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Armed Robbery: Northern Westchester Correction Officer, Man Break Into Home, Feds Say Armed Robbery: Northern Westchester Correction Officer, Man Break Into Home, Feds Say
Armed Robbery: Northern Westchester Correction Officer, Man Break Into Home, Feds Say A duo from Westchester, including a correction officer, face charges after breaking into a Hudson Valley home, restraining the occupants inside, and stealing cash and marijuana, federal officials said. Mount Vernon residents Recaldo Fray and Kaheem Palmer, both age 31, have been charged in connection with an Orange County armed robbery that happened in Newburgh in early December 2023, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Wednesday, Jan. 24.  According to federal officials, on Monday, Dec. 4, Palmer and Fray, a correction officer at …

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Inmate Sentenced For Assaulting Officers At Westchester County Jail Inmate Sentenced For Assaulting Officers At Westchester County Jail
Inmate Sentenced For Assaulting Officers At Westchester County Jail An inmate at the Westchester County Jail has been sentenced to prison time after admitting to assaulting a pair of corrections officers in separate incidents in the past year. John Wooten, an inmate at the jail, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault for attacking officers in December last year and in January. Wooten was being held at the jail on a felony criminal mischief charge dating back to an incident last December at the Grasslands Homeless Shelter in Valhalla. On Wednesday, Wooten was sentenced to seven years in state prison, the maximum allowable sentence. The guilty plea last…

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