Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 25

I tkOk I I 4 '-'V -vi Jhr 1 4 -i) 4 fvVii v- V'tv 4 1 4 J- tVfM 3 tip i' A gjjj MV''- Crash Kill Baby Police Say By Yolanda Rodriguez STAFF WHITER Preliminary test results show that a baby who was being rushed to a Bay Shore hospital in a police car (bed from sudden infant death syndrome Friday and not from any injuries caused when the police car was involved in a crash police said yesterday Suffolk police were southbound on Fifth Avenue about 5:15 pm Friday and were taking the child and his mother to Southside Hospital in an unmarked car but with a blue light flashing when they were struck head-on by a car driven by Freddy Glass 51 of Wyandanch who was charged with driving while intoxicated police said Det Sgt Matt Livingston said when the unmarked car crossed the Southern State Parkway a car driven by Glass turned left in front of the police car The mother Carmen Vargas 28 of Bqy Shore was knocked uncondous and the driver of the police car Det Joseph Accomondo broke his foot in the accident Livingston said Police said that based on preliminary autopsy results they believe the baby boy Jonathan Steven Paiz who would have been 4 months old on Dec 16 already was dead when the accident occurred Suffolk Deputy Medical Examiner Stephanie Horowitz did not disagree with police on the preliminary cause of death but said further study i needed Vargas yesterday recounted from Southside Hospital how she went to pick up Jonathan at his house She said the baby was asleep saw his face and he looked a little she said in Spanish I thought it was the light that was shining on his Vargas said she covered her son with a blanket and took him outside where her cousin Jose Acietuno was waiting in a car for her But when she got home and lifted the baby from his basket Vargas said she noticed milk coming from one of his nostrils ran back to the babysitter and asked her what happened to my baity? She only said riie gave him his bottle and he fell asleep She said to take him to the Vargas who does not speak English took the infant to the Third Precinct a few blocks away and met police officer Joseph Troy in the parking lot just used my hands to tell him to help my she said Once inside the precinct Troy and Det Gene Walsh tried to resuscitate the baby before heading toward the hospital Vargas who is from Morazan Guatemala said her husband Freddy Paiz left Monday with several companions on an eight-day drive to Guatemala to see the two other children and does not know that his son is dead are going to tell him when he gets to said Rocael Pantaloon cousin Glass remained in critical condition yesterday at Southside Hospital His passenger Priscilla Anderson 53 of Bay Shore was treated and released Mark Henry contributed to this story Hopes Fears for One Who There said her brother Robert Schmitt 35 looks like foul play to Homicide detectives are more circumspect however noting that they call it a murder when they found a body we have no reason to believe she is dead circumstances surrounding her disappearance are said Det Sgt William Cocks He would not say whether police have any suspects But Larry Lane 41 while saying he is as mystified as anyone by his disappearance said he believes police have at least one suspect in the case himself goes without spying especially knowing our relationship the way it Lane said in an interview last week the Nelsons or Ozzie and Harriet but we did Barbara Lane was bom in Far Rockaway the eldest of three children and the only daughter of Ambrose and Clara Schmitt Her great-great-grandfather was Bernard Rottkamp whose family became prominent farmers on Long Island Larry Lane a mason supervisor who renovates homeless shelters for New York City acknowledged in an interview that he and his wife had each been Lane By Susan Forrest STAFF WRITER At twilight tonight in a Catholic church in Elmont members of two of Long Island's oldest and most prominent farming dynasties will gather to celebrate the 39th birthday of one of their own But barring an astonishing turnabout the guest of honor will not appear Barbara Ann Lane wife mother of three and product of the prosperous Rottkamp and Schmitt farming families disappeared four months ago and her family and friends fear she has been murdered Lane who lived with her husband and children in Franklin Square van- ished early on the morning of Monday Aug 6 after leaving the home of her boyfriend in East Meadow She was reported missing by her husband Larry two days later and the Nassau County Homicide Squad soon took over the investigation Several relatives say she had expressed fears she would be murdered and her two grown children say they too fear the worst a strong possibility she is dead because we know she walk away from her Barbara We both liked the same things Her life had been hell It was a While Missing Persons Bureau is working with homicide detectives on the case police and others say they believe Lane simply walked away from her troubled marriage because among those she left behind was her youngest child 10-year-rid John than anything else she did having affaire lived together but had separate he said Barbara boyfriend the last person known to have seen her also acknowledged his relationship with her happy where she said Frank Passantino 45 a baker who is separated from his own wife and met Barbara Lane in a Hewlett shopping center where she was working part-time in a bagel shop had a lot in common We were both unhappily married Please see MISSING on Page 54 Riverhead Woman Drowns in Truck Crash a 2D 30 By Don Smith STAFF WRITER A 38-year-old Riverhead woman apparently drowned early yesterday when the pickup truck she was riding in careened down an embankment into a Southampton creek police said The driver of the truck who managed to escape and then call police for help was charged with driving while intoxicated and police said evidence from the case was being turned over to the Suffolk County District Attorney Office Southampton Town police said they received a call at 1:37 am from Steven Szczepanik 28 of Lot 13 Parkview Mobile Home Trailer Park on Flanders teers locate the truck until one hour had passed Divers then pulled Lessard from the truck Police said the side window was partly rolled down with body halfway out when she was found She was rushed to Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead where she was pronounced dead at 6:16 am Szczepanik was treated for exposure at the hospital and released He was arraigned on the driving while intoxicated charge in Southampton Justice Court before Paul Smith who released him in his own custody Funeral arrangements for Lessard were incomplete yesterday Driver charged after treated for injuries Road Riverside Szczepanik told police he had been driving his pickup truck out behind the park when he lost control went down an embankment and plunged into the creek flipping over Szczepanik told police he managed to get out of the truck but was unable to free his passenger Eileen Lessard 38 of Newton Avenue Riverhead Police aided by Flanders fire and ambulance vplun- Vj'CJ a rir Tntf'.