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VOL 16 NO. 9 The Week of June 4 - June 10, 1981 20 cents per copy
Over Forty Persons Nabbed
In County Undercover Bust
xNassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon,
Nassau County Police Commissioner Samuel
Rozzi, and Hempstead Police Commissioner
L People in The News
At a luncheon recently in Milano's restaurant, the JFK
PTA had their installation of officers for the upcoming
school year. Pictured left to right are: Treasurer Jackie
Franske, Recording Sec. Dawn Buggeln, Vice President
Mary Burke, and President Connie Badstuebner. Not
present was Corresponding Sec. Delia Martuge.
Photo by Rick Kopstein
The Nassau County Young Republicans each year
present a plaque to an outstanding person in the Repub­lican
Party at the annual Young Republican Reunion.
This award is in honor of the late Nathan L. H. Bennett,
who was the originator of the Nassau County Young Re­publicans,
and was one of Nassau's most popular officials.
This year approximately 300 people were present for the
social event, many attendees being from the original
Young Recruits of the Republican Party.
This year two people were presented the award, Frank
Pepe-assistant to Republican Chairman Joseph M. Mar-giott
\ and Ken Bagatelle of Freeport. Pictured [1. to r.]-
Art Sailto, Pres. of Nassau County Young Republicans;
Paul Bartels, last year's award recipient; Frank Pepe;
Chairman Joseph Margiotto; Ken Bagatelle; Cathy
Leahy, 3rd V.P. of the Nassau County Young Republi­cans
; and Barbara Walsh, Chairman of the event. v -^J
Thomas Scott, today announced the arrests and
indictments of more than 40 individuals as a
result of an undercover investigation. The probe,
known as Operation B.U.S.T. (Burglary
Undercover Sting Task-Force), was conducted
by the three agencies over the last eleven weeks,
and was aimed at netting burglars in Nassau
County.
According to Dillon, "The operation was run
out of a gold and silver store at 107 Jackson
Street in Hempstead. The store, known as C & C
Gold and Silver was .staffed by undercover
.personnel and was equipped with hidden
videotape equipment. All transactions were
recorded, and numerous pieces of property
which were purchased were stolen in burglaries,
robberies and shoplifting."
Most of the larcenies that were solved as a
result of the undercover operation occurred in
the Village of Hempstead and surrounding
communities, such as West Hempstead,
Uniondale, Freeport, East Meadow and Garden
City. Much of the property recovered was gold
and silver, but also included guns, credit cards,
cameras, trophies, office equipment, religious
articles, fur coats, calculators, stereos and a
grand-father clock.
The gold and silver store was staffed by
undercover people for six weeks. Thousands of
pieces of stolen property were recovered at a
small fraction of their value. The District
Attorney's office funded the operation and paid
out $4,800. Experts saw that in most cases the
property was purchased for less than 10 percent
of its true value.
The investigation is continuing as the Police
Department is still trying to identify much of the
recovered property. In addition, police are
continuing to arrest defendants in the cases
where property identification has been made.
Dillon, Rozzi and Scott said they would
continue to use undercover operations to combat
the problem of burglaries. Dillon said his office
would continue its tough posture in such cases,
and would hope that Judges continue their strong
positions on sentences.
The DA noted that several of the defendants
arrested in the string operation are juveniles and
would be prosecuted in the Family Court. The
names of those under 16 who were taken into
custody are confidential. The names of the other
defendants will be released as they are taken
into custody.
Special credit should be given to those
individuals who supervised the string operation
for the three agencies. For the District
Attorney's office, they are Lawrence Leff,
Executive Assistant District Attorney for
Operations; John McKenna, Chief of the Felony
Screening Bureau; and Philip Grella, Deputy
Chief of the County Court Bureau. For the
Nassau Police Department, Inspector Donald
Kane and Sergeant Gary Repetti headed the
operation. For the Village of Hempstead Police
Department, Lt. John Pagano was in charge.
Fuehs Presented First Golden Torch Award
On May 22, 1981, at the Northeast Regional
meeting in Hartford, Conn., the first Golden
Torch Award was given to Mr. Leonard Fuchs of
Plainview, Long Island for his outstanding work
as chairman of the council committee on the
handicapped.
Leonard Fuchs, one of the first receivers of the
award, has been active in the handicapped
program for seven years. A member of the Boy
Scouts for forty years he is a member of the
national eagle scount association, National
Scouting Alumni Association and the Alpha Phi
Omega fraternity. Mr. Fuchs is the founder of
the Nassau-Suffolk District Council Jewish War
Veterans and served as commander from 1951 to
1953. He was national boy scout chairman of the
Jewish War Veterans for twenty six years. As
EMT he was chief of medical services for the
county disaster unit.Nassau County Council
Committee for the handicapped is providing a
full scouting program to over six hundred
handicapped boys and expects to double that by
the end of 1981. Its innovative in-school
programs, workshops and seminars are being
used throughout the country.
Mr. Fuchs who has chaired the committee for
the last four years, credits the work of his
committee vice chairmen Al Gerson and Dr.
Charles Callahan aiong with other dedicated
members for the success of the program and for
the awards. He also credits the success to the
work of the executive advisory committee which
backs up the working committee. The advisory
committee is headed by Ann Irvin of the County
Youth Board and includes representatives of all
the various associations for the handicapped and
also includes former county executive Mr. Ralph
Caso.