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State Department of Corrections

Rensselaer, NY
Police & Fire
Rensselaer Man Who Raped, Killed 3-Year-Old Girl Found Dead In Prison Rensselaer Man Who Raped, Killed 3-Year-Old Girl Found Dead In Prison
Rensselaer Man Who Raped, Killed 3-Year-Old Girl Found Dead In Prison A Capital Region man who admitted to raping and killing a three-year-old girl has died in prison just a month after he began his 20 years to life sentence. Rensselaer County resident Robert Fisher, age 34, of Rensselaer, died around 1:150 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Elmira Correctional Facility in Chemung County, said Thomas Mailey of the State Department Of Corrections. Fisher pleaded guilty in July to raping and murdering Josefina “Josie” Cunningham of Rensselaer in July 2023.  A trusted family friend, Fisher, admitted to drugging, sexually assaulting, and killing the girl w…

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by Kathy Reakes
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
'You Dead B***h': NJ Mom Shares Story Of Surviving Brutal Stabbing In Home Invasion 'You Dead B***h': NJ Mom Shares Story Of Surviving Brutal Stabbing In Home Invasion
'You Dead B***h': NJ Mom Shares Story Of Surviving Brutal Stabbing In Home Invasion A Monmouth County woman is speaking about the night she was brutally stabbed by a teen boy who claimed he was high on psychedelic mushrooms. Brennan Doyle, now 28 years old, was sentenced to 15 years in state prison for attempted murder and carjacking, according to state Department of Corrections records. He pleaded guilty to the Tuesday, July 7, 2015 stabbing of Donna Ongsiako in her Colts Neck home. In an interview with CBS's "48 Hours", Ongsiako said she opened her door just after midnight to let her cat back in the house when she saw Doyle standing outside with a knife. "I tried to sla…

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by Chris Spiker
New Haven, CT
Police & Fire
Man, Woman Nabbed After Officer Finds Stolen Car Parked At CT Walgreens: Police Man, Woman Nabbed After Officer Finds Stolen Car Parked At CT Walgreens: Police
Man, Woman Nabbed After Officer Finds Stolen Car Parked At CT Walgreens: Police Thanks to some great detective work, a man and woman both face charges in connection with a stolen vehicle that was found parked at a Connecticut Walgreens, police announced.  The arrests stemmed from an investigation that began in New Haven County on Thursday, Dec. 28, when Meriden Police Officer Desiata found a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of the Walgreens at 825 East Main St., according to the department.  This vehicle was found to have a smashed rear passenger window and an ignition column that had been tampered with. Desiata also found numerous receipts from sev…

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by Ben Crnic
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Corrections Officer Accused Of Smuggling Cold Cuts, Espresso Into NJ Prison For Inmate Indicted Corrections Officer Accused Of Smuggling Cold Cuts, Espresso Into NJ Prison For Inmate Indicted
Corrections Officer Accused Of Smuggling Cold Cuts, Espresso Into NJ Prison For Inmate Indicted UPDATE: A corrections officer who was charged with collecting up to $500 a month in bribes to smuggle cold cuts, espresso, jewelry and cologne into a New Jersey prison for a convict known as “Tommy Two Times” is now under indictment. Werner Gramajo, a 46-year-old senior correctional officer at Northern State Prison in Newark, admitted only to delivering the pressed meats -- and not any of the other items -- after he was caught, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Gramajo, of Newark, also claimed that he wasn’t paid for it, Platkin said in announcing the indictment on Wednes…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Police & Fire
Bergen Sheriff's Officer Helping Motorist On Route 4 Nearly Struck By OD'ing Driver Bergen Sheriff's Officer Helping Motorist On Route 4 Nearly Struck By OD'ing Driver
Bergen Sheriff's Officer Helping Motorist On Route 4 Nearly Struck By OD'ing Driver A Bergen County sheriff's officer escaped severe injury or worse when an overdosing driver sideswiped her cruiser as she helped another motorist who'd broken down on Route 4, authorities said. Christopher A. Hanna, a 42-year-old Parlin resident with an extensive criminal record, was headed west on the highway in a 2008 Infiniti G35 when the crash occurred near Madison Avenue in Teaneck shortly before 3 p.m. Sept. 20, local police records show. The sheriff's officer told Teaneck police she was out of her 2021 Ford Explorer with its lights on when she spotted the Infiniti swerving in and out …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Drexel Hill-Upper Darby, PA
Police & Fire
Philly Rehab Counselor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Patient, Police Say Philly Rehab Counselor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Patient, Police Say
Philly Rehab Counselor Charged With Sexually Assaulting Patient, Police Say A counselor at a Philadelphia rehabilitation clinic is charged with sexually assaulting a patient, according to a state police report.  Stephan Burse, 36, of Lindenwold, New Jersey, is charged with institutional sexual assault, state court records show.  Troopers say they were contacted by the state Department of Corrections about an incident at the Gaudenzia Diagnostic and Rehabilitation Center that allegedly occurred on Dec. 13 of last year.  While investigating, detectives said they uncovered video evidence of Burse "performing sexual acts on the victim" — a 40-year-…

