Crime & Safety

Man Arrested in Fatal Hit-and-Run

Construction worker was killed in October.

A Northport man was arrested Saturday and charged in the hit and run accident that killed a Massapequa Park construction worker.

arrested John Pappias and charged him with leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash. On Oct.28, and a coworker were on Route 25A in Fort Salonga loading a milling machine onto a trailer on the side of the roadway when Schultz was struck by a vehicle at 1:35 a.m. They were working the overnight shift for Intercounty Paving in Hicksville.

Schultz, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner. The coworker was uninjured.

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 Pappias, 46, of 34 Lisa Drive, is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip  on Sunday.


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