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Nassau County police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly breaking into an Island Park home. Police say Andrew Zellinger fled because a 14-year-old girl started screaming—Zellinger had apparently been standing in her bedroom. But police were able to nab him, since, as Newsday reports, Zellinger "left behind one very important piece of evidence when he ran: His personal identification." He was charged with first-degree burglary. Related: Over the summer, a robber returned to the Brooklyn home where he stole $200 because he...forgot his wallet.

A woman tells the Post that Kings County Hospital misidentified her father Rodney Wells and refused to change his name on his hospital ID bracelet. Staffers insisted on having ID to fix the mistake, so Reshena Wells went home to get one--all while her father was being treated for his heart attack--and while on the errand, Wells says "a doctor phoned to say he had died." Then her father was sent to the morgue under the wrong name (though with a note saying "his real name could be Rodney Wells"). Kings County is the same hospital where a neglected patient died after collapsing in the psychiatric ward ER's waiting room.

By next June, the Department of Homeland Security will start requiring passports for all border crossings. In order to make it easier for New York drivers, Governor Paterson today announced an “enhanced” driver license [EDL] which will be accepted by border security in lieu of a passport. Paterson says the EDL will “help to ease long lines at our New York-Canada border crossings, allowing commerce to flow more freely and securely in and out of the state.”

License ID scanners aren't just keeping underage drinkers out of New York bars, they're now assisting police in arresting patrons who become involved in criminal activity both inside and outside of city clubs. The New York Post reports that the electronic scanners which help filter out fake IDs also supply cops with detailed records of every patron who entered a bar or club on any given evening.