Man charged with stealing Uber driver's running car in Commack, crashing it
A man stole a car belonging to an Uber driver, who’d left it running outside a Commack restaurant, and then crashed it a short distance away Sunday night, Suffolk police said. Joseph Ellis, 45, hopped into the 2012 Honda Accord, which had been left with its engine running in the parking lot on Veterans Memorial Highway, at 8:55 p.m., police said.