EDITORIAL Officers, Use Judgment: Law Allows To Provide Mugshots To The Public The recently completed state budget contains a measure, championed by Governor Cuomo, that prohibits police departments from releasing mug shots of suspects. The other day, Monday, April 22, Trooper Aga Dembinska, Trooper C spokesman, declined to release a mug shot of Gabriel Truitt, 33, suspect in the Dec. 29 arson fire on Oneonta’s Walling Avenue, where former city firefighter John Heller was killed. Dembinska advised that, while the…
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CHRISTCHURCH MASSACRE REMEMBERED Pastors, Officials Offer Support To Local Sufis By IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SIDNEY CENTER – Spiritual leaders, mayors, law-enforcement officers, friends and neighbors gathered Sunday evening at the Sufi Muslim community of Osmanli Dergahi here to express solidarity after the mass shooting in Christ Church, New Zealand. “You coming here shows you care.” said Junaid Khan, a leader of the community. “Facebook, twitter, they don’t matter. Thank you for taking action and coming here. It…
K9 Unit Deployed To Break Up Fight Trooper Broke Hand In Father, Son Feud By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WORCESTER – A state trooper broke his hand and another injured his jaw and lip when they tried to break up the fight between a father and son last night alongside I-88 in the Town of Worcester, according to a release from Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer. After a passerby alerted 911 that two males were apparently fighting on…
2 Troopers Injured; Father, Son Charged WORCESTER – Two troopers were injured, one punched in the face, trying to break up a fight along Interstate 88 near here yesterday afternoon. The episode began when Otsego County 911 received a call at 4:24 p.m. of two males fighting alongside I-88.…
Trooper Injured In I-88 Altercation SCHENEVUS – At least one state trooper was injured in an altercation that took place near the Schenevus exit on I-88, according to Officer Aga Dembinska, Troop C public relations. However, by late evening Dembinska lacked any further details.…
BROOME D.A. CLEARS OFFICER OF ANY WRONGDOING IN CASE Trooper Injured In Fatal Shootout Returns To Duty SIDNEY – Trooper Timothy Conklin, the 28-year state police veteran shot in the shoulder in a fatal shootout with a suspect Jan. 28, has been cleared to return to duty. Troop C Commander William McEvoy said Conklin’s assignment is still to be determined. An investigation into the incident by Broome County District Attorney Stephen K. Cornwell Jr. and state police determined Conklin justifiably utilized…
IN MEMORIAM Lyall H. Sage, 86; State Trooper Guarded Rockefeller At Otesaga FRANKLIN – Lyall H. Sage, 86, a state trooper who served on Nelson Rockefeller’s detail when the governor visited The Otesaga, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at the Veterans Home in Oxford. He was born on March 21, 1932, in Sayre, Pa., the son of Edna Sage. He graduated from Towanda High School in June 1950. He married Roberta Moody Sage in Dushore, Pa., on May…
Troop C: Suspect Advanced, Firing Semi-Automatic Man, 30, Died At Route 17 Scene; Officer Wounded In Left Shoulder Editor’s Note: Troop C, which includes Otsego County, released this account of the shooting exchange last evening in the Town of Kirkwood, Broome County, where the investigating trooper was injured and the suspect killed. On Jan. 28, 2019 at approximately 6:09 p.m., the State Police at Binghamton received a report that Nicholas P. Philhower, age 30, had taken his mother’s motor vehicle without…
CAR CHASED NEAR BINGHAMTON Troop C Officer Shot, Killed Man After Car Chase Press Conference Due At 2:30 Today BINGHAMTON – A trooper in Troop C, which includes Otsego County, shot a suspect after a car chase early yesterday evening on Route 17 in the Town of Kirkwood, south of Binghamton. The suspect later died, according to a press release issued today by Troop C, Sidney. A press conference is planned at 2:30 p.m. today to release further details.…
Police Find 2 Bodies In Hobart Apartment HOBART – A man and a woman were found dead in their Hobart apartment this afternoon, according to Troop C Public Information Officer Aga Dembinska. Troopers were called to the apartment building at 60185 State Route 10 in Hobart at 3:30 p.m., where they found a man and a woman’s bodies.…