Crime
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 10:22 am
Remember that guy who stole the stuffed animal from the Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster? After the State Police blasted a photo of him out to the media, he turned himself in, the Daily Freeman reports.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 9:48 am
The New York State Police are conducting a manhunt for a grinch with a penchant for plaid and fingerless gloves who pinched a stuffed animal from a Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster last month. That's his photo above, taken by surveilance cameras at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 4:08 pm
An Ulster County sheriff's deputy, posing as a 14-year-old girl in an AOL chatroom, has caused the downfall of a St. Paul man who worked part-time as an outreach coordinator for homeless youth at a Minnesota YMCA. The Ulster County Sheriff's Department... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 11:07 am
Steve Svidro, a 49-year-old who lived downstairs from his mother in Athens, shot himself in the head after surrounding attempting to torch their house on Thursday morning. The spectacular crime is being reported by the Daily Freeman, the Daily Mail, and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - 10:36 am
The Daily Mail reports:
CATSKILL — A former Coxsackie police sergeant and substance abuse educator was charged with drunk driving for the second time in the last decade.
Albany police officer Brian Lutz, who was once a Drug Abuse Resistance Education... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 10:15 am
The Times Herald-Record reports from Walden, in Orange County:
Police were responding to a report that a car almost hit a pedestrian when officers caught up with a vehicle driven by Gregory Carroll, 38, said Sgt. Eric Metzger.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:33 pm
The New York State Police are reporting that two Hancock men, 45-year-old John T. Gurnick and 31-year-old James P. Santicola, were arrested last Thursday in Hancock for allegedly posessing crack cocaine, an illegal handgun, marijuana, marijuana... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 9:03 am
Last night at 10:45pm, three men allegedly broke into a home on Wittenberg Rd. in Woodstock and threatened the occupant with a baseball bat.
After the victim turned over cash and loot, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting this morning, the men... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Another arrest has been made in the Case of the Food Stamp Millionaires: 71-year old Anup Virk, the father of the man who owns the convenience store at the center of an alleged million-dollar scheme to buy food stamps from their customers at half price,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 - 3:00 pm
This just in from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Department: 38-year-old Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School bus driver Heather M. Steidle was arrested yesterday on charges of child endangerment. The press release reads:
Subject arrested on 3 counts... Read more
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