DWI Charge in Fatal Dix Hills Crash
A Brentwood man was arrested on a DWI charge following a fatal crash on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills Sunday night, police said.
According to Suffolk Police, Carleton English, 50, was driving westbound on the LIE in a 2002 BMW SUV when he struck the rear end of a 2000 Audi sedan that was also travelling westbound at 10:42 p.m.
The driver of the Audi, Henry Lapine, 58, of Levittown, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Racial Slurs Spray Painted on Deer Park Community Center
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Hate Crimes Unit detectives are asking for the public's help to locate the individual(s) responsible for spray painting racial slurs on the outside of the Deer Park Community Center.
Police said the incident occurred sometime between 3:12 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. on June 25. Besides the slurs, other assorted words and symbols were also spray painted on outside of the building located at 41 Homer Avenue.
Body of Fugitive Ex-Teacher Found
The body of a teacher who had served time for possession of child pornography was identified Monday by state police.
Michael Reiner, 53, who disappeared from a federal halfway house after a child pornography conviction, apparently killed himself, state police said Monday.
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