PEARL RIVER- ORANGEBURG – A New Jersey man stopped for driving erratically on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Orangeburg has been charged with drunken driving, according to Orangetown Police. Police said Stanley Uzar, 37, of 12 Echo Hill Road, Montvale, N.J., was stopped at 10 p.m. on Thursday when the 2012 Ford Expedition he was driving […]
ASSAULT Alfredo Barrales, age 19, residing at 13 Partition Street, Haverstraw, NY, was sentenced June 24, 2014, before Rockland County Court Judge William K. Nelson to a state prison term of four years and three years post release supervision after pleading guilty to assault in the second degree. District Attorney, Thomas P. Zugibe stated that […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN On June 17 former Chestnut Ridge resident Lacey Spears was arraigned in State Supreme Court in White Plains on charges of causing the death of her five year old son, Garnett. She is accused of administering high doses of sodium through his feeding tube, ultimately resulting in his death. Through her attorney […]
REPORT FROM CPD On Friday June 20, 2014 at approximately 5:30 p.m., the Clarkstown Police Department responded to 134 Main St. in Nanuet for a report of a motor vehicle accident. Witnesses stated that a vehicle travelling north bound on Main St. struck two parked cars. The driver of the vehicle, Guillermo Garcia, 58, of […]
PSA FROM SPPD The Stony Point Police have seen a dramatic increase in trespassing at local rock quarries, mostly by teens and young people from throughout the Hudson Valley. Please be reminded: Water-filled quarries are deceptive and extremely dangerous. They don’t start shallow and gradually go deeper, like most swimming pools do. They suddenly drop […]
DA’S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Monday, June 23 announced that 24-year-old Spring Valley resident Maria Oliva Guaman-Guaman pled guilty to one count of manslaughter in the first degree, a class “B” felony, relating to the death of her newborn child last fall. DA Zugibe said Guaman-Guaman, who is an illegal immigrant, […]