The Kingston dentist was acquitted of murder in a high-profile case featured on two true crime network news shows, only to find himself back in jail after being found guilty of three felonies connected with a false statement made on a pistol permit application.
Solane H. Verraine is charged with killing her husband Johnny Asia by poisoning, a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs. Friends say Asia was ill and may have taken something to ease the suffering, but couldn’t imagine Verraine intentionally harming him.
A Phoenicia woman was charged with second-degree murder Friday night after, Ulster County Sheriff’s deputies said, she killed an as-yet-unidentified victim with what deputies called “a combination of alcoholic beverages and prescription drugs.”
The New Paltz Police Department is investigating a stabbing that occurred early Saturday morning at a bar in the Village
Such tickets have become more frequent in Saugerties following the police department’s efforts to improve pedestrian safety in the village center, where close calls and pedestrian/motor vehicle accidents are frequent.
A long-time Kingston community activist will spend two years in state prison for illegal firearms sales according to the terms of a plea agreement approved in Ulster County Court.
Officials believe a Poughkeepsie-based music company, Outta They League Entertainment, was used to launder the drug money. The company produced virtually no music since 2013 and had a payroll of less than $2000, yet made bank deposits of $1.1 million.
A Clintondale man was convicted last week in the brutal beating death of his father after jurors rejected defense claims that he was suffering “extreme emotional disturbance” when he committed the crime.
Federal officials say they’ve brought down a Kingston-based cocaine trafficking organization that imported drugs from California via New York City for sale on local streets. Twenty-eight members of the alleged drug ring were arrested on Thursday, Oct. 13 in predawn raids in Kingston and Poughkeepsie. Police say three people named in the indictment remain at large.
After the female was taken in custody, it was determined that the gun was a pellet gun that was indiscernible from a real handgun. It was also learned that the initial intent of the female was to commit “suicide by cop.”