Crime & Safety
Cops Locate Horse on the Loose in Blydenburgh
Rider transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries Monday afternoon.
A Suffolk County Police Officer flagged down a horse on the loose Monday afternoon after its rider fell off in .
The rider, a 55-year-old Massapequa woman, was sent to Stony Brook University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, though police could not further specify the extent of the injuries.
According to police, SCPD received a call near 1:15 on Monday that a horse was on the loose in the 627-acre park. Assisting Parks Police, a Suffolk County Police Officer drove as far as he could into the park before locating the horse on foot.
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Police said Officer Thomas Crist then returned the horse to the owner's friends and later found the rider about a mile away from the horse.
Smithtown Fire Department transported the woman to the hospital.
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