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. — 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. — Raymond Snyder, accused again in the 2020 shooting death of Romero K. Underwood, was back in Ulster County Court on Thursday, with the defense accusing the prosecution of “gross misconduct” during a series of oral arguments before Judge James Farrell.Snyder was present for the arguments with Defense Attorney Bradford White and Dutchess […]
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NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Graduation ceremonies at SUNY New Paltz, which are scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, have been moved indoors, the college announced late Tuesday.The last-minute change of venue came about two weeks after an encampment at the school demanded an end of hostilities in the Israel-Gaza war. The encampment ended on May […]
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Village officials decried the police response at SUNY New Paltz where 133 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian encampment late Thursday and early Friday.The New Paltz officials were among several who reacted Friday to the arrests.New Paltz Village Mayor Tim Rogers said that he fully supports “the protesters’ right to peacefully […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Drug packaging materials, large quantities of a “white powdery substance,” a scale and assault weapons found in one defendant’s Newburgh home by state police point to a motive in the 2023 murder of Daniel Spotards, Ulster County District Attorney Emmanuel Nneji said in court Wednesday. The two brothers who are charged with […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. An empty hard plastic Glock pistol box was found by investigators who searched the residence of one of the men accused of killing Daniel Spotards in Plattekill last year, investigators said Tuesday. At the trial in Ulster County Court before Judge Stephen Schick, a Florida detective said he’d searched Juwaugh Dawkins’ Jacksonville, […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. A small baggie containing an unidentified “white powder” was found only a few feet from where Daniel Spotards’ body was discovered on his Plattekill driveway, the first state trooper on the scene said during the trial of his alleged killers in Ulster County Court on Friday. At about 5:50 p.m. Jan. 1, […]