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As a top attorney in the Albany County Public Defender’s Office, Peter Lynch was in charge of assigning cases. Indictments would come down and Lynch, who worked in the public defender’s office after graduating from Albany Law School in 1979 until 2009, would dole out charges to the roster of attorne ....
Updated: 3:15 PM PST, February 24, 2021 The landlord, Shawn Douglas, 48, was arrested on Monday, and arraigned on charges of second-degree kidnapping. He is being held on $50,000 bail at the Albany County jail, Law and Crime reported. An Albany landlord unable to evict two tenants due to COVID-19 restrictions allegedly took matters into his own hands to remove them from his property when he kidnapped the pair using zip ties, tape and pillowcases before dumping them in a cemetery in a remote area, according to police and law enforcement officials. The landlord, Shawn Douglas, 48, was arrested on Monday and arraigned on charges of second-degree kidnapping, a class B felony. He is being held on $50,000 bail at the Albany County jail, Law and Crime reported. Douglas’s bond had already been posted, according to the Albany City Court’s office. ....
Albany s 6th Ward council race draws a crowd FacebookTwitterEmail Shoppers during a Holiday Market on Lark Street hosted by the Lark Street Business Improvement District, Global Partners and the Boys and Girls Club of the Capital Area in Albany, NY, on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020 (Jim Franco/special to the Times Union.)James Franco ALBANY – For the first time in more than two decades, the 6th Ward Common Council seat is open and it may be the most crowded race this election cycle in the city. Five candidates are running to fill the position that will be left vacant by Councilman Richard Conti’s retirement at the end of this year. ....