Crime & Safety
Police: Man Arrested for South Farmingdale Liquor Store Robbery
Cops identify alleged robber through evidence left at the scene in September.
A Wyandanch man was arrested Thursday and charged with stealing from a South Farmingdale liquor store in September, said Nassau County police.
According to eighth squad detectives, Terrell A. Russell, 34, entered on Main Street through the roof at around 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 13. Police said that once inside the defendant removed an undetermined amount of U.S. currency, New York Lottery tickets and a laptop computer.
The defendant was identified through physical evidence left behind at the scene, police said, and was arrested by eighth squad detectives at noon on Jan. 12.
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Russell is charged with one count of burglary in the third degree and will be arraigned on Jan. 13 in the first district court in Hempstead.
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