RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | A makeshift memorial has been placed at the scene of the motorcycle crash in Mattituck that killed Farmingville man Michael Lourine Sept. 8.

A Farmingville man who was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Mattituck earlier this month died soon after the accident, Maloney Funeral Homes in Lake Ronkonkoma said.

Michael Lourine, 33, was heading west on Main Road at 5:50 p.m. on Sept. 8 when he lost control of his 2006 Kawasaki while making a turn and struck a curb, Southold Town police said. He hit his head on a utility pole during the crash and was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment, where he died that same day.

A funeral mass was held Sept. 13 at St. Mary’s R.C. Church in East Islip.

Mr. Lourine, a New York City firefighter, was honored on FDNY Medal Day 2007 for his heroics with a team of other firefighters from Ladder Co. 105 in Brooklyn.

Read about him here.

A makeshift memorial of flowers, ribbons and a framed photograph of Mr. Lourine have been placed at the site of the crash, next to Mattituck Presbyterian Church.

RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | A framed photograph of Michael Lourine was placed at the scene of the crash.

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A Yaphank man was arrested for drunk driving after he was stopped for a traffic violation on Third Street in Greenport early Sunday morning, Southold Town police said.

Connor Fenimore, 21, was pulled over shortly before 4 a.m, police said.

He was charged with DWI and held overnight for arraignment.

A Mattituck woman was arrested after she was observed driving erratically on Main Road in Cutchogue Monday evening, Southold Town police said.

Paula Stonemetz, 54, was driving westbound ahortly after 5:30 p.m. when she was spotted crossing the double yellow line into eastbound traffic, police said.

She was arrested at the scene after failing several roadside sobriety tests, police said.

Ms. Stonemetz was taken to police headquarters where she was held overnight for a Tuesday morning arraignment.

CARRIE MILLER PHOTO | Horses roam the grounds of Maple Lane Farm in Mattituck Wednesday.

Suffolk Police are investigating the Tuesday night shooting death of a man who trained horses and riders at a Mattituck horse farm.

Ross Reisner, 50, was shot in the chest while inside his home in Setauket shortly after 8 p.m., police said. A resident of the home said the shot was fired from outside the home, through a window.

Mr. Reisner trained at Maple Lane Farm on Cox Neck Road in Mattituck. Diane Nelson, who runs the farm said “it’s a somber day at the farm.”

Sixth Precinct police officers responded to the home he shared with his partner after a 911 caller reported that a man had been shot. Mr. Reisner was transported to University Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Detectives are asking anyone with information on this case to call the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392 or anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

Suffolk Police are holding a press conference at headquarters at 2:30 p.m. Check back later for more details.

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An elderly Greenport woman was hospitalized Thursday after being attacked by the family dog for no apparent reason, Southold police said.

Around 2 p.m. officers responded the woman’s Bridge Street home after receiving a report of a person being attacked by a dog inside the home, according to a police report.

Upon arriving the 88-year-old victim was found with bite marks to her leg, back and stomach, police said.

Another family inside the house was able to help the woman in getting the dog off of her and caged prior to the officer’s arrival, the report stated.

She was taken to Eastern Long Island Hospital for treatment, police said. The hospital would not release an update on the woman’s status as of Thursday morning.

It appeared the dog attacked for no apparent reason, however family members stated that this was not the first incident that the dog attacked a person, police said.

The dog was taken to Southold Town Animal Shelter, police said.

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A 21-year-old Peconic man was arrested for driving drunk Thursday night, Southold Police said.

Officers stopped Rudy Jesus Perez Cano on Sound Avenue in Mattituck at 2:30 a.m. for a traffic violation when he was found to be intoxicated, police said.

He was arrested and taken to police headquarters awaiting arraignment.

Two Greenport men were arrested Thursday afternoon after cops broke up a small gathering of people consuming alcohol and smoking marijuana in Mitchell Park, according to Southold Town police.

