Crimes Nearby: Prostitution Arrest at Spa, Purse Snatched

The following information is taken directly from the Nassau County Police Department's incident reports. None of the defendants have been convicted of a crime.

Levittown

• A man who detectives say pushed an elderly woman to the ground in a Wantagh parking lot and snatched her purse was arrested in front of Denny's on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown on Jan. 8 after a police pursuit.

• Two Queens women were arrrested on Jan. 10 at a spa on 903A Broadway with one facing prostitution charges after police say she offered to engage in a sex act with an undercover officer for an undisclosed amount of money. For more on story, click here. 
• A Massapequa woman was arrested and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra's Law on Jan. 7 after a crash on Sunrise Highway. For more on story, click here.

• The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District released a statement on Jan. 7 regarding a suspicious Facebook page that Calhoun High School officials thought should be investigated. Click here for the details.
• Sometime been 6 p.m. on Dec. 29 and 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 2, a 2007 Mazda that was waiting to be sold was stolen from the BP Gas Station parking lot, which is located at 1577 Merrick Rd.
• Sometime between Dec. 26 at 11 a.m. and Jan. 2 at 10 a.m., a license plate was stolen off a vehicle that was parked on Merrick Avenue.
• Sometime between 6 p.m. on Jan. 4 and 8 a.m. on Jan. 5, Car Wash, located at 1820 Sunrise Highway, had it's side window broken, but nobody ever gained entry, police said.
• A car that was parked on Sherman Avenue in Merrick was damaged sometime overnight between Jan. 3 and Jan. 4. Find out more about this incident by clicking here.
• Sometime between 8:45 p.m. on Jan. 3 and 7 a.m. on Jan. 4, an EZ Pass was stolen out of an unlocked vehicle that was parked on Stevens Avenue in North Merrick.
• Between 5-8 a.m. on Jan. 4, items were stolen from a yard on Whittier Avenue in North Merrick.

• A Garden City South teen was arrested on Jan. 8 and charged with making a terroristic threat inside his classroom at the Nassau BOCES Rosemary Kennedy School in Wantagh. For more on story, click here. 
• A Glen Cove man approached a 73-year-old female outside of King Kullen on 1340 Wantagh Ave. on Jan. 8 and knocked her to the ground before fleeing the scene and being arrested in Levittown after a police pursuit. For more on story, click here. 
• A man reported on Jan. 6 that while sitting in his car parked at the Wantagh Long Island Rail Road Station a male wearing a hoodie pulled on the door handle trying to enter the vehicle.
• On Jan. 6, Todd Marsicovetere, 38, of Wantagh was arrested at on Willow Street in Wantagh and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs and driving while ability impaired, combined influence.