Crime & Safety
Cops: Stony Brook Man Stole Car from a Residential Garage
The following arrest information was supplied by the Suffolk County Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Police arrested a Stony Brook man early Sunday morning whom they said stole a car from a residential garage in Bohemia.
A 911 caller reported the theft of a 2007 Dodge from an open garage at a home on Walnut Avenue in Bohemia at approximately 1:30 a.m.
A Fifth Precinct officer and two New York State officers were on patrol as part of an anti-crime campaign following Hurricane Sandy, and found the vehicle abandoned on a nearby street. They stopped a man who was walking in the area, and determined that he was the man who stole the vehicle after finding its keys in the garage.
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Police arrested Jerrod Lafonte, 27, of Stony Brook, and charged him with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree grand larceny. Lafonte was scheduled to be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Central Islip.
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