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lesliepear) wrote2004-02-13 10:14 pm
lesliepear) wrote2004-02-13 10:14 pm
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I've been trying to find out if there has been any link between the landfill in the town I grew up in (Oceanside, NY) and health issues. I found the website for one of the local papers and found something interesting.
The condo I grew up in is in this picture. If you look really carefully to the right of this picture - there is a smaller group of buildings. The middle one of that group (3 buildings) is the house I grew up in and my dad sold when he moved to Florida.
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Teens on robbery spree
Police looking for four youths in four related O'side crimes
By:JOSEPH KELLARD February 12, 2004
A gang of youths who went on a driving robbery spree on Jan. 30, preying on pedestrians in Oceanside, are suspected in a similar robbery in town a week earlier.
Cruising in a late-model green Ford Explorer two Saturdays ago, four males -- described as three blacks and one white or Hispanic ranging in age from 16 to 20 -- began their spree when two of them stopped a 14-year-old boy at Atlantic Avenue and Stevens Street at about 10:45 a.m. and forcibly went through his pockets. When the two suspects, described as a black male and a Hispanic male, found no money, they got back in the Explorer and drove off.
Then, at Marlborough Road and Oceanside Parkway, two suspects, described as a white male and a black male, both about 17, stopped another 14-year-old and demanded money from him. When the victim refused to surrender his money, the suspects pushed him to the ground and fled the scene in the Explorer.
At their last reported stop, on Woods Avenue and Davis Street at 11 a.m., all four suspects approached two 14-year-olds and told them to empty their pockets, but the victims' pockets were already empty. One black suspect then pushed another victim up against the side of a building, threatened yet another person and told them to empty their pockets. He took $30, and all the suspects returned to the Explorer and fled.
Detective Sgt. Gary Schriffen, commanding officer of the Nassau County Robbery Squad, told the Herald that the robbers in these three incidents probably attempted another robbery on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 9 p.m. on Woods Avenue. In that incident, four males approached a 14-year-old boy who was walking home and grabbed him, threw him to the ground, and kicked him while demanding his money and Walkman. The victim got up and ran away, and the suspects fled in different directions, empty-handed.
"There was no car seen in that incident," Schriffen said, "but the M.O. in all these cases is very similar."
These street robberies follow another pedestrian-related robbery in Oceanside, on Jan. 14, in which three teens robbed three younger boys in the parking lot of Temple Avodah in Oceanside. The victims had shoveled snow from residents' property, and the $105 they had earned was taken.
"Sometime kids may have someone attempt to rob them but don't succeed," Schriffen said in a plea to have residents help them catch the criminals, "and they run away and don't tell their parents, and we don't have a report on the incident. But we would be more than happy to have additional reports, and if people have information about these robberies, call our tips line at 1-800-244-TIPS.
Leslie Gottlieb
The condo I grew up in is in this picture. If you look really carefully to the right of this picture - there is a smaller group of buildings. The middle one of that group (3 buildings) is the house I grew up in and my dad sold when he moved to Florida.
http://images.zwire.com/local/Z/Zwire1601/zwire/images/50435.gif
Teens on robbery spree
Police looking for four youths in four related O'side crimes
By:JOSEPH KELLARD February 12, 2004
A gang of youths who went on a driving robbery spree on Jan. 30, preying on pedestrians in Oceanside, are suspected in a similar robbery in town a week earlier.
Cruising in a late-model green Ford Explorer two Saturdays ago, four males -- described as three blacks and one white or Hispanic ranging in age from 16 to 20 -- began their spree when two of them stopped a 14-year-old boy at Atlantic Avenue and Stevens Street at about 10:45 a.m. and forcibly went through his pockets. When the two suspects, described as a black male and a Hispanic male, found no money, they got back in the Explorer and drove off.
Then, at Marlborough Road and Oceanside Parkway, two suspects, described as a white male and a black male, both about 17, stopped another 14-year-old and demanded money from him. When the victim refused to surrender his money, the suspects pushed him to the ground and fled the scene in the Explorer.
At their last reported stop, on Woods Avenue and Davis Street at 11 a.m., all four suspects approached two 14-year-olds and told them to empty their pockets, but the victims' pockets were already empty. One black suspect then pushed another victim up against the side of a building, threatened yet another person and told them to empty their pockets. He took $30, and all the suspects returned to the Explorer and fled.
Detective Sgt. Gary Schriffen, commanding officer of the Nassau County Robbery Squad, told the Herald that the robbers in these three incidents probably attempted another robbery on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 9 p.m. on Woods Avenue. In that incident, four males approached a 14-year-old boy who was walking home and grabbed him, threw him to the ground, and kicked him while demanding his money and Walkman. The victim got up and ran away, and the suspects fled in different directions, empty-handed.
"There was no car seen in that incident," Schriffen said, "but the M.O. in all these cases is very similar."
These street robberies follow another pedestrian-related robbery in Oceanside, on Jan. 14, in which three teens robbed three younger boys in the parking lot of Temple Avodah in Oceanside. The victims had shoveled snow from residents' property, and the $105 they had earned was taken.
"Sometime kids may have someone attempt to rob them but don't succeed," Schriffen said in a plea to have residents help them catch the criminals, "and they run away and don't tell their parents, and we don't have a report on the incident. But we would be more than happy to have additional reports, and if people have information about these robberies, call our tips line at 1-800-244-TIPS.
Leslie Gottlieb