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Wantagh Man Killed in Motorcycle Crash

Timothy Bolger — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:21:29 +0000

A 21-year-old man was killed when he crashed his motorcycle on the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway in his hometown of Wantagh on Monday evening.

Nassau County police said the victim was riding Suzuki southbound when he lost control of the motorcycle, struck the center divider and was ejected between exit 4 and exit 3 shortly before 8 p.m.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not immediately released.

Wantagh Man Dies in Fall from Motorcycle

Timothy Bolger — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:31:40 +0000

A 64-year-old man died after he fell off of his motorcycle in Bellmore over the weekend.

Nassau County police said John Morgenstern of Wantagh was riding a Harley Davidson eastbound on Sunrise Highway when he began wobble and fall to the pavement near the corner of Rose Place at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Morgenstern appeared to experience a medical condition, police said.

The motorcycle struck an eastbound Mini Cooper. The driver and passenger in the car were not injured.

Morgenstern was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Seventh Squad detectives impounded the motorcycle for brake and safety inspections.

North Bellmore Woman Admits Killing Ex-husband

Timothy Bolger — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:02:59 +0000

Nancy Boland

A North Bellmore woman has admitted to stabbing her ex-husband to death and dumping his body on the side of a road following an argument in 2011.

Nancy Boland pleaded guilty Tuesday at Nassau County court to first-degree manslaughter, criminal contempt, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon

Prosecutors said the 57-year-old woman and her ex-husband, Walter Boland, with whom she still lived on Waltoffer Avenue, got into an argument on Nov. 16, 2011. The fight escalated when she claimed that he threatened her with a sharp-bladed instrument.

“Nancy Boland said that she grabbed it out his hand and stabbed him with it once in the abdomen, driving it upward and four inches deep,” the district attorney’s office said in a news release.

The victim, who had a valid order of protection against his ex-wife, refused to be taken to the hospital, according to Nancy Boland’s statement to police.

She left him at home to go to work the following day but when she returned home, she found her ex-husband unresponsive. Once she concluded that he was dead, she dragged his body to her mother’s car and dumped his body on the Wantagh State Parkway bike path north of Sunrise Highway.

Nancy Boland had told family, friends and co-workers that he had left after the fight and hadn’t returned. A jogger found the body the morning of Nov. 18, 2011.

Nancy Boland is expected to be sentenced March 13 to seven years in prison.