Crime Scene

They are unseen but they are heard. Their decisions – at times split-second ones – on where to send police officers and other emergency responders can determine life or death.

They are police dispatchers.

On June 3, those unheralded voices from every police department will honor their own with a dinner and awards presentation at the Leo Ladders American Legion Post 130 in Thiells.

Pete Medina, a Ramapo dispatcher and president of the Rockland 911 Dispatchers Association, said there were three … Read more of this entry »

The Orangetown Police Department will honor officers and civilians for their work during 2006 and 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Monday. During Orangetown Police Awards Ceremony, the New York State Council of Accreditation will be presenting Orangetown with its police accrediation certificate.

The 2007 honorees
Unit Citation – Accreditation
• Lt. Donald Butterworth
• Detective Sgt. George Garrecht
• Sgt. Michael Moroney
• Detective Joseph Artrip (Program Manager)
• Officer Harold Johnson
• Officer KerriLynne Schiller
• Officer Michael Shannon

Commendation – Bank Robbery on Jan. 11, 2007

Meritorious Police Duty … Read more of this entry »

For tomorrow’s charity softball game between NFL linebacker Keith Bullock’s team of all-pros versus Rockland cops and firefighters, the Rockland team’s manager, Spring Valley Detective Reggie Anderson, has announced his players.

The game is set – rain or shine – for 4 p.m. at the Herbert Reisman Sports Complex at the Eugene Levy Park on Route 45 in Ramapo. The game will raise money to help young people through Bullock’s Believe and Achieve Foundation and the Rockland County Parent Aid Fund’s … Read more of this entry »

State Police Investigator Brian Tumulty in Haverstraw received a superintendent’s award today for his role in capturing the man who murdered Karesse Ebron, 16, of Spring Valley in June 2006.
Tumulty, with the assistance of Spring Valley police, gave a polygraph examination to Ryan R. Ross, 23, of Spring Valley at the state police barracks in Haverstraw. He was a friend of Ebron who lived in the same Spring Valley housing complex as she did.
The polygrapgh results indicated Ross’s responses … Read more of this entry »

A clash of the titans will take place Saturday afternoon to raise money to help young people through an NFL star’s Believe and Achieve Foundation and the Rockland County Parent Aid Fund’s Foster Care Program.

The softball game starts at 4 p.m. at the Eugene Levy Park baseball fields on Route 45 in Ramapo. The game will be played rain or shine.

Billed as the cop versus the football player, the opposing teams are led by Tennessee Titan star linebacker Keith Bullock … Read more of this entry »

The Rockland emergency services helicopter pilot Sgt. Ken Johnston of the Sheriff’s Department had a busy weekend, helping save two lives.

On Friday, a Good Samaritan Hospital patient needed medicine for botulism, Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Barbera said today. The patient was dying. The hospital asked that a police car pick up the antidote at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, Barbera said. But the trip by car could take several hours back and forth.

So Johnston flew down to JFK, picked … Read more of this entry »

The Rockland Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has scheduled a news conference for tomorrow afternoon to voice its concerns that state plans to improve New York State Thruway interchanges could led to the destruction of the Brinks Memorial at the entrance to highway.

However, state project director Mike Anderson said today that several state plans under consideration would not touch the memorial on Mountainview Avenue, at the Thruway entrance off Route 59 in Nyack. Anderson said the state is fully aware of … Read more of this entry »

Rockland law enforcement will honor those officers who died in the line of duty during a 11 a.m. Sunday ceremony at the granite memorial in front of the County Courthouse in New City.
There are 27 names on the “Rockland monument”:http://www.policememorial.com/. Other ceremonies will be held at “national memorial”:http://www.nleomf.com/ in Washington, DC.

At 9:30 a.m. Sunday, the Clarkstown Police Department will hold its annual awards ceremony at 20 Maple Ave., New City.

Along with remembering those officers killed, Rockland Police … Read more of this entry »

It used to be that a first-time offender charged with driving while intoxicated in Putnam County and registering a blood-alcohol level below 0.15 percent could have the misdemeanor charge reduce to a violation of driving while impaired. But District Attorney Kevin L. Wright recently announced that his office had changed that policy. Now, anyone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.13 percent or more will not be eligible for the reduced charge, Wright said.
“If a person, even a first offender, chooses … Read more of this entry »

Three Rockland legislators have formed a chorus to urge the New York State Legislature and governor to adopt more stringent laws governing human trafficking. The amended laws being considered in Albany would focus on protecting people – in many cases women and children – from labor and sexual servitude.

Many immigrants are smuggled into the United States and pay off their debts through prostitution and by working in factories and as domestics. In all cases, human trafficking involves people being forced … Read more of this entry »

The Jamaican Civic & Cultural Association will hold a panel discussion on legal issues at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Louis Kurtz Civic Center, 9 N. Main St., Spring Valley.

The panelists will be Rockland District Attorney Michael Bongiorno, Rockland Legal Aide Society attorney Shelley Forde and lawyer Michael Scolnick of Rockland.

The lawyers will discuss criminal matters such as sexual assault and civil matters, including child custody. Bongiorno will lead the panel discussion.