General News: Local Police Capture Armed Robbery Suspect
August 28, 2007
Police from Cornwall and Cornwall-on-Hudson closed down a section of Academy Avenue on Saturday night as they located three suspects in an armed robbery attempt in New Windsor.
Around 10:30 p.m., police in New Windsor alerted local law enforcement to be on the lookout for a 1995 Toyota Corolla involved in the robbery attempt at a Stewart’s store on Old Temple Hill Road. The attempt was thwarted by an alert customer who tackled the suspect as he held a gun to clerk in the store, according to New Windsor police lieutenant Michael Farbent. The suspect then fled.
Cornwall officer Michael Thompson spotted the vehicle on Route 218 and was given backup by village officers William Frattarola, Steven Bailey, Keith Lipsey and Raymondhan Maeang.
According to the village police, the officers approached the car with their weapons drawn and ordered the teenage suspects out of the vehicle and on to the ground. The two 18-year-olds and a 16-year-old, from Monroe and Washingtonville, were handcuffed while police searched the vehicle, where they found a BB gun that looked like a pistol. State police units also were on the scene.
The trio was turned over to the New Windsor police, who charged 16-year-old Thomas Kramer, of Monroe, with second-degree robbery, a felony.
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