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Yorktown Resident Charged With Intent To Sell, Possession Of Heroin
YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- Authorities investigating drug sales in Westchester and Putnam counties have charged a Yorktown woman with heroin trafficking, police said.
Alexis N. Mitchell, 20, was arrested in the parking lot of the TJ Maxx store in Yorktown Heights on Tuesday, Feb. 2, police said.
The arresting officers seized 563 glassine envelopes of heroin, with an estimated street value of close to $7,000, from Mitchell, police said.
Later that day, police raided Mitchell’s home on Halyan Road and found another 91 glassine envelopes of heroin and $30,223 in cash, authorities said.
Four other sus…
Woman Charged With Stealing $250 Worth Of Groceries In Shrub Oak
YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- A Cortlandt Manor woman faces charges of petit larceny in the theft of groceries from a Shrub Oak supermarket, Yorktown police said.
Nereida Navarro, 56, was arrested at police headquarters on Tuesday, Feb. 2, after she turned herself in to answer the misdemeanor charge, police said.
Employees at the ACME supermarket on East Main Street told police that they recovered $250.34 worth of stolen food after confronting Navarro in the parking lot on Monday, Feb. 1, police said.
Navarro was released on her own recognizance and is to appear in Yorktown Justice Court on Tuesday, M…
Driver Who Hit Pole Was Drunk, Had Cocaine, Putnam Sheriff Says
SOUTHEAST, N.Y. -- A Connecticut man faces DWI and drug charges after he crashed his car into a utility pole in Southeast, Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith said.
Douglas Robinson, 44, of Brookfield, Conn., was arrested early Wednesday on Route 6 near the Middle Branch reservoir, police said.
A deputy sheriff responding to the scene of the accident determined that Robinson was intoxicated and had a large amount of cocaine on him, Smith said.
Robinson was charged with driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, the …
Empty-Nesters Ditch Homes For Luxury Condos, Realtors Report
The housing market has bounced back, and with it, condominium sales, according to a report by lohud.com.
Baby boomers in Westchester and elsewhere in the region, who waited for the recession to ease, are ditching their longtime homes (and all the mowing and shoveling) and are snapping up luxury digs, Realtors in the mid-Hudson region are reporting, the lohud story said.
Condo sales in 2015 were up by nearly 20 percent, compared with the year before, lohud reported.
To read the lohud story, click here.
Shaban Slams Rival Himes For 'Big-Tax, Big-Spend' Approach
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- John Shaban, a Republican state representative running for Congress in the 4th District, this week charged his Democratic opponent with helping to cause “federal spending and our national debt to explode, and our state economy to fester.”
The Weston candidate, pointing to General Electric’s plan to move its corporate headquarters to Boston from Fairfield as evidence of Hartford Democrats’ failed policies, accused his incumbent rival, Jim Himes, of supporting a “big tax, big spend government approach.”
This approach, Shaban claimed in a recent statement, “has left …
Music Eases Anxiety, Opens New Worlds For New Rochelle Patients
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Music is not only soothing, it can spark happy memories and bring a twinkle to the eye of folks with dementia, say caregivers at United Hebrew of New Rochelle.
Michael Lahue, a therapist at the non-sectarian, multi-service residential center, pointed to effect of music on one particular resident, a former jazz singer.
She doesn’t respond to much, Lahue said, but when he sings old songs or plays mustic for her, she lights right up.
“You can tell she’s engaged because she’s hearing something she recognizes,” he said.
Music therapy is a key piece of the dementia care at…
