MINEOLA, NY – A former livery cab driver is accused of driving around Nassau County neighborhoods and tossing hate notes out of his window
Demetrios Apolonides, 37, of Brooklyn was arrested Tuesday on nine counts of second-degree aggravated harassment. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in First District Court in Hempstead.
Authorities admit they do not know how many small pieces of paper with threatening anti-Semitic slurs were thrown onto the ground in Nassau County.
Police tell WCBS 880 reporter Sophia Hall that on at least nine occasions from September 2009 to March 2010, Apolonides, while driving a Lincoln Town Car for the XYZ car service company, would leave the threatening papers.
Cops caught him after piecing together the evidence.
“When all these little pieces of evidence were put on a table, detectives looked at it,” says Nassau County Police Lt. Kevin Smith who showed one of the notes containing the words “Kill Jews” several times. “… and they found, on the reverse side, that there was a form and on that form was printed the XYZ car company.”
Smith told 1010 WINS’ reporter Mona Rivera that he would distribute the small pieces of paper wherever his duties took him — including Port Washington, West Hempstead and Rockville Centre.
If convicted, he could face up to four years in prison.
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