Tables have turned for a state trooper as he’s now facing criminal charges for allegedly making up a shooting. The former New York trooper was allegedly looking for “attention or sympathy,” according ...

A Hempstead man was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for robbing and killing a man who was asleep in his car, the Nassau County district attorney announced on Friday. Kadeem Lewis ...

Thomas Mascia, 27, was arraigned alongside his parents Monday in Hempstead as new details were ... that comes with the report of an officer shooting. He knew the fear that it would create, but ...

Thomas Mascia is accused of staging the shooting for "attention or sympathy ... Mascia was on duty Oct. 30 in Hempstead when he "initiated a radio transmission for shots fired," according ...

Thomas Mascia shot himself at Hempstead Lake State Park then stashed ... dangerous ways to garner sympathy that don’t include shooting oneself," he said. “And now an entire family is suffering ...

A New York State Trooper has been arrested after allegedly shooting himself in the leg and fabricating a story in which he was shot by a “dark-skinned man” in Hempstead State Lake Park.

The gun used in the shooting was the same one found in his parents' bedroom in West Hempstead where he also lives, officials say. A manhunt was underway for several days and a ceremony was held ...

A New York State Police trooper whose alleged shooting sparked a manhunt last ... on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway in West Hempstead. Mascia had told investigators that he’d stopped ...

Two fugitives wanted for a shooting two weeks ago in South Carolina face arraignment on Long Island after police said they were arrested Thursday at a home in East Meadow.

(HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.) — A New York state trooper who claimed to have been shot in the line of duty in October is now facing criminal charges for having allegedly “staged” the shooting ...