Cops: Suspect arrested in manhunt, standoff

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Cops: Suspect arrested in manhunt, standoff
August 30, 2013 by JOHN VALENTI AND OLIVIA WINSLOW / [e-mail],[e-mail]


A suspect is under arrest after an early morning confrontation with police in East Massapequa that resulted in at least one shot being fired by an officer, a neighborhood manhunt and a standoff outside a home on Friday, police said.

Nassau County police have not released the identity of the suspect, police spokesman Insp. Kenneth Lack telling Newsday the man arrested had been in an earlier confrontation with officers who tried to question him about car break-ins on nearby Unqua Road.

Seventh Precinct officers, who had responded to the initial 911 call at 4:15 a.m., eventually located the suspect at a home on East Hamilton Avenue near the corner of Carman Place in East Massapequa, and police said Bureau of Special Operations officers and members of a crisis negotiation team were brought to the scene before the suspect surrendered to officers at about 9 a.m.

Eyewitness accounts said police had cordoned off the blocks around the home, guns drawn. Police said the suspect initially was "refusing" to come out of the house.

Charges against the suspect were not available.

Lack told Newsday that during the initial confrontation between the suspect and officers, one officer had fired a shot after the suspect refused to remove one of his hands from his shorts' pocket and the officer heard "a click" that he thought sounded like a gun being cvcked. The shot did not strike the suspect, who ran off.

Police activity in the East Massapequa area began at about 4:15 a.m., when police said they received a 911 call reporting a suspicious person attempting to break into cars on Unqua Road. That scene is about three-quarters of a mile to a mile from the scene of the standoff on East Hamilton.

Police said that the initial 911 call, handled by Seventh Precinct officers, resulted in a confrontation -- with the suspect ignoring police commands.

Lack said that confrontation took place near Old Sunrise Highway-West Oak Street near Carman Mill Road in East Massapequa. He said that, when officers asked the suspect to show his hands, he showed just one -- and officers suspected he might be armed. It was not clear if a weapon was involved or if one was recovered.

Once the officer fired the shot, Lack said, the suspect fled into a wooded area and a manhunt ensued, complete with road closures, a helicopter search and search dogs scanning an area along the East Massapequa-West Amityville border. A police spokeswoman described that initial police activity to Newsday: "We arrive on scene, we see him, we order him to stop. He doesn't stop, he doesn't obey commands. He took off running. Now we're looking for him."

Police had cordoned off an area between Sunrise Highway and Old Sunrise Highway to Merrick Road and between Unqua and Carman Mill Road. Police later opened Sunrise Highway and other surrounding blocks, saying that at 7:45 a.m. the closure was limited to Old Sunrise Highway-West Oak Street at Carman Mill.

Police said the suspect had "some relation" to the occupants of the home on East Hamilton, but did not provide details.

With Scott Eidler

[mrwizard]

What goes through these people's minds when an armed Police Officer, one who is pointing a gun at them, tells them to take their hands out of their pockets? I know if it was me, I would do everything the nice man with the gun told me to do.

[ncpdretired]

Wiz,
Maybe, just maybe, these dirt bags figure if they are shot and not killed, its a payday from the NCPD
to any one who is shot an not killed.

Just sayin...







Just sayin....

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www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/cops-standoff-suspect-released-not-involved-in-burglary-1.5984200
Cops: Standoff suspect released; not involved in burglary
August 30, 2013 by ELLEN YAN AND OLIVIA WINSLOW / [e-mail], [e-mail]


A man who surrendered to a hostage negotiator Friday morning in East Massapequa was released hours later because he was not the burglary suspect who had fled after an officer fired at him, Nassau police said.

The man, whose name was not released, had initially refused to surrender after an intensive police manhunt for the burglary suspect ended up at an East Hamilton Avenue home, police said. About 9 a.m., he gave up after a hostage negotiator was called to the scene and spoke to him through a bullhorn for about a half-hour, police said.

Insp. Kenneth Lack, a police spokesman, said there was probable cause to arrest him at the time because he had fit the description of the burglary suspect.

"We quickly discovered it's not the individual, and he was quickly released," Lack said.

Police had been led to his house by another 911 call about a suspicious person entering the East Hamilton Avenue residence, police said.

The saga started about 4:15 a.m. when someone saw a man in his 20s and red shorts trying to break into a house or car on Unqua Road in East Massapequa, police said.

Later, an officer saw a bicyclist who fit the suspect's description nearby on Sunrise Highway, near Old Sunrise Avenue.

Ordered to lie on the ground, the man complied but refused to take one of his hands out of his pocket, police said.

He appeared to drop something on the ground and then shuffled toward it, Lack said.

The officer heard a metal clinking noise, and thinking the suspect was reaching for a gun, he fired once, missing the man, who fled into nearby woods, Lack said.

"The individual refused to take his hands out of his pockets," Lack said. "He would only show the officer one hand, the other hand kept in his pocket. This area is dark, very little light. The officer hears a clicking sound and thinks it's the subject reaching for a gun.

"The subject makes a furtive move towards the officer, and the officer fires one shot at the subject, which does not strike him."

Police dogs, a helicopter and special operations officers joined patrol officers in hunting for him, police said.

That hunt ended at the East Hamilton Avenue home with the 911 call of a suspicious person at 7:50 a.m., police said.

Residents of the block told Newsday of the chaotic scene outside the home. Anne Marie Bryant, 65, of nearby Carman Boulevard, said an officer told her, "Get back in the house," when she tried to go outside at about 9 a.m.

Another resident, Lisa Farco of East Hamilton Avenue, described the scene as "kind of crazy," adding that it's "normally a very quiet neighborhood."

Georgia Constantinides, 40, who lives on Roosevelt Avenue, described police with search dogs and rifles, walking down the block earlier in the day, saying: "You don't expect to see this in your neighborhood."

Police were still searching for the burglary suspect Friday afternoon.

With John Valenti, Scott Eidler and Mackenzie Issler