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An Oyster Bay woman spotted rummaging through a parked BMW in Syosset was later caught and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny Thursday, Nassau County Police said.

Liza Bagdan was seen in the driver's seat of a 1999 BMW when she was confronted by the car's owner on May 28, according to police. The victim left to get help. By the time she returned, Bagdan was gone and so was a Citibank credit card, police allege. 

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Detectives identified Bagdan using surveillance video and located her at 1 a.m. Thursday at a family member's home in Oyster Bay Cove.

The missing credit card was not recovered, police said. 

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DA: Vacationers Videotaped

Tenants thought they were paying for a Hamptons getaway, but what they got was an extreme invasion of privacy, according to the Suffolk County district attorney's office. 

Donald Torr, a 70-year-old Springs landlord, taped "hundreds of hours" of footage involving 22 people, including nine children, over two weeks in August 2012, Assistant District Attorney John Cortez said at Torr's arraignment in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverside on Wednesday. 

Torr charged $7,000 per week for the two separate rental periods in question as a "method and tool to commit unlawful surveillance," Cortez said.

Police: Woman’s Body Mutilated

A Port Jefferson Station man denied stabbing a woman, but admitted to mutilating her body after death.

Evans Ganthier, 30, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Rebecca Kosher of Copiague on the night of Dec. 13, 2009. A police detective testifying during a pre-trial hearing said Ganthier denied stabbing her, but admitted to cutting off body parts and setting Kosher's body on fire after her death, Newsday reported.

Detective Philip Frendo testified in state Supreme Court Ganthier said Koster tripped on 50-pound dumbbells in his garage, hit her head and later died in route to the hospital. He then cut off identifying parts of Koster's body and took the Port Jeff Ferry into Connecticut to dispose of her. 

Police Nab Running Man

A Baldwin man who police confronted after he allegedly violated an order of protection in Roslyn was injured when he tried to escape by jumping a fence, Nassau Police said. 

Kareem Brown, 23, violated an order of protection at 3:40 a.m. Tuesday and police used a K-9 unit to track him down, police said.

Brown, who hurt himself on a fence, required surgery, according to police.

Brown is charged with two counts of aggravated family offense, three counts of first-degree criminal contempt, one count of trying to kill or injure a police animal and third-degree criminal trespass. 

Child Porn Charges

A former Nassau County probation officer was arrested on child pornography charges involving children as young as 8-years-old, federal prosecutors said. 

Gordon Woolf, of Massapequa, admitted to a Department of Homeland Security Agent Tuesday that he viewed pornographic images of children, according to court papers.

The agent was investigating cases of child pornography shared within the state. Woolf's computer had come up as having downloaded pornographic files and agents obtained a search warrant for his Massapequa home. 

Woolf, home when the search was conducted, told agents that he'd been viewing child porn for about 10 years, according to the court papers.


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