10 Worst Hauppauge Crimes of 2011

In 2011, the Hauppauge community was affected by crimes by drug dealers that had a widespread impact on local residents to arrests individual who neighbors were shocked to hear about.

Here's the 10 worst crimes of 2011:

1. Smithtown resident Richard Balanda was arrested and charged with second-degree conspiracy for selling drugs out of his home on Brooksite Drive to local high school students. Suffolk County police said Balanda was part of a much larger Long Island ring that sold more than 1 million bags of heroin over a year-long period.

2. : Nicholas Cosmo, owner of Hauppauge-based Agape World, was sentenced to 25 years in jail in October for taking more than $400 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme.

3. : Three robbers armed with guns and a knife robbed the Hess gas station in the Meat Farms Shopping center in January. The heist sent Suffolk County police on a man hunt.

4. : Alexander Lasurdo, of Wading River, and Sam Savino, of North Bellmore, were charged with selling weapons out of Hauppauge's IBEW Hall without conducting proper background checks.

5. : Police are searching for a man who attempted to hold up an armored car serving an ATM outside Chase Bank on Veterans Highway, but ran off without the cash when a shot was fired.

6. : A "John" sting run by Suffolk County Police off Suffolk Avenue in Islandia after a number of community complaints resulted in the arrest of six men.

7. Christopher Weiss, 29, was arrested by Suffolk County police and was charged for aggravated driving while intoxicated after driving from Huntington to Commack without a front tire and his 2-year-old son in the back seat.

8. : Suffolk Police arrested Lisa Terruso, 41, of Islip Terrace, for allegedly driving her 2003 Chrystler along Wireless Boulevard in Hauppauge while drunk with her 9-year-old daughter in the car.

9. Senior citizen Ronald Derisi, 68, allegedly caused more than $100,000 in damages to cell tower under construction by cutting through feeder cables between Nov. 23 to Nov. 28.

10. Hauppauge school district officials found graffiti reading "9/25 Go Kaboom" scrawled on the high school's front message sign.