Crime & Safety
LI Crimes: Soldiers' Graves Vandalized, Man Calls Stranger Demanding Massage, Parking Lot Stabbing During HS Football Game
Puppy found shot to death, men invade home with five children inside among the latest crime stories across the region.

Photo: Soldiers’ graves were damaged last weekend at Lake Ronkonkoma Cemetery.
Here are some of the crime headlines from across Long Island over the past week (click the links to read the full articles):
- Dead Puppy Found Shot, Stuffed in Garbage Bag in Laurel
- Massapequa 7-Eleven Employee Yells ‘The Police Are Coming,’ Scares Off Would-Be Robber Armed With Machete
- Caretaker Injured After Armed Men Invade W. Babylon Home With 5 Children Inside
- UPDATE: Melville Teen Charged in Stabbing in HS East Parking Lot During Football Game
- Police: Man Critically Injured in Flanders Shooting, Two Arrested
- Police: Man Robbed, Tried to Sexually Assault Woman in E. Garden City
- Police: Riverhead Man Shot On Maple Avenue
- Superintendent: Possible Threat Made Toward Lindenhurst Middle School, Additional Security Measures to Be Put in Place
- Cops: Man Calls Stranger Demanding Massage
- October 17-Suffolk Arrest Report
- Police Seeking Woman Who Used Stolen Credit Cards in Centereach
- Police: Man Walking on Sunrise Highway in Lindenhurst Hospitalized After Attempted Robbery
- Cops: 2 Busted in Bay Shore for Selling Heroin
- Police: 12 Busted for Selling Booze to Minors
- Cops: Man Charged in Five Towns Bank Robbery
- Police: Man In Possession Of Five Oxycodone Pills, Switch Blade Knife Arrested In Flanders
- Cops: 3 Wanted in Five Towns Identity Theft
- Vandals Damage Civil War Soldiers’ Graves at Lake Ronkonkoma Cemetery
- Police: Man Was Drunk, Going 85 MPH With Son in Car on Robert Moses Bridge
- DA: Retired NYPD Cop from Syosset Sentenced in Crash That Killed Teen
- Police: Multiple Arrests Made in String Of Commercial Burglaries
- Three Hurt in Deer Park Crash, Babylon Man Charged With DWI
- UPDATE: Police ID Woman Found Dead on Huntington Station Road
- Police: Man Stole Steak, Lobster Tails From Lake Ronkonkoma Supermarket
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