Officers found five people drinking Corona in the park just before 3 p.m., police said. While searching Misael Cuellar, 25, police found a cigarette with marijuana, police said. Mr. Cuellar was arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana.

During that time, Oliver Fernandez, 48, proceeded to urinate in front of the officer and other pedestrians in the park, police said. Mr. Fernandez was arrested for disorderly conduct.

Both men were taken to police headquarters and held for morning arraignment.

CARRIE MILLER PHOTO |  Brian Edwards was led into Southold Town Justice Court Friday morning after allegedly attempting to rob a Greenport bank Thursday.

A man wearing a multi-colored hat with fake dreadlocks robbed a Greenport bank on Halloween, and was later found by a K-9 unit and arrested on a felony robbery charge, according to Southold Police.

Cops said 45-year-old Brian B. Edwards robbed the Capital One on Main Street shortly after 4 p.m., and after police arrived on scene, they were able to get a description from witnesses of the suspect.

A K-9 officer responded to the scene, police said, and was able to pick up a track, leading police from the bank to a Second Street home, where they said they found Edwards as well as the clothing described by witnesses, and the contents of the robbery.

Edwards was arrested by police on a felony third-degree robbery charge, as well as second-degree criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor. He was held by police overnight and was arraigned Friday morning at Southold Town Justice Court. He was remanded without bail and is due back in court Nov. 8.

Mr. Edwards was arrested in March for stealing food and beer from a Greenport Village business, according to a previous report. Police then determined he was wanted on an active parole warrant.

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A Greenport man was arrested on marijuana and trespassing charges Friday night, according to Southold Town Police.

Anthony Chance, 33, was observed trespassing on fenced-in private property on Broad Street at about 10:52 p.m. Friday, police said.

Police arrested Mr. Chance on a criminal trespass charge, and found that he also was in possession of marijuana, according to police.

Mr. Chance was additionally charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, and was processed at police headquarters and then released on $100 cash bail, according to police.

PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Southold Town police detective Steve Harned (right) dusts the door of GameSpot for fingerprints after a reported armed robbery Tuesday night.

Southold Police are actively investigating an armed robbery which occurred at GameStop in Mattituck shortly after 5 p.m.

Police have taped off in front of the store, and a K-9 unit has been dispatched to help track down the suspect.

PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | A video game store was robbed Tuesday evening.

Game Stop, a video game store located in Mattituck Plaza at the corner of Main Road and Factory Avenue, was open at midnight on Tuesday for the early release of Call of Duty: Ghosts, a highly anticipated video game.

Detective Steven Harned said no one was hurt in the robbery and no arrests have been made as of 6:15 p.m.

Check back as more information becomes available.

PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | A Southold police officer ropes off the scene of an armed robbery at the GameStop in Mattituck Tuesday night.

Southold Town police are investigating whether Tuesday night’s armed robbery at a Mattituck video game store is related to a string of armed robberies across Suffolk County, including one at a Calverton gas station last week, the police chief said.

“I think there are some very similar cases that Suffolk County’s having right now,” said chief Martin Flatley.

The robbery occurred just after 5 p.m. at GameStop, a video game store located in the Mattituck Plaza at the corner of Main Road and Factory Avenue, police said.

A man entered the store and “displayed what appeared to be a handgun,” getting away with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to a police statement. No one was hurt in the robbery, police at the scene said.

The GameStop had been open at midnight for the early release of Call of Duty: Ghosts, the highly anticipated sequel to a popular war game series.

Police taped off the front of the store Tuesday night as a state K-9 unit helped search the area for the suspect.

Police Chief Martin Flatley said police were investigating whether the man drove away from the scene or was picked up after the robbery.

“With K9, if you have a very short [scent] track and you kind of lose things, maybe he got into a car, maybe he got picked up,” he explained.

Chief Flatley said police were compiling witness statements and surveillance footage from stores in the shopping center to determine how the robber fled.

The suspect remains at large.

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A 29-year-old Greenport man was arrested Saturday evening for drinking in public, Southold Town Police said.

