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Mount Vernon Police Officer Suspended After Being Arrested For Menacing Mount Vernon Police Officer Suspended After Being Arrested For Menacing
Mount Vernon Police Officer Suspended After Being Arrested For Menacing A Mount Vernon police officer has been suspended with pay following an arrest for menacing and harassment over the weekend. Orville Kitson, who pleaded guilty last year to firing his gun without authorization during a late-night incident in 2016, was arrested in Brooklyn on Sunday, Sept. 15, and charged with two counts of menacing, both misdemeanors, and harassment, a violation. Details of what let to Kitson’s arrest have not been released. Mount Vernon Police Commissioner Shawn Harris has stated that Kitson has been suspended as the department conducts an internal investigation. Kitson wa…

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by Zak Failla
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Off-Duty Officer Admits Firing Gun On Mount Vernon Residential Street Off-Duty Officer Admits Firing Gun On Mount Vernon Residential Street
Off-Duty Officer Admits Firing Gun On Mount Vernon Residential Street An off-duty police officer has surrendered himself into custody after pleading guilty to unlawfully firing his service weapon without cause. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced that Orville Kitson, a Mount Vernon Police Officer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of prohibited use of a weapon after surrendering himself at Scarpino’s office on Friday morning. Kitson was sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge. The charge comes from an incident in June 2016, when at approximately 4 a.m., Kitson fired his police service weapon on South Third Avenue in…

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by Zak Failla