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Kathy Reakes
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Kathy Reaks has worked as a reporter in the local news business since 1984, starting as a news clerk and working her way up. She spent 17 years at Florida Today in Melbourne, Florida as a general assignment reporter, crime reporter, entertainment reporter and restaurant critic. She worked four years at Hometown News as a general assignment reporter, then another two years at Spacecoast Daily in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She attended Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, Florida.
Nypd Officer Vaerie Cincinelli From Oceanside Indicted For Alleged Murder-For-Hire Plot
A New York City police officer arrested earlier this month in connection with a murder-for-hire plot to off her estranged husband and her "Sugar Daddy" boyfriend's daughter was indicted Thursday, May 30, by a grand jury.
Valerie Cincinelli, 34, of Oceanside, was charged with two counts of murder for hire and one count of obstruction of justice, according to John Marzullii, public information officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
On Friday, May 17, Cincinelli, found herself in cuffs for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill her husband, Isaiah Carvalho…
Two Drivers Racing Each Other Sentenced For Fatal LIE Crash In Nassau County
Two Nassau County men have been sentenced for their roles in a fatal 2017 crash on the Long Island Expressway while racing each other at speeds as high as 120 miles per hour that left one man dead.
Jonnathan Santos, 22, of Manhasset, was sentenced Wednesday, May 29, to three to nine years in prison, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.
He pleaded guilty on Oct. 9, 2018, to manslaughter and DWAI/Drugs, said the DA's Office.
Santos’ co-defendant and fellow racer, Areefeen Hirji, 22, of the Village of Muttontown in Oyster Bay, was sentenced February 26, to 3-1/2 years to 10-1…
Stamford Man Charged With Burglarizing Businesses In Cos Cob
A 25-year-old man wanted in Greenwich for an alleged burglary was nabbed while a prisoner with the Stamford Police Department.
Jimil Gaskins, 24, of Washington Boulevard, Stamford, was picked up by Greenwich Police on a warrant following an investigation into a commercial burglary at a business in Cos Cob on Jan. 28, Slusarz said.
He was arrested on Tuesday, May 28, at the Stamford Police Department, and charged with one count of burglary.
Gaskins is being held on $50,000 bond, which he was unable to make. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 11.