Ramapo Marijuana Arrest in Montebello On January 4 around 10:30 p.m., Ramapo police officers approached a vehicle in a parking lot in Montebello occupied by two men. The officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana and arrested the two men, one 32-year-old from Congers and one 33-year-old from Pomona for unlawful possession of marijuana. The […]
DA’S PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Wednesday announced that 39-year-old Jason Beitel of 5 Banker Street, Spring Valley, New York has been charged with one count of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, a class “E” felony after he allegedly benefitted from the unemployment insurance system […]
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH After months of adamantly professing his innocence in connection with allegations of a conspiracy in connection to kill his wife, local podiatrist Ira Bernstein admitted that he was guilty of the charges against him. Bernstein admitted to Rockland County Court Judge David Zuckerman that he and his girlfriend Kelly Gribeluk conspired to […]
FROM SPPD On December 31, 2016 the Stony Point Police Department arrested Fernando Matos of Newburgh on charges of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (D- felony) and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. A routine traffice stop revealed Matos allegedly had a fictitious Indiana “dealer” license plate affixed to […]
BY JERRY DEMARCO NEW CITY – Detectives from the gang unit in Paterson, N.J., who stopped to check out an idling car blocking traffic found two pounds of pot inside and arrested both occupants — one of them from New City, authorities said. Driver Steven Baker, 22, of Lodi, and passenger Keith Chandler, 26, were […]
Orangetown DWI in Nyack Orangetown Police arrested 27-year-old Stefan Martinez of West Haverstraw on New Year’s Day for drunk driving. Martinez was stopped by police for several traffic violations and upon speaking with him, the officers observed the strong smell of alcohol and the suspect’s slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. Martinez was transported to police […]