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by Mac Bullock
North Hunterdon, NJ
Police & Fire
Warren County Man, 30, Gets 7 Years Behind Bars For Aggravated Assault, Police Officer Attack Warren County Man, 30, Gets 7 Years Behind Bars For Aggravated Assault, Police Officer Attack
Warren County Man, 30, Gets 7 Years Behind Bars For Aggravated Assault, Police Officer Attack A Warren County man was sentenced Friday to seven years in state prison in connection with an assault and the subsequent attack on the responding police officer, authorities said. Tyler M, Lusardi-Paz, 30, pleaded guilty May 25 to second-degree aggravated assault and third-degree resisting arrest by use or threat of physical violence following the July 2019 incident in which he attacked a woman and disarmed the Washington Township officer who had responded to investigate. The officer then shot Lusardi-Paz in the abdomen — a response that was deemed justified in an “independent analysis” by …

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by Valerie Musson
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Westchester Man Involved In NYC Triple-Murder Suicide Had Violent Past Westchester Man Involved In NYC Triple-Murder Suicide Had Violent Past
Westchester Man Involved In NYC Triple-Murder Suicide Had Violent Past A Westchester County man who gunned down three people and then killed himself on his 9-year-old daughter's birthday had a violent past. The killings were discovered around 11:22 p.m., Monday, April 5, when New York City Police responded to a 911 call of shots fired/possible people shot at 362 Sutter Ave., in Brownsville, Brooklyn, said NYPD Detective Annette Shelton.  When police arrived on the scene, they found three women inside the apartment dead from gunshot wounds, the NYPD said. NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said Tuesday, April 6 the child made the call to 911. “She…

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by Kathy Reakes
Lakewood, NJ
News
AG: Jersey Shore Postal Workers, Ex-Con Caught With 2 Kilos Of Deadly Fentanyl, Heroin, 54 Guns AG: Jersey Shore Postal Workers, Ex-Con Caught With 2 Kilos Of Deadly Fentanyl, Heroin, 54 Guns
AG: Jersey Shore Postal Workers, Ex-Con Caught With 2 Kilos Of Deadly Fentanyl, Heroin, 54 Guns Two Jersey Shore postal workers and an ex-con paroled less than a month ago were caught with nearly 4½ pounds of fentanyl and heroin – worth nearly $3 million on the street -- as well as dozens of guns, authorities said. Detectives were watching as ex-con Andre Sulimenko, 56, of Barnegat, pulled his Subaru into the driveway of a Jackson home earlier this month, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The homeowner, U.S. Postal Service employee William Woolley, emerged and approached the vehicle, then handed Sulimenko a kilo of fentanyl in a bag, he said. State Police arrested him mom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ossining, NY
News
Sing Sing State Prison Employee Tests COVID-19 Positive, Sparking Concern Sing Sing State Prison Employee Tests COVID-19 Positive, Sparking Concern
Sing Sing State Prison Employee Tests Covid-19 Positive, Sparking Concern An employee at Sing Sing State Prison in Westchester has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), sparking concerns. The state Department of Corrections confirmed that one correction officer at the facility in Ossining had tested positive for COVID-19 as well as an employee in Albany. Two prisoners were also tested and the results were negative.  In all these cases, the department said it has worked with and followed all Department of Health protocols including, doing the reverse trace to identify and notify any potentially impacted individuals. The maximum-security pris…

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by Kathy Reakes
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con
Paterson Officer Convicted Of Wounding Bystander With Gunshot During Dispute With Ex-Con A Paterson police officer faces up to 18 months in prison for wounding a bystander when he fired his gun during an off-duty dispute with a known criminal outside a local 7-Eleven. Superior Court Judge Marybel Mercado-Ramirez ordered bail revoked and sent Dante Gordon, 28, to the Passaic County Jail to await sentencing after jurors in Paterson on Monday found him guilty of aggravated assault. The jury at the same time acquitted Gordon of charges of carrying a weapon for an unlawful purpose, making terroristic threats and a lesser aggravated assault charge for pointing a gun at or in the dire…

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by Jerry DeMarco