Crimes Nearby: 86 Bags of Cocaine Found, Student Followed

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.

• On April 14 at 7:10 p.m., undercover detectives observed Luis Serrano-Nova, 56, of Reading, PA, and Dennis McCann, 56, of Freeport, engaged in a hand to hand drug transaction. McCann was found with cocaine. Detectives recovered 86 bags of cocaine in Serrano-Nova’s vehicle. 

• 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. 

• Ramona Wright, 42, of Roosevelt was arrested on April 10 and charged with third-degree grand larceny, first-degree falsifying business records, first-degree scheme to defraud and fifth-degree conspiracy. She faces up to seven years in prison.
  
• On April 10, Felicita Pintor, 52 of Roosevelt, while working at E&M Delicatessen in Franklin Square sold alcohol to a minor and was arrested.