Crime & Safety
Police: Man Held on $50k Bail After Knifepoint Robbery
Also this week, police said a Riverhead man was arrested after forging a $400 check in his mother's name.
Editor’s Note: The following information was supplied by the Riverhead Town Police Department. A criminal charge is only an accusation and does not indicate guilt.
• Michael Bagley, 23, of Blue Point, was arrested on June 24 after he police say he robbed a man at knifepoint several weeks ago.
According to Riverhead Police, a Carle Place resident reported that while sitting in his car around 5:05 a.m. on June 6, a man with a knife came up to him and demanded that he get back into his home, where he reportedly robbed him of $300. Police said the man, wearing a black puffy jacket, then fled on a bicycle toward Segal Avenue.
Police later found the black puffy jacket and bike, but found no trace of the man.
Around 9:30 a.m., Lewis Avenue residents reported that Bagley had snuck in a window and hid at their home while fleeing police and ended up hiding in a closet. According to the police report, Bagley fled before cops got there.
Suffolk County police arrested Bagley on June 12 on separate charges. On June 24, Riverhead police brought him in on charges of first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary, both felonies, as well as criminal trespass in the second degree, a misdemeanor.
He is being held on $50,000 cash bail or $25,000 bond at Suffolk County Correctional Facility, and is due back in court on July 8.
• A 24-year-old Riverhead man reportedly stole from his mother, attempting to cash a voided check to himself for $400.
According to Riverhead police, Sean Burke's mother reported leaving a check on her desk in early April, writing a check out to Cablevision with "void" in the signature line. The next day, she reportedly went to get the check and reported that it was missing, with the only people home between being her son and daughter. She then went online, according to a police report, to find that she had a pending debit of $400 on the same check number she had written out the day prior.
After receiving a copy of the check, she reportedly found that her son's name had been written over "Cablevision" and her signature had been forged over the word "void."
Burke was arrested on June 19 on a charged of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, a felony.
According to Riverhead Police, a Carle Place resident reported that while sitting in his car around 5:05 a.m. on June 6, a man with a knife came up to him and demanded that he get back into his home, where he reportedly robbed him of $300. Police said the man, wearing a black puffy jacket, then fled on a bicycle toward Segal Avenue.
Police later found the black puffy jacket and bike, but found no trace of the man.
Around 9:30 a.m., Lewis Avenue residents reported that Bagley had snuck in a window and hid at their home while fleeing police and ended up hiding in a closet. According to the police report, Bagley fled before cops got there.
Suffolk County police arrested Bagley on June 12 on separate charges. On June 24, Riverhead police brought him in on charges of first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary, both felonies, as well as criminal trespass in the second degree, a misdemeanor.
He is being held on $50,000 cash bail or $25,000 bond at Suffolk County Correctional Facility, and is due back in court on July 8.
• A 24-year-old Riverhead man reportedly stole from his mother, attempting to cash a voided check to himself for $400.
According to Riverhead police, Sean Burke's mother reported leaving a check on her desk in early April, writing a check out to Cablevision with "void" in the signature line. The next day, she reportedly went to get the check and reported that it was missing, with the only people home between being her son and daughter. She then went online, according to a police report, to find that she had a pending debit of $400 on the same check number she had written out the day prior.
After receiving a copy of the check, she reportedly found that her son's name had been written over "Cablevision" and her signature had been forged over the word "void."
Burke was arrested on June 19 on a charged of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, a felony.
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