$2k In Gift Cards Stolen From Richfield Springs Food Pantry RICHFIELD SPRINGS – More than $2,500 in Price Chopper gift cards were allegedly stolen from the food pantry at the Church of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs, Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer, reported this morning. The gift cards, she said, were to be distributed by the church to help families in need to purchasing holiday meals. According to Dembinska, troopers were dispatched to church on Tuesday, Dec.…
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STATE POLICE CAUTION: Expect ‘Traffic Delays’ Near Enormous Pine Rockefeller Center Awaits Local Fir By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – As crews finish wrapping the 75-foot tall pine tree on “Daddy Al” Dick’s property here, state police have issued an alert of traffic delays and lane closures over the next tomorrow through Thursday on Route 23 here as the tree is cut down and prepared for the journey to Rockefeller Center, where it will become the…
Second Man Arrested With Ruple Not Just Gas Stations, Oneonta Man Allegedly Hit Losie’s, Dollar Tree ONEONTA – In addition to his arrests for allegedly robbing the Taylor Mini Mart and attempting to rob the Kwik Fill in the City of Oneonta, Bryan Ruple, 41, also allegedly tried to rob Losie’s Gun Shop in Davenport and the Dollar Tree on Southside in Oneonta, according to Trooper Aga Dembinska, State Police Troop C public information officer. Additionally, Derrek Gray, 41, Laurens,…
Car Reported Stolen In Albany 2 Teens Arrested After Early Morning I-88 Crash OTEGO – Two teens were arrested after they allegedly crashed a stolen car on I-88 here and fled the scene early this morning. According to Trooper Aga Dembinska, public information officer, Troop C, an abandoned 2013 Chevy Malibu was spotted facing the wrong way in the westbound lane of I-88 between Exits 12 and 13 at 5:26 a.m. The car had been reported stolen in Albany.…
Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County Elderly By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – An 88-year-old Laurens woman got a call, purportedly from Cooperstown Police: Her granddaughter had been in an accident, she was fine, but her car had been impounded and she needed $4,000 in cash to get it out. The woman was instructed to wrap the money in a sweater and mail it to Staten Island. She did so, shipping the package overnight from The Shipping Room…