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Police warning Rotterdam residents about catalytic converter theft
Updated: 9/7/2007
By: Web Staff

ROTTERDAM, N.Y. -- Police in Rotterdam are warning people about a rash of recent thefts.

They say someone is stealing catalytic converters from people’s cars. Police say it is happening during the evening hours.

If you have any information you are asked to call the Rotterdam Police.

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Rotterdam man faces rape charge
ROTTERDAM — Police have arrested a man they say raped a 12-year-old girl last year.
   On Friday, they charged Rotterdam resident William M. Pokeda, 29, of 300 Wayto Rd., with rape, a felony, and one count of committing a criminal sexual act, also a felony. Investigators said they expect to add more charges soon.
   Podeka was arraigned and sent to the Schenectady County Jail without bail. If convicted, he faces five to 25 years in prison.

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   ROTTERDAM — Town police arrested a Schenectady man Friday who is allegedly wanted for felony assault with a deadly weapon in Florida.
   Demar S. Reinfurt, 27, of 1108 Barrett St., was arrested at the Renta-Center on Altamont Avenue, and charged as a fugitive from justice. He is in Schenectady County jail awaiting extradition to Florida, police said.

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   ROTTERDAM — Town police arrested a Schenectady man Friday who is allegedly wanted for felony assault with a deadly weapon in Florida.
   Demar S. Reinfurt, 27, of 1108 Barrett St., was arrested at the Renta-Center on Altamont Avenue, and charged as a fugitive from justice. He is in Schenectady County jail awaiting extradition to Florida, police said.

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Rotterdam woman attacked with bleach, robbed  
  
By LAUREN STANFORTH, Staff writer
Last updated: 3:48 p.m., Sunday, September 9, 2007

ROTTERDAM -- Two Schenectady women have been accused of brutally beating an 88-year-old woman, including throwing bleach in her eyes, after following her home from a town shopping plaza to rob her, town police said today.
  
Police said the women identified as Tiffany Tolliver, 21, of Albany Street, and Dominique Lucas, 21, of Maple Avenue, followed the victim to her Rotterdam apartment, leaving Tolliver's 2-week-old child in their car.

Tolliver and Lucas then allegedly went inside, beat the woman, stole her purse and threw the bleach in her eyes. A neighbor saw them leaving in a white Cadillac, which police found later at the Hannaford Plaza off Altamont Avenue in Schenectady. Tolliver and Lucas allegedly had already bought $450 in clothes from the A.J. Wright.

The women were accused of spying the Rotterdam woman while she shopped at the Ocean State Job Lot at the Crosstown Plaza off Route 7 in Rotterdam. Police said the women picked the older victim because she seemed an easy target.

The victim, whose identity was not released by police, suffered multiple injuries and was taken to Ellis Hospital. She has since been released.

Tolliver and Lucas have been charged with first-degree robbery and are being held in Schenectady County Jail without bail. Besides the 2-week-old found in the Cadillac, police later found Tolliver's 17-month-old toddler alone at her apartment. Both children were taken into the state's protective custody. Also, Lucas is eight months pregnant, according to police.