Thirty-three-year-old Gal Vanunu who was drunk and shouted racial remarks during a fight at a local library has pleaded guilty to a hate crime and now faces deportation to Israel for being in the United States illegally. Vanunu pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment as a hate crime and was sentenced to time served of 12 […]
Police stopped an alleged plot to extort $60,000 from a businessman in Pomona, and arrested four residents of Rockland on conspiracy charges. A team of officers and detectives observed four people go to the victim’s home on Friday, and then arrested them. Two were Clarkstown residents, and two were Spring Valley residents. Marissa Turner, 22, […]
Three youths, ages 19, 20, and 18, are charged with a hate crime in the mugging of a 19-year-old in Monsey. Stanley Joseph, 19, of 5 Oakdale Manor in Suffern, Jennifer St. Amand, 21, of 138 Route 59 in Suffern, and Qwesi Williams, 20, of 781 Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn, have been charged by Ramapo […]
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced that Edward Brims (DOB 04/08/57) of 244 North Main Street, Spring Valley New York was convicted after a jury trial of: -Two counts of Attempted Robbery in the First Degree, class ”C” Felonies -One count of Attempted Robbery in the Second Degree, a class “D” Felony -One […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN In honor of 9-year-old Janiah Rollins, the St. Peter’s Cadets Memorial Basketball Tournament was held at St. Peter’s School in Haverstraw from December 17 until December 21. Spring Valley resident, Janiah, was diagnosed with a rare malignant brain tumor called pineoblastoma when she was just 7-years-old in November 2009. For a year […]
Arrest made in 1994 cold case, the shooting of Rene Charles BY DYLAN SKRILOFF It was 17 years in waiting but the Spring Valley cops finally got their man, Daniel Jean Baptiste, a 68-year-old Spring Valley resident, was arrested on second degree murder charges last week for the shooting of local community leader Rene Charles […]