CENTER MORICHES, N.Y. (AP) - Two Long Island men have been arrested on charges they stole a fire chief’s SUV.
Suffolk County police say the red 2012 Chevrolet Tahoe was left running outside of the Center Moriches (mohr-IH’-chehz) Fire Department at about 1:15 a.m. Sunday. It belonged to the chief of the neighboring East Moriches department.
Surveillance video captured two men getting in and driving away.
About six hours later, the vehicle was spotted about 25 miles away in Rocky Point.
Police began a pursuit that went through towns before the SUV crashed in a snowbank in Southampton.
Police say 23-year-olds Raymond Peruggi and Corey Smith of Center Moriches were awaiting arraignment Monday on grand larceny charges. Their attorneys’ names were not immediately known.
A message for the fire chief was not immediately returned.
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