Police: $6,000 theft in Huntington Station

By Joy Vestal

Commack

An attendant at the Alex Petroleum station on Commack Road said a man drove off Friday without paying for his gas. The attendant gave police the license plate number of the car.

A resident on Cottonwood Drive said two tires were slashed on his car Saturday.

Dix Hills

Savings bonds, jewelry and personal papers were taken during a burglary yesterday at a house on Livingston Place. The police said entry was made through a sliding glass door in the back of the house.

Elwood

A Thadford Street resident said a car drove across her front lawn Saturday and damaged it.

Greenlawn

On yesterday two men were seen trying to break into a coin operated vacuum outside a laundromat on Broadway. The police said they broke the padlock but were unable to get the change out of the machine.

Huntington

A dumpster was reported stolen Friday behind a building on Route 110.

The doors were reported stolen off a Jeep yesterday that the owner said she had not used in a year but kept in her backyard on Wendover Drive. She said the doors that were stolen only fit the CJF Jeep model.

Vandals broke a side-view mirror on a car on Sheridan Street yesterday.

Huntington Station

The steering column was found damaged yesterday on a car parked on New York Avenue.

A garage was broken into today on West 19th Street and two bicycles, a table saw and power planer were stolen. The homeowner placed a value of over $6,000 on these items that were taken.

Melville

The owner of a 2008 Chevrolet said someone splashed gray paint all over the car yesterday in a parking lot on Walt Whitman Road.