Crimes Nearby: Alleged Robber Cuts Walmart Security Officer

Three Village

• Suffolk County police called in a helicopter and K-9 unit late Tuesday night to search for a pair of individuals in Lake Grove suspected of trespassing onto the property of an abandoned house, though the suspects were able to avoid police.
According to police, two 911 calls were received around 11:10 p.m. on Tuesday. One reported a suspicious vehicle and another reportedly spotted a man on the property of an abandoned house on Angela Lane – behind Raymour & Flanigan, just east of the Smith Haven Mall.

Police approached the car shortly after, they said, and upon trying to search the car the driver sped off.

Commack

• Dimitris Lynum, 29, of North Babylon, was arrested in Commack April 20 on a charge of burglary in the third degree, a felony. According to police, Lynum allegedly burglarized a home April 8 on Church Street in Bayport and damaged a vehicle in a packed garage. He also allegedly burglarized a home on the same street on Feb. 26, taking a scanner and damaging three vehicles.

  • Brian Healy, 29, of Smithtown, was arrested in Commack April 19 on a charge of robbery in the second degree, a felony. According to police, Healy was attempting to steal goods from Walmart in Commack and then cut and injured the hand of a security officer who attempted to stop him.

  • Islam Eltahlawy, 17, of Commack, was arrested in Commack on Map Lane on April 18 on a charge of robbery in the second degree, a felony. Police said Eltahlawy punched a man in the head and then took his wallet and prescription medications.

Hauppauge

• Angel Figueroa, 64, of North Babylon was arrested in Hauppauge on April 19 on a charge of grand larceny in the fourth degree, a felony. According to police, Figueroa failed to pay business taxes to the state between June 2005 and May 2011.  

 • Steven Saladino, 23, of Saint James, was arrested April 19 in Hauppauge on a charge of grand larceny in the fourth degree, a felony. According to police, Saladino stole jewelry from a home on Warren Court. Police said that when he was arrested, he had prescription drugs that were not prescribed to him and marijuana. He was also charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, a felony, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a misdemeanor.

 • Ivert Marin, 46, of Central Islip, was arrested in Hauppauge April 18 on a charge of grand larceny in the third degree, a felony. Police said Marin tampered with a LIPA meter to steal electricity.

Miller Place-Rocky Point

• Ryan Deon, 25,of Rocky Point, was arrested April 16 in Shoreham and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. According to police, a bottle containing illegal prescription medication was seen on the passenger side floor of his 1996 Chevrolet pickup.  

Port Jefferson

• Catherine Mann, 45, of Port Jefferson Station, was arrested April 19 and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny: property value greater than $1,000, a felony. Mann allegedly took $2,450 worth of cash and jewelry from another person’s house.   

• Ray Pena, 18, of Port Jefferson Station, and Stanislav Vidal, 18, of Selden, were arrested April 19 and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. According to police, the two were arrested in the parking lot of the Sunoco gas station on Old Town Road in a 1997 BMW and found to be in possession of heroin.  

 • Michael Paolucci, 49, of Port Jefferson Station, was arrested April 17 in Patchogue and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. Paolucci allegedly took a T-Mobile cellphone valued at $70 from the Best Buy in Patchogue.