Weekly Wrap-Up: Walter Wins Re-Election, Shootings Suspect Arrested

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Riverhead Police arrested a Patchogue woman on Monday and charged her with stealing $21,000 in cash from a Suffolk County National Bank on Second Street. Kate Paul, 31, was charged with third-degree grand larceny.

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On Monday, Patch reported that Supervisor Sean Walter told a Riverhead Neighborhood Preservation Coalition leader on Nov 5. that he "better hope Phil Cardinale wins because you've sealed your fate" regarding a political mailing Walter alleged the group sponsored. Walter also threatened legal action against the group for their alleged conspiracy with the Democratic party. The mailer includes a statement that is was "paid for by the Democratic Committee" and the civic association has denied Walters claims.

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, , and all other incumbents on the ballot won re-election on Tuesday. Voters said that development downtown and at EPCAL were the biggest issues they voted for.

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An 18-year-old Riverhead man was arrested on Friday and charged with attempted murder, assault and a slew of weapons charges for his alleged involvement in two separate shooting incidents over the past week, police said. Juan F. Soyos-Pixtun was remanded to Suffolk County Jail and held in lieu of $500,000 bail. Both victims suffered non-life threatening injures and are expected to recover.

Military veterans were honored on Friday at an annual ceremony at the Calverton National Cemetery. Rep. Tim Bishop, D-Southampton, was one of the many speakers at the event and spoke of PFC Garfield Langhorn, a Riverhead medal of honor recipient.

"We all talk about honoring veterans, as well we should," Bishop said, "but what I would ask is that each of us not just talk about honoring veterans, but that we try to take some of the characteristics that made Garfield Langhorn who he was, that made so many others who they are. We can each try to be a little bit better at what we do. We can each try to challenge ourselves a little bit more."