Crime

A 22-year-old Long Island man has been sentenced to six months in jail and must register as a sex offender for taking photos from social media accounts of nearly a dozen women when they were in high and middle school, altering them to make them sexually explicit and then posting them on a porn website for years, prosecutors say.

Eight alleged gang members and associates were indicted Thursday for numerous violent crimes across Long Island, according to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

The alleged leader of a Suffolk street gang "ruthlessly ordered" members to carry out at least four shootings of rivals to protect a trafficking operation that brought firearms, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl to Long Island, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

A bouncer at a Holbrook bar said a patron will “never run his mouth again” after he struck him in a deadly altercation captured through surveillance footage played at his trial in Riverhead Tuesday.

A quick-thinking Suffolk County police sergeant helped foil — and arrest — a Queens man who was allegedly trying to swindle $10,000 from an elderly Blue Point woman on Friday, police said.

Nassau County law enforcement officials announced Friday the arrest of a Bronx man for transporting 3 kilos of pure fentanyl, a quantity of the dangerous synthetic opioid they said has the potential to kill more than 1 million people.

Defendant Patrick Schlereth is charged with DWAI Drugs, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance, Aggravated Unlicensed Operation, and Unlicensed Operation of a vehicle.

A shooting during a dispute outside a Calverton condominium unit left a 15-year-old Riverhead High School student dead Wednesday, Suffolk County police said.

A nurse who worked at Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip has been arrested on charges that she “violently" slammed a 2-day-old infant face down into his bassinet in the hospital nursery in a February incident captured on video by the newborn’s father, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

Six men and six women were selected for the jury that will determine if Gabriel Wilson, the alleged gunman in the deadly shooting at a West Hempstead Stop & Shop, is guilty of second-degree murder, attempted murder and other charges after his trial begins on Monday.

Nassau County and state-level prosecutors confirmed Wednesday their agencies were scrutinizing the actions of a pair of Nassau police detectives after a federal judge called their claims surrounding the 2018 strip search of a Queens man “farcical.”

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