Crime Report: Merokean Pleads Guilty to Not Paying Employees, DWI

Two cousins who own East Meadow’s Colony Diner, one of whom's a Merrick resident, pled guilty to charges they failed to pay 72 employees more than $500,000 in wages, according to Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice. Click this link for more.

More Crime News

• A Merrick woman was arrested Saturday after she was allegedly driving drunk on the Meadowbrook Parkway with her kids in the vehicle, cops said. Click here for more.
  
• Nassau County Police have released a sketch of a “suspicious person” that’s sought in connection to the string of stranger incidents throughout Bellmore-Merrick in April. Click here for a look at the suspect.
  
• One person was transported to a nearby hospital Saturday after a fight broke out between a bunch of kids near the intersection of Merrick Avenue and Sunrise Highway, police said. For more on this, click here.
  
• A joint investigation between the Nassau County Consumer Affairs Department and the Fourth Precinct between April 29 and May 1 led to the arrest of 33 individuals for operating a home improvement business without a permit, including three from Bellmore-Merrick. Click here for more.
  
• John Hunter, a former Nassau County Police Department chief, pleaded guilty Wednesday after he conspired to prevent Merrick resident Zachary Parker's arrest in May of 2009. Click this link for the details.
• Sometime between April 21-22, an unlocked vehicle on Howes Street in Merrick was broken into, and cash was stolen.
• Sometime between 11 p.m. on April 22 and 9 a.m. on April 23, a GPS was stolen from an unlocked vehicle that was parked on Meadowbrook Road in Merrick.
• After 5:45 p.m. on April 26, an unknown male black stolen iPhones from a display at Verizon Wireless, which is located at 2132 Sunrise Highway in Merrick.
• 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 in Merrick. No loss was reported.