Nassau Officers Honored For Heroic Actions in Catching Bethpage Murder Suspect

Five Nassau County police officers were honored on Tuesday for their involvement in catching a Bethpage murder suspect in Brooklyn earlier this month.

On Nov. 4, police responded to a home on Seitz Drive at around 12:40 a.m. after receiving a 911 call from a 12-year-old boy who told officers his father, identified as 44-year-old Robert Crumb, stabbed his 41-year-old mother, identified as Maria Crumb, to death, according to multiple reports.

Crumb then fled the scene and led police on a nearly 30-mile chase along the westbound Southern State Parkway and onto Belt Parkway until he exited on Pennsylvania Avenue and crashed at a gas station at Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn, police said.

He was charged with second degree murder, police said.

Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter honored officers Matthew Fusaro, Andrew Mirenda, Darnell White, Katy Kalender and James Sanford for their actions that day at a ceremony in Mineloa.

“These officers are to be commended for their incredible restraint, heroic actions and exemplary decision making they used during the entire event,” Mangano said. “Nassau residents enjoy one of the lowest crime rates in the nation thanks to the hardworking men and women of the Nassau County Police Department.”