Crime
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 - 5:00 pm
A 22-year-old homeless man was arrested last week in Ulster County and charged with having sexual contact with a 5-year-old girl, according to a New York State Police press release.
Mario Allen was charged with one count of sexual abuse in the first... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 - 4:49 pm
A 52-year-old Catskill man was arrested by New York State Police on Sunday and charged with the sexual abuse of a minor.
Daniel Medici, of 78 Toolhouse Road in Catskill, was charged with two counts of criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 - 3:33 pm
A Grand Gorge man, 34-year-old Joshua T. Mudge, was arrested and charged with assault on Monday, according to a news release from the New York State Police.
Lieutenant Jeff Van Auken told the Watershed Post that state troopers showed up at a Grand Gorge... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 - 7:21 pm
Two men were arrested and charged with burglarizing a home in the Schoharie County town of Summit on Friday: 18-year-old Devyn Clum of Bloomville, and 36-year-old Wayne Swart of Hobart.
State police said that troopers responding to the burglary in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 - 5:28 pm
Acting on a tip from Greene County 911, New York State Police arrested two men yesterday when a search of their car turned up 12 snowboards that had been stolen from Windham Mountain.
Arrested were 21-year-old Anthony Costa of Lagrangeville, the driver... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 - 5:13 pm
A three-month investigation into heroin sales in the Southside area of Binghamton yielded five arrests last week, after search warrants executed in the city turned up over 600 packets of heroin, over $20,000 in cash, and other drugs.
Arrested were 33-year... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 - 1:16 pm
Above: Four Deadly Reasons, the film that sparked a Hollywood-worthy furor in the little Sullivan County hamlet of Narrowsburg over a decade ago.
Regular listeners of This American Life, a national radio program from Public Radio International, heard a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 - 5:54 pm
Several news outlets are reporting that an NBT Bank in Sharon Springs was robbed shortly after noon on Wednesday, and that state and local police are searching for the robber.
WKTV News reports that the robber -- described as a white man wearing a mask... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 - 12:21 pm
A Davenport man who was employed at the Covidien pharmaceutical plant in Hobart has been arrested on felony drug trafficking charges, after a lengthy investigation linked him to two other recent arrests involving the trafficking of oxycodone powder... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 - 10:24 am
A U.S. Army soldier from the Schoharie County town of Wright was arrested last week in connection with a two-year-old break-in at a local home that involved the theft of several guns.
State police in Cobleskill stated in a news release that Luke T. Aulita... Read more