Crimes Nearby Part I: Student Approached by Stranger, Woman Threatened with Gun

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

• North Bellmore North Merrick Little League (NBNMLL) officials are looking for help in identifying those responsible for vandalizing the clubhouse at Saw Mill Road School. Click here for more details.
• At 5:15 p.m. on March 31, Nicholas Casiello, 23, of North Merrick, was arrested at Newbridge Road and Dock Road in Bellmore and charged with second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and four violations of the vehicle and traffic law.
• Sometime between 6 p.m. on March 31 and 2 p.m. on April 1, the front door of the East Meadow Soccer Club on Newbridge Road in North Bellmore was damaged.
• Sometime between 6 p.m. on March 31 and 2 p.m. on April 1, the front door of the East Meadow Soccer Club, which is located on Newbridge Road, was damaged.
• Sometime between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on April 6, a cell phone was stolen at Mepham High School.

East Meadow 

• On April 6, an unknown man was seen breaking a vehicle window on Hempstead Turnpike.
• A Long Beach man was arrested on April 11 after he allegedly struck a man with a golf club at the Eisenhower Park Golf Course Tuesday. For more details, click here. 

Merrick

• A Merrick mother and son were arrested on April 8 and charged with criminal possession of heroin on Bellmore Avenue. For more details, click here. 
• An eighth grader that goes to Grand Avenue Middle School was approached by a stranger in a sedan on the morning of April 10, according to an email to parents from Principal Carlo A. Conte. For more details, click here. 
• A Merrick man was arrested on April 12 after he allegedly threatened threatened a woman with a gun. For more details, click here.