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A Spring Valley man faces prison time after he was convicted for slashing a Haverstraw man in the face with a box cutter. Rockland County D-A Tom Walsh says 34 year-old Darius Williams was convicted after a four-day jury trial. The incident occurred in July last year in the Village of Haverstraw. Walsh says the victim was walking with his wife on the sidewalk on Broadway when Wiliams approached them and without provocation, sliced his face with the knife and walked away. Williams will be sentenced on September 6th. He faces up to seven years in state prison on each of the two felonies he was convicted of: second-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Clarkstown Police need your help in finding witnesses in the death of a Central Nyack teen who was killed riding a scooter in West Nyack last month. Clarkstown Police Detective Norm Peters says though a Garnerville man did turn himself in, and he was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, the police are looking for eyewitness accounts of the incident…

18 year-old Dariel Rivera was found around 4am July 14th lying in the roadway of Route 303 southbound just south of the Route 59 overpass. Police say a heavily damaged electric scooter was nearby. A witness who stayed on-scene recalled seeing a white SUV that appeared to have hit something in the roadway and continued heading south. Police say 35 year-old Patrick Sharkey of Garnerville turned himself in hours later and has been charged in the case. Again, if you have information, call the Clarkstown Detective Bureau at 845-639-5840.

You may have seen a large police response Thursday afternoon in Suffern, turned out, after nearly three hours of tense moments, it was all a hoax, what’s known as a “swatting” incident. The Suffern Police Department says it all went down in the Memorial Drive and Wayne Avenue area around 2:25 Thursday. A man called the police and claimed he was in a house on Lexington Avenue and that he had shot his brother. He said he would shoot any police officers who came to the scene. Suffern police officers responded with Ramapo Police and the Rockland Sheriff’s Department, and made contact with two people in the house. They came out and said they didn’t make the call and knew nothing of any shooting. The Rockland SWAT Team went in and didn’t find anything suspicious. Suffern police stress there is no danger, and false reports to emergency services are both a federal and state crime and can result in prison sentences. The incident is being investigated by Suffern P-D’s detective bureau. A similar “swatting” incident just occurred Wednesday in Westchester, when a man told police he shot two people in Dobbs Ferry and was going to hurt himself. A suspect has been arrested in that case.

Republican state lawmakers who voted against the last December’s $32,000 pay increase and the institution of a similarly-sized outside-income cap, and others, are suing to get rid of the cap, arguing it violates the federal and state constitutions. WRCR market analyst Ken Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management in Chestnut Ridge says keeping the cap could have the unintended consequence of discouraging otherwise qualified candidates from running for office…

When New York lawmakers, mostly Democrats, decided to raise their own salaries 29 percent last December, giving them an annual salary of $142,000, they also decided outside income should be capped at $35,000. Among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is Rockland state senator Bill Weber. According to The Journal News, he reported the most private-sector income last year, around $200,000, just before taking office, working as a corporate CFO. The limit on additional earning is due to take effect in 2025.

A spokesman with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has identified the man killed by an MTA train in Spring Valley last week. That’s according to DailyVoice.com. 47 year-old Victor Reinoso of Haverstraw was struck by the train near Dutch Lane last Monday around 9:55pm. The incident remains under investigation.