A Bohemia man was arrested after he threw an incendiary device out of a moving vehicle in Lake Grove Sunday night, police said.
Officers responded to a home in Lake Grove after Anthony Persico, 25, threw a bottle full of flammable liquid out of a car around 7:50 p.m., police said.
The bottle caught on fire after landing in the street and a resident in the area put out the fire with a water hose, police said.
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Witnesses provided police with a description of the vehicle and Persico was arrested about 40 minutes later at the Gulf gas station, located at 5106 Expressway Drive South in Holbrook, police said.
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Persico is charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony. He was held overnight at the Fourth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Monday.
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