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LAKE PLACID Four teens have been charged with felonies after allegedly breaking into the former W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center and vandalizing the place in November. The only one of them named by New York State Police was Remi P. Borden, a 19-year-old from Lake Placid. The other three are 18 years old. New York State Police Troop B Public Information Officer Jennifer Fleishman told the News on Friday, Jan. 22 that State Police initially responded to the facility on Old Barn Road on Nov. 22, 2020, after the fire alarm was triggered. The Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department was first on scene and found broken windows, spray paint on the walls and used fire extinguishers.
OGDENSBURG — Two local courts have now declined to take a case against Ogdensburg Mayor Jeffrey M. Skelly after Ogdensburg and Canton judges recused themselves from the matter.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Multiple law enforcement agencies congregate on Depot Street in Tupper Lake Thursday as they conduct a search for a man who shot at the Fortuneâs Hardware storefront. No one was injured and the suspect is in police custody.
(Provided photo â Jim Lanthier) Jim Lanthier was traveling on Demars Boulevard Thursday when a state trooper passed him driving fast. An avid photographer of Tupper Lake happenings, Lanthier followed the troopers, parked and took photos of police searching the Junction area for a suspect in the shooting of the Fortuneâs Hardware building. He was a bit concerned watching the scene, so he said he kept his distance.
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID Lake Placid police are urging residents to keep their car doors locked following a string of break-ins over the weekend. The police department received at least eight reports of unlocked cars being opened and rummaged through in the Hillcrest neighborhood, including on Greenwood Street, Acorn Street and Elm Street. Some residents reported nothing stolen from their vehicles, but their property strewn about inside; others reported some valuables and cash missing, according to Lake Placid Police Department Chief William Moore. “There was a rash of them,” Moore said of the car break-ins. “Probably five in the village and three in the town.”
By CARA CHAPMAN Press-Republican
Dec 17, 2020
PLATTSBURGH â A Schuyler Falls man has been charged with the attempted murder of two State Police troopers in connection with a Dec. 6 incident.
Following his release from Albany Medical Center Friday, Kevin M. Doherty Jr., 34, was charged with two counts each of first-degree attempted murder of a police officer and menacing of a police officer, and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, all felonies, State Police said in a press release.
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State Police have said that troopers responded to Doherty s Rabideau Street home at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, for a welfare check.