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Washingtonville, NY

14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home 14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home
14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home A drug-dealing Paterson couple ran a sizable street operation from their home, said police who seized 14,226 heroin folds, 190 vials of crack and $7,541 in proceeds during a raid. Ex-con Joaquin Bennett, 34, already had a criminal history, including involvement in what authorities said was a plot to kidnap a woman, keep her captive in a Paterson home and beat and rob her boyfriend at a Wayne motel. Bennett became a recent target of city detectives who’d received a tip about drug dealing from a single-family home on 19th Avenue, in a quiet East Side neighborhood off 34th Street, Public Safet…
UPDATE: Driver Charged In Road-Rage Killing Of Pregnant Rockland Mom UPDATE: Driver Charged In Road-Rage Killing Of Pregnant Rockland Mom
Update: Driver Charged In Road-Rage Killing Of Pregnant Rockland Mom Additional charges have been filed against the man accused of intentionally driving his car twice into a family of eight, killing the mother, who was reportedly several weeks pregnant. The incident took place around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, when Jason Mendez, 35, of Washingtonville in Orange County, drove his vehicle into the family standing in front of the store located on North Central Highway in Garnerville, killing 32-year-old Melissa Deloatch, said Haverstraw Police Capt. Martin Lund. Witnesses and police said that Mendez had words with one of the adults about smoking in…
9 Boys Injured, Three Seriously, In South Blooming Grove Camp Dorm Fire 9 Boys Injured, Three Seriously, In South Blooming Grove Camp Dorm Fire
9 Boys Injured, Three Seriously, In South Blooming Grove Camp Dorm Fire UPDATE: Nine teenage boys were injured in an Orange County camp dormitory explosion and fire just after midnight Friday in South Blooming Grove, authorities reported. All were from Brooklyn, they said. Three were seriously injured and the others sustained minor injuries, fire officials said.  The Cromwell Hill bungalow was fully engulfed in flames, according to reports.  A medical chopper was used to transport some of the victims to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.  Monroe, Washingtonville, Chester, Woodbury and Kyrias Joel were among the responding companies. Orange and Rockland…