Juan Ramon Rodriguez was spotted in an alleyway next to a Greenport restaurant just past 4:20 p.m. with an open bottle of Corona, police said.

Mr. Rodriguez had no identification at the time of the arrest, police said.

He was transported to Southold Town Police headquarters and proceeded to determine his identity, according to a police report.

A 24-year-old Mattituck woman was arrested on an outstanding bench warrant for failing to appear in Southampton Town Justice Court, Southampton Town police said.

Sibel Pumillo was arrested at Riverhead Police Headquarters about 5 p.m. Saturday. Ms. Pumillo, who arrested in July for petit larceny, was transported to Southampton Town Police Headquarters and held for arraignment.

A South Setauket woman was arrested Friday night after her vehicle was observed crossing the double yellow lines on Main Road in Mattituck, Southold Town police said in a press release issued Sunday afternoon.

Marie Connolly, 50, was headed westbound near Wickham Avenue shprtly after 11 p.m., when she was pulled over, police said. She failed several roadside sobriety tests, police added.

Ms. Connolly was transported to police headquarters where she was held for arraignment on a driving while intoxicated charge, police said.

SURVEILLANCE PHOTO | Suffolk police said Paul Tromblee of Manorville has been identified as the man in this surveillance photo. He is charged with nine counts of armed robbery.

UPDATE 4:30 p.m.: Southold Town police announced Sunday afternoon that Paul Tromblee, the 35-year-old Manorville man arrested in connection with nine armed robberies across Suffolk County, will also be charged with last Tuesday’s robbery at GameStop in Mattituck.

ORIGINAL STORY: A Manorville man was arrested Saturday in connection with the armed robbery of the Hess gas station on Edwards Avenue in Calverton and at least eight other incidents, Suffolk County police said.

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Paul Tromblee, 35, may still face charges in relation to other armed robberies in the county, police said. Southold Town Police said last week that the suspect in the other area robberies may have been responsible for the armed robbery of the GameStop store in Mattituck last Tuesday, though Mr. Tromblee has not yet been charged in connection with that incident.

Det. Lt. Edward Reilly of the Suffolk County Police Department said Sunday that detectives are working with Southold police, who he said still believe Mr. Tromblee is responsible for the Mattituck robbery.

Currently, Mr. Tromblee stands charged with eight counts of first-degree robbery and one count of third-degree robbery. He is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip Sunday, Suffolk police said.

Since Oct. 26, gas stations in Calverton, Mastic, North Babylon, St. James, Dix Hills, and Bohemia as well as Jamba Juice in Stony Brook, Kissed by the Sun Tanning in Islip, and CVS Pharmacy in Lake Ronkonkoma were robbed by an armed suspect who demanded cash after pretending to purchase merchandise, police said. Utilizing video surveillance as well as tips, including information received via Crime Stoppers, Pattern Crime Unit detectives identified the suspect as Mr. Tromblee. He was located by detectives while driving on Sunrise Highway in Brookhaven around 3 p.m. Saturday.

The Hess gas station — barely in the jurisdiction of the SCPD – was robbed Oct. 30, after a man pulled a handgun on a store clerk, demanding cash from the register about 7:45 p.m.

Mohammed Kahn, the clerk at the Calverton Hess, told the News-Review on the night of the incident that the robber walked straight up to the register and demanded cash, first giving him the impression that the act was a trick.

“I was looking to him like he was joking,” Mr. Kahn said at the time.

Detectives are continuing to investigate if Mr. Tromblee is responsible for similar incidents that occurred recently. Anyone with information about these incidents is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. Police said all calls will remain confidential.

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A Manorville man who police say is responsible for a string of robberies across Suffolk County – including one at a video game store in Mattituck – remains held on $100,000 cash bail and is due back in court on Friday.

Paul Tromblee, 35, was arrested on Saturday and was seen in First District Court in Central Islip on Sunday.

Suffolk County police announced the arrest on Saturday, and Southold Police later said, “additional charges for Tromblee are forthcoming regarding the Game Stop robbery in Southold Town.”

