Crimes Nearby Part I: Attempted Purse Snatching, Students Approached

The following information is taken directly from the Nassau County Police Department's incident reports. None of the defendants have been convicted of a crime.

Bellmore 

• Nassau County Police released a sketch on April 29 of a “suspicious person” that’s sought in connection to the string of stranger incidents throughout the Bellmore-Merrick area in April. Click here to take a look.
• An increased police presence was reported at Saw Mill Road Elementary School on the morning of April 30 after a teacher's aide saw someone resembling the police sketch that cops released on Monday. Click this link for more.
• A North Bellmore man was arrested on May 3 at the intersection of Bellmore Road and Dorris Avenue after police found drugs and an unconscious woman in his vehicle. For more details, click here. 
  
• A man attempted a purse snatching at Stop & Shop on Jerusalem Avenue before being caught and arrested. For more details, click here. 

• On April 30, two students were approached by a man as they were walking on Bellmore Road and Granz Court. For more details, click here.

• Sometime between 11:30 p.m. on April 22 and 9:30 a.m. on April 23, unknown suspects shattered the rear window of a vehicle parked on Judith Drive. No loss was reported.
• A Merrick woman was arrested on April 27 after she was allegedly driving drunk on the Meadowbrook Parkway with her kids in the vehicle. For more details click here.
• One person was transported to a nearby hospital on April 27 after a fight broke out between a number of youths near the intersection of Merrick Avenue and Sunrise Highway. For more on this, click here.