MASTER OF DISGUISE
While removing a downed tree on the Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail during a Friends of the Greenway cleanup on Aug. 19, Gretchen Oldrin-Mones of Stony Brook spotted this praying mantis and snapped a photo with her iPhone. She writes, “It was almost invisible on a small brown branch, but as it moved to a green leaf it stopped and posed for this ‘portrait.’
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PITCHING IN
Members of the Three Village Community Trust’s Friends of the Greenway took part in the Great Brookhaven Clean-Up on May 13.
The group tidied up the popular Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail with the help of Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine and CURBY by collecting seven bags of litter along the trail and trail head, cutting back dead tree limbs and pruning and devining the trees.
Pictured from right, Aaron Hoffman, Paul Sagliocca, Dennis Brennan, Susan Colatosti, CURBY, TOB Supervisor Ed Romaine, Dave Wang and Charlie McAteer.
Following an investigation by Homicide Squad detectives, Jose Martinez-Vazquez and Tiffany Diaz-Cabrera were arrested in Port Jefferson Station on March 5, for the alleged murder of Benjamin Flores-Mendez, who was found dead on the Greenway Trail, near Clifton Place, in Port Jefferson Station on June 17, 2021.
Martinez-Vazquez was arrested at the corner of Crystal Brook Hollow Road and Hallock Avenue at 2 p.m. Diaz-Cabrera was arrested on Crystal Brook Hollow Road at 9:18 p.m. Martinez-Vazquez, 24, and Diaz-Cabrera, 20, both of Port Jefferson Station, have each been charged with Murder 2nd Degree.
Below is the first update and the original release:
Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a man that
occurred on a trail in Port Jefferson Station on June 17. The body of Benjamin Flores-Mendez, 39, of Port Jefferson Station was found on Greenway Trail, near Clifton Place, at approximately 1 a.m. The victim, who was stabbed, was pronounced dead at the scene.
