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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 - 1:10 pm
You can't make this stuff up: Police say two men, one wearing a devil mask, robbed a Mormon church in the Schoharie County town of Esperance last month, damaging the church to the tune of $18,000 in the process.
On Monday, state police announced the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 - 12:23 pm
Above: Video from surveillance cameras at Oorah BoyZone, a Jewish children's camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson. In the video, posted on Oorah's YouTube channel, one of the burglars can be seen climbing through a broken window and letting two... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 10:44 am
A tip on a burglary investigation has led Sullivan County police to a "treasure trove" of stolen items from multiple burglaries, the Times Herald-Record reports.
On Thursday, sheriff's deputies arrested 59-year-old Abdool Persaud of Monticello, after a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 29, 2013 - 10:16 am
A Gilboa man was arrested recently and charged with committing two home burglaries in November of 2011, after police matched him to a fingerprint taken during the investigation.
On Monday, March 18, New York State Police arrested 29-year-old Josh... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 - 9:19 pm
Schoharie County businesses have been hit by more than their fair share of crime over the last week.
At least eight businesses in towns around Schoharie County were burglarized over the weekend after Thanksgiving, the Times-Journal reports:
Burglars broke... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 - 11:02 am
DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man from the Rosendale hamlet of Tillson, 52-year-old William F. Ryan, on multiple burglary charges, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Ryan faces charges of third-degree burglary, third-degree... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Friday, May. 25, 2012 - 12:45 pm
New York State Police in Kingston announced the arrest of 22-year-old Sean Fischer on Thursday. Fischer's is the second arrest made in connection with a burglary at a Stewart’s Shop in Hurley on April 28.
Police say that Fischer, who was an employee of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 10:49 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office has finally made an arrest for the theft of a lawnmower and an ATV from a home at 109 South Road in Ruby last June. The cold case got a fresh lead this Monday, when the lawnmower turned up for sale on Craig's List.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 7, 2012 - 11:29 am
Last week saw a couple of catastrophic ATV accidents in the Catskills.
On Thursday, May 3, two local residents were fatally injured while riding an ATV in Andes: 32-year-old John W. Morris and 45-year-old Julie M. Manon. The Daily Star reports:
Manon died... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 1:36 pm
Outside of tabloids like the New York Post -- which once ran the famous headline "Headless body found in topless bar" -- news headlines about crime, especially in small-town papers, are usually pretty boilerplate.
But a couple of truly despicable... Read more
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