Watertown trans woman strip-searched, probed, ridiculed by police over 2 misdemeanors, lawsuit says
Updated Mar 06, 2021;
Watertown, NY A Watertown transgender woman says she was strip-searched, hog-tied and had a wig ripped from her head before being anally probed during a 2017 arrest on two misdemeanors.
DeAnna LeTray’s legal case has been championed by Legal Services of Central New York and the New York Civil Liberties Union. She’s now suing Watertown police, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and several officers involved in the incident in federal court.
LeTray, 54, says that police and jail deputies humiliated her simply because they couldn’t get over the fact she was born a man and had for nearly a decade identified as a woman.
5 charged in spate of catalytic converter thefts in Bessemer
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
Town and Country Ford in Bessemer offered a $1,000 reward for information in catalytic converter thefts from their business on Jan. 24, 2021. (Facebook)
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Five people have been arrested in a spate of catalytic converter thefts in Bessemer and surrounding areas.
Bessemer police on Monday announced charges against David Oglesby, 27, Ricky Miller, 30, Amanda King, 32, James Erwin, 38, and Rachel Hyde, 40.
The accused thieves, said Bessemer police Lt. Christian Clemons, are targeting car lots, church vans and any other place where cars are left unattended. Investigators said they don’t believe the suspects were working together as a group, but said the thefts shed light on an ongoing crime in the area. Catalytic converters, which contain platinum, are stolen and sold for scrap, authorities say.
Accident shuts down part of Route 3
Accident shuts down part of Route 3 By 7 News Staff | February 9, 2021 at 1:02 PM EST - Updated February 9 at 6:33 PM
FELTS MILLS, N.Y. (WWNY) - An accident on Route 3 in Felts Mills Tuesday morning shut down one lane of the road for about an hour.
7 News reporter Brendan Straub, on scene, said it appeared a white truck spun out on a patch of ice and ended up on private property, wedged between a snowbank and a vehicle. (You can see the truck in the distance, on the left side of the picture with this story.)