Steve Lieberman

2 weeks ago | lohud.com | Steve Lieberman

SPRING VALLEY - A purportedly drug-impaired taxi driver has been indicted on multiple counts of beating up a woman at knifepoint inside his cab, the Rockland district attorney announced on Monday. A grand jury returned several felony charges against Kevin Mazariego-Figueroa, 22, of Hillcrest, in a brutal attack on a Monsey woman he picked up in his cab on May 5, District Attorney Thomas Walsh said in a news release.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Steve Lieberman

NEW CITY -- A Rockland County Court jury convicted a live-in home care worker of forcing a Pearl River senior citizen at knifepoint to sign five personal checks in her name, totaling $18,592. The jury, after a week-long trial, found Delores Anderson, 60, of the Bronx guilty on Thursday, May 8, of five felony counts of second-degree grand larceny, the Rockland District Attorney's Office said on Friday, May 9. Anderson is scheduled for sentencing by Judge Kevin Russo on Aug. 27.

4 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Steve Lieberman

Rockland's lone local radio station has been sold to a New York City media conglomerate that owns the talk radio station 77 WABC. As a result, the channel for WRCR AM 1700 will broadcast programming from WABC hosts until a new format is introduced, according to the new ownership, Red Apple Group. "Yes, for the time being, the station will simulcast WABC and plans to have local programming serving the community," said Emily Panklow, the general counsel for the Manhattan-based Red Apple.

1 month ago | lohud.com | Steve Lieberman

HAVERSTRAW - A substance abuse counselor and his wife are opening the town's first cannabis dispensary Wednesday, adding to several cannabis dispensaries already open in Rockland County. The ribbon cutting for Haverstraw's 202 Cannabis Co. is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on May 7, at 81 West Ramapo Road, also known as Route 202. Rockland already has a dispensary in Bardonia on Route 304 and a second one planned for Nyack inside the former Starbucks in the downtown business district.

1 month ago | lohud.com | Steve Lieberman

NEW CITY - A 23-year-old Spring Valley man faces a decade in prison after admitting in County Court that he sexually abused an 8-year-old for several years, the Rockland District Attorney's Office said on Friday, May 2. Timothy King pleaded guilty on April 29 in Rockland County Court to first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child for two years, starting in 2018 at a home in the Ramapo village, District Attorney Thomas Walsh said.