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Yorktown, NY
Police & Fire
Man Steals Snickers Bar In Yorktown, Police Say
As proof that the law applies to even the smallest crimes, a 55-year-old man was nabbed after pocketing a Snickers candy bar without paying for it at a Northern Westchester store, police said. The arrest followed an incident on Thursday, Feb. 8 at around 10:30 a.m., when an employee at the COCO Farms store at 3700 Barger St. in Yorktown reported a larceny to the town's police department. According to Yorktown Police, an officer arrived at the store and met with the employee. After an investigation, it was determined that 55-year-old Bronx resident Roberto Rodriguez had put a Snickers …
Brentwood, NY
News
ID Thief Admits Stealing $10K From Long Island Residents
An admitted identity thief is facing prison time after stealing nearly $10,000 from two Long Island victims. Donald Archibald, age 44, of the Bronx, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of grand larceny and related charges in Suffolk County Court on Friday, Feb. 9. Prosecutors said Archibald obtained a Suffolk County resident’s address and personal information from the dark web in April 2023 and used it to make a fake driver’s license with that person’s information but his own photo. He then went to an M&T Bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut and used the phony ID to withdraw $2,000 from the v…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds
A Hudson County man who posed as a nurse on Facebook and the Hinge dating app kidnapped, assaulted and sexually abused several women in New Jersey and New York, federal authorities charged. Herman Calvin Brightman, 30, abducted one of the women and her 2-year-old child in the Bronx and brought them to his West New York home at knifepoint, said Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It was only one of what NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban called many “deeply disturbing and heinous acts” that included threats to kill his victims. Brightman also stalked a wom…
Yorktown, NY
Police & Fire
4 Nabbed After Stealing Over $1.7K Of Clothing From Store In Yorktown: Police
Three men and a woman all face grand larceny charges after stealing more than $1,700 worth of merchandise from a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Northern Westchester, police said. The arrests resulted from an incident on Friday, Dec. 1 around 2:30 p.m., when staff at the Dick's Sporting Goods store located in the Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown at 650 Lee Blvd. reported a larceny in progress, according to Yorktown Police. Officers responded to the store and found the suspect vehicle in the mall's parking lot. They then pulled it over on Hill Boulevard and found that the four people inside …
Edison, NJ
Police & Fire
Bronx Men Charged With Stealing $34K Worth of Catalytic Converters In Central Jersey: Police
Two men from the Bronx have been charged with stealing dozens of catalytic converters from cars in Central Jersey, authorities said. Omar Fernandez, 31, and Gabriel M. Burgos, 31, were each charged with 20 counts of Theft, 19 counts of Criminal Mischief, 19 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Theft and 19 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Mischief, according to Middlesex Borough Police Chief Matthew P. Geist. The charges stem from a rash of catalytic converter thefts totaling $33,545 which occurred in Middlesex Borough between December of 2022 and February of this …
Yorktown, NY
Police & Fire
Drunk Driver Found Unresponsive In Car After Yorktown Crash: Police
A 30-year-old woman was hit with drunk driving charges following a crash that left her briefly unresponsive in Northern Westchester, police said. The arrest resulted from an incident that happened on Wednesday, Sept. 27 around 2 a.m., when a Yorktown Police officer responded to the area of 1290 East Main St. where a woman had been reported unresponsive but breathing. According to Yorktown Police, the arriving officer found a woman identified as 30-year-old Jaime Otero of the Bronx inside the driver's seat of a car that had crashed and left the roadway. After an investigation, t…
Yonkers, NY
News
New Update: Prisoner Caught After Escaping Custody In Yonkers
This story has been updated. Authorities have caught a prisoner who escaped custody while he was being held at a medical center in Westchester. The prisoner, identified as 24-year-old Geraldo Rojas, was located in the Bronx on Monday, July 24 after 29 hours of "intensive search efforts," Yonkers Police announced Rojas had escaped from a prisoner detail at St. Joseph’s Hospital on South Broadway (Route 9) in Yonkers during the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, police said. Earlier Report - Search On For Prisoner Who Escapes From Custody In Yonkers Rojas, who was taken back into …
Armonk, NY
News
Armonk Animal Shelter Seeks Answers After Dog Chained To Front Door, Abandoned
