Long Island woman charged with threatening Suffolk officer’s wife

A Deer Park woman was charged after Suffolk County police said she directed a harassing call and text message at the wife of the officer who had arrested her months earlier in a crash-related case.

Police identified the woman as Beatrix Lacroix, 31, of Long Island, and said the contact was made on May 16 to a family member of the officer. According to the department, the message threatened to go to the officer’s home. The officer had previously arrested Lacroix in October 2025 for fleeing police after a crash.

Suffolk police said Lacroix was arrested two days after the call and charged with aggravated harassment in the second degree. She was arraigned on May 19 at First District Court in Central Islip. The case places the earlier crash arrest at the center of the new complaint, with investigators treating the alleged threat as a direct escalation against a police family member.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina condemned attempts to target officers’ personal lives and warned against retaliation directed at officers and their families. Suffolk County PBA President Lou Civello said police officers’ families are not safe in their own homes and called for tougher laws to deter that kind of conduct.

The Suffolk County Police Department said the criminal charge is only an accusation and that Lacroix is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. For now, the case stands as a narrow but serious example of how a prior arrest can spill beyond the street and into an officer’s home life, drawing the county’s police leadership into a public warning about retaliation.