Crime Scene

Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer will visit Rockland tomorrow and Thursday to endorse local candidates for office.

Giuliani, the Republican former New York City mayor, will be attending a fund-raiser tomorrow for his candidacy and will endorse the re-election of Republicans Michael Bongiorno for district attorney, James Kralik for sheriff. and William Sherwood for the New York State Supreme Court. Giuliani will start his day at 11:30 a.m. at the Blauvelt Coach Diner shaking hands with … Read more of this entry »

Pace University law students got to pick the brains of (and have a cocktail with) the black-robe crowd during the annual “Meet the Judges” event at the law school this week.

The judges, some of whom are practicing attorneys, advised and encouraged the students, who weren’t shy about asking the judges for their thoughts about the law.

“For most of us, our bark is worse than our bite,” said Francis Nicolai, the administrative judge for the 9th Judicial District of the state … Read more of this entry »

The Scarsdale Police Benevolent Association has given $10,000 in phone cards to troops wounded in Iraq.

Six Scarsdale police officers presented the AT&T International calling cards to staff members of the Family Assistance Center at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.

The money came from the PBA’s second annual fundraiser to support soldiers recovering from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Noble Eagle. Every dollar raised went toward the cost of the cards.

“The opportunity to assist these … Read more of this entry »

The Rockland County Police Hispanic Society will host its 12th annual Dinner Dance Fundraiser on Nov. 3 from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Town and Country Caterers on Route 9W in Congers.

The group will be honoring Juan DelPilar, a Rockland County probation officer and past Hispanic society president; Evelyn Rodriguez, a former Haverstraw village trustee; and the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department Community Services Unit. The society also will honor its scholarship recipients: Christopher Sanchez of Clarkstown South High School and Ricardo … Read more of this entry »

Rockland sheriff’s candidate Tim O’Neill today called for Gov. Eliot Spitzer to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate how a Monsey man convicted in Pennsylvania of a vehicular homicide charge ended up being incarcerated in the county jail.

O’Neill’s call came a day after he called for a federal investigation into the case of Ben Klein, who spent nine months in the jail in 2005.

O’Neill claims Republican Sheriff James Kralik lobbied for Klein’s transfer to Rockland in an effort to score … Read more of this entry »

Rockland District Attorney Michael Bongiorno and his election opponent, Democrat Tom Zugibe, each snared endorsements.

Zugibe, a former prosecutor and West Haverstraw justice for 18 years until January, captured the backing of the leadership of the Civil Service Employees Association of Region 3, which represents 40,000 members in the Southern Tier of New York.

Bongiorno won support from the leaders of the Police Benevolent Association of the New York State Troopers. The union represents more than 6,000 active and retired, uniformed members … Read more of this entry »

A state police recruitment drive for new troopers that began last month has already drawn more than 13,000 applicants, the New York State Police Public Information Office said in a release today. Here is the text of the press release from the NYSP:

NEW YORK STATE POLICE
Preston L. Felton
Acting Superintendent

Lieutenant Glenn Miner
Director of Public Information
(518) 457-2180
www.troopers.state.ny.us

FOR RELEASE: Immediate

Troopers Announce Over 13,500 already signed up for Upcoming
Examination

Albany, NY – October 10, 2007 – New York State … Read more of this entry »

Rockland District Attorney Michael Bongiorno opens his campaign headquarter in Haverstraw village tomorrow on New Main Street.

The “Haverstraw for Bongiorno Headquarters� will open at 12 p.m. at 41 New Main St.. according to Ricky Sanchez, a Democrat and former Haverstraw village trustee who is supporting Bongiorno.

And if the usual political speechs and rah-rah talks don’t attract supporters, a few slices of pizza from Mariella Pizzeria might. And there will be no excuse for the pizza not being hot since … Read more of this entry »

Could it be heroin in your crack? State police charged George P. Lanza, 30, of Poughkeepsie, and Matthew F. Azimi, 26, of Deposit, N.Y., each with seventh-degree criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a hypodermic instrument, misdemeanors, after Trooper Brian Will stopped them Sept. 29 at 11 p.m. on Interstate 684 in Bedford. Will walked around the car with his canine partner, Hudson, who alerted the trooper to the presence of drugs in the car, police said. The … Read more of this entry »