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Cocaine Trafficker's Son Who Beat Teen For Mother's Trial Testimony Gets Federal Prison Time
A New York man will spend over a year behind bars for violently attacking a 15-year-old boy in retaliation for the boy’s mother testifying in a federal drug case. Patrick Civitello, 19, of Schenectady, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Albany federal court on Tuesday, March 4, after admitting he punched and kicked the teen in a restaurant parking lot in Glenville in May 2024. The boy’s mother had testified against Civitello’s father, Jeffrey Civitello Sr., and brother, Jeffrey Civitello Jr., in a federal drug case. The father and son were convicted of drug trafficking charges in April…
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Double Homicide: Teen Who Beat Aunts Dead In Hudson Valley Faces Life In Prison, DA Says
A teen accused of brutally killing her two aunts inside a Rockland County home has been indicted on multiple murder charges and faces life behind bars, prosecutors announced. Alan "Alina" Abad, 19, of Westwood, New Jersey, was arraigned on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in Rockland County Court, where a grand jury indicted them on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder, according to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II. Prosecutors allege that on Saturday, Feb. 15, around 6:30 p.m., Abad beat their two aunts, Evelyn Aguilar-Agustin and Anabelly Aguilar, t…
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Death Of Young Mom At Hands Of Ex-Lover In NY Could Have Been Prevented, Family Says
More than three years ago, Brenda Alfaro-Alcantara moved to the United States to be with the man she loved, her family said. But the 29-year-old mother's American dream came to a tragic and senseless end when she was stabbed more than 30 times last October by that same man, identified by authorities as 43-year-old Jose Funes-Zabala, of Roosevelt. It all happened in front of the couple's 2-year-old son, who relatives say was found covered in blood at his family's apartment. On Monday, Feb. 10, Funes-Zabala was indicted on second-degree murder and related charges in Nassa…
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NY Widow's Killer Nabbed Decades Later Thanks To Retired Detectives, DNA Evidence: DA
A chilling murder mystery in New York that went unsolved for over two decades has finally been cracked thanks in part to a pair of determined detectives long since retired, prosecutors said. On Long Island, Raul Ayala, 51, of Georgia, was indicted for first-degree murder in Suffolk County Court on Friday, Feb. 7, in the 2003 killing of Edna “Timmie” Schubert. The 88-year-old Schubert, a widowed former Department of Motor Vehicles employee who lived alone, was found dead inside her North Bay Shore home on Fredrick Avenue on Dec. 12, 2003, Suffolk County Police said. Her body was discovered b…
Police & Fire
Dog Helps Young Victim Testify Against Former Detective From Hudson Valley In Sex Abuse Case
In a groundbreaking trial, a court-certified support dog named Eddie helped a young child testify against former NYPD detective Wilson Frias, leading to his conviction on charges of child sexual abuse in Westchester County. Frias, 52, of Briarcliff Manor, was sentenced to five years in prison and ten years of post-release supervision after a jury found him guilty of first-degree sexual abuse, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. The abuse occurred on March 11, 2023, in Frias’s home during a playdate. The vic…
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21-Year-Old From Hudson Valley Scheduled To Be Released From Prison Now Held On Rape Charge
A man from the region who was due to be released from prison on an unrelated charge is now being held after being accused of raping a young girl. In early September, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office Corrections Intelligence Unit discovered that an incarcerated man at the Ulster County Jail had been electronically communicating with a 14-year-old girl who did not appear to have a familial connection to him. The individual was quickly identified as Ronald L. Burris III, age 21, of Saugerties, who was an inmate in the jail on an unrelated charge at the time of disco…
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Hudson Valley Drug Dealer Faces 30 Years In Prison After Guilty Verdict
A dealer in the region who was found guilty of numerous counts of drug sales and possession faces up to 30 years in prison. Dutchess County resident Spencer Green, age 47, of Poughkeepsie, was convicted on Monday, Oct. 21, of 10 felony drug-related crimes with less than an hour of deliberations from the jury. According to Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi, the jury concluded that on multiple dates in late November and December of 2023, at various locations in the town of Poughkeepsie, Green unlawfully possessed cocaine with the intent to sell it, sold the cocaine to individua…
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Suspect Nabed In Orange County Stealing Items From Car In Handicapped Spot
A Hudson Valley man was charged with alleged robbery and menacing after stealing items from a car parked in a handicapped space and then attacking a person who attempted to intervene. The incident occurred in Orange County around noon on Thursday, Aug. 29, in the parking lot of Market 32 at 39 N. Plank Road in Newburgh. According to Lt. Matthew Nadolny of the Town of Newburgh Police, officers responded to the grocery store for a reported fight in progress. An investigation determined that Nicholaus Mikus, age 40, of Newburgh, was stealing items from a parked vehic…
