Blog Posts in October, 2010
Posted on Oct 31, 2010 By Karen
A 39-year-old woman was arrested for drunken driving with her 12-year-old son after crashing her SUV, Nassau County police said. Officers who responded found her to be intoxicated, police said. The ...
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Posted on Oct 30, 2010 By Karen
Three people were arrested today in a drug raid by the White Plains city police narcotics and emergency services units after an investigation. Cops seized almost 5 grams of crack and $1,000 from an ...
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Posted on Oct 29, 2010 By Karen
A shoplifter had charges against him upgraded to a felony after he fought with the grocery store employees over some meat he stole from the Key Food market, Carmel police said today. Officer Michael ...
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Posted on Oct 27, 2010 By Karen
A 31-year-old woman was driving southbound in a northbound lane of I-87 when she sideswiped an oncoming Dodge Caravan. The minivan driver swerved to avoid the accident, the driver told police. No one ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2010 By Karen
Twenty-four-year-old man of Cortlandt faces felony charges after a homeowner arrived home and interrupted his burglarizing the homeowner's home, state police said. State police were watching the ...
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Posted on Oct 24, 2010 By Karen
The city of Mount Vernon must pay $36,000 to a diabetic man who alleged he had been detained by police for two days and denied his insulin and did not charge him with any crime. The Board of Estimate ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By Karen
Two Ossining men found sleeping in a running vehicle with a young child in the back seat were arrested after police said they found open cans of beer inside the car with them. The driver was drunk, so ...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2010 By Karen
A Westchester County jury acquitted William Robinson, of Mount Vernon, of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter back in the Sept. 16, 2009 slaying of Shawn Andre McGee. The jury found ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2010 By Karen
A Cortlandt man accused of killing his wife and then burning her body in the backyard testified that he fabricated the story to stop the "witch hunt" being conducted by a family friend. Werner Lippe, ...
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Posted on Oct 17, 2010 By Karen
A Long Island University museum director was sentenced today to 1-year in jail for stealing nine Egyptian artifacts and then selling them through a Christie's auction house. The former director ...
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Posted on Oct 16, 2010 By Karen
Twins from Elmsford, their mother and a fourth person from Massachusetts have been indicted on federal bank and mortgage fraud charges related to phony loans on properties throughout Rockland County. ...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2010 By Karen
Police said they seized 25 grams of cocaine , 20 grams of marijuana , drug packaging materials and two scales during a raid at the home of a man, 22, after narcotics cops with a search warrant entered ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2010 By Karen
Clarkstown police caught one of three teenagers after the CVS pharmacy on Main Street was robbed of cigarettes at 1:20 a.m. Monday. Police were looking for two of the three teenagers who eluded ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Karen
A 22-year-old Westport man is accused of causing a car crash in April that took the life of a 70-year-old man. He is blaming the accident on his Staffordshire terrier mix that was in the front ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2010 By Karen
An ex-con has denied committing two armed home robbery in Brentwood and Bay Shore only one week apart in September 2010. A 46-year-old pleaded not guilty at the Suffolk County court to a grand jury ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2010 By Karen
A deranged Long Island man walked up to a boy playing a video game at Dave & Buster's in Westbury L.I, then stuck a hunting knife in his back five times, cops said. The 23-yare-old walked up ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2010 By Karen
Three teens were arrested Tuesday after a homeowner reported to police that he saw them trying to break into his home. At the house, police determined that a window screen had been cut, but no one got ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2010 By Karen
A man was arrested Thursday afternoon after police said he entered a Target to make two purchases: one just under $500 and another about $600 at the Palisades Mall but then used separate credit cards ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2010 By Karen
Eight NJ longshoremen were arrested for helping Panamanian drug dealers smuggle cocaine into the country - getting $50,000 to $100,000 each for their help, prosecutors said Tuesday. "The public places ...
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Posted on Oct 6, 2010 By Karen
Two Queens men cleared of false drug charges are getting $300,000 settlement from the city. The two police officers have resigned. Jose Colon, and his brother Maximo, lost their grocery store and were ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Karen
A 17-year-old New City boy was charged with a felony and several misdemeanors after being accused of driving drunk with a 15-year-old girl and two other people in the car, the Sheriff's Department ...
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Posted on Oct 4, 2010 By Karen
A drunken driving Nesconset man was arrested for fleeing the scene of a two-car crash that critically injured a Patchogue man in Bohemia early Sunday morning, Suffolk County police said. Suffolk ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2010 By Karen
A 17-year-old was in the bedroom of his East New York apartment with his pal, a 15-year-old, playing with a semi-automatic handgun when it suddenly went off, police said. The gun fired a round killing ...
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Posted on Oct 2, 2010 By Karen
Rockland civic activist and his son have been charged with stealing more than $10,000 from a corporate insurance client through a policy scam, the Rockland District Attorney's Office said today. They ...
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Posted on Oct 1, 2010 By Karen
A 16-year-old who drove a stolen car head-on into an Irvington police cruiser driven by Luigi Osso, accepted a deal today that will send him to prison for seven years. He faced a maximum sentence of ...
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