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And new right now, we have an update in Oakdale tonight. That's where police have arrested a half a dozen teens. They're now suspects in a string of vandalism cases at the former Dowling College Campus News Twelve's Carmen Grant. Joining us now from Oakdale and Carmen. What are those who live in the area? Saying tonight, Doug and Katie neighbors in Oakdale are telling me that they are hoping that this latest arrest will help deter further vandalism and break ins at this historic neighborhood mansion. It's sad that we had to come to this. So we would love for the vandalism and the break ins to stop tonight. Members of the idle hour neighborhood watch reacting to the arrest of six S. It follows several incidents at the historic Idle Hour Mansion over Memorial Day weekend. That's when anti Semitic graffiti was found on campus. I understand the interest in wanting to get a peek. What I don't understand is the vandalism, the destruction, the out and out spit in your face type of reaction that the kids of today are doing to this. Police are not releasing the names of 5 17 year olds and 1 18 year old because of their age, but they are facing criminal charges ranging from burglary to criminal trespass. There have now been two dozen crimes at the Old Dawing College which closed its doors back in 2016. We actually border up some of the windows and doors ourselves. We've had a great communication now with the Suffolk County PD as we reported of the Oakdale community formed a neighborhood watch group to keep an eye on the historic property because they say they were so concerned about incidents there. Police also assigned a lieutenant to keep an eye on the campus and they tell news, 12 patrols will continue. We've all been raising awareness of this and yet we can't seem to catch any ground and this is an ongoing problem. It's unfortunate, you know, I also think social media plays a lot into it when you have challenges out there, the word spreads and kids are being kids. Suffolk County police also tell news 12 that they are working with the property owner to increase security here and to protect the historic mansion. We reached out to Mercury International. We'll let you know when we hear back. That's the latest here from Oakdale Carmen Grant, Long Island.

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According to police, the group entered a building on July 6 between approximately 10:30 p.m. and midnight. 



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And the radar is all quiet behind you j but we're already starting to see the clouds roll in. Still pretty nice evening. We're expecting fifties all the way through the rest of it. And then we drop it into the forties when the sun sets pretty good deal for December. But we do have a flood watch and a high wind watch in effect across the island. Now, both of them go in effect for tomorrow. We're expecting 2 to 3 inches of rain. So that's your flood watch. It could bring flooding in the afternoon and in the overnight and gusts up to 45 you see, especially parts of eastern Nassau into Suffolk at the worst and it looks like the timing here gonna be six pm to midnight. That's what I'm looking at for the squall line to pass through and deliver some potential power outages. So let's bring you right to Sunday in the morning time. Not too bad. We have stray showers, not a bad breakfast or lunch, but then right around noonish, we're gonna start seeing some downpours and it's an on and off rain at that point. We're also looking at wind which starts to pick up to the 30 mile per hour range. Now, these are gusts and a gust is a quick little burst of wind as opposed to sustained winds, which is an average kind of wind speed. So we're seeing quick little bursts of 40 MPH that could knock a tree branch down or two around 67 o'clock, the wind is gonna be coming in with some really heavy rain around 1011 at night into midnight one o'clock or so. This latest model is actually keeping the rain around for the early Monday morning commuters and then things clear out by about 78 o'clock in the morning. So a little bit better there. So the worst of the rain gonna be with a flooding risk at 5 to 2 a.m. and then we see wind at its worst right around midnight. Things look good for the rest of the work week though. It's gonna be chilly.

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Police release new pictures of suspects wanted for vandalism at Dowling College site 

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Police this afternoon are searching for another group of teens involved in that string of vandalism cases at the former Dawing College campus in Oakdale. This is on top of the half dozen arrests that they had just made. News. 12 Caroline Flynn is in Oakdale with the latest details. Neighbors tell me the dowling campus behind me here has really become an attraction for crime while they're glad arrests are being made. Problems continue almost daily. They're hoping it will get the property owner to pay attention and step up security hours after 16 s were arrested for vandalizing the Idle hour mansion. These photos were released by Suffolk police. They have a group of people who also appear to be young adults burglarizing a property on July 6th. This is endless patrols. The former college campus daily with other residents in the idle hour neighborhood watch group. He said the arrests are nothing that they're celebrating. We'd like to think it's a wake up call to their parents to know where are these kids? What are they up to you and why are they destroying property? The group has taken it upon themselves to organize patrol schedules, work with local law enforcement and even reach into their own pockets to make repairs on a property they don't own. I couldn't even imagine where we would be without the volunteers from our community doing what they're doing. I mean, I don't even want to imagine where we would be. The campus is now owned by Mercury International who residents say is more like an absentee landlord. We're mowing the one for the place. I mean, it's, we too have reached out to Mercury International and have yet to hear back. Suffolk police said that they are working with the company to try and up their security measures here. What the idle hour neighborhood watch group says they hope that means is a fence that will secure the perimeter around the buildings here in Oakdale. I'm Caroline Flynn for news.

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