Crimes Nearby: String of Car Robberies in Port Jeff Station

Authorities on Monday indicted nine people from New York and Virginia – including a South Setauket man and a Head of the Harbor couple – for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country and forcing them to work long hours for minimal pay at several Long Island 7-Eleven stores. Farrukh Baig, of Head of the Harbor, along with his wife Bushra, South Setauket resident Malik Yousaf, and five others were allegedly involved in a scheme to force illegal immigrant labor to work long hours in their 7-Eleven franchises, skirting labor laws by using stolen identities to mask the actual time their workers spent on the clock.

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Suffolk County police arrested a Mt. Sinai man whom they said illegally possessed a handgun. Daniel Goble, 28, was arrested on June 14 at his house in Mt. Sinai and was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony. Police said he had a loaded 9 mm gun at his house. A police spokesperson could not say why officers had been called to the house. According to court records, Goble was held on $5,000 cash or $10,000 bond and was due back in court on Wednesday.

 Suffolk County police are investigating a pair of incidents involving thefts from unlocked cars. A resident of Katherine Street in Port Jefferson Station reported that someone stole a wallet from an unlocked car, which was parked in her driveway, sometime between 5 p.m. on June 13 and 6:30 a.m. on June 14. A resident of Overton Avenue in Port Jefferson reported that someone stole multiple debit and credit cards from inside an unlocked car, which was parked in the driveway, sometime between 10 p.m. on June 13 and 7:30 a.m. on June 14.