The Garden City Crime Report

Officers responded to numerous storm-related calls on March 7, including icy road conditions, tree limbs down, malfunctioning railroad gates, alarms, disabled vehicles and a sewer back-up.

As a result of a traffic stop investigation on Clinton Road on March 8, a 50-year-old man from Queens, was charged with driving with a suspended license, switched license plates, unregistered vehicle and uninsured operation.

A license plate was reported stolen from a motorcycle parked on County Seat Drive on March 8.

An investigation of a suspicious person on the Adelphi University campus by Public Safety Officers and Garden City Police Officers on March 9 led to the arrest of a 22-year-old man from Hempstead for criminal trespassing. The man was persona non grata from the campus as a result of a 2017 arrest for the theft of a student’s wallet from a classroom. Upon further investigation, the man was also charged with arson for a March 2017 incident on the campus where he started a fire in a classroom, causing damage to a chair and wall.

Upon investigation of a March 3 incident, Garden City detectives arrested an employee of a Seventh Street salon on March 9 for the theft of money from a wallet left in a break room. The employee, a 32-year-old woman from Mineola, was charged with petty larceny.

An unknown person opened an unauthorized cell phone account by using a resident’s credit card information without permission on March 9.

A check was reported stolen from a vehicle parked at a Sixth Street residence on March 9.

Officers assisted the Garden City Fire Department who extinguished a vehicle fire in the driveway of a Kenwood Road residence on March 9.

Officers investigated reports of multiple office burglaries in two Old Country Road commercial buildings on March 9. Money was reported stolen from two of the offices.

Garden City detectives arrested a 63-year-old man from Baldwin on March 10 for leaving the scene of a two-vehicle property damage accident on Franklin Avenue.

Garden City detectives arrested an employee of a Garden City Plaza law office on March 11 for the theft of three checks from the firm and cashing them in for a total loss of $4,700. She was charged with grand larceny.

A bird bath was found damaged at a Manor Road residence on March 12. A lamp post was also found damaged at another Manor Road residence.

A Garden City Plaza business reported an unknown person attempted to cash four fraudulent checks totaling $14,000 in the company’s name at a local bank on March 13.

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