Crime
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2014 - 2:03 pm
Above: Images from a photo gallery of arrests made during the recent URGENT investigation "Operation Spring Cleaning," posted on the Ulster County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page.
Over three dozen arrests were announced with great fanfare on Wednesday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 31, 2014 - 7:18 pm
Above: A Lenco armored state police vehicle brought in to assist with a situation on Route 212 on Monday, in which police crisis teams arrested a woman who was armed with a handgun and threatening suicide. Photo from the Woodstock Fire Department's blog.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 28, 2014 - 1:01 pm
Police are looking for the driver of a car that struck and critically injured a four-year-old child in a Kingston street on Thursday evening, then fled the scene of the accident.
Around 10:10 p.m. on Thursday night, the four-year-old was crossing Koenig... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014 - 12:11 pm
A man who allegedly barricaded himself in his estranged wife's house in Hurley, threatening to shoot anyone who came in after him, was arrested Wednesday after a three-hour standoff with police.
The man, 45-year-old Edward Dixon of Sawkill Road in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2014 - 11:04 am
David Reese, an employee of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection who stands accused of fatally shooting his coworker in February, was indicted by an Ulster County grand jury on Tuesday, several news outlets report.
The shooting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 24, 2014 - 3:11 pm
So far, there are more questions than answers in the Greene County town of Windham, where state police conducted a raid on the town hall on Friday in which computers were seized.
The Daily Mail reports that town officials are keeping mum about the raid.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 - 5:24 pm
Above: William Hrazanek. Courtesy of the NYS DEC.
State environmental officials have filed criminal charges against junkyard owner William Hrazanek, 68, after the discovery of leaky drums of oil and gas found last year on his properties in Fleischmanns... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 - 12:47 pm
The Boiceville branch of Community Bank, at 4141 Route 28, was robbed on Wednesday morning, according to a report from the Daily Freeman.
The bank -- formerly a branch of the Wilber National Bank, a company that was acquired by Community Bank in 2010 --... Read more
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, Feb. 21, 2014 - 3:05 pm
A Hobart man who allegedly robbed the Express Mart convenience store in Delhi in the wee hours of Friday morning didn't get too far from the scene of the crime before his arrest.
At 4:12 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, a man stole cash from the register at the... Read more
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