Suffolk DA Sini warns of illicit substances pressed to look like prescription pills Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini on Sunday announced that fake pills have been found being peddled on the street by drug dealers. The pills were made to look identical to...

A Riverhead man restrained a minor with duct tape and sexually assaulted her in minivan parked in a retail store lot earlier this month, Suffolk County prosecutors said. A grand jury indictment, released Wednesday in Central Islip, charged Jose Samuel Carabantes...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini Suffolk County Criminal Bar Association president Larry Flowers has been appointed to the Independent Review Panel, the three-member body that advises District Attorney Timothy Sini on cases presented to an integrity...

Former Officer Joseph Recca, 28, of West Islip, LI, was busted in July with two co-conspirators on charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance. A drug-dealing ex-NYPD cop has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for selling a Long Island man the fentanyl pills that...

Bay Shore resident Donald Cristiano Jr. is led out of the Suffolk County Police Department's First Precinct in West Babylon earlier this month.   A judge Wednesday set a cash bail of $1 million for a Bay Shore man accused of impersonating a cop in Lindenhurst and...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini in Hauppauge in December.   Four Suffolk County residents and a Virginia woman accused of participating in a scheme to sell fraudulent car insurance to Latino victims on the East End have been arrested and face...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, speaks during a news conference outside his office in Hauppauge in December, 2020   A Wyandanch man in clown makeup broke into the home of a victim he had raped two days earlier and damaged a video surveillance...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini in 2019. A Manhattan couple who allegedly falsified positive coronavirus test results to delay the husband’s drug case have been indicted on forgery and other criminal charges, Suffolk County prosecutors said Monday....

Illegally dumped dirt mounds at Brentwood State Park during a press event at Brentwood State Park in Brentwood on July 17, 2018. Following up on Operation Pay Dirt, the undercover operation on Long Island and in New York City that the state's top environmental...

Melville man charged in alleged crimes targeting underage girls   The Suffolk County district attorney says Bradley Garyn, 27, used social media to pay underage girls to send him inappropriate sexual photos and videos.   A Melville man faces up to 15 years...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, speaks during a news  conference outside the Suffolk County district attorney's office in Hauppauge on Wednesday.   A Hempstead sex trafficker coerced his female victims into prostitution through threats of violence,...

A pair of Centereach brothels, masquerading as massage parlors, forced Chinese sex workers to work 14-hour days and have unprotected sex while the business' operator earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit income, Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini said...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini in front of First District Court in Central Islip on Oct. 21. Fourteen Long Island residents accused of participating in a drug ring that sold and distributed heroin, cocaine, Oxycodone, methamphetamine and marijuana...

Illegally dumped material, such as mounds of dirt, filled with large chunks of metal and other contaminants, that were discovered during "Operation Pay Dirt" began to be removed Wednesday from John Kerrigan's half-acre property on Wilson Boulevard in Central Islip....

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini   Three Suffolk County residents were arrested and charged with committing welfare fraud after they allegedly stole more than $197,000 combined in public assistance benefits from the county Department of Social...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini   A contracting company and its owner in Northport have pleaded guilty in connection with several labor-related crimes and were ordered to pay more than $85,000 in restitution, the Suffolk County district attorney’s...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini at the William J. Lindsay County Complex in Hauppauge in December. Eleven top union officials in the construction industry on Long Island have been indicted by federal authorities on allegations of accepting bribes...

Thursday, October 1st, I announced the conviction of a Holbrook man for driving while intoxicated and killing 12-year-old Boy Scout Andrew McMorris, of Wading River, in a motor vehicle crash on Sept. 30, 2018. On the two-year anniversary of the crash, the defendant...

Sound Beach man who operated 'sex dungeon' sentenced to more than 9 years in prison   Raymond Rodio, a Sound Beach man who officials said used drugs to push at least 20 women into prostitution, was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison on Tuesday. Credit: Howard...

Authorities: Over $1 million stolen from financial institutions in identity fraud scheme     Authorities on Wednesday said more than $1 million was stolen from financial institutions in a nationwide synthetic identity fraud scheme that involved the theft of...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini at the William J. Lindsay County Complex in Hauppauge. A West Babylon man ran a 24-hour "major cocaine trafficking operation" out of a window in his home, authorities said Tuesday in announcing his indictment on...

New York City Police Department officer Joseph Recca outside Central Islip courthouse on Wednesday. An NYPD officer from West Islip and two other Long Island men were arrested on drug and conspiracy charges Tuesday, the result of an investigation sparked by the fatal...

Evidence seized in a takedown of an alleged multi-million dollar cross-country drug distribution network operating in Suffolk County. Suffolk County authorities say they've thwarted an alleged multi-million dollar cross-country drug distribution network involving a...

A search warrant executed Wednesday at defendant Mark Singh's home led to the recovery of seven illegal assault weapons, one of which was loaded, and three illegally configured receivers and parts in the process of being assembled, the Suffolk DA said Friday.   A...

The Suffolk Count District Attorney's Office is investigating whether the presence of a deadly mixture of fentanyl-laced cocaine is responsible for causing recent overdoses in Suffolk County. In advance of the holiday weekend, we are issuing a critically important...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini, and the office's special narcotics bureau chief, Kate Wagner, talk about a large-scale local drug bust that resulted in the arrest of 15 people. Suffolk County authorities have busted a multimillion dollar drug...

Play Video Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini, and the office's special narcotics bureau chief, Kate Wagner, talk about a large-scale local drug bust that resulted in the arrest of 15 people. Suffolk County authorities have busted a multimillion dollar...

The last two months have been full of trials and tribulations for all of us. New challenges most of us have never dreamed of seem to come fast and furious each and every day. One of those challenges for me, as many of you know, was contracting the virus last month. It...

