Bronx Man Charged with Shore Road Burglary

A Bronx man charged last week with multiple burglaries in Mineola was arrested Wednesday in connection with a burglary at a Long Beach apartment building last month.

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Morris Santaniello, 60, was charged with second-degree burglary for a break-in at 630 Shore Rd. on March 13, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Dt. John Sharpe produced video of the suspect, who unlawfully entered the building and was observed there at different times last month.

The LBPD posted wanted fliers in high-rise buildings along Shore Road that featured surveillance camera images of the suspect, after which detectives learned that Nassau County Police Department detectives at the Third Precinct wanted the same suspect for a string of burglaries at an apartment complex in Mineola.  

On April 10, Long Beach detectives, Third Precinct detectives and New York State parole officers, in a joint effort, located Santaniello in Astoria, Queens, where Nassau detectives arrested and charged him with four counts of second-degree burglary in connection with four break-ins at an apartment complex in Mineola. Santaniello was arraigned last Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead and held at the county jail.

On Wednesday, Sharpe arrested Santaniello and charged him with second-degree burglary for the break-in on Shore Rd. in March. He will be arraigned in Long Beach City Court.

"The sharing of criminal intelligence in this case resulted in the arrest of the defendant for burglaries in two different jurisdictions,” said Dt. Lt. Stefan Chernaski, commanding officer of the Long Beach detectives. “The cooperation with the NCPD and NYS Parole enabled our respective departments to solve several open burglaries."

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