PUBLIC RECORD POLICE BLOTTER ROTTERDAM POLICE DEPARTMENT Bernadette Haney, 47, of Lakeside Avenue, Malta, was charged June 30 with petty larceny. Denise Northrup, 19, of Locust Avenue, Schenectady, was charged June 30 with petty larceny and second-degree robbery. Samuel Gilbert, 22, of Maryvale, Schenectady, was charged June 30 with failure to appear. Jason Hall, 22, of Shannon Street, Schenectady, was charged June 30 with third-degree burglary. Daniel Graham, 29, of Quackenbush Road, was charged June 30 with third-degree attempted assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Jesse Chestnut, 19, of Court Royal, Schenectady, was charged June 30 with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Sarah Driessen, 20, of Rose Street, Delanson, was charged June 30 with petty larceny. Jenna Orrick, 18, of Main Street, Delanson, was charged June 30 with petty larceny. Jonathan Gardiner, 17, of Batter Street, Pattersonville, was charged July 1 with unlawful possession of marijuana. Matthew Kessler, 16, of Guilderland Avenue, was charged July 1 with unlawful possession of marijuana. Tomas Sanchez, 17, of Congress Street, Schenectady, was charged July 1 with disorderly conduct and second-degree obstruction of governmental administration. Edward Kosloski, 23, of Long Avenue, was charged July 1 with second-degree harassment. Gerald Deitz, 48, of Forrest Road, Schenectady, was charged July 1 with third-degree assault. Kelly Charland, 41, of Garland Place, Schenectady, was charged July 1 with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Shaima Gellineau, 21, of Howard Street, Schenectady, was charged July 2 with petty larceny. Michael West, 60, of Glengary Road, was charged July 2 with second-degree menacing. Anthony DeFilippo, 25, of River Road, was charged July 2 with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminal possession of marijuana. Aubrey DeFilippo, 27, of River Road, was charged July 2 with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminal possession of a marijuana. Paula Haviland, 36, of Country Brook Court, was charged July 2 with second-degree harassment. James Reed, 23, of Shannon Street, Schenectady, was charged July 2 with two counts of seconddegree burglary and two counts of fourth-degree conspiracy. John Martini, 28, of Droms Road, Scotia, was charged July 2 with second-degree burglary. Claude Anderson, 55, of Sixth Avenue, Schenectady, was charged July 2 with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Manjet Dulku, 19, of Becker Street, Schenectady, was charged July 5 with fourth-degree grand larceny. Jimmy Thomas, 59, of Lark Drive, Albany, was charged July 6 with petty larceny. Leila Iadicicco, 25, no address available, was charged July 7 with second-degree burglary. Timothy Felano, 48, of Albany Street, Schenectady, was charged July 8 with criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument and fourth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. Tiffany Jendreski, 18, of Harrison Street, Schenectady, was charged July 10 with second-degree criminal impersonation.
Teen gun thief charged with house burglary ROTTERDAM — The 15-yearold boy whom police described as the leader of a group of teenagers who stole dozens of guns from the Taylor & Vadney sporting goods shop last year has been arrested again and charged with burglary, a felony. Francis Auleta of 2835 Broadway, now nearly 17, was charged with burglarizing a residence on Fort Hunter Road. A 15-year-old was also arrested in connection to the burglary; police did not release his name because of his age. They charged him with burglary, possession of stolen property and grand larceny, all felonies. The minor will face those charges in Family Court. Auleta is now old enough to stand trial. His criminal record goes back at least a year. He was arrested twice on charges of stealing guns from Taylor & Vadney last summer, including one heist in which a group of teenagers took 21 guns. Police said Auleta came up with the idea and proposed it to a group of older teenagers, all of whom were arrested after the burglaries. Because of his age, Auleta was sent to Family Court, where he was sentenced to nine months in county jail. He was released on June 22. Five weeks later, police say he was burglarizing the house on Fort Hunter Road. If convicted, he faces 3 to 15 years in prison.
It is so sad when they start so damn young. Prison time clearly is not the answer but it appears that their parents aren't either. Come to think of it....the kid may get more of an education and structured life in prison. More than he did at home!
