Crimes Nearby: Death of Riverhead Woman Was Homicide, Say Police

RIVERHEAD

• Suffolk County Police said on May 8 that a body found on Monday at the Peconic Plaza in Riverhead was identified as Flanders resident Mirian Garcia. Garcia was a 29-year-old resident of Bell Avenue.The Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner determined the woman’s death is a homicide. On Monday, a female body was found in the Peconic Plaza, near the Department of Motor Vehicles, according to the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad.

Detectives are reporting that  were called around 8:20 a.m. to 200 Old Country Road in Riverhead. Police say when they arrived the woman was already dead. The woman's body was taken to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner where an autopsy will be performed, according to police.

MILLER PLACE-ROCKY POINT:

• James Forster, 64, of Nesconset, was arrested May 1 in Rocky Point and charged with petty larceny. Forster allegedly placed assorted items in his coat without paying for them at the in Rocky Point.

• Kimberly Buscher, 33, of Ridge, was arrested April 28 in Setauket and charged with petty larceny. Buscher is accused of taking a comforter from in Rocky Point without paying for it, and was later arrested on Route 347 in Setauket.

WESTHAMPTON-HAMPTON BAYS

•  reported May 2 that detectives arrested 28-year-old medical assistant Tiffany Langhorne, of Shirley, at the Prime Care medical clinic on West Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays. The former employee was charged with one count of second-degree forgery, a D felony, for forging doctors’ signatures on prescription pads in order to obtain a quantity of the controlled narcotics Percocet and Vicodin at various pharmacies, according to police.

• Arnoldo Sandolva-Palenzia, 25 of Riverhead was charged with Forgery in the second degree, a felony, on April 30. According to Westhampton Beach Police, Sandolva-Palenzia allegedly forged a prescription at on Sunset Avenue. He was released on $250 bail.

• On April 29, Westhampton Beach police nabbed Jose Martinez-Perez, 57 of Westhampton Beach on Peters Lane after police say he failed to maintain his lane.  Police charged Martinez-Perez with DWI and as an aggravated unlicensed driver, a felony. Police say Martinez-Perez had a prior DWI conviction. Martinez-Perez was held on $1,500 bail and remanded to the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside

SOUTHAMPTON:

• Ronald Adam, 47, of Southampton, was charged with felony DWI May 5 at 7:49 p.m. after police stopped him on County Road 39 in Southampton, according to the arrest report. Police said Adam showed signs of intoxication such as slurred speech and problems standing. Cops said they also discovered an open 12-ounce can of Coors Light beer in the vehicle, which is classified as a violation. Adam was charged with unlawfully consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle and he was issued a traffic summons for unsafe turning without signaling. The DWI's elevation to a felony stemmed from a previous conviction, police said.

EAST HAMPTON:
 
• Matthew Byank, whose motorcycle crashed while fleeing from a police officer on the Napeague Stretch, killing his pregnant 19-year-old fiancée Lauren M. Parris in 2010, took a deal and pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday afternoon. As part of the negotiated plea deal with the court, Suffolk County Judge C. Randall Hinrichs said he would sentence Byank to a minimum of 2 1/2 to 7 1/2 years on the indictment. The cap, the judge said was 3 to 9 years. Byank remains free on $125,000 cash bail. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18.