BY MICHAEL RICONDA Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe announced on Monday that 17 people had been arraigned in the Clarkstown Justice Court on a variety of charges related to human trafficking, prostitution and drug possession. The arrests were made as part of a six-month joint effort which included the DA’s Special Victims Unit, the […]
FROM THE DA’S OFFICE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Tuesday announced that Dwayne Cook, 52, of 149 Main Street, Nanuet, New York has been charged with one count of grand larceny in the third degree and two counts of scheme to defraud in the first degree. All of the charges are class […]
A former St. Joseph’s and Nyack High School basketball standout was arrested last week on sex abuse charges. Terrence McNair, 18, of Valley Cottage was arrested for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a girl under 15 years of age “sometime between October 2012 and June 2013,” according to Clarkstown PD. The sexual acts […]
“Operation Angry Birds” takedown spanning three counties, results in 70 people taken into custody, nine felony arrests and as many as 3,000 birds found; ASPCA assists in removal and sheltering of animals RELEASE FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced tonight that his Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) executed […]
Verizon lines cut, more than $20,000 worth of damage done BY BILL DEMAREST BARDONIA – A 42-year-old Bardonia resident who legally changed his name to Jesse James at some point following high school, has been indicted by a Rockland County grand jury on charges that he intentionally cut Verizon communication lines, doing more than $20,000 […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA An Orange County resident was arrested in Stony Point on February 1 and accused with drunkenly attempting to rob and beat another man in a local stationary store. According to Stony Point Police, Robert F. Sweeney, a resident of Warwick, NY and a former North Rockland resident, allegedly accosted a shopper in […]