Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal Otsego County’s Wheels Of Justice Grind – Virtually Judges, Lawyers Operating On Skype By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Judge Burns D.A. Muehl COOPERSTOWN – Even the courtroom has gone virtual in the age of COVID-19. “If the arraignment is essential, like a felony arraignment, we’ve got Skype set up in the courtroom,” said District Attorney John Muehl. “An email gets sent around with the information, then the judge, myself and…
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TRUITT TRIAL: Day 4 D.A. Challenges Truitt’s Brother By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In his testimony this morning, Terrence Truitt, the older brother of defendant Gabriel Truitt, said he went to 5 Walling Ave. – home of Heather Engler – to help his brother look for the keys he’d lost that night following a fight at the Sip & Sail Tavern. District Attorney John Meuhl wasn’t buying it. “The Sip & Sail is the opposite direction of…
Jury Selection Starts In Fatal Oneonta Fire Truitt Brother, Girlfriend May Testify By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The brother and the ex-girlfriend of Gabriel Truitt, 33, may be called to testify in the trial now underway in Otsego County Court. They are Terrence Truitt and Heather Engler, and Gabriel is the Oneonta man charged with arson and first-degree murder in the death of former Oneonta firefighter John Heller on Dec. 30, 2018. Jury selection began Tuesday,…
Oneonta Murder Case Goes To County Court ONEONTA – The Otsego County grand jury has indicted Joshua P. Underwood, 25, on charges of murder, second degree, and attempted arson, District Attorney John Muehl confirmed this afternoon. Underwood was charged in the death of Mark J. Morrison, 52, on New Year’s Day in Oneonta. The case will now be tried in Otsego County Court.…
Florida Drug Fugitive Arrested In Worcester WORCESTER – A woman who allegedly fled Florida on drug and fraud charges was located in Worcester by investigators with the Otsego County District Attorney’s Office and the DEA. Convicted felon Paula Jo Rutty, 44, was arrested after the Albany DEA received information that she was back in Upstate NY and wanted in Duval County, Fla. on on two violation of probation felony warrants: possession of a controlled substance and burglary of a structure –…
4th Person Arrested In Walmart Drug Bust ONEONTA – A man who allegedly purchased marijuana from Jason Lee Foster in the Walmart parking lot in Southside Oneonta has been arrested, the county District Attorney’s office reported today. Dennis Curtis Mitchell, 31, of Sidney, is alleged to have taken an ounce of marijuana out of Foster’s unlocked truck and left $250 cash in its place on Thursday, Dec. 15. A warrant of arrest for conspiracy in the sixth degree, a misdemeanor, was…
Three Arrested In WalMart Drug Bust ONEONTA – Three Mount Vision residents were arrested this afternoon on a variety of charges after investigators observed “suspicious activity” in the WalMart parking lot on Southside Drive, Oneonta. On Thursday, Dec. 15, investigators observed a suspected drug deal in the Walmart parking lot and observed, in plain view, two pills in a plastic baggie inside the vehicle. They traced the vehicle’s owner, Jason Lee Foster, 33, and determined that earlier that morning, he left…