Monticello, NY: UPDATE IN EXTENDED ARTICLEYWN has learned that thanks to the outstanding detective work by the Sullivan County Sheriff Department, the people wanted in connection with the recent rash of car-break-ins have been arrested.
As YWN had reported two weeks ago (HERE), more than one hundred vehicles in the Monticello area had been broken into, with the main target being GPS systems. Some of the bungalow colonies which had cars broken into were Freeds, Syms, Ichud, Alpine Estates, Beverly Hills
The Sheriff Department had placed extra patrols, and assigned additional detectives to the case.
Sources tell YWN, that four suspects (two males and two females) were arrested by the Sheriff Patrol on Motzei Shabbos at the former Gibbers Hotel – now the home of the year-round Viznits Community.
Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the NYSP Rabbi Bernard Freilich spoke with YWN, and said that the Sheriff Department must be publicly credited for their hard work in this case. “Sheriff Mike Schiff and UnderSheriff Eric Chaboty personally spent countless hours meeting with concerned residents, and worked tirelessly to apprehend the suspects”, Freilich said.
UPDATE 2:00PM EST: On Sunday August 31, 2008, at approximately 2:26 AM, Deputies from the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call of two suspicious males, possibly breaking into vehicles at 14 Gafen Lane in Kiamesha Lake. The Sheriff’s Office, which had investigated a rash of thefts from vehicles in the Monticello area over the past 3 weeks, immediately flooded the area with patrols. A short time later at the scene, deputies noticed where grass had been trampled in a path leading to the woods and heard twigs snapping. Deputies pursued the perpetrators and eventually caught them near the basketball courts of the former Gibbers Hotel. One male subject was wearing a complete camouflage outfit and the other was dressed in dark clothes. Both were wearing plastic gloves when they were arrested. Two female accomplices, also wearing dark clothing, were discovered sitting in a car, just out of sight, at a nearby gravel bank. They were taken into custody and transported to the Sheriff’s Office for questioning.
Later in the morning, Sheriff’s Detectives searched a residence located at 42 Champlin Avenue in the Village of Liberty where they recovered property including several Global Positioning Systems (GPS), cell phones and other electronics. Charged with larceny are:
Raymond Castro, age 20
Monticello NY
Pedro Agosto, age 18
Monticello NY
Theresa Sarosy, age 19
White Lake NY
Claribel Mojica, age 24
Liberty NY
All four suspects where being held for arraignment at the time of this press release. The Sheriff’s Office expects additional charges to be filed as the investigation continues.
If anyone has any information regarding these thefts, please call the Sheriff’s Confidential Tips Hotline at 845-807-0158.
(Yehuda Drudgestein – YWN Sullivan County News Desk)
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3 Responses
A good way to end the summer season.But-will the victims get their costs of the losses returned? Will they all have to go to court and travel there during the winter?
were any ATVs stolen from the FREEDS SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM?
Thanks to the Sheriff dept. is OK with me, but please give credit where credit is due:
Thanks to the Viznits Residents who were very alert & acted wisely, the long sought after trouble-makers were arrested!!
The suspects will never pay for all the damage they have done:
for all the hrs spent fixing windows & doors,
for all the hours cleaning away the glass,
for the pain from cuts from glass,
for the costs for all of the above!
At least we can hope that “these” criminals will not repeat their actions,
And “maybe” some other would be thug will ‘think twice’.