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The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office arrested a New Jersey man, accused of 2 counts of burglary. WRGB reports 43 year old
Robert E Brown III is accused of breaking into a home back in April 2021, and of breaking into the storage unit of the homeowner back in June of 2021. Brown was already held on separate charges in the Saratoga County Jail.

A Galway man is accused of having sex with an 11-year-old child. WNYT reports 18 year old Jayden Buckmaster is charged with rape and possession of a sexual performance of a child – which are both felonies. The teen was sent to the Saratoga County Correctional Facility. He’s scheduled to appear in Greenfield Town Court sometime in the near future.

Police in Saratoga Springs say the teenager they had been looking for has been found. Authorities say Summer Weidman has been reunited with her family. She was reported missing after leaving Saratoga Springs High School Tuesday. No information has been released about where she was found or the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

A man has been arrested after being linked to a burglary at a Queensbury business. According to WNYT, 33 year old Anthony Putnam of Saratoga Springs was linked to the crime, using DNA.
The Warren County Sheriff’s Office arrested him on one felony count of burglary in the third degree and one count of felony criminal mischief in the third degree. Putnam was arraigned in Warren County Court and released on his own recognizance.

State Police arrested 25 year old Jackson K. Amankrah, of Halfmoon for Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated and multiple violations of the Vehicle and Traffic Laws. They say early on the morning of October 16th, troopers responded to a two-vehicle head-on crash on I-87 in Colonie where Amankrah was operating a vehicle southbound on I-87 in the northbound lanes and struck a northbound tractor-trailer head-on.

A Quinnipiac University poll shows Governor Hochul with a 50-46% lead over Republican challenger Lee Zeldin, a narrow, four-point margin in a heavily Democratic state that hasn’t elected a Republican to statewide office in 20 years.
The size of the gap between the two candidates, however, is in dispute: Siena College issued a separate earlier Tuesday showing Hochul with an 11-point advantage, 52-41%, while a Marist College poll last week showed Hochul with an eight-point lead among likely November voters.

Amazon workers in Schodack overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Tuesday, handing a second defeat to the labor group that’s been attempting to drag the company to the negotiating table since its historic win earlier this year.
This time around, warehouse workers near Albany cast 406 votes — or about 66% — against the Amazon Labor Union, giving the company enough support to push back the fledgling group composed of former and current Amazon workers.

The plaintiffs in a case against former NXIVM president Nancy Salzman have dropped the lawsuit. Court records state the civil suit was filed against Salzman, her daughter Lauren, and former NXIVM executive Karen Unterreiner. WTEN reports the lawsuits were dismissed last Tuesday in district court. There is currently no word on why the lawsuit was dismissed.

A Ballston man was convicted Monday of attacking his ex-girlfriend’s father with a shovel. According to WNYT, Troy Tenace from the town of Ballston was found guilty on four charges, including felony assault. The jury found him guilty of choking a woman when she tried to leave his house. When she called her family, her father arrived, and Tenace picked up a shovel and hit the man in the back of the head. He fell to the ground. Tenance continued to hit him while the man was passed out, causing traumatic brain injury.

State police are reporting they had to rescue an injured hiker in Moreau Lake State Park over the weekend. WNYT reports police found the hurt hiker near the waterfall trail. The hiker was safely taken off the mountain and taken to the Saratoga Hospital for an evaluation.