Man Arrested After Knife Threat In Holtsville: Police

HOLTSVILLE, NY — A second Holtsville man was arrested Monday in connection with weapon possession, though in an unrelated incident, Suffolk police said.

The 59-year-old was found with a knife that they used to threaten another person with at a home on Cooke Avenue at around 6:25 p.m., according to police.

Further details were not immediately available.

He was charged with second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both misdemeanors, and was held overnight at the 6th Precinct in Selden for arraignment in First District Court in Central Islip on Tuesday, police said.

It was the second such similar incident in Holtsville within hours. In the first, the first incident, a 49-year-old man, was arrested on Campus Drive just before 1 p.m.