Two Ramapo Police officers suffered minor injuries while they were arresting an allegedly drunken man who was having difficulty getting into the home he lived in. Police say 44 year-old Antonio Aguilar-Oliva had kicked in the front door and smashed windows of the Hillcrest home on Helen Court early Friday morning. Police say they got several calls of a man yelling and breaking glass, and when they arrived he fought with the officers. One of the officers suffered a dislocated shoulder. Aguilar-Oliva was arrested and charged with assault, obstruction of governmental administration and resisting arrest. He was being held in the Rockland County Jail on $50,000 bail.
Airmont Audited by State Comptroller
The New York State Comptroller’s office has released its findings of a recent audit of a village in Ramapo and found they overpaid for various services. State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says in one particular case, the Village of Airmont potentially overpaid a vendor nearly $37,000 for snow plowing services. Additionally, DiNapoli says six claims totaling just over $42,000 did not comply with the Village’s purchasing policy. DiNapoli suggested the village should conduct an independent audit of claims prior to payment. Village officials reportedly disagreed with aspects of the Comptroller’s report, but said they accepted the recommendations and planned to take corrective actions. The audit covered a two-and-a-half-year period from January 2021 to July 2023.
Former Westchester Cop Gets 4 Consecutive Life Terms for Murders
A former Westchester police officer convicted in federal court of killing four men in Orange County eight years ago has been sentenced to four consecutive life terms on Monday. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, says former Briarcliff Manor officer Nicholas Tartaglione beat and strangled one of his victims, and shot the three others execution-style. Tartaglione was found guilty last year in the killing of 41 year-old Martin Luna, 25 year-old Miguel Luna, 35 year-old Urbano Santiago and 43 year-old Hector Gutierrez in April 2016 after torturing them and burying them in shallow graves on his Otisville property. He believed at least one of the men owed him hundreds of thousands of dollars in a cocaine deal. WABC News reported Tartaglione spoke at his sentencing, and denied doing anything wrong and said he was being framed. The judge reportedly called him “a monster” and “delusional.”