A Spring Valley mother faces a charge of child endangerment for allegedly tying her 4-year old son to a bush while she went to a babysitting job. Mery Isabel Quinde-Castro, age 22, was arrested after witnesses reported to police that she had left her son tethered to the bush with a 4-foot leash attached to […]
COUNTY PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert last week announced that the first pool, or group, of mosquitoes to test positive this year in New York State for West Nile Virus (WNV) has been confirmed by the New York State Department of Health in Rockland County. […]
Shlomo Erps, 27, of Nancy Lane, Monsey, a private school bus driver, stands accused of molesting a 4-year-old boy, Spring Valley PD told the public on Wednesday. He faces felony, first degree sex abuse charges. The alleged abuse occurred in late May and the arrest in early June. Police would not specify at this time […]
The Ramapo Police responded to two separate reports of pedestrians struck in the Monsey area of Ramapo Monday. At approximately 4:34 p.m., a 41-year-old male pedestrian was struck by a vehicle on Main Street in Monsey as he was crossing the street. The driver of the vehicle was turning right onto Main Street from Maple […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN Many who live near or boat on the Hudson River in Rockland and Westchester County say they’ve never seen quite the abundance of dead fish along the shoreline as they have this season. Capt. Mary Pat Driscoll, who runs the tour boat Evening Star, said she has been “seeing this quite a […]
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ZUGIBE ISSUES DANGEROUS DRUG THREAT ALERT: POTENT HEROINÂ Beatnicks, such as former Rockland Psychiatric resident Allen Ginsberg, called heroin “the horse” in the 1950s, perhaps accidentally popularizing the often lethal and life-nullifying narcotic. After falling out of favor for decades the worst drug of them all has made a comeback in recent years, […]