Blog Posts in September, 2010
Posted on Sep 30, 2010 By Karen
Antonio Alicata, 47, who lives on the ground floor of a two-story apartment building at 146 Orawaupum Street in White Plainswas accused of setting the building on fire. He was charged with ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2010 By Karen
David Heise, 28, pleaded not guilty to the new charges at Suffolk County court Monday after a grand jury indicted him for criminally negligent homicide and ten other charges. Prosecutors said Heise ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2010 By Karen
Two men, Frank Beinlich, 24, and Ramon Rodriguez, 21 were arrested Thursday for burglarizing seven houses in Patchogue over the past three weeks, Suffolk County police said. Officers found them hiding ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2010 By Karen
White Plains man was arrested Friday after police raided his apartment. Cops, armed with a warrant, entered Kyle's apartment about 4:30 p.m. and said they found 12.2 grams of cocaine along with ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2010 By Karen
White Plains man accused of robbing another man was arrested after cops saw him being chased by the victim and the victim's friend. Ikeem Greenhill, 18, was charged with two felony counts of ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2010 By Karen
An East Meadow man was in jail today after leading police through three counties that ended when his car crashed into a police cruiser, injuring two troopers. He was driving his ex-girlfriend's ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2010 By Karen
A Pound Ridge woman faces a felony charge over her altered vehicle inspection sticker, state police said. Cathleen E. Malone, 26, was driving on Route 35 Friday when a state police pulled her over ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2010 By Karen
Federal marshals apprehended fugitive Kenneth Wilson, an alleged drug dealer, who escaped Glen Cove police five months ago. He was charged with criminal sale and possession of cocaine. Police said ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2010 By Karen
Police said that a Yonkers man was found to be squatting inside a waterfront shed on Lake Mahopac for several months. He now faces a felony burglary charge after the suspicious homeowner set up video ...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2010 By Karen
A property manager pleaded guilty to stealing $2.3 million to support his bad lottery habit. Ex-con Richard Bassik, 67, admitted to grand larceny for stealing money meant to pay taxes, maintenance and ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2010 By Karen
James Mebane, a passenger in a car that crashed on the Hutch yesterday, had a giant Ziploc bag of heroin inside his pants, police said. Inside that bag were 250 smaller bags of heroin, worth about ...
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Posted on Sep 15, 2010 By Karen
Putnam Valley - New York State Troopers said today that they charged a Lake Peekskill man with felony driving while intoxicated on Monday. The 40-year-old from Lake Peekskill was stopped on William ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2010 By Karen
A 17-year-old White Plains boy was arrested Saturday night when he was charged with burglarizing a house only a few doors down from his own. Myles Hamlin, allegedly entered a house at 11:45 p.m. then ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2010 By Karen
A Lake Peekskill man who offered to take out the trash for an elderly woman stole her purse which contained credit cards and a checkbook, state police said today. Jovan Rodriguez faces one charge of ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2010 By Karen
James Davis, 31, was nabbed after an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service and Westchester County police for felony larceny and identity-theft charges. He has been accused of selling stolen credit ...
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Posted on Sep 11, 2010 By Karen
Police say that a Yorktown woman was charged with felony DWI with a child in her car Thursday night after she almost struck a police cruiser head-on. Officer Jeffrey Eagan was heading east on Route 6 ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2010 By Karen
Suffolk County police said Bay Shore mother was arrested for drunken driving after her car crashed into a parked vehicle. She then fled the scene while her 3-year-old daughter was still inside the ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2010 By Karen
Andrew Kelly pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter when he struck and killed 32-year-old Vionique Valnord as she was hailing a cab. Kelly resigned from the NYPD. He faces 90-days in jail and five ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2010 By Karen
A Brooklyn judge sentenced Wayne Martin to life in prison for the execution-style slayings of Donald Turner Sr. and Ricardo Davids inside Gary's Tire Emporium of East Flatbush in 2005. Martin, who's ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2010 By Karen
George Grier, 31, is accused of firing a rifle in the air during a confrontation with a large group of men on his lawn on Sunday. He was charged with felony assault on Monday. Grier, who is African ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2010 By Karen
Lawyers for Muzzammil Hassan, 45, who is accused of beheading his wife, were given permission to have psychiatric experts testify that he may have suffered from battered spouse syndrome. The ruling ...
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Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By Karen
Greenburgh - Damion Reid, 22, was found with 120 lbs. of marijuana worth $300,000 after he was stopped this morning at a sobriety checkpoint in Greenburgh, police said. Westchester County police ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2010 By Karen
Stop & Shop supermarket employee Marcos Jesurum, 21, of Ossining, was charged with third-degree grand larceny, a felony, after he was seen by a manager taking cash from a register and putting into ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 By Karen
Briarcliff Manor - Police arrested two men on drug charges and seized more than $8,000 in Ecstasy, heroin, cocaine and Ketamine last night. Ian Brown, 25, and Dylan Pidgeon, 29, were arrested after ...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2010 By Karen
Armonk - State police say that a Bronx man was found to have had 11.5 ounces of marijuana in his car trunk on Monday and faces a felony charge. Achille Galante, 25, was driving on Interstate 684 when ...
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