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I do agree that it's a shame to have to put this kid in jail but this is the 3rd time he's been arrested for stealing guns. There were quite a few pistols taken from Taylor and Vadney both times they were robbed so I sure the parents and law enforcement had a talk with this kid and it doesn't appear to have done any good. He lived on Broadway not far from Rotterdam, how would you feel if one of those stolen guns were used to kill one of somebody's grandkids from the town?
I'm agreeing with you entirely on this one shadow. I just think it is a shame that these kids get in this much trouble at such a freakin' young age. They will be marked for life. And of course my question is....where the hell are the parents? I don't make a point of blaming parents for their children's behavior, but what I hear from school officials and some law enforcement, that they do not get parental help or concern when their kids get into trouble. That is what I see as the shame to it all!
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I agree with you about the parent concern, the parents seem like they're too busy having fun and living their lives to worry about their kids. When I was working I spent a lot of time working in the NYS prisons and county jails all over the state. Today these young kids can get a college education or learn a very good trade while there and end up getting a good job when they get out of jail. It's mandatory that they attend classes while incarcerated, I've even know inmates that got a law degree while in prison. All these kids have to do is want to better themselves, the opportunities are there if they want them.
ROTTERDAM Man struck, killed during repossession Police question driver of flatbed truck BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Police said a Rotterdam man was fatally injured Thursday when he was struck by a flatbed tow truck whose driver had repossessed the man’s pickup truck. Rotterdam police said Edward Kosloski, 44, confronted the operator of the Holmes and Kugler Towing truck in front of his residence at 23 Long Ave., as it was pulling away with his pickup in tow shortly after 5 p.m. At some point during the confrontation, Kosloski was struck by the tow truck and suffered traumatic injuries, police said. The tow truck operator, who police declined to name, drove about a quarter-mile away from the accident scene, until he was stopped by state police at the Hamburg Street intersection with Altamont Avenue. Kosloski was rushed by ambulance to Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, where he was later pronounced dead. Shortly after the accident, Rotterdam police were seen interviewing the tow truck driver in the parking lot of the former Tip Toe Inn off Altamont Avenue in Schenectady. The driver did not appear to be in police custody at the time. His flatbed was hauling a white, full-sized pickup. Rotterdam police Lt. Michael Brown said investigators were questioning the driver Thursday evening, but hadn’t made an arrest in the case. He said the driver and witnesses gave conflicting accounts of how the accident occurred. “Obviously, we’re still investigating,” he said from the scene. The accident shook the small Rotterdam neighborhood. Several residents who gathered near the scene declined to discuss the incident and deferred comment to the deceased man’s family. Police kept Long Avenue cordoned off for more than an hour after the accident. Attempts to contact Dennis Kugler, who an answering service identified as the owner of the tow truck company, were unsuccessful Thursday evening. Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney said he had been briefed on the fatality, but didn’t foresee any arrests on Thursday evening. “I don’t believe the investigation is complete,” he said.
