Nicole Fuller
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Thomas Valva case: Jury selected for murder trial of Angela Pollina
Opening statements in the case against Angela Pollina, accused in the 8-year-old's death, are expected to begin on Monday. → Read More
Suffolk DA Ray Tierney says his office recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars from internet scam
An alleged scammer in Kolkata, India stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the husband and wife couple's bank account on about Sept. 20, according to a news release from the Suffolk DA's office. → Read More
Officials said to be working to 'accelerate' rebuilding of Nassau's Second Precinct
Nassau County Chief Fire Marshall Michael Uttaro said Monday that the cause of the fire that destroyed the precinct has not yet been determined. → Read More
Suffolk to pay John Oliva, former detective, $1.5M for wrongful conviction
John Oliva pleaded guilty in 2014 to leaking information to a Newsday reporter "through duress" and as a result of "direct threats" from ex-Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and his top aide, the former detective's attorney said previously. → Read More
Nassau County Police Department discriminates against nonwhite applicants, lawsuit says
The federal class action lawsuit filed by an NYPD officer from Freeport alleges that the department rejected him for a job because he's Black, which the suit says is emblematic of ongoing discriminatory practices that have left the police force overwhelmingly white. → Read More
Three alleged MS-13 members indicted in deadly 2015 Brentwood killing, federal prosecutors say
A two-count indictment was unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Central Islip charging three alleged members of MS-13 in connection with the 2015 shooting death of a man in an unprovoked attack in Brentwood, federal prosecutors said. → Read More
Valva trial: Former ME testifies Thomas Valva died of hypothermia, had damaged organs due to stress
Dr. Michael Caplan said his ruling of hypothermia as the cause of Thomas' death was consistent with a person sleeping in a garage and then being taken outside in cold weather and sprayed with water. → Read More
Valva trial: Jurors see 31 video clips depicting Thomas and Anthony's living conditions
The clips were recorded between Jan. 5, 2018 and Jan.12, 2020 at the home on Bittersweet Lane Suffolk prosecutors labeled "the house of horrors." → Read More
Witness: Video from Thomas Valva's house the day he died was deleted
Surveillance video recorded at the 8-year-old's Center Moriches home leading up to his 2020 hypothermia death was deleted hours after he died, a police detective testified. → Read More
The Thomas Valva murder trial: The latest developments
The murder trial for ex-NYPD officer Michael Valva and his then-fiancee Angela Pollina is scheduled to begin this week. → Read More
Two LI nurses accused of faking COVID-19 vaccination cards
Two Amityville nurses were arraigned Friday on charges they fraudulently filled out COVID-19 vaccination cards and entered the false vaccine status information in the state database in a scheme author → Read More
Nassau Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell officially named NYPD commissioner
Keechant Sewell, the NYPD’s incoming commissioner, is "the woman for the job" to drive down crime, further diversify the department and help New York City continue to recover from the coronavirus pand → Read More
FBI: Apparent human remains found in area where Brian Laundrie items were found
The FBI said Wednesday it has located what appears to be human remains in a Florida reserve where authorities have been searching for Brian Laundrie, the "person of interest" in the strangulation deat → Read More
Body recovered in area where authorities have been searching for Gabrielle Petito, coroner confirms
The FBI said Sunday afternoon it would provide an update on the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito, the Blue Point native who went missing in Wyoming while on a cross-country trip with her fiance, as t → Read More
Boyfriend of missing ex-Blue Point woman not cooperating with Florida police, cops say
Florida police say they want to speak to the boyfriend of a 22-year-old former Blue Point woman who went missing last month, but so far he has not cooperated. "He's not willing to talk to us. I don't → Read More
Ex-Suffolk DA Thomas Spota sentenced to 5 years in prison
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced ex-Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota to five years in prison for trying to cover up a prisoner’s 2012 beating at a Hauppauge police precinct and impeding a fe → Read More
Thousands of MTA employees don't use time clocks designed to prevent fraud, report says
Thousands of Metropolitan Transit Authority employees are still not using a new employee time-keeping system installed two years ago as part of a reform effort to reign in overtime spending and preven → Read More
Ex-Water Mill radio manager sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to fraud
The former manager of an East End-based radio station group was sentenced Friday to 15 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $302,585.01 in restitution for using a company credit card without au → Read More
Suffolk Police Chief of Patrol Robert Brown retiring, department says
The Suffolk County Police Department’s chief of patrol is retiring later this month, making him the fifth high-ranking member of the department to depart this year, the department confirmed Wednesday. → Read More
Most big police forces widely use body cams. But not Nassau and Suffolk.
Newsday found that LI’s major departments are two of only three large U.S. forces that have spurned cameras. The cost would be a fraction of each department’s budget. → Read More