Yesterday, I joined the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice to testify regarding my Office’s work to combat MS-13 and the area of electronic investigation and surveillance with a focus on the ever-increasing problem of the use...

 Suffolk District attorney Timothy Sini and Suffolk Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart appear in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead in July.   Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini on Thursday urged the Department of Justice to continue pushing tech...

Ann Marie Drago guilty on all counts in activist Evelyn Rodriguez's death..... Jurors delivered a swift verdict Wednesday in the trial of a Patchogue woman after once again watching the graphic news video of her driving over Evelyn Rodriguez on the same Brentwood...

Suffolk County police investigate the scene of a shooting at an IHOP restaurant on Portion Road in Lake Ronkonkoma in March. A Bloods gang member was sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting five rounds, and wounding one man, inside an IHOP restaurant in Lake...

Law enforcement officials say this is the illegal clinic in Smithtown where Brian Kaufman worked. Prosecutors have charged a Smithtown man who is a felon with running an illegal health clinic, where they said he posed as a medical professional, selling steroids and...

            Deontrae Green, 20, of Islandia, a member of the Bloods gang, pleaded guilty to attempted murder after he shot inside a Lake                                Ronkonkoma IHOP in March, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney.   ...

          Deontrae Green, 20, of Islandia, a member of the Bloods gang, pleaded guilty to attempted murder after he shot inside a Lake                                Ronkonkoma IHOP in March, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney.    A Bloods gang...

Suffolk County authorities have charged the owner of a Ronkonkoma sporting goods store with selling illegal assault firearms and high-capacity gun magazines, including a rifle used in a murder-suicide in which a man killed his 2-year-old son and himself, officials...

Nearly 100 MS-13 members and associates, including the leaders of nine local cliques, have been charged in the largest state takedown of the dangerous street gang that terrorized parts of Long Island for years, Suffolk officials announced Friday. The 23-month...

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini discussed the grand jury's recommendations on illegal dumping, including felony charges for those accused of dumping contaminated materials on the properties of unwitting victims who think they're getting clean fill....

gets 17-21 years, Suffolk DA says Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, shown in a file photo, announced the sentencing of a Bloods gang member to 17 and one-half to 21 years in prison A Bloods gang member was sentenced to 17 to 21 years in prison for driving...

Authorities on Thursday announced the arrests of two dozen people who allegedly sold fentanyl-laced heroin -- the deadly opioid linked to at least five fatal overdoses -- and other drugs as part of a drug-trafficking network centered on the Shinnecock Reservation in...

Keith Bush at his home in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. Bush served 32 years in prison for the murder of Sharese Watson, a crime he says he did not commit. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. Reacting to the exoneration of Keith Bush, wrongly convicted...

Anthony "Rock" Grazio, 54, of Smithtown, was sentenced Monday to 2 to 4 years in prison for being the ringleader of an illegal scheme to supply construction sites with contaminated fill. Credit: James Carbone A “dirt broker” who Suffolk prosecutors said led a massive...

  Two Smithtown garbage carters were sentenced to three years conditional release Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, after pleading guilty in May to a scheme to defraud the town of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mario and Robert Garofalo pleaded guilty to attempted...

A convicted Bellport drug dealer who rocketed down Middle Country Road in Ridge at 154 mph in a stolen car was excoriated Tuesday by a Suffolk judge and prosecutors for lacking the courage to come to court to be sentenced for killing five people in a crash last year....

An innocent man. For the past 44 years, Keith Bush has made that claim to anyone who’d listen — ever since he was accused and convicted of a 1975 Suffolk County sex-related murder. At every step in his long journey through New York’s criminal justice system, Bush...

Anthony "Rock" Grazio, 54, of Smithtown will serve 2 to 4 years in prison and pay $500,000 restitution for his part in an illegal dumping scheme.   The ringleader of a dumping scheme that led to contaminated fill being left at homes, business and schools across...

A Sound Beach man used the addictive lure of heroin and crack cocaine to force nearly two dozen women into a prostitution ring he operated out of the basement of his parents’ home, Suffolk County prosecutors said Thursday. Raymond Rodio III, 47, pleaded not guilty at...

Jamel Turner in court in Central Islip in 2018.   Photo Credit: James Carbone   Twice on Wednesday, a Bellport man charged with killing five people while fleeing from police in a stolen car rejected plea offers before finally pleading guilty in a deal that will...

  Suffolk prosecutors unsealed a 27-count indictment Wednesday that accuses three men of participating in a drug trafficking ring that sold cocaine across Long Island. The arrests were the result of a nearly yearlong investigation by Suffolk County police that...

AnnMarie Drago in Central Islip Court, where she attended a status conference in her case.   Photo Credit: James Carbone A Suffolk judge refused Monday to dismiss an indictment against the woman who ran over and killed anti-gang activist Evelyn Rodriguez, ruling that...

Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini said most of those victimized lived in low-income neighborhoods, but that the crime affects all Long Islanders because the toxic fill could contaminate drinking water rom underground aquifers. Suffolk District Attorney Timothy...

On Thursday, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini announced the formation of the Conviction Integrity Bureau, which will examine whether convictions were based on valid evidence and testimony. (Credit: James Carbone)  Original article and credits can be found...

Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini talks about new arrests in an investigation into alleged illegal dumping.   Three more people were arrested in one of the largest busts of alleged illegal dumping in the state’s history, Suffolk County District Attorney...

I am proud to announce that yesterday my office, in partnership with substance use experts, launched a new program to further incentivize drug treatment for those addicted to drugs and who are arrested for low-level non-violent crimes. This program is a seismic shift...