KINGSTON, N.Y. — Joseph E. Karolys told police he had no idea anything had happened to David “Mickey” Myer until late in the morning of Oct. 29, 2022, when a friend telephoned to tell him that the man Karolys had given a ride hours earlier had been found dead on the side of state Route […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. — A state police investigator spent much of the day Friday, June 8, on the witness stand in Ulster County Court identifying photographs taken as part of the investigation into the Oct. 29, 2022, death of David “Mickey” Myer.Joseph E. Karolys, 39, is charged with first-degree manslaughter, assault, tampering with physical evidence and […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. — A witness who served time in jail with Joseph E. Karolys testified in Ulster County Court Thursday, June 6, that Karolys bragged to him that he kicked David “Mickey” Myer so hard “he split his head open like a watermelon.”The witness said Karolys also implicated Michael Cummins in Myer’s death and said […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Michael Cummins testified Tuesday, June 4, in Ulster County Court that he doesn’t remember leaving the Greene County bar where he spent Oct. 28, 2022, with Joseph E. Karolys and other regulars who were partying there.He said he didn’t remember climbing into the back seat of a truck being driven by Karolys’ […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Joseph Karolys, the Saugerties man accused of manslaughter for the Oct. 29, 2022, death of David “Mickey” Myer, was denied bail for a third time by Ulster County Judge Bryan Rounds. Also during a three-hour proceeding Friday, Defense Attorney Jeffrey Chabrowe conceded that the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office turned over telephone […]