Bay Shore Man Cited for Blasting Concert-Level Music Across Two Towns

Eight concert-level speakers, a vehicle battery, and a parking lot in Hauppauge were all it took for Jose Santana, 29, of Bay Shore to generate a wave of 911 calls spanning two Long Island communities on a Tuesday night.

Town of Smithtown Public Safety officers, assisted by Suffolk County Police, responded around 9 p.m. on March 10 to the parking lot at 335 Kennedy Drive after multiple callers reported extremely loud music audible in both Smithtown and Hauppauge. Santana, an employee of Relocators, a moving and storage business in the Kennedy Drive industrial area, had stacked a mountain of red and black speakers, ranging from high to low range, in the company parking lot and connected them directly to a vehicle battery.

Officers found the eight concert-level speakers broadcasting amplified music in what police described as a violation of the Town of Smithtown's noise restrictions. Santana was issued a summons by Town of Smithtown Public Safety officers, and the speakers were seized at the scene.

The Town of Smithtown noise ordinance, posted on the town's website, prohibits operating any sound device "in such a manner as to create a noise disturbance," as well as operating such a device between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. in a manner audible at 50 feet from the vehicle or structure where it is located.

The incident at 335 Kennedy Drive sits near the Smithtown and Hauppauge border, which helps explain how the music reached residents and workers across both communities simultaneously. No exact count of 911 calls was provided in the police news release, though authorities described the volume of complaints as numerous.

No statement from Santana or from Relocators has been made public, and it remains unclear whether any additional enforcement action beyond the summons is being pursued following the seizure of the speakers.