Deputies Allege Woman Brought Drugs Into Jail COOPERSTOWN – A Morris woman, Danielle J. Dunham, 36, was arrested after Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies allegedly found suboxone films on her during a search at the jail. Deputies reported they were investigating reports that drugs were being brought into the county jail. Dunham, who had been in and out of jail an intermittent sentence, was found with two suboxone sublingual films on her person, the investigators said.…
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ATTORNEYS PREPARE SUBPOENAS County Probe Includes ‘Multiple Employees’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The investigation into the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department involves “multiple” individuals, the chairman of the county board’s Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee said this evening. “There are multiple personnel records” being sought, said county Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla. “There are multiple employees involved.” As it is being explained, the Public Safety Committee received a complaint regarding violence in the workplace in January…
Focus Employee Arrested For Theft, Needle Possession INDEX – A Focus Otsego employee has been arrested for possessing a hypodermic needle and for stealing money from a co-worker’s car, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department reports. Karina Preston, Oneonta, was arrested Dec. 15 after a co-worker complained he had witnessed her go into his truck in the Focus Otsego parking lot without his permission. According to the police report, he and his fellow co-workers watched Preston as she searched “through my property between the seats and…
Sheriffs Raid Plainfield Meth Lab PLAINFIELD — The Otsego County Sheriffs department shut down a meth lab and arrested the owner during a raid on Friday. Jamie J. Bowee, 48, was arrested after investigators responded to a 911 call of an active methamphetamine lab in his home in the Town of Plainfield. The NYSP Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team (CCSERT) processed the scene, finding a “one-pot” methamphetamine laboratory, as well as precursor chemicals, reagents, solvents, and lab equipment.…
Two Arrested After Drug Bust At Budget Inn ONEONTA – 30 bags of heroin and 23 bags of crack cocaine were seized and two people arrested in a raid this morning at the Budget Motel on Southside. Dale K. Rogers, 24 and Rameara N. Sample, 26, both of Brooklyn, were arrested after a joint investigation with the Oneonta Police, State Police and Delaware County Sheriff’s Department into illegal narcotics trafficking in and around the city of Oneonta.…
Hartwick Highway Super Charged With Petit Larceny HARTWICK – The Town of Hartwick Highway Superintendent was arrested and charged with several misdemeanors by Otsego County Sheriff’s Department. Frederick R. Striesse, 60, Hartwick was charged with petit larceny, official misconduct and offering a false instrument for filing after the Hartwick Town Board allegedly discovered a series of fraudulent charges on the town’s credit card and reached out to the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department.…
Suspect Arrested In Edmeston Bank Heist By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com EDMESTON – An Earlville man is in Otsego County jail today after he was arrested Sunday and charged with robbing the NBT Bank branch in Edmeston on May 23. Dennis D. Gelatt, 31, was taken into custody when Otsego and Madison county sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at a Madison County home.…
Morris Man Arrested For Assault With Garden Shears MORRIS – A 20 year old man was arrested after attacking an older man with a pair of pruning shears at his home. Gerard D. Bourgeois, Morris, was arrested after Sheriffs deputies were dispatched to Bassett Hospital for a 62 year old man with suspicious injuries. Their investigation lead them to Bourgeois, where they learned that he had allegedly assaulted the victim with a pair of pruning shears, causing several lacerations to the…
54 Headstones Vandalized In Hartwick Cemetery HARTWICK – 54 Headstones in the Hartwick Cemetery, some of them over a century old, were broken and desecrated overnight in an apparent act of vandalism. “It’s terrible,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “It’s an absolute disgrace. People are upset. This is their loved one’s place of rest, and it’s been disturbed.”…
Fly Creek Man Is Accused Of Selling Heroin To Cops FLY CREEK – A Fly Creek man was arrested for selling heroin to two undercover investigators as part of a six-month joint investigation by the Otsego County District Attorney’s office, Cooperstown Police Department and the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department. In an announcement, authorities alleged Daniel West Cleaveland Jr., 25, sold heroin to investigators from the D.A.’s office on Jan. 14 and March 11. He was arrested this morning, charged with two counts of…