Crime
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 - 10:18 am
Above: Anthony Atkins, Wayne Atkins and Angela Disanto. Photos via the New York State Police.
Three twenty-something residents of the Sullivan County hamlet of Grahamsville have been arrested for larceny and fraud after allegedly charging $3,000 to a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 - 3:52 pm
Above: Investigators seized 134 long guns, four assault rifles, one electronic stun gun and two handguns from a Lumberland residence during a drug raid. Photo via the New York State Police.
Left: William Cropley. Photo via the New York State Police. ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 - 10:56 am
A police dispatcher working in the town of Ulster Police department stole lost cash that a citizen found and turned over to police, according to a press release on the department's Facebook page. Then the dispatcher altered a police blotter record to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 - 8:28 pm
Above: Sean K. Moorhus and Kevin R. Hunter. Mugshots via the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team.
When members of Ulster County's drug task force interrupted a heroin deal in the parking lot of the Hurley Ridge Market on Tuesday, Jan. 27, two... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 - 12:21 pm
There's been a lot of bad checks written in Delaware County lately.
A serial check bouncer left a trail of larceny across the county earlier this month, and now the New York State Police say that they have arrested an Amsterdam man for writing $30,000 in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 4:31 pm
Above: Rameek Alston and Teresa Wintermeyer. Photos via the New York State Police.
A hidden trail camera caught a Wurtsboro couple red-handed as they burglarized an apartment with their 18-month-old child in tow, according to a New York State Police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 3:52 pm
A toddler vacationing at a camp in Loch Sheldrake reportedly drowned in a bathtub the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 20, according to multiple Sullivan County news outlets.
A sergeant answering the phone at the Fallsburg Police Department said that no one was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 8:52 pm
Left: Lee S. McDonald. Photo via the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
A Walton man allegedly bounced checks and stole large sums of money from victims across six counties in two states, police say.
Lee S. McDonald, a 35-year-old man who owns a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 - 12:21 am
With the arrest of their sitting town supervisor on Monday after a long and mysterious investigation, residents of the Greene County town of Windham may finally start getting some answers.
Windham town supervisor Stacy Post, 51, was arrested by New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 - 2:57 pm
You can't say he didn't warn you. A Walton man who allegedly bounced $3,000 in bad checks to local businesses was using checking accounts with names that hinted that payment wouldn't be forthcoming.
Left: Lee S. McDonald. Photo via the Delaware County... Read more