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Holiday hackjob: Total Grinch saws Uptown family’s special spruce in half
The vandalized tree. (Photo courtesy Molly Wilson) An Uptown homeowner believes someone with a deeply flawed understanding of the term “holiday spirit” is behind the mutilation and theft of her...
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Investigation continues in West Chestnut Street possible suicide try
Paul J. Egan’s arrest photo. Police are investigating whether a suicide pact was behind a case of carbon monoxide poisoning that left a Kingston woman near death and her partner charged with promoting...
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A less violent year: 2014 crime stats show drop in all major crimes except theft
KPD Chief Egidio Tinti. (Photo by Dan Barton) Crime in Kingston dipped slightly during the first 11 months of 2014, continuing a trend towards a safer city. Nearly as important, said Kingston Police...
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Man shot by deputies files lawsuit
Brandon Rifenburg’s arrest photo. A Marbletown man who was shot and seriously wounded by an Ulster County sheriff’s deputy following a high speed chase has filed a lawsuit accusing police of violating...
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Criminal surveillance, or innocent droning?
David Beesmer. (NYSP photo) “Front Row” Dave Beesmer says he was just looking for a potential client for his fledgling drone video business back in July when he recorded aerial footage of a new medical...
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Massage parlor sting nets six
Six people are facing charges after a multi-agency bust of several massage parlors in the towns of Ulster and Esopus. According to a press release from the Town of Ulster Police, on Tuesday, May 6, the...
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Jail inmate phoned in Hannaford bomb threat and mailed in another market...
Kristopher J. Surdis. (KPD arrest photo) An inmate at the Ulster County Jail is facing a felony charge after, Kingston Police said, he phoned in a bomb threat Wednesday which led to the temporary...
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KPD cracks garden-gnome caper
Photo: Dan Barton It didn’t take long for the KPD’s Sherlock Gnomes to bust a pair of Kingston teens who allegedly stole “numerous” lawn ornaments from city yards. According to the KPD, shortly after...
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Ulster cops rescue dog from parked car, charge owner
A dog trapped in an unventilated car at the Hudson Valley Mall on Sunday, May 17, was rescued by Ulster town police after a tip from an alert passer-by. The owner, 24-year-old Joshua Rivera of...
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KPD officer shoots man at Kingston Plaza
Photo: Dan Barton A Kingston Police Department officer shot a man after the man pointed “what appeared to be a handgun” at officers responding to a burglary report at the Chase Bank in the Kingston...
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Troopers ID man shot by KPD
The state police have identified the man shot by a Kingston Police officer late Wednesday night as 18-year-old Alex Jeffries of Kingston. According to troopers, who are running the investigation into...
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KPD: Decorated force veteran one who shot Jeffries
Shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday, May 28, the Kingston Police Department identified the officer who shot 18-year-old Alex Jeffries as Officer Steven Fellows, a decorated 22-year policeman and 14-year KPD...
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Anti-hooker operation tallies five arrests
A Friday, May 29 undercover sting with cops posing as johns and using websites such as the infamous hooker-hookup site backpage.com resulted in four prostitution arrests – all of out-of-towners – and a...
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Ismail Shabazz charged with felony gun possession
Ismail Shabazz speaks at a 2013 rally protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin. (Photo: Dan Barton) A well-known Midtown Kingston community activist is accused of...
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Multiple charges in Wall Street attack
Bryant Williams. (KPD photo) According to Kingston police, a 22-year-old man burglarized and assaulted Wall Street resident on Sunday, July 5. Bryant “BJ” Williams, 22, allegedly forced his way into...
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Mom charged with allowing kids to fight
Rodesia Jones. (KPD photo) A Kingston woman is facing misdemeanor child endangerment charges after, police said, she let her child get into a fight with another kid, and stood by and watched the...
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Kohl’s caper crumbles
A three-person scheme to shoplift from the Kohl’s in the Town of Ulster Saturday night didn’t go quite as planned, resulting in three arrests. According to Town of Ulster police, at about 8:15 the...
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Suicide pact survivor to get probation
The survivor of an apparent suicide pact in Kingston has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of promoting a suicide attempt and will be sentenced next month to five years probation, the Ulster County...
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KPD probes Bruyn Ave. shooting
The Kingston Police Department is saying there’s no danger to the public after a 2:10 p.m. shooting on Monday, Dec. 7 left a 24-year-old male wounded. According to a press release from the KPD,...
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KPD charges teen as Midtown shooter
Ramel Ruffin. (KPD photo) Kingston police Wednesday night arrested the man they said pulled the trigger during the Monday, Dec. 7 altercation on a Midtown street that ended with gunfire which left one...
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