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Northport Police Blotter: Truck Window Smashed
ALSO: Someone set off fireworks, two reports of road racing, and more, police say.
NORTHPORT, NY — Check out some recent police incidents for the Northport Village area from Oct. 24 through Oct. 31.
The Northport Police Department posted the following information. All charges are accusations and do not signify guilt.
- PSEG LI was notified of a pole sparking on Seaview Terrace on Oct. 25.
- A man retrieved his wallet at police headquarters on Oct. 26 after someone found it and turned it in.
- Northport police helped Suffolk police with a possibly intoxicated driver near Stop & Shop on Fort Salonga Road around 9 p.m. Oct. 27.
- Someone left the scene of a motor vehicle crash on Main Street on Oct. 27.
- A truck windshield got smashed by a man who then ran away near Main Street on Oct. 27.
- A Steers Avenue resident set off fireworks on Oct. 28. Police spoke with the resident, who agreed not to set off any more fireworks.
- There were reports of quad racing on Main Street on Oct. 28, but police could not find the racers.
- Police responded to a car crash on Conifer Court on Oct. 29. Northport police remained until Suffolk police got there.
- There was a report of vehicles racing on Steers Avenue on Oct. 29, but police could not find the vehicles that were racing.
- Two small, unleashed dogs ran up to a woman who was walking her own dog on a leash at Steers Park on Oct. 29. The woman told police while she was shooing the dogs away, a man started yelling at her for kicking the dogs away. The woman left the area. Police told the owner of the small dogs that even though her dogs are very small and appear harmless, they still need to be kept on leashes while outside of her property.
- A group of youths talking around a fire at 11:30 p.m. Oct. 29 was asked to quiet down for the night by police. The group agreed.
- Several teenagers on Oct. 30 were going around Burr Avenue "booing" for Halloween. Police told the kids to go home, to which they agreed. "Booing" is a Halloween tradition where people secretly place a gift on someone's porch for them to find along with a note telling them that they have been booed along with instructions for how to pass it on.
- Someone found a black wallet at Scudder Park on Oct. 31 and turned it in. The wallet's owner was contacted.
- A woman was driving on Sunken Meadow Parkway on Oct. 31 when she hit a deer, causing front-end damage to her vehicle. Her vehicle began to overheat while she was driving home
and she had to park it. She called a tow truck.
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