Crime & Safety
LI Crimes: Professor Beheaded by Her Son, Halloween Night Home Invasion, Arrest in Teen's Murder
Thief flees on bike after stealing $198 worth of energy drinks, man charged with threatening to blow up police precincts and more.

Photos (left- Google Maps, right- courtesy of Farmingdale State College): The decapitated body of Patricia Ward was found in the road outside a Farmingdale apartment building on Tuesday night.
Here are some of the crime headlines from across Long Island over the past week (click the links to read the full articles):
- Trick-or-Treat Horror: Masked Group With Guns Invades Farmingdale Home Halloween Night
- Police: Farmingdale State College Professor Beheaded by Her Son
- DA: Man Indicted for Threatening to Blow Up Nassau, NYC Police Precincts
- Police: 10 Arrested at Overnight Sobriety Checkpoint in Huntington Station
- October 31-Suffolk Arrest Report
- Police: Man Stole PlayStation4 Controllers From Walmart
- Man Charged in Maggie Rosales’ Murder Held Without Bail
- Cops: Five Towns Men Caught with Stolen Keyless Entry Car
- Police Seeking Person/People Who Burglarized Jamesport Home
- Police: Masked Man with Gun Holds Up Franklin Square Bank
- Police: Off Duty Long Beach Cop Finds Man Who Caused Heroin Overdose
- Cops: Employee Made Fake Bomb Threat at Lawrence Supermarket
- Police: Flanders Man Arrested For Felony DWI Charge Under Leandra’s Law
- Cops: Drunk Man Offers Teen Sisters Ride to School in Huntington
- Police: Man Arrested For Stealing From Auto Salvage Yard
- Police: Teen Arrested for Trespassing at Schreiber High School
- DA: Sands Point Psychiatrist Facing Rape Charge Saw Patients, Had Other Doctor Write Scrips
- Police Investigating Reported Carjacking in Huntington Station
- Police: Mattituck Woman Arrested For Stealing Purses Inside Church
- Police: Setauket Man Arrested on Child Porn Charges
- Police: Man Stole $198 Worth of Energy Drinks From Rite Aid
- Cops: Plainview Man Busted for Coin Galleries of Oyster Bay Robbery
- Police: Pregnant Hampton Bays Woman, Riverhead Woman in Possession of Crack Cocaine
- Police: 3 Men Robbed Teen in Baldwin
- DA: Roslyn Heights Attorney Charged with Stealing More than $1.4 Million
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