Crimes Nearby: Man Allegedly Video Taped Females in Fire Island Restroom

A Sayville man will plead not guilty to five counts of illegal surveillance activity in a Fire Island bar and is due in Suffolk County Court Thursday morning on a quest to have the charges dropped, according to his lawyer.

Christian Lee was first arrested May 23 for allegedly installing a camera in a women’s employee bathroom at a Fire Island Pines bar establishment located on Picketty Ruff Walk and taping bathroom user activity on a PC, according to Suffolk Police.

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A Seaford man was arrested Sunday night and charged with taking a lewd photograph inside a men's restroom at in Babylon. 

New York State Park Police said a man told authories that Eric K. Berger of Seaford had used a cellphone to snap photos in a public restroom near Parking Field 5 at around 7:30 p.m. Police said Berger, 33, "lowered his cellphone and took a picture of the man's private parts."

After taking the photograph, the two men got into a scuffle with the victim attempting to grab Berger's cellphone, police said. The victim was eventually able to take the cellphone and locate a passing police car, according to authorities. 

Berger is charged with second-degree unlawful surveillance, which is a Class E felony. He is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip.

A 22-year-old, undomiciled man was arrested on Tuesday night by Suffolk Police, and charged with the burglaries of several homes in Lindenhurst and North Lindenhurst that occurred in the past week.

According to police, Andrew Van Bourgondien was apprehended on Tuesday evening after he fled on foot after being seen by the owner of a home on Frank Street he was trying to enter.

"He attempted to climb into the kitchen window. The homeowner observed him coming into the window, and the subject immediately fled on foot. This was at 7:55 p.m.," Inspector Gerard Gigante, commanding officer of the SCPD's First Precinct, told Lindenhurst Patch on Wednesday.

A Lindenhurst man was arrested for BWI by Suffolk Police on Saturday night at Cedar Beach in Babylon.

Police said Frank Vogt, Jr., 56, was stopped near the in  on the same night the SCPD set up its first-ever BWI Sobriety Checkpoint at a separate location on the Patchogue River in the vicinity of the Sandspit Marina in Patchogue.

Suffolk Police Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Wustenhoff, in conjunction with Marine Bureau personnel, arrested Vogt and charged him with boating while intoxicated and operating a vessel after sunset without navigation lights displayed, officials said.

His boat, a 1973 Boston Whaler, was seized due to the fact he had a prior conviction for DWI, police said.