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GOSHEN - Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler announced Thursday that 17 defendants are facing charges related to the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and prescription medications throughout the county.
The sweep was conducted by the Orange County Drug Task Force, assisted by police from the Village of Monroe and the cities of Middletown and Newburgh.
Twelve of the defendants already have been arrested. Eleven were chaged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both felonies.
They are Hakeen Frith, 29, of Port Jervis; Stephen Johnson, 51, of Liberty; Duane Spearman, 53, Shatiro Lawrence, 33, Tameka Hannah, 44, Tyler Wilson, 23, Louis Towles, 20, and Terrance Norman, 50, all of Newburgh; Michael Elwyn, 43, of Montgomery; Robert Gayle, 44, of New York City; and Eric Hall, 50, no home town listed.
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People ‘want police officers to be part of the community’
Goshen. After the death of George Floyd and the resulting protests in Minneapolis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that all of New York’s 500 municipal police agencies must review their policies and procedures and enlist stakeholders in a “collaborative” effort to develop a plan for improvements. | 05 Jan 2021 | 08:38
Alarmed by police-involved deaths and racially biased law enforcement in New York and elsewhere, Governor Andrew Cuomo has decreed that municipal police agencies must reinvent themselves.
Cuomo mandated in June, shortly after the death of George Floyd and the resulting protests in Minneapolis, that all of New York’s 500 municipal police agencies, including 32 in Orange County, must review their policies and procedures and enlist stakeholders in a “collaborative” effort to develop a plan for improvements.
‘Preserving the honor of those buried there’
Monroe. Volunteers reclaim Monroe Community Cemetery. | 14 Dec 2020 | 02:14 Before: A group of volunteers, working with the Town of Monroe, spent the summer and fall cleaning up the Monroe Community Cemetery and reclaiming neglected grave sites, including uncovering and cleaning gravestones. Here’s an example of a head stone that was reclaimed. Photos provided by Karen Bardossi. After. The transformation is striking. Work on the grave sites will continue next spring.
It all began with some potted plants and basic gardening tools.
Sheryl Abernethy and Heather Su were looking to provide a little TLC to a local cemetery when a friend suggested the Monroe Community Cemetery on Route 17M in the Village of Monroe.