A Stony Point man was arrested earlier this week by New York State Police on charges of child sexual exploitation. The State Police Troop F Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Haverstraw says they arrested 69 year-old Benjamin Kreinen on Tuesday. They accused him of having around 10,000 images and videos consistent with child sexual exploitation. He was charged with Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child Less than 16, a Class E Felony. He was released and is due back in the Town of Stony Point Court on April 15th.
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News Briefs: Report — 12 Year-old Girl Hit by Car While Riding Bike in Ramapo
Another accident in Rockland involving a child getting hit by a car. News 12 is reporting the latest incident happened in Monsey just before 8:30pm Tuesday on College Road near Wallenberg Circle. An 11-year-old boy was reportedly hit by a car heading northbound, and the driver remained on the scene. The victim was taken to Westchester Medical Center, though his injuries are reportedly not considered serious. News 12 says this is the second time this month that a child has been struck by a car in the area. A ten year-old girl was hit last Monday while riding her bike around 9pm on Ronald Drive in Monsey. She was rushed to Westchester Medical Center in critical condition. The driver in that incident also stayed on-scene. No charges have been filed in either case and both incidents are under investigation by Ramao Police.
Convicted Killer’s Attempt to Reverse Decision Rejected for 8th Time
The eighth time was not the charm for a convicted killer who sought to have his conviction overturned. Rockland County District Attorney Tom Walsh says that decision came down Tuesday from Rockland County Court Judge Kevin Russo. Amer Zada was convicted in 1980 of killing 17 year-old Shirley Smith in a parking lot in Nyack. He was also convicted of Attempted Sodomy in the First Degree and Aggravated Sexual Abuse. At his trial, Zada was represented by the famous defense attorney, William Kunstler.
Rockland’s Congressman: Yemen Chat a Mistake That Can’t Happen Again
While fallout from a group chat among high-level Trump administration officials discussing military operations in Yemen, including the vice-president and the Secretary of Defense, and also included the editor of Atlantic Magazine, Rockland’s congressman says those kinds of briefings should have been kept on classified channels, not on the chat platform, Signal. Rockland Congressman Mike Lawler of the Hudson Valley’s 17th district told “The Morning Show” Tuesday foreign or other bad actors could have had access to that chat, and this kind of mistake can’t happen again…
ABC News reported that President Trump claimed there “was no classified information” included in the chat and defended national security adviser Michael Waltz, the one who apparently, inadvertently added Atlantic Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to the chat. He has taken responsibility for the snafu, calling it embarrassing, but he says he doesn’t know how Goldberg got onto the chat. Congressman Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts and a Marine veteran, called the incident a national security breach that “put American lives at risk.”
Haverstraw PD Arrests Queens Woman, Charge Her with Prostitution After Undercover Sting Operation
Village of Haverstraw officials shut down an illegal massage parlor following the arrest by town and state police of a Queens woman on a prostitution count. That’s according to The Journal News. The jig was up when the masseur solicited sex for cash from an undercover officer posing as a customer at the Solace Springs Spa on Route 9W. 45 year-old Zongying Zhang was charged with one misdemeanor count of prostitution and the felony charge, unauthorized practice of a profession. She was released and is due back in Haverstraw Village Justice Court at a later date. Clarkstown Police hit five area spas and arrested seven people on similar charges earlier this month.
RBA CEO Submits Evidence from Last Week’s Crashed Luncheon Over to Orangetown Police
About a dozen protestors swarmed last week’s Rockland Business Association luncheon as Rockland’s Congressman was speaking, but it’s not clear whether any charges have been filed or not after the scene turned rowdy. Video posted to LoHud.com shows some pushing and shoving between guests and protestors at last Thursday’s event. RBA president Ken Zebrowski told “The Morning Show” Friday the group delayed the lunch and Republican Congressman Mike Lawler’s presentation and Q&A session for about 15 minutes before the police escorted them out…
Lawler said the protestors were “upset because they didn’t win an election.” RBA CEO Al Samuels says two people who bought tickets to the event and attended as guests may have been working with the protestors…
Rockland Illegal Housing Task Force member, Justin Schwartz, attended the event and can be seen in the video wrestling with a protestor and falling to the floor. Schwartz told “The Morning Show” Friday that the incident is a sign of the times…
The protesters entered a conference room at the Hotel Nyack, unfurled a banner that read “Elon’s Puppet” and the words “Climate Defiance” across the bottom, the name of a group that is based in Washington, D.C., but has pulled similar stunts around the country. We reached out to the group for comment, but have not heard back. Despite rowdy responses at GOP town hall meetings across the country lately, Lawler plans to hold public meetings throughout the 17th District, though specific times and dates haven’t yet been set.