Woman Broke Into Nassau Elementary School, Ran Through Halls: PD

An Island Park woman was arrested Wednesday night after police say she smashed the front window of a Nassau elementary school and broke in.

According to police, Maria Campione, 20, of Franklin Avenue, used a rock to break the front door window of Hewlett Elementary School, at 1570 Broadway in Hewlett, at 10:20 p.m. Police say she then entered the building and was seen by a school employee on surveillance cameras running through the hallways.

Police say she also pulled a fire alarm, which caused the Hewlett Fire Department to respond.

One of the school employees called 911, and officers located Campione near the school, police said. She was arrested after a brief chase.

Campione is charged with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree falsely reporting an incident. She is scheduled to be arraigned today in First District Court in Hempstead.

According to News 12, Campione was one of the 29 people released from the Nassau County Jail on New Year's Eve under the state's new bail reform laws. Campione was arrested in February on similar charges of throwing a rock through the window of a McDonald's and burglarizing it. She was being held on $25,000 bail for that case, but was released.