The passing of Nina Postupack is sad news. I have known Nina throughout my career as a prosecutor. She was to me a genuine example of a public servant – from the way she conducted herself and her office, including the way I observed her treat her employees and DMV clerks in the County Office building. […]
KINGSTON, NY – On October 2, 2024, Ziare Green, age 29, of Kingston, was sentenced to 8 years in State Prison and 5 years of post-release supervision in Ulster County Court by the Honorable Bryan Rounds in connection to his July 2024 conviction of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree. Greene was […]
Kingston, NY—Dion Johnson, age 35, of Newburgh, was arraigned on an eleven-count indictment in Ulster County Court before the Honorable Bryan Rounds in connection to various crimes committed in 2020 and 2021 during his four years as a police officer with the Town of Saugerties Police Department. Johnson was released to pretrial supervision following an application […]
KINGSTON, NY—Joseph Karolys, age 39, of Saugerties, was sentenced to 25 years in State Prison, plus five years of post-release supervision, to run concurrently on his convictions of Manslaughter in the First Degree and Assault in the First Degree. He was also sentenced to additional 1 1/3 to 4 years for his conviction of Tampering with […]
Kingston, NY— Ty Kobelt, 33, of Gardiner, NY pleaded guilty in Ulster County Court on September 18, 2024 before the Honorable Bryan Rounds to the charges of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and Leaving the Scene of an Incident without Reporting, stemming from a fatal hit-and-run resulting in the death of 22-year-old SUNY New Paltz […]
Kingston, NY—On September 17, 2024, Junando Dawkins, age 30, of Newburgh, and his brother, Juwaugh Dawkins, age 34, of Jacksonville, Florida, were sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison by the Honorable Stephan Schick, visiting County Court Judge from Sullivan County. The defendants had been previously convicted following an 11-day jury trial on […]
Kingston, NY—On September 11, 2024, Jordan Cutler, age 36, of Ellenville, New York, entered pleas of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect, more commonly known as insanity, to his entire indictment charging him with Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, Assault in the First Degree, and Strangulation in the First Degree before the […]
Kingston, NY—Kristin Delsanto, age 29, of Lake Katrine, pleaded guilty to Manslaughter in the Second Degree in connection to the 2022 death of her intimate partner Collin Schlegel’s biological 14-year-old daughter. On August 2, 2022, the Town of Ulster Police Department received a 911 call for a 14-year-old female who was unresponsive. Despite all attempted life-saving measures by responding officers, the child was pronounced […]
Kingston, NY—On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Stephen Miller, age 85, of Tucson, Arizona, was convicted of Manslaughter in the Second Degree with a five-year probation sentence before the Honorable Bryan E. Rounds. The conviction arises out of an incident on November 9, 2023, during which an individual was found unresponsive by the cleaning staff of […]
Kingston, NY—On August 29, 2024, Spencer Lane, age 38, of Saugerties, was convicted after jury trial in Ulster County Court before the Honorable James Farrell, visiting Judge from Sullivan County, for the felonies of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, and the misdemeanors of Unauthorized Use […]