Line of Duty Death Police Officer Arthur Lopez

Police Officer Arthur Lopez

Nassau County Police Department, New York

 

End of Watch: Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 29

Tour: 8 years

Badge # Not available

Cause: Gunfire

Incident Date: 10/23/2012

Weapon: Handgun

Suspect: Shot and wounded

 

Police Officer Arthur Lopez was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a hit-and-run driver at the intersection of 241st Street and Jamaica Avenue.

 

Officer Lopez and another officer witnessed the accident near the border of NassauCounty and New York City. One of the vehicles involved in the accident fled the scene. The officers followed the vehicle into Queens where they conducted a vehicle stop. The subject opened fire on the officers as they approached. Officer Lopez, who was not wearing a vest, was struck in the chest. The subject then fled in his vehicle. He abandoned his vehicle and carjacked a citizen, fatally shooting the driver.

 

Officer Lopez was transported to North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

 

The subject was arrested several hours later and was suffering two gunshot wounds. He was identified as a former convict who had served prison time after being convicted of second degree murder.

 

Officer Lopez had served with the Nassau County Police Department for eight years and was assigned to the Emergency Services Unit.

 

Please contact the following agency to send condolences or to obtain funeral arrangements:

 

Commissioner Thomas Dale

Nassau County Police Department

1490 Franklin Avenue

Mineola, NY11501

Phone: (516) 573-8800

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Suffolk County NY July 23 2009
Suffolk County police have arrested a Long Island teacher for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
Authorities say that an officer on patrol in the West Islip area noticed a gray Honda Accord with two occupants in the parking lot of Westbrook Elementary School around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The officer found the car to be occupied by 28-year-old Daniel Rothbard, of Merrick, and the 15-year-old girl.
Rothbard, a math teacher from Valley Stream, was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child
Further investigation by detectives determined that Rothbard and the victim had met online through MySpace and that he had sexually assaulted her. Rothbard was additionally charged with third-degree rape, third-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree sexual abuse.
Rothbard was freed on $5,000 bail after pleading not guilty Wednesday at his arraignment.
Detectives are continuing the investigation. They are researching the possibility that Rothbard had contact with other juvenile females online. He is known as “D to the J” or “DJ.” Anyone who has had contact with him is asked to call the Third Squad at 631-854-8352 or to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

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Police Officer Glen Ciano

Suffolk County Police Department New York

End of Watch: Sunday, February 22, 2009
Biographical InfoAge: 45

Tour of Duty: 22 years

Badge Number: Not available
Incident DetailsCause of Death: Vehicular assault

Date of Incident: Sunday, February 22, 2009

Weapon Used: Automobile; Alcohol involved

Suspect Info: Apprehended

Police Officer Glen Ciano was killed when his patrol car was struck by a vehicle being driven by an intoxicated operator.Officer Ciano was responding to assist a fellow officer who had stopped a vehicle with stolen license plates. His patrol car was struck by a vehicle making a left turn onto Commack Road from Vanderbilt Parkway. The force of the collision sent the patrol car off the road and into a utility pole. The patrol car burst into flames, killing Officer Ciano.The suspect was arrested at the scene and it was determined that he had been operating his vehicle under the influence of alcohol.Police Officer Ciano had served with the Suffolk County Police Department for 22 years and is survived by his wife and two children. He was assigned to the 2nd Precinct.

Agency Contact Information:

Suffolk County Police Department

John Barry Police Headquarters

30 Yaphank Avenue

Yaphank, NY 11980

Phone: (631) 852-6000

Please contact the Suffolk County Police Department for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.

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Suffolk County NY Feb 23 2009
A drunken driver who had been busted for DWI just last month broadsided a veteran Long Island cop’s car early Sunday, killing the 45-year-old officer in a fiery crash, cops said.
Suffolk County Officer Glen Ciano was on duty and en route to help his partner when he died – leaving cops and advocates asking how the reckless motorist still had a license.
Jose Borbon of Plainview plowed his 2007 Dodge Magnum into the squad car at Vanderbilt Motor Parkway and Commack Road in Commack about 4:15 a.m., police said.
Borbon, who was not injured, stayed at the scene and was charged with DWI – his second DWI rap in less than two months.
“Somebody with a DWI under their belt clearly doesn’t belong on our streets,” said Wiley Norvell, spokesman for Transportation Alternatives.
“It’s clear that when people drive drunk they give up their privilege to drive, and we should have the guts to enforce it.”
Ciano, a father of two who lived in Bayport, was making a left-hand turn when his car was struck, sending it spinning into a utility pole. The car caught fire and quickly exploded, witnesses and cops said.
Borbon was busted in Nassau County on Jan. 4 on charges of drunken driving, holding more than one license, criminal possession of a gun and various moving violations, court documents show.
He still held a conditional license that allowed him to drive to specific locations set by the state’s drunken driver rehab program.
Borbon’s license had also been suspended in 2007 after he was involved in four crashes in one year, records show. It was reinstated two months later.
Chief Dominic Varrone of the Suffolk County police said Ciano was a highly regarded veteran with 22 years on the force.
A steady stream of mourners and well-wishers brought flowers to the scene of the crash, and flags hung at half-staff at the 2nd Precinct stationhouse in Huntington as officers mourned the loss of one of their own.
Ciano’s neighbors described him as a devoted husband and father who went out of his way to help friends repair cars, fix lawn mowers – and even hang holiday lights.
“He always helped,” said neighbor Ina Scotto, 69. “He was a very good man. He was a very good father.”
Witnesses heard the crash from the McDonald’s across the street.
“There was an explosion, and I saw a lot of fire,” said Daisy Ramirez, 37. “I went outside and saw a mangled wreck of steel and rubber.”
The flames erupted so rapidly there was no chance of rescuing Ciano from the car, cops said.
According to Borbon’s MySpace page, he is a father of twins and has a young wife.
Next-door neighbors on Borbon’s block say he comes from a good family and that he liked to work on his car in the driveway of the home where he lived with his parents. He was often seen on weekends washing and waxing the Dodge Magnum without a shirt, neighbors said.
Borbon’s family was huddled Sunday in their tidy home, but his mother said they would not comment until they had spoken to a lawyer.