An animal shelter in Northern Westchester has asked the community for information after a dog was found chained to the shelter's front door. Adopt-a-Dog in Armonk said in an announcement on Monday, Nov. 7, that the dog was abandoned at the shelter in the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 5. "We are hoping by some miracle that she was found or stolen and then dumped and that there is someone looking for her or a rescue who recognizes her," the shelter said. According to the announcement, the dog seems to be about 7 to 9 years old and is well-behaved. "She is miserable in her kennel and is cryi…
Yonkers, NY
Sports
With Opening Day Coming, New Poll Reveals Breakdown Of Yankees/Mets Fans Among NYers
With the Major League Baseball owners reaching an agreement with the players to return to the diamond in time for a full 162-game season, which hometown team has the largest backing of fans in New York? Unsurprisingly, the New York Yankees are the Empire State’s favorite team, with 40 percent of voters expressing their support for the team in pinstripes, according to a newly released Siena College poll. The Metropolitans trailed their big brother in the poll, with just 21 percent identifying the team from Queens as their favorite squad over the Bronx Bombers. According to Siena College Po…
White Plains, NY
News
Pastor From Westchester Admits To Killing Estranged Wife With Machete
A pastor from the Hudson Valley admitted to the violent machete assault of his estranged wife in front of their grandchildren and will now face more than two decades in prison. Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced that Yonkers resident Victor Mateo, age 65, a former pastor at the Christian Congregation The Redeemer Church in the Bronx, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter on Wednesday, Nov. 17. Clark said that on the morning of Oct. 3, 2019, Mateo parked his vehicle near the home of his estranged wife, Noelia Mateo, age 58, on Ellsworth Avenue in Throgs Neck. As she left h…
Englewood, NJ
News
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: Civilian Exposes Bergen Man By Posing As Girl, 14
A Tenafly man was arrested after a vigilante who publicly exposes child predators lured him to the Bronx for what he thought would be a hook-up with a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. A video posted on YouTube shows the unidentified vigilante confronting Jonathan Soto, 28, in a parked minivan. “What’s your mother gonna say about this?” the man asks during a nearly 15-minute conversation peppered with profanity and sexual descriptions. WARNING: The video contains profanity and descriptions of sexual situations. Authorities obtained search warrants after intensely investigating the auth…
Fort Lee, NJ
News
Palisades Park Police Commander Tries Unique Approach To Reducing Vehicle Thefts, Break-Ins
A steady stream of warnings about vehicles being stolen or burglarized in North Jersey still hasn't convinced most potential victims to lock their cars and take their key fobs, so Palisades Park Police Capt. Anthony Muccio is trying a different tack. Officers participating in Muccio's "Operation Secure Vehicle" are patrolling neighborhoods looking for unlocked vehicles. When they find one in a driveway, they turn on their body cameras and knock on the door or ring the bell of the home to notify the owner. Then they hand them a flier. Over three nights this past weekend, borough police not…
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Bronx Foursome Foiled By Central Jersey Woman, 77, In 'Grandparent Scam'
Three men and a woman from the Bronx were arrested after calling a 77-year-old woman from Monmouth County to say her grandson needed bail money, authorities said. After the caller told the elderly woman that people would come pick up the money at her house -- and that she shouldn’t tell anyone -- the unidentified senior citizen called her grandson to confirm he had not been arrested, Marlboro Police Capt. Stephen J. Levy said in a statement Wednesday. The grandmother then went to police headquarters to report the attempted scam and Marlboro officers arrested the foursome when they came to g…
Torrington, CT
News
Search Continues For Two Men In Their 20s Who Disappeared Underwater In New Milford River
Police and dive teams continue to search for two men who disappeared underway while swimming in the Housatonic River. The incident took place in Litchfield County around 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 10, in New Milford, said Lt. Lee Grabner. New Milford Police said the two men, in their 20s, were with a group from the Bronx swimming off the east bank of the river near the Gaylordsville section of town when one man began to struggle in the water. The second man ran into the water and attempted to help, but was also pulled underwater. Police and several dive teams from numerous departme…
Armonk, NY
News
Teen Indicted On Murder Charge For Fatal Northern Westchester Stabbing Over Clothes
A teenager has been indicted on charges that include murder for allegedly fatally stabbing 21-year-old Ossining High School graduate Greg Jackson, Jr. in the chest with a steak knife last month. Officers from the Ossining Police Department arrested local resident Andrew Knight on Feb. 7 in the Bronx in connection to the stabbing of Jackson, who was found with the fatal wound on James Street on Jan. 28. According to the indictment, the dispute between the two was over an article of clothing led to the fatal incident. Following the dispute, Knight allegedly stabbed Jackson, who was take…