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 repeatedly denied having anything to do with the Oct. 29, 2022, death of David “Mickey” Myer during sometimes combative testimony on Wednesday, June 5, in the Ulster County manslaughter trial of Joseph E. Karolys.“I did not hit Mickey Myer, I did not kill Mickey Myer,” Cummins said under questioning by […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Michael Cummins, who was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the course of an investigation into the 2022 death of David “Mickey” Myer, was released under the supervision of the Probation Department on Tuesday. Cummins, 58, of Saugerties, who had been in jail since his 2022 arrest, was freed after […]