Online court records indicate that Tromblee is being held on $200,000 bond or $100,000 cash bail. Currently, Mr. Tromblee stands charged with eight counts of first-degree robbery and one count of third-degree robbery.

Since Oct. 26, gas stations in Calverton, Mastic, North Babylon, St. James, Dix Hills, and Bohemia as well as Jamba Juice in Stony Brook, Kissed by the Sun Tanning in Islip, and CVS Pharmacy in Lake Ronkonkoma were robbed by an armed suspect who demanded cash after pretending to purchase merchandise, police said. Utilizing video surveillance as well as tips, including information received via Crime Stoppers, Pattern Crime Unit detectives identified the suspect as Mr. Tromblee. He was located by detectives while driving on Sunrise Highway in Brookhaven around 3 p.m. Saturday.

Southold Police announced shortly after the Mattituck GameStop robbery that a link between the incident and the others further west were likely evident.

During the Mattituck robbery, which occurred last Wednesday, a man reportedly entered the store and “displayed what appeared to be a handgun,” getting away with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to a police statement. No one was hurt in the robbery, police at the scene said.

Detectives are continuing to investigate if Mr. Tromblee is responsible for similar incidents that occurred recently. Anyone with information about these incidents is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. Police said all calls will remain confidential.

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A Greenport Village employee received death threats at work and later had her car window broken, according to a Southold Town Police report.

Around 3:45 p.m. last Thursday a 50-year-old Greenport man entered Village Hall on Third Street and created a disturbance by yelling and cursing at the employee, adding that she was “going to die,” according to a police report.

Co-workers in Village Hall told the man to quiet down, which he did, he then left the building and walked east on South Street, police said.

The employee who received the threats later reported that a window of her car, parked on South Street, was damaged, according to the report.

No arrests have been made, but the employee indicated she would pursue charges if the harassment continued, according to the report.

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Southold Town police are investigating a “street fight” in the Adams Street parking lot in Greenport that ended with injuries to three men involved and Eastern Long Island Hospital employees after the fight continued in the hospital’s emergency room early Sunday morning, police said.

Hraklis Morris, 36, of Greenport, Walter Arevalo, 24, of Shelter Island, and Luis Mijangos, 33, of Southold all ended up at the hospital after being injured during the midnight street fight, which involved a knife, police said. At about 12:30 a.m., the fight continued in the emergency room, according to police.

While breaking up the fight, members of the hospital staff sustained minor injuries, police said, though they declined comment on the number of employees who were injured or the number of suspects involved in the fight.

Two of the men had “serious lacerations” from either “a knife or similar type cutting instrument” used by “at least” one of the participants at the Adams Street incident, police said.

Mr. Arevalo was transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center due to the serious nature of his injuries, police said. Mr. Morris and Mr. Mijangos were treated at ELIH.

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police said.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Southold Police Department at (631) 765-2600.

A 52-year-old Cutchogue man was arrested on a drunken driving charge early Tuesday after his vehicle was stopped by police on Main Road, Southold Town police said.

Gregory Burns was pulled over about 12:30 a.m. near Stillwater Avenue in Cutchogue, after he was observed to be swerving out of his lane in a 2000 Chevy Astro van, police said.

Police performed roadside sobriety tests and found Mr. Burns was drunk at the time, officials said. He was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and was being held for a morning arraignment, police said.

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More than a year after he allegedly bought alcohol using a stolen check in Southold Town, a Manor Park man was arrested Wednesday night in Hampton Bays on the active warrant, Southold police said.

David Sandberg, 33, was caught in Hampton Bays and taken to police headquarters after authorities found he had several active warrants, according to a police statement.

Mr. Sandberg allegedly bought liquor using a stolen check the morning of Feb. 3, 2012, police said. He was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, both misdemeanors, and held for arraignment Thursday.

In addition to the Southold warrant, Mr. Sandberg also had arrest warrants out of two other Suffolk County courts, police said. Information about those active warrants wasn’t immediately available.

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