Richard Dennison, 43, of Central Islip, was was found dead in the sewage treatment plant at Avalon Commons in November. 

Police said they were called to the housing complex after the wife of the worker was worried that she had not heard from her husband. When officers arrived they had discovered that someone matching the description of the worker had fallen into the sewage treatment vat.

Jonathan Czeh, 34, of Kings Park, was struck by an SUV crossing West Jericho Turnpike at Plymouth Boulevard and killed Dec. 21.

Teresa Hatta, 53, of Smithtown, was driving a 2003 Honda northbound on St. Johnland Road at 8 p.m. on Nov. 5 when she was hit by Timothy Suozzo, 20, of Smithtown, who was driving westbound on River Heights Road in a 2000 Toyota. After the collision Hatta's Honda continued up St. Johnland Road and hit a tree.

Marlene Strober, 64, who was driving a 2002 Saab north on Plaisted Avenue, pulled out in front of a 2002 Ford pickup truck driven by Rafael Robles, 50, of Bay Shore, traveling eastbound on Route 347 on July 1. Strober was pronounced dead at the scene.

Svitlana Shvets, 42, of Lindenhurst, was pronounced dead at St. Catherine of Siena after being involved in a three-car crash that took place Jan. 26 on West Jericho Turnpike in Smithtown.

Hauppauge and Smithtown residents were on the receiving end of an emergency phone call from Suffolk County police on Aug. 18 after a driver found a two-year-old boy walking in the street at the intersection of Townline and Dorchester Road.

Brenda Lally, 44, who was travelling westbound on Fifty Acre Road near Linder Place in a 2010 Toyota, was arrested April 13 on charges of driving while intoxicated with her 10-year-old son in the vehicle.

A bicyclist was hit by a car on West Main Street at Edgewood Avenue on June 12 and taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center. 

Suffolk County Police arrested David Smith, 21, of St. James, after they say he pointed a green laser at an airplane and the ensuing police helicopter sent out to determine the laser's location.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced in January that 23 arrests were made from a 16-month sting to dismantle one of Suffolk’s largest heroin rings. The arrests included Smithtown resident Richard Balanda, who was arrested on charges of second-degree conspiracy for allegedly selling heroin to local residents as part of the drug ring, which spanned from Queens to Suffolk County.

Charles Wallshein, 8, sustained a head trauma after losing control and falling off of his motocross motorcycle and was then struck by motorcyclist Skyler Primack, 11, of Briarcliff Manor, at Club MX, a private club in Ronkonkoma back in July.