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Suffolk County NY Oct 2 2008

Eight, maybe 10, minutes went by as Stacey Reister stood silently, staring into her husband’s soft, laughing eyes. She could not look away from his smile, the arch of his eyebrows or the rosy plumpness of his cheeks.Andrew was there, right there. Big, and wide and colorful.

Just as he’d been in life.”Wow,” Reister would say, over and over again as she gazed at a mural done by inmates at the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead to honor her late husband, Andrew Reister.

He was a correction officer who died violently at age 40 while working at a part-time job as a bouncer last August.

He was choked by a bar patron he had asked to stop dancing on a table, police said.

“He looks like himself,” said Stacey Reister, who could not stop staring at the mural it took Gregory Roosa, 35, and Thomas Green, 28, two weeks to complete.”He looks so happy, so peaceful, like the man he was,” she said. “Not like a man who died violently.”"That’s comforting,” she added, “because he was not the man people saw on the news.

“The man on the news is a victim. A father of two whose wife had to make the difficult decision to remove him from life support days after police said he grappled with a suspect, Anthony Oddone. Oddone is being held at Rikers Island awaiting trial on charges stemming from Reister’s death.The man in the mural was much, much more, even to the men he was paid to keep in line each day at the jail.”I worked real hard on his smile,” said Roosa, who has served more

“I worked real hard on his smile,” said Roosa, who has served more than one jail stint for convictions that include criminal possession of stolen property. “He was always smiling.”Green didn’t talk much. He let his work speak for him. It was his idea to add an angel to the mural. And the gates of heaven.”He was a good person and we all know that’s where he is,” said Green, whose pencil portrait of Reister hangs from a bulletin board not far from the mural.Nearby, Orlin Flores, 31, was trying to avoid the cameras at the unveiling.

He sat in the back row of a community room where inmates – split into sections marked “Floors,” for maximum-security prisoners and “Pods,” for medium-security prisoners – gather for meetings.And for prayer.

“I’m in here for something that caught up with me,” Flores said. “I am working to turn my life around.”Flores was invited to the mural’s unveiling because he contributed the largest sum – $150 – to a fund prisoners started for Reister’s family.

“When I read about the children, about how he took them to Splish Splash, I had to do something,” he said. “I have four children, and those are the things we do together. I couldn’t have his children go without.”Together, the inmates contributed $1,155.22 of their commissary money – in sums that included $1, $3, $50 and $100 – to help Stacey Reister and the couple’s two young children. No one could remember the last time something like that happened.

“Thank you,” Reister’s wife said to the men.

For a few minutes, the small room, isolated by three metal gates from the facility’s front door, wasn’t filled with prisoners and keepers.

“Officer Reister had a job to do, but he was also good to people,” Roos told Stacey Reister.”Yeah,” she agreed, “he treated people like human beings.

“Behind them, overlooking the small community room, Andrew Reister gazed down. And smiled.

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Suffolk County NY Sept 2 2008
The Suffolk County police’s search of the North Haven spread where a 100-year-old woman was shot and killed will continue through the night, Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said Monday.Jessie Burke was fatally shot in the head Sunday while sitting in a recliner in her living room, police said.

A crossword puzzle was found nearby.Family members were shocked by the news.

“This is insane,” said Burke’s granddaughter, Briana Burke of Burbank, Calif. “Something has happened to my grandmother and it has not been disclosed what it is.”
Burke’s Payne Avenue home, which police said is owned by her daughter, Jean Burke, sits on 2.9 acres and was assessed this year at $1.2 million, according to Southampton Town records.Jean Burke discovered her mother dead in the chair Sunday afternoon after returning from an hour-long shopping trip, Fitzpatrick said.

Police have questioned Burke, along with several others, but have made no arrests.

Fitzpatrick said he does not expect to make an arrest in the case on Monday.

No one has been arrested or charged thus far.There were no signs of a break-in, and there was nothing missing from the home; it is unclear whether the home was locked. Fitzpatrick wouldn’t comment on evidence found at the scene, or say anything about the weapon involved.He described Jessie Burke as “spry” and “mentally nimble.”

Family members told police she prepared her own meals and did a crossword puzzle every day, he said.While the case is being investigated as a homicide, Fitzpatrick said it defies typical circumstances.”

A 100-year-old woman being shot is unique no matter what area it happens,” he said.North Haven is a sleepy village of 743 between Sag Harbor and the Shelter Island ferry terminal, and Jean Burke was its primary political gadfly.

She ran an insurgent mayoral campaign in 1994 because she disagreed with how the village was handling a surge in the deer population.

Though she lost the mayoral race, Burke continued to appear at village board meetings and was often critical of how elected officials handled municipal affairs, said Fred Stelle, an architect who has served as deputy mayor and as a village trustee.Stelle described Jean Burke as a physically imposing woman who stands about 5-foot-10.

A former corrections officer, she was believed to have spent nearly all of her time caring for her elderly mother, Stelle said.”She always spoke very forcefully about whatever issues were concerning her,” Stelle said.

“She tended to be very certain about whatever issue she was concerned about.”

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392 or Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.