Tag: Suffolk County Police

Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old traveler from Blue Point who was reported missing to Suffolk Police on Sept. 11, had embarked on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, who is refusing to speak with investigators.

Suffolk County police officers allegedly used excessive force while pulling from an ambulance a woman who advocates for better relations between law enforcement and minorities while she tried to comfort a Dix Hills shooting victim, the woman and her attorney claimed in a forthcoming lawsuit. 

The Suffolk County Legislature heard public comment on the county police reform task force’s drafted plan to reinvent policing on Tuesday, 14 days before the legislature will vote on a plan to submit to New York State.

Two Suffolk County police officers were suspended without pay after they were caught on camera allegedly beating a handcuffed suspect following a police chase last week, officials said Tuesday.

Suffolk County Police officers broke up a gathering in Brookhaven early Monday morning, which the police department estimated to be about 300 to 400 people, thus violating Covid-19 regulations that limit residential gatherings to 10.

A greatest hits of some of the most ridiculous crimes that the police have responded to on Fire Island in the past decade.

A Suffolk County police sergeant’s promotion that allegedly violated nepotism laws has sparked renewed questions about the department’s ethics just as a new police commissioner works to repair the agency’s scandal-scarred reputation.

A Suffolk County police sergeant was arrested Tuesday for allegedly falsifying time sheets in order to steal more than $7,000 over a two-year period, prosecutors said.

Geraldine Hart, the FBI’s former Long Island office leader, officially became the Suffolk County Police Department’s first female commissioner after county legislators unanimously confirmed her historic appointment as top cop on Tuesday.

An ex-Suffolk County police officer has admitted to driving drunk the wrong way on Sunrise Highway and causing the head-on crash that killed a 37-year-old man in Bay Shore last year.