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Hudson Valley Man Found Guilty Of Stabbing Roommate To Death With Knife To Skull
A man from the region faces years in prison after being found guilty by a jury for stabbing his roommate to death. Related: Arrest Made In Gruesome Murder Of Poughkeepsie Man Stabbed In Head Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi announced Tuesday, Aug. 6, that Poughkeepsie resident Andrew Fraser, age unknown, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing Dontay Brown. “Today’s sentencing serves as a critical reminder that our office is dedicated to seeking justice for victims of violent crimes," Parisi said. "The defendant’s actions were&nbs…
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Jennifer Dulos Case: Estranged Husband's Girlfriend Sentenced To Prison
Michelle Troconis, the girlfriend of the estranged husband of the murdered Connecticut mother of five, Jennifer Farber Dulos, has been sentenced to years in prison. 'My Mother Was Everything To Me': Jennifer Dulos' Children Speak Out For First Time Stamford/Norwalk State Attorney Paul J. Ferencek announced Friday, May 31, that Troconnis, age 49, formerly of Hartford County in Farmington, was sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison, suspended after 14 ½ years served, for conspiring to murder Jennifer Farber Dulos in May 2019 and then covering up the crime. Troconis faced 50 years in pr…
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Child Rape: Hudson Valley '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…
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Pastor From Westchester 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…
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Thousands Demand Justice 10 Years After College Athlete Shot, Killed By Cop In Westchester
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…
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Rockland Man, 21, 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…
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Westchester 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 …
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Man Sentenced For Hit-Run That Killed Tow-Truck Driver In Westchester
The box truck driver responsible for the fatal hit-and-run crash on I-95 that took the life of tow-truck driver Salvatore Brescia has been sentenced in Westchester County Court. Ozone Park resident Anthony Mangano, 53, has been sentenced to the 12 months he has already spent in the Westchester County Jail after pleading guilty to a felony count of leaving the scene of a personal injury incident resulting in a death, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced on Wednesday. Brescia, a New Rochelle native, had lived in Yonkers before moving to Stamford, just befo…
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Former Officer Convicted In Killing Outside Westchester Deli Gets Parole
A 53-year-old former officer who was convicted of killing a man over a parking spot more than two decades ago in Westchester has been granted parole. Off-duty NYPD transit officer Richard DiGuglielmo was involved in an altercation with his victim, Charlie Campbell, in Dobbs Ferry in October 1996 when Campbell parked in the “patrons only” section of DiGuglielmo’s father’s deli before heading across the street to a different eatery. DiGuglielmo was convicted of gunning down Campbell, though he maintained his innocence, claiming that he fired his gun to protect his family. DiGuglielmo had his …
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Overturned Conviction Of Man Who Killed Fugitive Will Be Appealed By Westchester DA
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…
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Man Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Multiple Sex Crimes In Northern Westchester
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to decades behind bars for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman and a teenager in Northern Westchester. Ronal Danilo Sandoval-Campos of Purdys has been sentenced to 30 years in state prison after being found guilty on eight counts related to sex crimes dating back to 2016, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr., announced on Tuesday. He must also register as a sex offender upon his release. At approximately midnight on June 3, 2016, Sandoval-Campos broke into a Mount Kisco home and climbed on top of a 42-year-old sleeping woman, sexua…
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Man Sentenced For Committing Sex Acts With Disabled Child In Westchester
A Westchester County man who had sexual contact with a minor in his care who has Cerebral Palsy has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced on Tuesday that White Plains resident Jard Hobbs has been sentenced to 32 years in state prison after being found guilty of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child and second-degree rape, both violent felonies. Hobbs, 32, was found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse and other sexual acts with the disabled child while he was entrusted as her caregiver in…
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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. "…
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Man Sentenced For Running Over, Fatally Injuring Hudson Valley 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…
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