Officer Injured When Woman Drives Through Stop Sign, Hits Car: PD

The Garden City Police Department reported the following incidents for the week ending Dec. 30.

• After a traffic stop investigation on Franklin Avenue at 4th Street on Dec. 24, a 28-year-old man from Roosevelt was charged with driving with revoked license privileges and unlicensed operation.
• Officers responded to Walgreens on Dec. 25 for a report of a man stealing assorted cosmetic items valued at $65.
• After investigation of a vehicle stopped on Hamilton Place for speeding on Franklin Avenue on Dec. 26, officers arrested a 20-year-old woman from East Rockaway for DWI, open alcoholic container and excessive speed.
• Officers investigated a report of unauthorized purchases against a resident’s credit card totaling $1,800 on Dec. 26.
• A vehicle traveling north on Clinch Avenue on Dec. 27 was seen by an officer passing two stop signs. Upon investigation, the driver, a 21-year-old man from Uniondale, was charged with driving with a suspended license and passing two stop signs.
• As a result of a traffic stop investigation on Franklin Avenue and Cedar Place on Dec. 27, a 32-year-old woman from Queens was charged with driving with a suspended license, improper turn, suspended registration and uninsured operation.
• Officers investigated the theft of property from a locker at Healthtrax on Dec. 27.
• An officer observed a vehicle traveling south on Clinton Road at a high rate of speed on Dec. 28. When the officer activated his emergency lights and sirens, the vehicle fled the scene and eventually struck a parked vehicle on Huntington Road and Westbury Road. The driver exited his vehicle and fled the scene on foot. Officers located and apprehended the driver, a 21-year-old man from Brooklyn, on Emmet Place. He was charged with an outstanding larceny warrant, unlicensed operation, excessive speed, unlawful fleeing from a police officer, leaving the scene of an accident, passing a stop sign and unsafe turn.
• Officers investigated a report of multiple unauthorized withdrawals from a resident’s money market account on Dec. 28.
• A Franklin Avenue business reported on Dec. 28 that two checks placed in the mail were intercepted, altered, and rewritten to another party for a loss of $9,400.
• A police vehicle was heading west on Merillon Avenue on Dec. 28, responding to an emergency call with its emergency lights and sirens activated, when a vehicle traveling south on Rockaway Avenue passed a stop sign and struck the police car. The police officer was transported to Winthrop Hospital with a leg injury. The driver of the other vehicle, a 43-year-old woman from California, was charged with passing a stop sign and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
• A 27-year-old man from North Babylon was charged with driving on Cathedral Avenue with a suspended license, unregistered vehicle, and a license plate violation on Dec. 29.
• Officers arrested a 21-year-old man from Lynbrook on Dec. 29 on on Franklin Avenue for DWI as well as unregistered operation and two unsafe lane usage violations.
• Officers investigated a criminal mischief report at a Tullamore Road residence where someone damaged a string of Christmas lights on Dec. 29.
• As a result of a domestic incident investigation on Dec. 30, officers arrested a 52-year-old man from Garden City for pushing another family member to the floor, resulting in the victim sustaining cuts and bruises to their head and face. He was charged with assault.
• At 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 30, officers responded to the Mobil Gas Station on Franklin Avenue for a report of an armed robbery. The clerk at the station reported that a man entered the store displaying a black handgun and ordered the clerk to give him all the money from the cash register or he would be shot. The clerk complied by giving the subject an unknown amount of cash. The robber, described as a black man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, a black mask and blue jeans, fled the scene on foot southbound on Franklin Avenue.