SCHENECTADY Police head setting up discipline rules City officials expect PBA to challenge commissioner’s authority BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
It’s been three months since Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett starting running the Schenectady Police Department, but he is just now setting up his internal disciplinary process. He didn’t take over discipline of the department until Thursday, a few hours after Gov. Eliot Spitzer vetoed a bill that would have required Schenectady to let arbitrators handle discipline of local police. Now that Spitzer has upheld the authority of local officials to discipline their own police officers, Bennett and Mayor Brian U. Stratton said the department will be vastly improved. “The governor’s veto of this bill will give Schenectady the tools necessary to restore discipline within the Police Department and ensure that officers who violate the public trust are dealt with fairly and appropriately,” Stratton said. “Without the ability to discipline officers, free of second-guessing by arbitrators, our ability to restore public confidence would have been forever lost.” The next question is whether the police union will challenge the process. Although Police Benevolent Association leaders declined to return phone calls, city officials expect the PBA to take Schenectady to court as soon as Bennett uses his authority to discipline an offi cer. But Bennett plans to move forward despite the possibility of court action. When officers are charged with non-criminal violations of department policy, they will defend themselves in hearings open to the public. Bennett will serve as judge in those hearings. “With the governor’s veto, we will implement the procedure,” Bennett said Thursday. He is also preparing for possible challenges from the PBA over the legality of his disciplinary process. He thinks the PBA will attack the issue of public disciplinary hearings. “That’s an issue that could be challenged,” Bennett said. “There could be grounds of privacy.” He said he waited months to officially enact his disciplinary process because he knew the state Legislature was trying to stop municipalities from levying discipline in ways that were not agreed to in police contracts. At issue is a series of police contracts that were written throughout the state after the Legislature passed wide-ranging union laws. The laws were interpreted to mean that all matters relating to employment, even discipline, had to be negotiated in police labor contracts. In Schenectady and many other municipalities, police cited the law and refused to accept contracts in which their department head made all disciplinary decisions. To end the stalemate, city lead- ers had agreed to let independent arbitrators decide whether offi - cers should be punished if they disagreed with the punishment proposed by their superiors. But the Court of Appeals ruled last year that city leaders should never have been forced to negotiate discipline in their police contracts. That authority cannot be taken away from the local official assigned to oversee the police, the court said. The Legislature has now tried three times to pass a law overturning the court’s decision by requiring municipalities to negotiate discipline in police labor contracts. The first time, Gov. George Pataki vetoed it, followed by a Spitzer veto shortly after he took offi ce. But Bennett hesitated to wield his authority until Spitzer vetoed the most recent version of the law. He said it didn’t make sense to use his authority until Spitzer made a decision on the discipline bill. “We were in a holding pattern,” he said. “It was just a practical matter.” He added that even if he had begun at once, he still wouldn’t have ended up using his authority this summer. No police have needed discipline in the weeks since Bennett decided to reorganize the disciplinary process. “As things worked out, it did coincide with us not having any,” Bennett said. The most recent officer to face discipline, Sgt. Daniel Diamond, will be punished under the arbitration system because his alleged mishandling of drug evidence occurred under that system, Bennett said. Diamond was suspended with pay on Feb. 14 after allegations arose involving Vice Squad Detective Jeffrey Curtis, who later pleaded guilty to stealing crack cocaine from the Police Department evidence safe. Diamond, who supervised the vice squad, was charged with mishandling evidence on July 3. At that time, he was suspended without pay.
To end the stalemate, city leaders had agreed to let independent arbitrators decide whether officers should be punished if they disagreed with the punishment proposed by their superiors.
This is misplaced power and misplaced control for the cops.
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ROTTERDAM, N.Y. -- Rotterdam Police said it was a car repossession that ended with the owner dead. They are not yet sure how Ed Kosloski, 44, got run over by the tow truck.
Rotterdam Police Lead Investigator, Richard Dunsmore said, "During that repossession there was some kind of incident where the individual had fallen and was run over by the tow truck that was repossessing that vehicle."
The mood is somber in this Rotterdam community. Many neighbors saying Kosloski was upset his car was being towed away and tried to stop it and got too close.They can't believe what happened.
One neighbor said, "I heard a couple clunk clunks really loud and I heard a child screaming and yelling ‘God help, help, help.’ so I ran out to the back, or the front of my car, sped around the house here and saw another gentleman laying on the road, just laid out.”
Police are still trying to figure out how a Rotterdam man was run over by a tow truck that was repossessing his car.
Police and the District Attorney's office are interviewing witnesses as part of the investigation and said that many of the statements are conflicting, which makes knowing exactly what happened even more difficult.
Dunsmore said, "We have numerous witness statements. Some were in direct view of the incident. Some were not in direct view. We are still seeking other witnesses. "
The family has set up a memorial to remember Kosloski.
Lead Investigator Dunsmore said this incident is especially tragic since children witnessed it.
Dunsmore said, “It's a fatal accident. To have the children there and witness it is very tragic and unfortunate. We are treating this as a tragic incident. The investigation is on-going. "
At this time the New York State Police are inspecting the Holmes and Kugler tow truck to see if mechanical error was to blame and are saying proper legal procedures to repossess the vehicle were followed.
An autopsy is being done on Kosloski. No charges have been filed against the tow truck driver.
If I were the driver, I would have parked the tow truck and just called the cops and let them handle it.
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