Jack Shapiro, a 54-year-old outdoorsman and retired Brooklyn cop, was winter-surfing off Gilgo Beach with friends around 2:20 p.m. Sunday when he plunged into the surf and had to be pulled to

Thomas J. Mascia, 27, who had been a state trooper since 2019, pleaded not guilty to falsely reporting an incident and other charges.

A former New York City police sergeant died from an apparent drowning while surfing in Long Island’s frigid waters on Sunday.

Kevin Catalina, the Suffolk police department's second-in-command and a veteran of the NYPD, was nominated to be Suffolk's new police commissioner Tuesday, sources said.

A New York State trooper turned himself on Monday after inconsistencies in his story about a shooting that left him injured on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway led to a felony charge against him,

A former sergeant for the New York Police Department has died in a suspected drowning on Long Island. Jack Shapiro was surfing at Gilgo Beach on Sunday, January 19th when, just after 2:00 pm local time,

LONG ISLAND - A former NYPD officer died after being found unresponsive off the coast of Gilgo Beach on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. Jack Shapiro, 54, was pulled ashore by a bystander while surfing in Long Island’s frigid waters. Despite receiving CPR and being rushed to a nearby hospital, he was pronounced dead.

A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway last year.

Jack Shapiro, 54, of Holbrook was identified as the victim after being pulled to shore by a bystander off the coast of Gilgo Beach just after 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19.

The NYPD released an age-progressed image of Arkadiy "ARK" Tashman, who disappeared from Staten Island in 2005, to renew public interest and gather information.

Mascia had claimed that he had approached what he believed to be a stranded motorist and that, as he did so, he was shot by a dark-skinned male in a black sedan, possibly a Dodge Charger, with a temporary New Jersey license plate.