Crime Report: NUMC Employee Arrested, Drug Possession Bust

A patient care assistant at (NUMC) was arrested Tuesday for allegedly grabbing a 6-year-old patient by the neck on Oct. 29, Third Precinct detectives said.

According to police, Third Precinct officers responded to a disturbance at NUMC that was between Azoumana Ouattara, 45, of Freeport, and a 6-year-old boy. For the full story,

Other Crime News

• A Westbury man was arrested for drug possession after he was pulled over near the East Meadow/Uniondale boarder on the Meadowbrook Parkway. Police caught Jason Rankine, 25, with more than a pound of Marijuana in his vehicle. For the full story,
• On Nov. 8, sometime after 1:20 a.m., a vehicle parked on Merrick Avenue in East Meadow was ransacked, although nothing was stolen, police said.
• Sometime between 10 p.m. on Nov. 10 and 7 a.m. on Nov. 11, items were stolen from a vehicle that was parked on Lenox Avenue in East Meadow.
• Sometime before 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 8, cash was stolen from an unlocked vehicle that was parked on Marion Drive in East Meadow.
• Sometime between Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 12 at 6:30 a.m., an unknown person took a folding store sign that was on the sidewalk and threw it through the window of East Meadow Wireless Center, and the window shattered.