Three individuals were taken into custody by the New York State Police during the early morning hours on Nov. 22, after a search warrant was executed at the Southside Terrace Apartments in New Paltz.
Yesterday morning a body was discovered beneath a bridge over the railroad tracks. Before the day was over, Kingston Police had booked an Ulster Park man on murder charges.
Kingston Police Department detectives and state police were conducting a death investigation Wednesday morning after a man’s body was discovered beneath a bridge spanning a railroad cut in Midtown.
Two Poughkeepsie men have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man who has been identified as Shandaken resident Frederick Veitch III, known as Joe.
State Police conducted a two-month investigation into the suspect, a prior level 2 sex offender, for having sexual contact with several minors.
A local activist group plans to file a formal complaint against Kingston police officers who, they charge, used a Taser on a man 21 times during a 2015 scuffle on Broadway that was caught on a police dashboard camera and the man’s cell phone.
A 21-year-old female was struck by a vehicle as she was walking in the crosswalk at the intersection of Plattekill Avenue and Main Street in New Paltz on Wednesday. The driver, Abram Almahri, turned himself in a short time later.
Police seized approximately 26 pounds of cocaine and 42 pounds of marijuana.
The arrest followed a missing person investigation that began in June of 2017.
A call for a burglary in progress on a Monday morning resulted in a quick arrest.