Crime
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 - 3:21 pm
Update: The Marlboro Police Department has cancelled the Amber Alert for Frederick McCluskey at 3:29pm. The Freeman reports that the boy is safe and his father is in custody.
An Amber Alert was issued Friday morning for four-year-old Frederick McCluskey,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 - 2:10 pm
Nighttime photo of white-tailed deer by Flickr user Ian T. Edwards. Published under Creative Commons license.
Four young Delaware County hunters have been arrested and charged with 85 violations of environmental conservation law that range from deer... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 - 1:37 pm
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Delaware County sheriff's deputies responded to a call in the village of Franklin and found a man and a woman dead inside a home.
Investigator Karl Vagts of the Delaware County Sheriff's Office said that their... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 - 4:09 pm
Mahwah Patch reported on Sunday that two men from Ulster County -- 41-year-old Richard Rothe of Saugerties and 22-year-old Andrew Eberhart of West Shokan -- were arrested over the weekend in Mahwah, New Jersey.
The two were found with 200 gallons of gas,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 3:14 pm
While executing a search warrant at a house at 349 Bandcamp Road on Thursday, Saugerties police stumbled across a "sophisticated" indoor growing operation for pot and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Two people have been arrested on felony drug charges: 24-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 5:35 pm
A 30-year-old woman who allegedly robbed a Citizens Savings Bank in Bloomingburg on Monday has been arrested, according to a New York State Police press release.
Erin Myers of Middletown reportedly walked into the bank wearing a disguise and left with a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 12:57 pm
Photo of Marvin Perry from the New York State sex offender registry; taken October 1, 2012.
The Times Herald-Record reports that 23-year-old Marvin Perry, a registered Level 3 sex offender who was convicted in 2006 of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 3:13 pm
The former highway superintendent for the Schoharie County town of Wright, 54-year-old Harry F. Beninati, turned himself in to state police on Thursday, October 11 after a three-month police investigation into the town's diesel fuel purchases.
Police say... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 3:38 pm
Four Rockland County residents have been arrested and charged with burglary after an investigation into several copper piping thefts at seasonal properties along the border of Sullivan and Ulster County, state police announced Monday.
Arrested were 22-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 2:25 pm
The Freeman is reporting that a 25-year-old Highland resident is at Westchester Medical Center after being shot in the head in Poughkeepsie late Sunday night.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was taken to the hospital by her boyfriend, also... Read more