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Child Rape: Middletown 'Predator' Who Abused Minor For Years Gets Decades In Prison Child Rape: Middletown 'Predator' Who Abused Minor For Years Gets Decades In Prison
Child Rape: Middletown 'Predator' Who Abused Minor For Years Gets Decades In Prison A man from the region who subjected a young child to years of repeated sexual abuse will spend decades in prison. Orange County resident Cecilio Navarro, age 35, of Middletown, was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison in Orange County Court on Tuesday, July 18. It came after a jury convicted him of multiple sex crimes in March 2023. Earlier Report: Guilty: Hudson Valley Man Convicted Of Raping Child According to prosecutors, Navarro began sexually abusing the victim in December 2016, when the victim was under the age of 13. The abuse continued on and off through 2021. Navarro w…
Pastor From Area Admits To Killing Estranged Wife With Machete Pastor From Area Admits To Killing Estranged Wife With Machete
Pastor From Area 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…
Thousands Want Justice After Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Hudson Valley Thousands Want Justice After Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Hudson Valley
Thousands Want Justice After Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Hudson Valley The cacophony of thousands of voices demanding justice for Danroy “DJ” Henry has grown to include some celebrities 10 years after he was killed at the hands of police in Westchester. Nearly 80,000 people have signed a change.org petition urging prosecutors to re-open Henry’s case after he was shot and killed by former Pleasantville police officer Aaron Hess in October 2010. Henry, a football player and junior at Pace University's Pleasantville campus, was at a sports bar with teammates when a fight broke out after their homecoming game in Pleasantville. Hess remained at the scene, and w…
Man Accused Of Attempting To Withdraw $3K From Another Person's Account Man Accused Of Attempting To Withdraw $3K From Another Person's Account
Man Accused Of Attempting To Withdraw $3K From Another Person's Account A 21-year-old man is facing multiple charges for allegedly attempting to withdraw more than $3,000 from another person’s account with a false ID, police said. Officers from the Orangetown Police Department arrested Charles Kadoche at approximately 1:35 p.m. on Thursday, April 23 at Chase bank on Main Street in Nyack. It is alleged that Kadoche was at Chase and presented forged documentation in an attempt to withdraw more than $3,000 from another person’s account. Following his arrest, it was determined that Kadoche was in possession of an undisclosed controlled substance. Kadoche was arres…
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Murder Of 7-Year-Old Daughter The Westchester father found guilty of murdering his 7-year-old daughter may spend the rest of his life in prison. Neil White, 50, was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life in prison following his sentencing in Westchester County Court on Thursday, Oct. 3. White, who was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2017 murder, reportedly sought to adjourn his trial, but was denied by the judge. Holding her daughter’s favorite rag doll, Michelle Hord, Gabrielle's mother, described the two years since her child’s murder as “a razor-blade cut of trauma, memory, pain, confusion, betrayal and …
Overturned Murder Conviction Of Orange County Man To Be Appealed Overturned Murder Conviction Of Orange County Man To Be Appealed
Overturned Murder Conviction Of Orange County Man To Be Appealed Officials in Westchester County are attempting to appeal a decision by a state appellate panel who recently overturned a conviction of a man who fatally shot a Rockland County fugitive five years ago. Last March, Sparrow Bush resident David Carlson was sentenced by Orange County Court Judge Robert Freehill to five years in prison after he was convicted by a jury for his role in the death of Norris Acosta-Sanchez, who was wanted for having sex with a 14-year-old girl in Ramapo. Carlson befriended Acosta-Sanchez, who eventually confided his crime to him over beers. After several failed attemp…
Rockland Man Sentenced For Sex Abuse Of Child Rockland Man Sentenced For Sex Abuse Of Child
Rockland Man Sentenced For Sex Abuse Of Child A Rockland County man was sentenced Thursday to 20 years to life in prison for the sexual assault of a child and 20 years for sexual conduct against a child. Domingo Mendez- Huales, 39, of Airmont,  was also sentenced to one year in state prison for endangering the welfare of a child, after being found guilty last year during a jury trial on all counts, according to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe. “The defendant was a friend of the family of the victim and used that friendship to take advantage of an innocent child for his own sexual gratification," said Zugibe. "…
Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Newburgh Attendant Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Newburgh Attendant
Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Newburgh Attendant A man who ran over and killed a Hudson Valley gas station attendant was sentenced Thursday to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison, according to Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler. Milton Galdamez-Pena, 22, of Newburgh, who pleaded guilty in November to felony leaving the scene, in connection with the July 30, automobile crash that killed a gas station employee in the City of Newburgh. At the time that he pleaded guilty, Galdamez-Pena admitted that at about 4:30 p.m. on July 30, he drove a car over the employee, Jaspal Singh, 21, who had been checking gas levels at the Shell gas station lo…