An Islip Terrace man faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week to second-degree arson after authorities said he’d set fire to a Suffolk County bar because he’d been asked to leave the premises by staff members. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Paul Lucia, 60, entered the plea to charges of setting fire to Riley Fibbers Pub and Grill on Nov. 20 in East Islip. Read the full story here: nwsdy.li/4edA0Nv. (Photo credit: Joseph Sperber) . . . #longisland #suffolkda #court #crime #police

The family of Christopher Millwater told killer Victor Panebianco as he was sentenced to 25 years in state prison for manslaughter that his actions forever changed their feelings about a location that had been special to them. "The water will still move with the tide. The beach will still be there. Life will continue in the place my uncle once went to find peace," nephew Chase Millwater said. Panebianco pleaded guilty in August to first-degree manslaughter for the fatal stabbing and was sentenced to the agreed-upon disposition by State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei in Riverhead. He admitted chasing down and stabbing Millwater as he left the club property where he regularly fished in the early morning hours on November 10. Get the latest updates here: nwsdy.li/47ehssy (Photo: Michael A. Rupolo Sr.) . . . #longisland #longislandny #suffolkcounty #selden #stonybrook

Siblings from Suffolk County admitted leading a multimillion-dollar scheme using fraudulent loan documents to purchase vehicles from car dealerships and resell them with cleaned titles for quick cash, Suffolk prosecutors said. nwsdy.li/3TvWsKD

A Honduran man faces six years in prison after pleading guilty this week to three counts of first-degree sexual abuse — after being arrested last year and charged with inappropriately touching three children in separate incidents at the T.J. Maxx store where he worked in Medford. The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said that Jimmy Harry Velasquez Gomez, 44, a Honduran national living in Mastic, entered the plea before Acting Supreme Court Justice Karen M. Wilutis and faces sentencing on Oct. 9. Read the full story here: nwsdy.li/4wNM8v3. (Photo credit: Google Maps) . . . #longisland #liny #crime #longislandnews #localnews #police

The remains of a petite woman found in a dumpster in Sayville near the LIRR train station in 1992. Bones belonging to a woman's partial lacking a head and full torso scattered at an East Quogue beach in 1994. The naked, decomposing body of a woman discovered near the Deer Park train station in North Bay Shore. Newsday found half a dozen instances of unidentified remains like these found on Long Island in the early 1990s during a period when admitted Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann began committing murders. Looking at these cases, and hundreds more, are a top priority for investigators trying to determine of any unsolved homicides are linked to the Long Island serial killer. Click here to learn more: nwsdy.li/4wiM0n5 - - #longisland #longislandny #giglobeach #serialkiller