General News: Village Police Arrest 3 For Drugs, Alcohol
September 04, 2007
Two people were arrested on Friday night in Cornwall-on-Hudson for possession of marijuana and Vicodin, a controlled narcotic. A third person was charged in a separate incident with unlawful possession of alcohol.
Shortly after 11 p.m., police officer Arthur Terwilliger stopped a car with an expired registration on Hudson Street and smelled marijuana from inside the vehicle. The male, 29-year-old CJ Ledogar of Highland Mills, admitted to possessing marijuana, police say, and the driver handed over a pouch with a gram of marijuana in it, along with two pipes.
Officer Terwilliger then spotted a prescription bottle and identified the four pills inside as Vicodin. He later found a five more pills in the car’s trunk.
Lisa Travell, 24, of New Windsor, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. Ledogar was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance. The pair is scheduled to appear before Judge Navarra on September 12.
Less than an hour before these arrests occurred, Officer Terwilliger made another arrest. Twenty-year-old Michael Morabito and his 16-year-old female passenger were stopped in a car outside his residence on Hudson Street when police discovered five 20-ounce cans of Budweiser beer in the vehicle. Morabito was charged with violating the alcoholic beverage control law.
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