Clarkstown PD warns of child luring incidents

FROM CPD The Clarkstown Police Department recently responded to two separate reports of a possible luring of a child  in the Nanuet area on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at approximately 4:30 p.m. The first incident occurred on Carrie Lane and the second incident occurred on North Edsall Ave. In both incidents the children, both 8-year-old […]

Cops charge pair with probiotic thievery

Two Rockland residents have been charged with second degree robbery (felony), petit larceny (misdemeanor) and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree (misdemeanor) for allegedly making off with a haul of probiotic medication at the West Nyack Shop-Rite. On Monday around 4:12 p.m. security at the West Nyack Shop-Rite say they detected a […]

STONY POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT ARRESTS 9/16/14

AGGRAVATED UNLICENSED OPERATION Steven Rosa, age 29, residing at 50 Dykes Pike Rd. Nanuet, NY, was arrested on September 14, 2014 for aggravated unlicensed operation in the second degree. The defendant was arrested after a vehicle and traffic stop revealed the defendant was operating a motor vehicle while his NYS Driver’s License was suspended 17 […]

Jojo John receives two years for 2013 boat crash DUI that claimed lives of two close friends

DA’S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe today announced that Jojo K. John (DOB 01/04/78) of 37G Gail Drive, Nyack, New York was sentenced to two years in the Rockland County jail on his guilty plea to two counts of vehicular manslaughter in the Second Degree, class “D” Felonies, in the deaths […]

CBP at JFK Seizes Cocaine in Computer Bag

U. S. Customs and Border Protection Officers Catch Cocaine inside Computer Bag JAMAICA, N.Y. — An arriving passenger at John F. Kennedy International Airport had more than a laptop in her computer bag when encountered by U. S. Customs and Border Protection Officers. On September 9, CBP officers stopped Ms. Ortega Tejada who arrived on a […]

North Rockland barber arrested for alleged loan shark operation

North Rockland barber arrested for alleged loan shark operation

WEST HAVERSTRAW – The owner and operator of a barber shop in Haverstraw and an alleged long-time associate of mobsters in the Lower Hudson Valley was arrested for loan-sharking on Tuesday Anthony “Harpo” DePalma, 69, who owns Mr. Tony’s Barber Shop on Railroad Avenue, was charged with first degree criminal usury, a class C felony. […]