KINGSTON, N.Y. Â Seven years after being sentenced to a maximum of life in state prison for beating his father to death with a baseball bat, Nicholas Pascarella Jr. was back in court Thursday asking that his sentence be reduced under the state’s new Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act. At a hearing before Ulster County Judge […]
1: Former Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra says he has been terminated from a state position as a law enforcement liaison for the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee without justifiable cause despite being put there by the New York state Police Chiefs Association. 2: The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court upholds a lower court […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. A Cheektowaga man was sentenced to serve one to three years in state prison following his fourth alcohol-related conviction, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Shible Qureshi, 41, was sentenced in Ulster County Court on Monday, Nov. 27, by Judge Bryan Rounds. The sentence stemmed from Qureshi’s May 31, 2023, […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Four people were arrested this week on multiple felony drug charges by city police and Town of Ulster Police after investigations into the sale of drugs containing the powerful animal tranquilizer xyzaline and fentanyl along with the sale of cocaine and heroin in Ulster County, authorities said. The Kingston Police Department and […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Michael Cummins, who was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the course of an investigation into the 2022 death of David “Mickey” Myer, was released under the supervision of the Probation Department on Tuesday. Cummins, 58, of Saugerties, who had been in jail since his 2022 arrest, was freed after […]