Brentwood News

After noticing an influx of veterans returning to the states struggling with addiction, David Greenberg decided, 'Who better to help these veterans recover than others who had also served in the military as well?' Greenberg, director of the Veterans Program at Outreach Training Institute, a facility that cares for people with alcohol and substance ...

SOON after Marcelo Lucero , an Ecuadorean immigrant, was stabbed to death in Patchogue last year, James Garcia Sotomayor, a filmmaker who lives in nearby Brentwood, got a worried phone call from his mother, who lives in his native Ecuador.

Shore motorcyclist Friday on a drunken driving charge after his motorcycle ran into a vehicle on the Sagtikos Parkway.

It seems indisputable now that there's a gang violence problem in Huntington Station.

At the tender age of 26, super middleweight James McGirt Jr. already finds himself at the crossroads of his professional boxing career, but is still prepared to make a strong run at becoming the first son of a world champion father/head trainer to also capture a major world title.

Nahum G. Ortiz, 27, was stopped around 9:30 p.m. in the westbound lanes in Babylon by a Brentwood barracks trooper who clocked him at 80 mph in a 55-mph zone, police said.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Oct 23rd, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Wednesday and charged with robbing three Suffolk banks earlier this month. Kenneth Culpepper, 20, of 24 Marvin Rd., was charged with robbing the Bank of America on Sunrise Highway in Bohemia on Oct.

Police say a bank robber entered a Bank of America on 345 East Main St. in East Islip at 10 a.m., threatening that he had a bomb and demanding cash.

A bank was robbed in Brentwood on Thursday by the same man who robbed a Bohemia bank last week, Suffolk police said.

Police also released surveillance camera photos of the man inside Machito Express, 150 Heyward St., on Sept.

But there she was Saturday night, sweating and swaying to salsa music, euphoric without the aid of anything stronger than a bottle of water.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Oct 4th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

"The defendant was continuously advised that it is a crime to lie about her identity to a police officer," a State Police report said.

Share + Oct 5, 2009 11:51 pm US/Eastern Reporting Sean Hennessey BRENTWOOD, N.Y. Opponents and supporters of a healthcare overhaul had their say Monday night on Long Island.

Crime lab and homicide investigators probe West Rogues Path in Huntington Station where a victim was found dead.

Written by Long Island Press on Oct 5th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Huntington Station stabbing death in which the victim's body lay in the street for seven hours uncovered, reminiscent of a controversial Brentwood case earlier this year that led to changes in police procedure.

Police said witnesses and Maryland State Police helped identify Eder Wilfredo Aviles, 26, who is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and driving without a license.

Both the pickup truck and the sedan that hit the victim left the scene, and State Police are seeking witnesses who can help them find the two drivers.