🌱 Patch AM: $2K Reward Offered After Turtle Found Tethered Underwater In Deer Park Lake

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In today's newsletter:

• Reward offered after turtle found caged underwater in Deer Park lake
• Driver admits guilt in wrong-way Deer Park Avenue crash injuring five
• Guilty plea in Deer Park Flagstar Bank robbery detailed by DA

Also on today's calendar: Major Office Furniture & Soft Seating Warehouse Liquidation Sale and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 78 and low of 64 degrees.
• Sunday: Humid with periods of sun, temps: high: 82, low: 69.
• Monday: Afternoon showers; humid, with a high of 81 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• $2K Reward Offered After Turtle Found Tethered Underwater In Deer Park Lake (patch.com) — Residents in Deer Park are being urged to help identify whoever allegedly tethered a yellow-bellied slider turtle inside a zip-tied cage and submerged it in Geiger Park Lake, where Town of Babylon park rangers rescued it just in time. The Suffolk County SPCA says the non-native turtle was likely a former pet intentionally left to die and is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
   

• Wrong-Way Deer Park Crash Injured Elderly Couple, 3 Others: DA (patch.com) — People who drive Deer Park Avenue will want to know that a Dix Hills man has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault for a 2025 wrong-way, marijuana-impaired crash in Deer Park that injured five people, including an elderly couple. Prosecutors say he fled an initial collision, then crossed the median into oncoming traffic, triggering multiple crashes and serious injuries before being arrested.
   

• Kings Park Man Faces Up To 11 Years For Robbing 2 Flagstar Banks: DA (patch.com) — Deer Park residents are learning more about a December 2025 Flagstar Bank robbery in their community, after a Kings Park man admitted to that heist and another in West Babylon. Prosecutors say he used a threatening note and implied he had a weapon before leaving the Deer Park branch with nearly $4,000, and he now faces a potential prison term of up to 11 years.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Deer Park

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday August 29
• Major Office Furniture & Soft Seating Warehouse Liquidation Sale →
  Grand Avenue, Grand Ave, North Brunswick Township
  9:30 am
• FREE Special Needs Community Resource Fair →
  Dragonfly Cares Melville Center, 535 Broadhollow Rd, Melville
  11:00 am
Monday August 31
• 7th Annual International Overdose Awareness Day Rally & Candlelight Vigil →
  Geiger Park, Grand Blvd, Deer Park
  6:30 pm
Saturday September 19
• Jay Medal Soirée →
  Jay Estate, 210 Boston Post Rd, Rye
  5:30 pm

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Other local events

Monday August 31
• Superintendent's Conference Day
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
Tuesday September 1
• Superintendent's Conference Day (Staff Only)
  Wyandanch UFSD Wyandanch, NY 11798
• WR | Welcome to Woods Road
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
  12:00 pm
• MGV | Kindergarten Welcome
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
  12:45 pm
• Adult Education Registration
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
  6:00 pm
Wednesday September 2
• Superintendent's Conference Day (Staff Only)
  Wyandanch UFSD Wyandanch, NY 11798
• First Day of School
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
• BEL | Kindergarten Welcome
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
  9:15 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Brentwood

• Stop & Shop Donates $10,000 to Support Three Suffolk County Community College Food Pantries (longisland.com)
• Major Long Island Greenway Project Moves Forward in Suffolk County (town.news)
• Fifteen Sick, Fourteen Hospitalized, One Dead: CDC Closes the Clover Hill Dairy Requesón Listeria Outbreak That Ran Three Years and Four Months (lexblog.com)

Bay Shore

• Nordstrom Rack reopens at the Gardiner Manor plaza in Bay Shore (greaterlongisland.com)

Lindenhurst

• DWI Suspect Crashes Into Suffolk Police Car, Injuring Officer: PD (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A bottle (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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