Westchester County Criminal Defense Blog
Posted on Feb 21, 2012 By Karen
Police charged a Putnam County man with felony DWI after a traffic stop on Route 202 over the weekend. The 55-year-old was stopped by police for speeding early Saturday morning and was then determined ...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2012 By Karen
A former library employee has agreed to serve one to three years in state prison for stealing over $160,000 out of the public library system over the course of 7-years. The accused pleaded guilty to ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2012 By Karen
A Carmel woman faces felony charges after she hit another vehicle on Rt. 35 while driving drunk with her two children inside the vehicle, Yorktown police said today. The 38-year-old was heading ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2012 By Karen
A former town man living in New York City has been charged with felony vehicular assault and misdemeanor DWI in connection with an accident that seriously injured two teens from Carmel and Shrub Oak, ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By Karen
A 36-year-old suspect spent three weeks in the Rockland County jail on a felony charge of possessing 1.35 kilos of heroin after multiple packages of white powder were found inside shopping bags that ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By Karen
Westchester County police have arrested a driver suspected of transporting thousands of dollars-worth of Oxycodone along the Hutchinson River Parkway. Two Massachusetts men were arrested yesterday ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2012 By Karen
Charles Schumer of New York and Mark Pryor of Arkansas have asked that federal funding be provided for research and police training programs to identify drivers who are driving while under the ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Karen
Two teens have been charged with burglarizing an apartment early Wednesday, state police said. The troopers responded to an apartment complex off of Route 9A on a report of a burglary in progress. ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Karen
A 34-year-old woman has been charged with conspiring with her father to steal $1,750 from her estranged husband's chiropractic center in Spring Valley. The woman is accused of two stealing checks ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2012 By Karen
A former local track star was accused of stealing a pair of cleats from the Sports Authority store in White Plains. The 19-year-old was arrested Thursday after store employees said to police that he ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2012 By Karen
A 36-year-old is being held without bail in the Rockland County Correctional Facility after a traffic stop. A police dog was sniffing around a shopping bag inside the taxi cab he was riding in. The ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2012 By Karen
A town man is facing several felony charges in connection with the illegal sale of prescription pain medicine , police said. A 28-year-old from Putnam Valley was arrested Thursday after a two-month ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By Karen
A 49-year-old man was stopped by police after being seen speeding on Monday. Police say that he was pulled over at around 9:20 a.m. after he was clocked at 76 mph along the Palisades Parkway. Officers ...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2012 By Karen
Police are investigating a home invasion in which a suspect targeted an elderly person on their way home. An elderly man was returning home when a man walked up, asked him if he needed help with any ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2012 By Karen
A 26-year-old Rye Brook resident was arrested twice in the same day after crashing his vehicle two times within a span of 9-hours, authorities said. He hit a guardrail on the Cross County Parkway exit ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2012 By Karen
A local man whose license has been suspended more than 30 times was charged with felony DWI, Kent police said. The 54-year-old was stopped about 10:30 p.m. Saturday on Harriman Road. And as an officer ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012 By Karen
A 43-year-old woman is facing a DWI charge after she rear-ended another and then struck it again, Carmel police said. The driver's car rear-ended another vehicle about 8 p.m. but after she tried ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2012 By Karen
Police are still searching for a suspect who robbed a bank on Route 59 of an estimated $30,000 on Tuesday. The bank security camera captured the robbery on tape. Although the video is of good quality, ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2012 By Karen
A patron at a local restaurant was caught stealing a female patron's wallet on Sunday after she felt her purse being tugged while it was on the back of her chair. The person of interest arrested ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2012 By Karen
A Patterson man is facing felony charges after he fired a hand outside his home during an argument, state police said. Troopers responded about 10:20 p.m. on Tuesday when the man discharged the muzzle ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Karen
A Connecticut man is facing a felony drunken driving charge after he hit a barrier on I-95 on Tuesday, police said. The 30-year-old suspect was arrested after 8:30 p.m. when a tow truck driver ...
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Posted on Jan 2, 2012 By Karen
A South Carolina man has been a rrested for allegedly carrying two loaded weapons onto a NYC subway. The NYPD says that a police officer stopped him after seeing him go into in Manhattan subway ...
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Posted on Jan 1, 2012 By Karen
A mother and daughter were struck by a car driven by a woman who was suspected of being high on drugs New Year's Eve, killing one of them, Suffolk County police said. The driver was traveling on ...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2011 By Karen
A man suspected of killing a woman and her son in their home last week refused to waive extradition to New York during a court appearance in Maryland on Tuesday. The suspect will stay in Maryland and ...
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Posted on Dec 25, 2011 By Karen
A woman was arrested Saturday after she was accused of forging prescriptions for a controlled substance at a local pharmacy. Nassau County Police said that a 45-year-old from Hicksville presented a ...
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