Suffolk County SPCA offers $2,000 reward in Hauppauge goose attacks

A driver allegedly used a vehicle to strike geese on a Hauppauge commercial strip, and Suffolk County SPCA investigators are now offering a $2,000 reward to identify who was behind it.

The incidents unfolded at night along Wireless Boulevard, generally between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., in a corridor lined with businesses and traffic. The first known case happened April 4 in front of 375 Wireless Boulevard. On April 15 at about 9:50 p.m., video reportedly showed a white Jeep Grand Cherokee deliberately striking several geese in the same area, and two more geese were hit that night in front of 100 Wireless Boulevard.

The SPCA has called the case an active animal-cruelty investigation and is asking anyone with information to come forward. Witnesses who saw the vehicle, the driver, or any related video from the area should contact the Suffolk County SPCA at 631-382-7722. Its office is at the William J. Lindsay County Complex, 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, Building 16, Hauppauge, NY 11788.

The organization says it is the only authorized SPCA enforcing animal-cruelty laws in Suffolk County, giving it a direct role in cases that cross from cruelty into public safety. That matters in Hauppauge, where Wireless Boulevard carries steady commercial traffic and where deliberate violence in a shared public space can put people, animals and drivers at risk. The video evidence also gives investigators something many cruelty cases lack: a repeated pattern tied to a specific time, place and vehicle.

The broader backdrop is familiar to suburban Long Island. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has said resident Canada geese have grown more common in areas with short grass, ponds, limited hunting and supplemental feeding, and that geese can create hazards near roads and airports. But those wildlife-management challenges do not justify running them down. New York law includes both a general animal-cruelty statute and a separate aggravated cruelty-to-animals statute, and lawmakers in Albany have continued weighing animal-abuse registry proposals in 2026.

For Suffolk County, the reward offer signals investigators believe someone nearby may know who drove the Jeep or recognized it on Wireless Boulevard. The case now hinges on whether those details reach the SPCA before the driver does it again.