Man Arrested For Driving With 10 License Suspension: GCPD

The Garden City Police Department reported the following incidents for the week ending Aug. 13.

• A resident received an exterior camera notification of a man walking up and down the driveway and rear yard of a Kensington Court home on Aug. 7.
• Upon investigation of an auto accident on Nassau Boulevard on Aug. 7, officers arrested one of the drivers, a 59-year-old man from Jericho, for driving with eight driver license suspensions. He was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation.
• A truck traveling north struck the Cherry Valley Avenue train trestle on Aug. 7. The truck suffered substantial damage; the bridge did not appear to be damaged. The driver, a 62-year-old man from Queens, was charged with disregarding bridge clearance signs.
• Officers investigated a report of a vehicle leaving the scene after being in a collision with another vehicle on 7th Street on Aug. 8.
• The police department received a call from a witness on Aug. 9 who said that a man was attempting to force open the rear patio doors of a recently renovated house on 1st Street. Officers responded and arrested the man on the back porch. The 44-year-old man from Hempstead was arrested for attempted burglary.
• Officers arrested a 47-year-old from Uniondale on Aug. 9 for the theft of $385 of merchandise from Lord and Taylor.
• An officer on patrol saw a suspicious vehicle on Commercial Avenue on Aug. 10 with no front plate, a covered rear plate and an expired registration sticker on the windshield. Upon investigation, the driver, a 45-year-old man from Merrick, was arrested for driving with 10 license suspensions, unregistered vehicle, uninsured operation, unlawful possession of marijuana, two outstanding warrants for criminal trespass and an outstanding warrant for criminal mischief. He was also charged with false personation for initially representing himself as another person.
• Spray-painted graffiti was found on the walls of the Adelphi University underground parking garage on Aug. 13.
• A bicycle locked to a handrail was reported stolen from Parking Field 11 on Aug. 13.
• On June 24, a person broke a window to a car parked in a Franklin Avenue parking garage and attempted to remove property from within. Officers at the scene found forensic evidence on the vehicle and upon testing by the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s Office, a robber was identified. Garden City notified the Nassau County Probation Department of this incident. When the subject responded to the Probation Department on County Seat Drive for his appointment on Aug. 13, he assaulted two probation officers as they attempted to apprehend him. Garden City Officers responded to the scene; he was placed under arrest and charged with two counts of assault of an officer, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and attempted larceny. One probation officer suffered cuts and bruises to his arms and the other probation officer suffered a back injury.