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New Update: Prisoner Caught After Escaping Custody In Westchester New Update: Prisoner Caught After Escaping Custody In Westchester
New Update: Prisoner Caught After Escaping Custody In Westchester 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 …

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by Ben Crnic
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Driver In Fatal Area Crash Caught Trying To Escape Out Of State, Police Say Driver In Fatal Area Crash Caught Trying To Escape Out Of State, Police Say
Driver In Fatal Area Crash Caught Trying To Escape Out Of State, Police Say An area resident who was charged with vehicular manslaughter after crashing into a utility pole and killing his passenger was arrested, then caught planning an escape to another state, said police.  Ulster County resident Daniel Kellogg, of Saugerties, 22, reportedly crashed his 2000 Honda Accord into a utility pole on Route 9W in the area of the Sunoco at nearly 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22.  Kellogg was extracted from the vehicle, treated by paramedics and ultimately release from Albany Medical Center. His passenger, 29-year-old David M. Mattison, of Kingston, …

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by Christina Coulter
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Inmate Admits Attacking Officer At Correctional Facility In Area Inmate Admits Attacking Officer At Correctional Facility In Area
Inmate Admits Attacking Officer At Correctional Facility In Area An inmate at an area correctional facility has pleaded guilty for assaulting an officer. Vernon Mingo, 39, admitted that he assaulted Correction Officer Jennifer Hayden at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville on April 24, 2018, Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady said  He is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 31, and is expected to receive a sentence of two to four years in state prison to run consecutively with his current sentence, the DA said.  “Correctional officers have very difficult and dangerous jobs," said Grady. "…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Manhunt Underway For Prisoner Who Escapes Custody In Westchester Manhunt Underway For Prisoner Who Escapes Custody In Westchester
Manhunt Underway For Prisoner Who Escapes Custody In Westchester A massive search is underway after a 22-year-old headed to the Westchester County Jail escaped custody. Isaiah Washington, 22, was being transported to the jail in a minivan in Mount Vernon when he managed to slip out of his handcuffs and run off in the area of Manor Ridge Road and Boston Post Road in Pelham overnight Saturday, May 25. Washington had reportedly asked for the handcuffs to be loosened. Multiple police agencies and K9 units joined in the search. Police in Pelham and New Rochelle are working with the NYPD in their search. Information on the crime Washingto…

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by Daily Voice
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SEEN HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK SEEN HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK
Seen HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK A Senegalese national escaped ICE agents who were deporting him at JFK Airport, said authorities who were searching for him. Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke, 31, "was in ICE custody awaiting removal via a commercial airline flight through JFK Tuesday before absconding" at Terminal 4's Gate B23, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Khaalid Walls. The agents apparently had removed Mbacke's handcuffs to bring him through screening when he bolted, authorities said. He hopped into a cab around 9 p.m. and was gone, Walls said surveillance video show. Mbacke, who'd been living in D…

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by Jerry DeMarco