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Kevin D. Cooks, a 21 year old Flanders man, was arrested on rape and sodomy charges March 12, 2004, stemming from an ongoing sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl.  He was already under arrest as a result of an investigation into several burglaries in the Flanders area when police became aware of allegations that he had been sexually involved with the girl.  Cooks, of 20 Hart Avenue, was released from the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead March 12 on the burglary charges, but immediately arrested again and arraigned

Jose Romero, a 36 year old Huntington Station man, was arrested Saturday after he was seen committing a sexual act with the 3 year old daughter of his landlords.  He had rented a room in the house of the girl’s mother and stepfather for two years and they considered him a family friend.  At 9 a.m. Saturday, a friend of Romero’s knocked on the door to Romero’s room and pushed the door open and saw Romero engaged in a sexual act with the girl.  He then notified the girl’s family

The Reverend Michael R. Hands, a 38 year old East Meadow priest, admitted in a Riverhead courtroom that he had sodomized a 14 year old boy two years ago. Hands was arrested in the parking lot of St. Raphael’s Roman Catholic Church and has been charged with second degree sexual abuse and second and third degree sodomy in three separate alleged encounters in Suffolk County. He was arraigned and held on $125,000 cash bail. He has been accused of molesting a boy over a 1 1/2 year period, beginning when

Winston Lindsay, a 60 year old Sunday school teacher, was convicted of first degree sexual abuse, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.  He told police he was a police officer when he lived in Jamaica and a Sunday school teacher at the Faith Tabernacle Church of God on Sunrise Highway in West Babylon, where he sometimes preached.  He was arrested November 12, 2003, for sexual abuse of a girl who was younger than 11 years old.  Lindsay, of 537 Mount Avenue in North Babylon, faced

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Larry A. Mills, a 51 year old Brentwood man who raped a 72 year old woman more than 25 years agoin a Bay Shore senior housing complex, was arrested early Friday on charges of failing to registeras a sex offender after moving to a rest home in Lake Ronkonkoma. Mills has been arrested severaltimes for violating the Sex Offender Registration Act, also known as Megan’s Law. He failed to fillout the required sex offender change of address form. He is a Level 3 sex offender. He is beingheld

The Longwood school district is the first to adopt an e-mail alert system that notifies subscribers when a sex offender moves to any Long Island community.  The postcard mailing service, which the district discarded last week, only advised residents when sex offenders moved into the district.  The Parents for Megan’s Law sponsored e-mail program increases the information parents can access about convicted sex offenders because the no-cost method informs subscribers when a registered offender moves into the school district or any other community.  It is estimated that the district spent