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South Glens Falls Police are accusing 24-year-old Raphael Lopez, of Bronx, N.Y., of attempting to steal used cooking oil from a vat behind a closed business on Saratoga Avenue. On September 13, the business owner says he received an alert while at home from his business’s surveillance camera. He then went to his store and confronted Lopez in the parking lot.
According to police, Lopez was operating a van equipped with a large tank and siphoning equipment.

It has been over ten years since the death of Darryl Mount and the decision regarding his death is now a decade in the making. WTEN reports 24-year-old Darryl Mount was left comatose after falling from scaffolding while being chased by police for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend on Caroline Street back in 2013. He later died as a result of those injuries in 2014. The trial is scheduled to begin next Monday.

Governor Kathy Hochul today, during Climate Week, announced that more than $6 million is being awarded to strengthen New York’s agricultural industry through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grants program. Saratoga PLAN is receving $690,258 to protect 158 acres on Drummland Farm and $565,276 to protect 79 acres on Betterdays Farm, plus $550,488 to protect 76 acres on Two Lions Farm.

A new contract could net GlobalFoundries more than $3 billion. According to WNYT, The Malta-based company was awarded a new 10-year contract by the Department of Defense to make computer chips for aerospace and defense applications.
The contract has a $3.1 billion spending ceiling.

Sentencing is set for November 30th for a 75-year-old Clifton Park man who admitted to possessing child pornography
Herbert Marlow pleaded guilty in Saratoga County Court on Thursday to two counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. WNYT reports he was arrested in March after State Police received an online tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

A man from Texas has admitted to his role in the MyPayrollHR scheme back in 2019. WNYT reports The Clifton Park-based company abruptly closed – after a $100 million bank fraud scheme that impacted thousands of businesses and people across the country. Derek Schwartz pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with former ValueWise CEO Michael Mann to defraud companies that loaned millions of dollars to ValueWise subsidiaries.

A judge ruled in favor of some Clifton Park volunteer firefighters who are seeking property tax exemptions. WTEN reports they sued the town assessor in July and claimed he unfairly blocked them from receiving tax exemptions. The assessor said he made the decision based on state law, which states firefighters must live and work in the community to qualify.

The New York State Police is hosting the 35th Annual Colonel Henry F. Williams International Homicide Seminar in Albany. During the five-day conference presenters are sharing their expertise on some of the biggest cases in the United States.
From cold to high profile cases such as the BTK killer and the Tops Market shooting, experts have been presenting to over 240 attendees who represent departments from across the United States, Argentina, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta.

A judge has thrown out the indictment against the Glens Falls man accused of attempted murder in a shootout in downtown Saratoga Springs last November, citing that prosecutors made serious errors as part of a “demonstrated pattern of unfairness.” WNYT reports Vito Caselnova, an off-duty Rutland County Sheriff’s deputy, was arrested after getting into a fight with a group of Utica men at about 3 a.m. on Broadway on Nov. 20.

A police report filed reveals that Saratoga Springs Mayor Ron Kim was criminally investigated for harassment following abusive behavior towards a member of his own City Council. WRGB reports according to a statement from the Saratoga Springs GOP, the investigation stems from an altercation between Kim and the city’s Public Safety Commissioner James Montagnino, who secretly recorded the exchange.