Counterfeit Goods Seized

On May 24th Suffolk County's Fourth Precinct Crime Section officers charged a 48 year old Flushing man with selling counterfeit goods worth an estimated street value of $6,292 after the man tried to sell counterfeit goods to an off-duty policeman.

Police charged Jiansong Qu of Flushing New York after he pulled up in f ront of a business in Ronkonkoma and approached off-duty officer, Thomas Wieland and asked him if he wanted to buy a Ralph Lauren POLO shirt.  Officer Wieland asked the man what else he had to sell at which point the subject opened the van which contained hundreds of counterfeit designer items including watches, hats, shirts, jeans, sunglasses and CDs.

The counterfeit items bore the trademarks of more than a dozen well-known manufacturers such as Rolex, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Oakley, and Gucci.  Qu was charged with trademark counterfeiting 2nd degree, a class E felony and failure to disclose the origin of a recording 2nd degree, a class A misdemeanor. The items were seized as evidence.  

Sixteen Year Old Carries Potential Explosives

On May 24th SCPD Sixth Precinct Crime Section officers arrested a 16 year-old Ward Melville High School student, Arthur Lundquist, for stealing items from the school's chemistry lab which could be used in the making of explosives.  A jar of aluminum shavings was discovered in a backpack found in a common area of the school by school security, along with a notebook containing a list off materials which could be used in making an explosive device and instructions apparently downloaded from the Internet which showed how to make an explosive. Lundquist was arrested for Petit Larceny of the aluminum shavings and one count of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property Fifth Degree, both class A misdemeanors.

Fugitive Captured

On May 23rd, SCPD Second Squad Detectives apprehended a violent felon who had been eluding Baltimore City police for the last two months by working as a barker in a traveling carnival.  Antwain D. Randall, age 22, was working at the Amusements of America carnival at Bald Hill in Farmingville when he was located and placed into custody without incident. Randall was wanted for attempted murder, robbery and other charges stemming from an incident in Baltimore in which the victim was shot once in the neck.  Extradition proceedings to Baltimore City are pending. 

Fatal Accident in Ronkonkoma

SCPD Fourth Squad Detectives are investigating an accident which occurred on May 24th wherein a Lake Ronkonkoma senior, Virginia Pisani, age 73, was killed.  Ms. Pisani was traveling in a southbound direction on Ronkonkoma Avenue in her 1987 Mercury when she apparently went through a red light at the intersection of Express Drive South and Ronkonkoma Ave., stuck a 1999 Volkswagen being operated in an eastbound direction, bounced off the Volkswagen and struck a 2000 Peterbuilt tractor-trailer also being operated in an eastbound direction. Ms. Pisani was pronounced dead at the scene.  The other vehicle operators were not injured. No violations were found and the other vehicles were impounded for safety checks.