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Amityville Police make arrest for local burglaries It started as a simple call about a lost cell phone, but ended up bringing police one step closer to solving a rash of burglaries that have taken place throughout the Village of Amityville since January. Police gave this account: Three weeks ago, APO Jerry Gralton responded to 64 Locust Drive after a resident there reported the theft of a cell phone. During the police interview, the resident told Gralton that this is not the first time that items had been missing from her home and that in a previous incident weeks earlier she discovered another resident of the house, Luis Mazara, in her apartment. She later discovered her laptop missing and approached Mazara's brother. He later returned the laptop to her, but she did not press charges at the time. Gralton contacted the Suffolk County Police First Squad Detectives and the Crime Analysis Bureau. He was advised to charge Mazara with larceny, not burglary, and did so. Following that, the First Squad Detectives brought Mazara in for questioning and police said he confessed to committing two burglaries in Amityville Village, one on Washington Avenue and the other on Cedar Street.
Mazara is 18 and is a suspect in several other burglaries throughout Amityville Village over the past 10 months, including several near the high school, which he attended. Police said they also believe that there are other suspects, and are continuing their investigation.
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